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Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
Google To Announce Chrome Laptops-$20/Month — Google tomorrow will announce sales of the new Chrome laptop in a $20 a month “student package” that combines both hardware and online services, according to a senior Google executive. — The product is almost certainly a precursor to an enterprise offering.
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Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Google's Music Beta first look: it's miserable — Google's Music Beta is supposed to provide users with a way to access the music anywhere, anytime as easily as physically possible. — But it's just not that easy. — I've spent the past few hours trying to navigate my way through Music Beta …
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Music Ally, PC World, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, SAI, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, The Next Web and Search Engine Land
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Music labels to Google: We're counting on Apple
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MacRumors, RazorianFly, MacStories and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Google Music Beta walkthrough: what it is and how it works (video)
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DialToSave and T3.com News
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, WebProNews, Growthology and UMBC ebiquity
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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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Android And Chrome: Anywhere And Everywhere
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GigaOM and TechCrunch
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
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Angry Birds comes to the web, courtesy of WebGL and Chrome
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TechCrunch and @stevenjayl
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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9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, TUAW, Fortune, Inquirer, PC World, RazorianFly, iFlowReader, Apple Bitch, Pulse2, iClarified, The Next Web and FierceWireless
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, Pulse2, Alec Saunders and The Prior Art
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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Pulse2, MobileBurn.com and iPhone in Canada Blog
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's Skype Deal May Strain Relations With AT&T, Verizon
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Bloomberg and PR Newswire
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
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, Electronista, Phones Review, CNET News and Liliputing
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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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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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Following Security Problem, Facebook Moves to OAuth 2.0, HTTPS and SSL Certificates
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Softpedia News, All Facebook, Redmond Pie and PC World
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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VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Mobile Marketing Watch, Computerworld, GigaOM, Reuters, Fast Company and FierceMobileContent
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
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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VatorNews, Pulse2 and PE Hub Blog
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Google and Ford Team Up to Make Your Next Car Smarter — At Google's I/O developer conference today, Ford announced a new research project that will use Google's prediction API to help drivers save gas and drive more efficiently. Ford plans to use Google's service to analyze data …
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Google Code Blog, Pulse2, Inquirer, Engadget, InfoQ, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista, PC World and Autopia, Thanks:newsgrange
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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eWeek, DigiTimes, AppleInsider, TechEye and Softpedia News
Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:
NSA Gathers 4x the Amount of Info than the Library of Congress, Daily — The National Security Agency is the geekiest of the spy shops. The NSA is responsible for gathering and parsing information from around the world, usually electronic data. At ReadWriteWeb, we're no strangers to big data, in fact we're fans.
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Popular Science and Gizmodo
Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Tumblr Deletes Its Tweets About Service Problems — Here's a study in social media strategy: Contrast the archives of Twitter status blog, powered by Tumblr, with the Tumblr status feed, hosted on Twitter. Twitter's status blog is an archive of the company's downtime: May 10 …
