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Bloomberg:
PayPal Sues Google, Saying It Misappropriated Trade Mobile-Payment Secrets — PayPal Inc., the fastest-growing unit at online marketplace EBay Inc. (EBAY), sued Google Inc. claiming it misappropriated trade secrets from PayPal's mobile-payment business. — Osama Bedier, a former PayPal executive …
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Amanda Pires / The PayPal Blog:
PayPal files lawsuit to protect trade secrets: A reason worth fighting for — Spending time in courtrooms is generally not our thing. We prefer to compete and innovate, serving our customers by offering the best way to pay and be paid. That's how you really win.
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Android and Me, Electronista, TechCrunch and @fredericl
The Official Google Blog:
Coming soon: make your phone your wallet — Today in our New York City office, along with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint, we gave a demo of Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone your wallet. You'll be able to tap, pay and save using your phone and near field communication (NFC).
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Special Stickers Will Bring Google Wallet To Android Phones That Lack NFC — We're here at Google's NFC payments announcement, where the search giant has announced a new, important product called Google Wallet (see our comprehensive post on the announcement here).
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Near Field Communications …, Geeky-Gadgets, PhoneDog.com, I4U News, PhoneArena, iTech Report, Daring Fireball, gigaom.com, The Seattle Times, Gizmodo Australia, Droid Life, Computerworld, SocialTimes.com, Lifehacker, Android Community, IGN Gear, SlashGear, O'Reilly Radar, paidContent, Android Phone Fans, Local Media Watch and Screenwerk
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Gives Everyone $10 to Try New Google Wallet...but There's a Catch
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@graywolf
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google Wallet: Handicapping why it will (and won't) work
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Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, Visa's Blog, ZDNet and AllThingsD
Ellis Hamburger / SAI:
Google Introduces Google Wallet, Works At Over 300,000 Mastercard PayPass Merchant Locations
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Computerworld, Geeky-Gadgets, techblog.dallasnews.com, New York Times, PC World, pocketnow.com, Mobilized, Electronista, Tools and Inquirer
Business Week:
Apple's Deals May Transform Digital Music — The company's plan for “digital lockers” is winning over the major music labels — Compared with buying e-books, building a digital music collection is a hassle. E-books zip directly to reading devices like the Kindle and Nook and are backed up …
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SlashGear, open, TUAW, MacRumors, App Advice, AppleInsider, MacStories, Electronista, Geeky-Gadgets, RazorianFly and AllNewsMac
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's iCloud music service will automatically mirror your iTunes library using ‘high-quality’ tracks? — There's been so much chatter about Apple iCloud that you'd think the streaming music service had already been announced and the deals inked. But it's still just a rumor until …
Zohair Hyder / Gmail Blog:
Introducing the people widget — (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog) — Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you communicate about. We think it can be helpful to view relevant information in context, which is why over the next two weeks we're rolling …
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The Next Web, Geeky-Gadgets, Technologizer, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, VentureBeat, Mashable! and BetaNews, Thanks:steverubel
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Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Flickr now stores your photos for 90 days after you've deleted your account — Flickr today announced that it has implemented a change to its policy on deleted accounts, saying it will keep photos and associated content for 90 days before erasing them for good.
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Zack Sheppard / Flickr Blog:
Your photos and data on Flickr
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Neowin.net, PetaPixel and Photography Bay
Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Microsoft board backs Ballmer over Einhorn — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's board stood behind Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer on Thursday, defending its longtime leader after influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn touched off a debate by calling for his dismissal.
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TechEye, SlashGear, Mashable!, The Microsoft Blog, MediaFile, Guardian, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, GeekWire, Electronista, Network World, TG Daily, DealBook, PC World, PE Hub Blog and All about Microsoft Blog
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Ryan Block / gdgt:
It's time for Bill Gates to come back to Microsoft.
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SAI, SAI, Technologizer, The Microsoft Blog, Communications …, Inquirer and CNET News, Thanks:rockbandit
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Amazon launches Mac Download Store — Amazon already has a mobile App Store, but the company on Thursday launched the Mac Download Store. — Competing directing with Apple's Mac Store, Amazon says its store has 250 of the biggest software and game titles available for Mac.
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Computerworld, Geek.com, CNET News, TUAW, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Technologizer, 9 to 5 Mac, BGR India, AllThingsD, WebProNews, MacRumors, RazorianFly, TiPb, GeekWire, MacStories, TechnoBuffalo, Lifehacker, Tools, The Next Web, Pulse2 and Appletell, Thanks:kakanturing
Mary Ann Azevedo / bizjournals:
Microsoft confirms move to Moffett — It's official. After weeks of speculation, Microsoft has signed a lease for 237,000 square feet at Moffett Towers in Sunnyvale. — The tech giant will be taking space at 1020 Enterprise Way, which is part of phase one of the development, in January 2012 …
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Facebook Slams Man Who Claims Ownership — Facebook on Thursday answered the New York wood pellet salesman who claims he owns a good part of Facebook. And it doesn't mince words. — On the heels of the Winklevoss twins, who have claimed for years that they came up with the idea for Facebook …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Not-So Private Parts, Mashable!, VentureBeat and Pulse2
Wall Street Journal:
Ballmer Details China Piracy Problems — BEIJING—Microsoft Corp.'s revenue in China this year will be about 5% of what it gets in the U.S. even though personal-computer sales in the two countries are almost equal, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in remarks that offer new details on the software giant's struggle with piracy.
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Ars Technica, Computerworld, SAI, The Next Web, Between the Lines Blog and TechFlash
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge: Eating only what he kills (and yes, we do mean literally...) — Last year Mark Zuckerberg set out to learn Chinese. Now he's determined to get in touch with his food. If the goats, lobsters and chickens of Silicon Valley aren't trembling, they should be.
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Marketwatch:
Obama to name Twitter CEO to advisory committee — LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — The chief executive at social media site Twitter is among the technology sector executives U.S. President Barack Obama plans to appoint to an advisory committee, according to a statement from the White House late Thursday.
Electronista:
HTC confirms: Android bootloaders will stay unlocked — HTC tonight followed up on its policy rethink with an official statement on Facebook that it would no longer lock bootloaders on its phones. CEO Peter Chou acknowledged criticism and vowed that customers could more easily modify Android devices' firmware from now on.
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Engadget, Softpedia News, BGR, This is my next and ZDNet
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Now You Can See Twitter The Way I See Twitter — Twitter has just rolled out a nifty little feature. Now on anyone's profile, when click on the “Following” link, you'll be able to see exactly how they see Twitter. In other words, you can see the same timeline of tweets that they see when they're looking at their main feed.
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@twitter, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, WebProNews and Mashable!
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Reply.com acquires MerchantCircle for $60 million — Reply.com on Thursday announced it had acquired fellow Bay Area firm MerchantCircle for $60 million cash and stock. The deal is expected to go through in Q3 of this year. — The deal makes good sense, as MerchantCircle acts …
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TechCrunch and Local Onliner
Agence France Presse:
Google's Street View starts mapping India — BANGALORE, India — Google launched its “Street View” project in India on Thursday aiming to collect panoramic images of the vast country ranging from its palaces to its slums. — The 360-degree photographic mapping service …
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Google India Blog, Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb and Wall Street Journal, Thanks:hornokplease
Mike / Understanding Google Maps & Local Search:
The Growth of Reviews In Google Places (aka Hotpot) — It was apparent to me in early January that the introduction of Google Hotpot was leading to vast increase in Google's review/rating corpus. I was seeing reviews and ratings in industries and geographic areas that had not seen Google originated reviews and seeing them frequently.
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Search Engine Land
