Roundup: Apple Tablet coming? Facebook book definitely is, and more
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Apple Tablet looking even more real — More here and here.
Tokyo park keeps teen vandals out using high-pitched noisemaker — Wow. And is this a civil rights issue?
“The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal” — The title says it all. Facebook’s early days were mild compared to, say, the average fraternity — c’mon it was mostly dudes working on computers. But facts can’t stop a sensational story, nor Hollywood’s interest in it. CNET has more.
New York to get more big-company local news sites — From NBC and The Huffington Post.
VC Tim Draper, investors creating private exchange for start-up stock — It will let institutional investors buy into later-stage companies before they go public.
Religious iconography? — See image; note the Steve Ballmer angel under Bill Gates.
Conflicted conflicts of interest – A Swedish judge reviewing last month’s ruling against file-sharing site Pirate Bay for possible bias in favor of copyright groups… has been removed for ties to the same copyright groups.
Android to get accelerometer and other sensors — More here.
Kaixin.com, sounds kinda like Kaixin001.com — The latter Chinese social network is suing the former over the similarity of the two names.
Broadband so slow that Amazon is letting you mail it your data — More here.
[Tablet image via Frato Blog.]
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About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.