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Bloomberg:
Netflix Advances on Speculation of Buyout Offer From Amazon.com — Netflix Inc. shares gained and bullish options trading jumped to the highest in 11 weeks on speculation that Amazon.com Inc. may acquire the largest U.S. mail-order movie service, according to WhatsTrading.com.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Update on Windows 7 RTM — I'd like to offer up a little insight into the “Release to Manufacturing” (RTM) for Windows 7. — Over the past week, there have been many rumors surrounding RTM. — We are close, but have not yet signed off on Windows 7. When we RTM you will most certainly hear it here.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Verizon to Mobile Developers: Can You Hear Me Now? — Verizon wants to build its own app store, and is planning a July 28 event to entice developers to its platform. Like everyone else wooing programmers, the company hopes to get the equivalent of the in-crowd building the hottest apps …
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MobileContentToday, MobileCrunch, Phone Arena, Local Mobile Search, NEWSFACTOR, TheAppleBlog and Gizmodo
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Ross Miller / Engadget:Verizon to its smartphones: thou shalt have no other app store before mine
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Facebook Employees and Investors Can Finally Unload Stock — 10:28 a.m. Clarifying that company executives do not qualify for the stock purchase program. — Facebook investors are finally getting a chance to sell some of their stock. — Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment firm …
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Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Microsoft is launching a music streaming service this month — Microsoft is gearing up to launch a music streaming service similar to Spotify by the end of this month. — The service, which Microsoft aims to have ready by the end of July, will offer users the chance to stream music for free and also download to own.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
RIM Launching A BlackBerry Social Network For Venting Tomorrow — Perhaps you've noticed that apps aren't exactly flying off the virtual shelves in BlackBerry's App World store, like they are in Apple's App Store. The store is hard to navigate and there's confusion about several of the apps …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Look for PA Semi's chip designs in upcoming Apple tablet — Reports surfaced today that Apple will launch an $800 tablet computer in October. But we've dug out something interesting ourselves: the processor chip for the tablet is being designed by Apple's own internal chip team.
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Gizmodo, WebProNews, Edible Apple, DailyFinance, Business Week, PMP Today, Computerworld, TG Daily, InformationWeek, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, GottaBeMobile.com, Ars Technica and SlashGear
Bing / Search Blog:
Bing at Month One — After just over one month in market, we wanted to take the opportunity to THANK YOU for all your feedback and support of Bing and provide an update on our early results. We've been really pleased to hear so much positive feedback, and we appreciate all you who've taken …
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Compete Blog, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, BoomTown, Search Engine Journal, AppScout, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, TechFlash and Deep Jive Interests
Daniel Brusilovsky / TechCrunch:
Why Teens Aren't Using Twitter: It Doesn't Feel Safe — Twitter seems to be the hottest thing in tech recently — if you look at TechCrunch, it averages at least 3 posts a week about Twitter. But the bigger question is, who is really using Twitter? Many of you might think that …
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Strange Attractor, Mashable!, Guardian, VentureBeat, Deep Jive Interests, CrunchGear, Bloomberg, Financial Times and broadstuff, Thanks:teensintech
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Facebook Huddles with Patent Vampire — Mark Zuckerberg was photographed in intimate conversation with Microsoft's former CTO in Sun Valley last week. The Facebook founder might simply have been quizzing Nathan Myhrvold about Zuckerberg doppelgänger Bill Gates. But there's a more interesting possibility.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft — SAN FRANCISCO — In late May, Microsoft unveiled Bing, its new Internet search engine, in front of an audience of skeptics: technology executives and other digerati who had gathered near San Diego for an industry conference.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Gap Grows Wider: MySpace Eats Facebook's Dust In The U.S. — The gap between Facebook and MySpace is growing wider in the U.S. In May, Facebook finally caught up to MySpace in unique U.S. visitors and surpassed its rival social network by a smidgeon. Last month, Facebook left MySpace in the dust …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Will Hunt Down isoHunt Founder for Life — Where the RIAA is mostly interested in pursuing individual file-sharers in court, the MPAA has taken on several of the largest torrent sites on the Internet. After being awarded $110 million in their case against TorrentSpy last year, they are now focusing on the next target - isoHunt.
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Robert McMillan / PC World:
LexisNexis Warns of Breach After Alleged Mafia Bust — Information broker LexisNexis has warned more than 13,000 consumers, saying that a Florida man who is facing charges in an alleged mafia racketeering conspiracy may have accessed some of the same sensitive consumer databases that were once used to track terrorists.
Richard Corliss / Time:
‘Bruno’: Did Twitter Reviews Hurt Movie at Box Office? — In the old days — like, until yesterday — movie studios judged the success of their big pictures by how much they grossed on the opening weekend. But in the age of Twitter, electronic word-of-mouth is immediate …
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Facebook Stickier Than Google, eBay — The average Internet user in the U.S. spent more than 4.5 hours on Facebook in June, more time than he whiled away on Google, eBay, Yahoo and other online hubs, according to new data from Nielsen. — Getty Images — Google's family of Web sites retained …
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
HBO and Cinemax Going Online With Comcast — HBO and Cinemax will join Comcast's OnDemand Online trial this summer, giving the cable company's authentication scheme a high-profile partner. As part of the agreement, 750 hours of content from the two networks will be made available through Comcast.net and Fancast.com.
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps to be Free; Testing Starts Today — After Microsoft's initial announcement, the forthcoming Google-docs-like Office web apps—"Office Web"—kinda fell off the radar. Today, we get confirmation that the online suite will be free, and that Office 2010 will start semi-private testing today.
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DisplaySearch:
Mini-Note (Netbook) Shipments to Double Y/Y to More Than 30M Units in 2009, While Notebook Shipments Flatten — DisplaySearch expects shipments of almost 33 million mini-notes (netbooks) in 2009 as penetration of these products into the notebook PC market grows to 20% worldwide …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Blockbuster to stream video rentals on Samsung TVs — SAN FRANCISCO - — Having been a step behind in the race to pipe entertainment from the Internet to television screens, struggling video rental-chain Blockbuster Inc. is counting on a new partnership with Samsung Electronics America Inc. to regain ground on rival Netflix Inc.
Gordon Borrell / Borrell Associates:
Local Ads Moving to Social Networks — We just did an assessment of advertising placed on social networking sites and were surprised to find that nearly 20% of all ad spending is by local businesses. Our assumption going into this research was that commercials on social networks were almost purely national.
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Brian Handwerk / National Geographic:
“Space Internet” to Link Worlds by 2011? — For all its might, the World Wide Web is still limited to, well, our world. — But that's quickly changing with the advent of an “interplanetary internet” that planners say will revolutionize space communication.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
TwitVid launches on the iPhone, cracks open world of video tweeting — TwitVid launched a mobile app today for quick video tweets and uploads, capitalizing on iPhone 3GS' new video capabilities. — The TwitVid app lets you record a video, write a tweet and then post it to your Twitter account.
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
How The AP Fails To Get Search & SEO (Again) — Gosh, just as the Associated Press announces that it's going to follow a new meta tagging scheme to protect its content, it continues to show no clue about how to monetize its own traffic much less regulate it.
