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January 21, 2011: 8:10 AM ETA curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
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- During Google's earnings call yesterday, the Internet giant announced that CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning his role to focus on being Chairman, making room for co-founder Larry Page to take over as CEO. Meanwhile, Sergey Brin's title will change to co-founder. "I am enormously proud of my last decade as CEO, and I am certain that the next 10 years under Larry will be even better! Larry, in my clear opinion, is ready to lead," wrote Schmidt in a company blog. (Fortune)
- Google is also hard at work on a Google Offers, a Groupon and LivingSocial competitor. (After its $6 billion offer for Groupon was reportedly turned down, exec Marisa Mayer said as much.) (Fortune)
- LinkedIn shares are being sold in an auction by secondary exchange SharesPost Inc. for $30 each, putting the professional network's value at nearly $3 billion. (Bloomberg) More
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Today in Tech
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Less than an hour after TV media like Anderson Cooper and Dr. Phil accused Amazon of "peddling pedophilia" for recognizing and selling a pedophile "how-to" guide on Amazon's Bestsellers list, the ecommerce site pulled it from its MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 11, 2010 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Adobe, Amazon, Andreesen Horowitz, Boxee, Cisco, Dennis Crowley, Facebook, Farmville, Foursquare, Google TV, iPad, iPhone, Kevin Lynch, Marc Andreesen, Mixed Media Labs, Motorola, RIM, Skyfire, Windows Live Messenger, YouTube -
How to see Flash on an iPhone
Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck explains how his newly approved browser works
The Skyfire browser, which has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times on Google (GOOG) Android devices, has just been approved as an application for Apple's (AAPL) App Store. It goes on sale at 9 a.m. EDT Thursday for $2.99.
The app gets around Apple's restrictions against Adobe (ADBE) Flash by converting Flash videos into an HTML5 format suitable for viewing MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 2, 2010 1:57 PM ETPosted in: Adobe, Adobe Flash, App Store, Apple, Flash, HTML5, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Jeffrey Glueck, Michael Copeland, Skyfire
