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The Official Google Blog:
A new kind of computer: Chromebook — A little less than two years ago we set out to make computers much better. Today, we're announcing the first Chromebooks from our partners, Samsung and Acer. These are not typical notebooks. With a Chromebook you won't wait minutes for your computer to boot and browser to start.
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Rob Hof's Blog, The Next Web and Forbes
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
ChromeBooks For Education Priced At $20 Per Month Per User — ChromeBooks, centralized, almost entirely cloud-based machines by Google, will be available for students and schools at $20/per month/per user, enabling full updates, central login controls, and a central administrator panel to handle users and control access.
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@dannysullivan
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google's Chromebooks Debut June 15
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VentureBeat, CrunchGear, Engadget, Engadget, This is my next, Mobilized, @jason, @michaelkroker, The Next Web, MobileWhack, thechromesource and Techie Buzz
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google Launches Chromebooks with Samsung and Acer
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Search Engine Land and GottaBeMobile
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Google makes Chrome Web Store available worldwide, adds in-app purchases and flat five percent fee — Google has just announced that it's making the Chrome Web Store available to the “entire userbase of Chrome,” and in 41 different languages no less, although those outside the current markets …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, The Register, LAPTOP Magazine, Inside Mobile Apps, CNET News, Web Browser, RazorianFly and Kotaku
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Google Announces 160 Million Chrome Users, Massive Improvements Coming — Chrome's user base “more than doubled” in the past year with browser uptake increasing from 70 million to 160 million thanks to Linux, Windows, and OS X versions of the browser finally reaching parity.
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VentureBeat, Mashable! and The Next Web
John Markoff / New York Times:
Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars — Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobbying for legislation that would make Nevada the first state where they could be legally operated on public roads. — And yes, the proposed legislation would include an exemption …
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VentureBeat, Mashable!, Digital Trends, Pulse2, Geekosystem, WebProNews, Growthology, UMBC ebiquity and I4U News
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Android@Home is the best worst thing that could happen to home automation — As the resident Engadget home automation nerd, Google's Android@Home announcement rocked my little low-powered RF world yesterday. Seeing a brand like Google get behind home automation is the stuff I've been dreaming …
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Fast Company, dailywireless.org, Mashable!, Phones Review, CNET News and BGR
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Android And Chrome: Anywhere And Everywhere
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Engadget, This is my next, GigaOM, TechCrunch, CNET News, Electronista and Mobilized
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Music labels to Google: We're counting on Apple — Google unveiled the beta version of its music storage service May 10 at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. — If Apple rolls out a cloud music service next month, the offering could appear a little dated.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone Download Blog, RazorianFly, MacStories, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Crave
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive
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Redmond Pie, Android, Engadget, PhoneArena, SocialTimes.com, eWeek, Pulse2, TechCrunch, SFWeekly, BetaNews, blog.chron.com and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Google's Music Beta first look: it's miserable
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Music Ally, PC World, New York Times, SAI, Wall Street Journal, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, The Next Web and eWeek
OUT-LAW News:
Google infringes copyright when its services link to newspaper sites, Belgian court rules — A Belgian appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling that Google infringes on newspapers' copyright when its services display and link to content from newspaper websites, according to press reports.
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GottaBeMobile, The Register, Alec Saunders, Fast Company, Pulse2 and The Prior Art
Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
iFlowReader Latest App To Shut Up Shop, Blames Apple's IAP, Agency Models — Remember all those complaints about Apple's new in-app purchasing policy when it first launched? Those have somewhat died down, but they haven't stopped altogether: The developers of the iPhone …
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, CNET News, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb, 9 to 5 Mac, PC World, Inquirer, Fortune, iFlowReader, RazorianFly, Apple Bitch, Pulse2, The Next Web, iClarified and FierceWireless
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: BranchOut Raises $18M For Facebook-Focused Professional Network — Exclusive: BranchOut, a professional social network for Facebook, has raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Redpoint Ventures with Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Floodgate also participating the the round.
