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The Official Google Blog:
Introducing the Google Chrome OS — It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It's Made of Chrome. — Wow. So you know all those whispers about a Google desktop operating system that never seem to go away? You thought they might with the launch of Android, Google's mobile OS. But they persisted. And for good reason, because it's real.
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New York Times:
Google Plans a PC Operating System — SAN FRANCISCO — In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs based on its Chrome Web browser. — The operating system, called Chrome OS, is initially intended for use in the tiny …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Eleven Questions About Google's Chrome OS — Here's one of those breaking stories that's stunning at first-until you think about it, whereupon it feels like it was always inevitable. Google announced tonight that it's working on an operating system for PCs, turning a hypothetical scenario that's been around for years into reality.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
King of Pop Proves to be King of Traffic: MJ's Online Memorial Pushes Internet's Limits — Michael Jackson's memorial held today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles turned out to be one of the biggest online events ever, according to various reports. Akamai says that it was the second-largest …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Michael Jackson's Last Performance on the Web: Big, but Not Obama Big — Depending on your perspective, this is either interesting news or heartening news: Michael Jackson's funeral and memorial was indeed a giant Internet event. But it doesn't seem to have been as big as Michael Jackson's death …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon Killing Mobile Apps That Use Its Data — Well, this sucks. I had not yet gotten around to downloading the new Delicious Library iPhone app, which I heard was great. And now I can't because the developer had to remove it from the App Store. Why? Because of Amazon.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pandora (And Other Internet Radio) Has Officially Been Saved — After two years of uncertainty, Pandora's future has finally been secured. — For those not familiar with what was going on, basically the streaming rates for Internet radio were in danger of being raised to levels …
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Alex Billington / FirstShowing.net:
Aaron Sorkin's Facebook Script Might Actually Be Amazing — Ah yes, Aaron Sorkin's movie about Facebook. “Imagine going from nothing to a billionaire in less than a year. How do you even grasp that kind of success? How do you live a normal life? How do you address the constant lawsuits that eat into your everyday existence?
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Julie Zhou / Google LatLong:
Help customers find their way with new Google Maps gadget — Last week, I looked up directions to the hotel in Sacramento that I had booked for the 4th of July weekend. As I had never been to that part of the state before, I was puzzled by the directions offered by their website …
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Sony CEO dismisses price cut chatter on PlayStation — Sony Corp Chief Executive Howard Stringer brushed off concerns that the PlayStation 3 video game console is too expensive, and said the company is unlikely to sell parts of its business amid the recession.
Kenneth Li / Financial Times:
Sun Valley set to consider paid content — A debate over paid content that has riven the newspaper business and spread across the rest of the media sector is expected to frame discussions at the annual confab of media and technology power brokers and entrepreneurs in Sun Valley this week.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
VC Valuations: What Went Up Has Come Down — The majority of second-round-and-later venture funding deals during the first quarter of 2009 showed a decrease in valuation. Fifty-one percent of the financing during the period were so-called down rounds, which means the price per share …
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Online attack hits US government Web sites — IDG News Service - A botnet comprised of about 50,000 infected computers has been waging a war against U.S. government Web sites and causing headaches for businesses in the U.S. and South Korea. — The attack started Saturday …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Spammers Shorten Their URLs — Shortened URLs are great for character-conscious Tweeters, marketers who want to track Web site visitors, and even perhaps an opportunity for venture capitalists who are investing in companies such as Bit.ly. — But they are also providing a boon to spammers.
Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
GE, Tendril ink deal to create even better home energy management — General Electric's Consumer & Industrial division finalized a deal with home energy management startup Tendril today to improve broadband communication between demand response appliances in the home, smart meters and utilities.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Curbs YouTube Copyrights Suit — A federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright class-action against Google Inc.'s YouTube dismissed some of the plaintiffs' claims for certain types of damages from the video-sharing site. — U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ruled that one group of plaintiffs …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sequoia, Greylock Take Stake In OpenDNS — It isn't the sexiest startup in Silicon Valley, but San Francisco based OpenDNS just closed one of the most competitive venture capital deals in recent history. Top tier firms Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners came out the winners.
Kim Thai / Fortune:
Is Digg the Jan Brady of Web 2.0? — The once-hot site is undergoing a major upgrade to keep pace with Facebook and Twitter. Will users dig it once again? — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Digg, the once-hot social news website, has become the middle child of the premiere web 2.0 companies.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
So Much For That Idea. Facebook Has Killed Off Its Great Apps Initiative — Last summer Facebook announced two new programs designed to help surface some of the best applications on Facebook Platform. The first, called Verified Apps, was to help users find applications they could trust …
The Official Google Blog:
Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really) — We're often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta. For example, Gmail has worn the beta tag more than five years. We realize this situation puzzles some people, particularly those who subscribe to the traditional definition of …
