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NY Times review cost Tesla $100 million

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Musk, co-founder of Tesla and PayPal, recently said that Broder’s review cost Tesla $100 million.

During his SXSW talk, Musk called Broder’s review a “low-grade ethics violation” that “was not in good faith.” He added, “I don’t have a problem with critical reviews. I have a problem with false reviews.”

That’s a lot of money.

Save over $500 on top Mac apps with MacUpdate’s Spring bundle!

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Thanks to MacUpdate for sponsoring The Loop this week with their Spring Bundle.

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Bloomberg News vs Bloomberg News and the fight for stupid

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Here is a brilliant piece written by Daniel Eran Dilger in February 2013 that shows how pathetic the mainstream media is when reporting on Apple. Bloomberg even goes so far as to contradict its own reporting.

Dilger tears them apart.

Microsoft is batshit crazy

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Craig Mundie, Senior Advisor to Steve Ballmer:

“We said, ‘oh the OEMs, that’s their design, they deal with it.’ We got huge diversity out of that at all possible price points, but it became hard to guarantee a uniform quality of experience that the end user had,” he explained. Pointing to the initial touchscreens in Microsoft’s first-generation phones, there were clearly devices with better hardware than others. “If you were in front of a bad one then people said that was a piece of crap; it didn’t work a damn.”

So let me get this straight. The way Apple does it, controlling hardware and software is the best way to do things. Got it.

And OEMs are to blame for everything that went wrong at Microsoft.

Perfect. Carry on Microsoft, you’re doing just fine.

Nokia CEO takes 45% cut in pay package

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Elop, hired in 2010 from Microsoft Corp to turn around the Finnish mobile phone maker, earned 4.33 million euros ($5.63 million) in 2012, down from 7.94 million euros in 2011.

While his base salary rose by 59,500 euros to 1.08 million euros, his stock and option awards fell slightly and he earned no bonus, according to the Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

I felt bad for him until I saw the numbers. How much money do you deserve for running a company into the ground?

RIP Stompin’ Tom Connors

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Truly a sad day. Stompin’ Tom wrote what many Canadians consider to be the real national anthem — The Hockey Song.

Much Respect Stompin’ Tom.

Amplified: Zed Zed Top

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Jim and Dan talk about the rumored iPhone 5s and iPad, iPhone naming, the iPod OS, jailbreaking, unlocking, bear spray, and warming your tubes.

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The Austin 100 from NPR

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NPR:

It says a lot about SXSW’s size and scope that this “sampler” of the annual music festival spans six and a half hours, but here we are: 100 songs by 100 artists worth discovering at this year’s big event.

Handpicked from among thousands of artists, this genre-traversing playlist picks highlights, discoveries and future thrills from this year’s festival — and, for the next 30 days, it’s available for free download in its entirety, as one 813 MB zip file, right here.

As much as many of us hate the hype surrounding the SXSW conference, there is often some very good “undiscovered” bands and music at the show. Thanks to Dan Frakes for the heads up.

Speed painter

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You have to watch until the end. You won’t regret it. […]

Groceries for iPhone

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Groceries is the quickest way to compose shopping lists on your iPhone and iPod touch.

Just start typing – Groceries will instantly suggest the items you are looking for, and even detect amounts and units. Got a product that Groceries doesn’t know yet? Just add it to your list once, and you’ll never have to type that product’s title again. Composing a shopping list is just a matter of a few taps!

I really like the apps that Sophia Teutschler makes, Groceries included.

Project Amy integrates App.net with Messages for Mac

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The people you follow will be shown in your buddy list. Double clicking one will open a new chat window and start a new private messaging session like you would see on Omega. Sending and receiving messages happen very fast, usually within a second. You can drag files into the chat window, and they will upload to your account’s App.net file storage and be sent as part of a message.

I haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds interesting.