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All Facebook, VatorNews, alarm:clock, Pulse2 and PE Hub Blog
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Angry Birds comes to the web, courtesy of WebGL and Chrome [Now Live!] — Wednesday at Google I/O, Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka revealed that Angry Birds is coming to the web. This is an event that he says would not have been possible a year ago but now, with the improvement in graphics technologies …
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TechCrunch and @stevenjayl
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Hands-On With Android 3.1 On The Motorola Xoom — Google announced Android 3.1 earlier today at I/O. More surprising than the OS itself (which was expected, really) was that it was rolling out to Verizon Xooms today. Google failed to announce when it was hitting other devices beside Google TV …
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Datamation, GigaOM, eWeek, TechCrunch, I4U News, Phones Review, Electronista, CNET News and Liliputing
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too — Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn't shrink in scope—it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers …
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Boing Boing and Techdirt
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Stops Serving iAds In Apps Targeted To Kids — Since its introduction last year, Apple's iAd advertising network has been off to a somehow rough start: touted as the best way for advertisers to build interactive campaigns to deliver effortlessly to iOS users, the service was repeatedly criticized …
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Visa Advances Toward a Digital Wallet — Visa is taking another big step in its continuing efforts to create a universal digital wallet. — On Wednesday, the company announced plans to introduce a one-click payment system that will allow Visa customers to sign up for a set of credentials …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Mobile Marketing Watch, Computerworld, Reuters, GigaOM, Fast Company and FierceMobileContent
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Skype's Road To $8 Billion — Skype is all-but confirmed to be acquired by Microsoft for over $8 billion, including debt. — It's a long road for a company founded back in 2003 that went through fundings, acquisitions, divestures, and a postponed IPO. It started in the small country …
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ArcticStartup Posts, Microsoft News Tracker and Wireless News
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Confirmed: Qik will become part of Microsoft, too
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Bloomberg, Pulse2, MobileBurn.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, PR Newswire, Electronista, All about Microsoft Blog, Reuters, ben's blog, ActiveWin.com and TechCrunch
Nishant Doshi / Symantec Blog:
Facebook Applications Accidentally Leaking Access to Third Parties — Third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users' accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information.
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PC Magazine, CNN, GMSV, Wall Street Journal, Wired In Blog| BNET, www.thehostingnews.com, Softpedia News, PC World, Help Net Security, NetworkEffect, Security Watch, Reuters, DailyTech, Network World, Marketing Pilgrim, AdExchanger.com, MarketingVOX, OUT-LAW News, @jowyang, The Blog Herald, Information Age, Inquirer, ITProPortal, Digital Trends, TechEye, Gizmodo, thinq_, ZDNet Australia, Pulse2, Pocket-lint, Boing Boing, The Next Web, The Register, Gizmodo Australia, CNET News, ZDNet, This is my next, SANS Internet Storm Center … and Slashdot
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Following Security Problem, Facebook Moves to OAuth 2.0, HTTPS and SSL Certificates
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Softpedia News, Redmond Pie, All Facebook and PC World
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
“Wallet of the future” Pageonce raises $15M — Pageonce, which helps manage financial accounts and bills through your smartphone, just announced that it has raised $15 million in a new round of funding. — It seems like the Palo Alto, Calif. company has become more focused over time.
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TechCrunch, eMoney, Xconomy, Social Markets, VatorNews and Pulse2
Jim Puzzanghera / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Senators grill AT&T and T-Mobile CEOs over their proposed merger — Skeptical lawmakers on Wednesday interrogated the chief executives of AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA about their proposed merger, raising concerns that the $39-billion deal would increase prices for wireless consumers by creating a market dominated by two huge players.
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Adweek, ReadWriteWeb, NewEnterprise, ITworld.com and FierceWireless
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Stealth Startup Inporia Raises $1.25 Million From Ron Conway, 500 Startups And More — Add another stealth eCommerce startup attracting pre-launch funding from eager investors to your list. That is, of course, if you have one. Last month, we covered Decide, a Seattle-based company looking …
Electronista:
Acer pins failures in iPad's wake on ex-CEO — Acer shot back at its ex-CEO Gianfranco Lanci's claims that their nationalism held the company back with a statement later on Tuesday. The PC builder rejected the notion that Lanci had been thwarted in countering the iPad by Taiwan executives' refusal to hire more foreign engineers.
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CNET News, eWeek, DigiTimes, TechEye and AppleInsider
