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Jack Dorsey / Twitter Blog:
search+photos — Twitter brings the most meaningful information in the world right to your pocket. And, we're constantly working on ways to make that even better. — One good search can take you #anywhere. — Today we're starting to roll out a completely new version of Twitter search.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Partners With Photobucket On Photos And Firefox On Search — Twitter has just announced on their blog two new key bits of functionality for the search: improved search and photos. The latter, we've obviously been all over in recent days, as we first broke the news a couple days ago.
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The Next Web, gigaom.com, BGR, The Seattle Times, Mashable!, Engadget, SAI and Online Marketing Trends
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Move Over Time Sorting: Twitter Gets “Top Tweets” Search Results
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TechCrunch, Computerworld and Twitter Engineering
Evan Gilbert / The Official Google Blog:
The +1 button for websites: recommend content across the web — Since we started rolling out the +1 button in March, you've been able to recommend content to your friends and contacts directly from Google search results and ads. — But sometimes you want to +1 a page while you're on it.
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Eric Grosse / The Official Google Blog:
Ensuring your information is safe online — The Internet has been an amazing force for good in the world—opening up communications, boosting economic growth and promoting free expression. But like all technologies, it can also be used for bad things. Today, despite the efforts …
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The Firewall, Ars Technica, BGR, SAI, CNNMoney.com, New York Times, SFGate, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, msnbc.com, Tech Trader Daily, Techland, Android Phone Fans, @stshank and 901am
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google: Group In China Targeted Senior US Officials, Chinese Activists, Others With Phishing Attack
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Wall Street Journal, BBC, Reuters and Neowin.net
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
How Powerful is Twitter? Well, Shaq Just Tweeted His Retirement — Dick Costolo just spent 45 minutes on stage at D9 talking about the power of Twitter. But I think Shaquille O'Neal just made a better argument for Twitter's power in just two words. — “im retiring,” the NBA star tweeted Wednesday, linking to a video.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Tells Developers to “Move Up the Value Chain” (Video) — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo shared details and perspectives about Twitter usage, developer relations and monetization in an interview with Walt Mossberg today at D9. He also introduced new photo and search products.
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@wsjtech, SAI, VentureBeat, The Tech Trade, WebProNews, Neowin.net, SlashGear, Adotas and Search Engine Land
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests — Well, this is ... unexpected. Jonathan Kaplan, who previously led the company that created the Flip camera, just announced his new project on-stage at the D9 conference — and it's a grilled cheese company.
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Gizmodo, RCR Unplugged, Epicenter, Business Week, AllThingsD, AllThingsD, Techland, ITworld.com, SAI, The Tech Trade, Light Reading and CNET News
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's new data center is visible (at last!) from space — One of the mysteries surrounding the 500,000-square foot server farm Apple (AAPL) has famously constructed in a small North Carolina town called Maiden — besides its ultimate purpose — is why it didn't show up on Google Earth.
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Data Center Knowledge, Datamation, CNNMoney.com, MacNN, Shiny Objects, PC Magazine, CNET News, NBC Bay Area, 9 to 5 Mac and Geek.com
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Perfectly Times their iCloud Trademark Filing in Europe
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Computerworld, CNET News, TechCrunch, SlashGear and Electronista
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple may offer free iCloud services with aggressively priced Mac OS X Lion
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Ars Technica and 9 to 5 Mac
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
JP Morgan: Apple's iPad rivals reduce build plans after ‘early dose of reality’ — A new investor report from J.P. Morgan on Wednesday indicates that Apple's competitors in the tablet market have reduced their build plans after receiving an “early dose of reality” in the form of lackluster sales.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
HP Might License webOS, Says CEO (Video) — Hewlett-Packard's plans for webOS extend far beyond tablets, smartphones and PCs. Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker says the company is planning to make it available to its partners to provide mobility services to their customers.
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LAPTOP Magazine, Technologizer, VentureBeat, SAI, This is my next, Engadget, Light Reading, PhoneDog.com, Everything webOS, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear and MobileBurn.com
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Jack Dorsey Is “The James Franco of the Internet” — Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square and product chief at Twitter, didn't have much of anything going on today so he dropped in on D9. — All kidding aside, the seemingly super-human Dorsey will be taking questions from AllThingsD's Kara Swisher …
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, AllThingsD and @stevenjayl
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on Google, Clones and Hubris-But Not on an IPO — Groupon's CEO Andrew Mason makes history today as the first speaker at the D conference to ever request that his image be based on a recent driver's license photo — goofy grin and all.
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AllThingsD, SAI and @pkafka
Anil Dash:
Apple's Twitter — I've been waiting a year for someone to write about this, but my laziness has not yet paid off, so here are a few things that we all know about everybody's favorite Cupertino fruit company: — Apple has client app software on hundreds of millions of devices in the form …
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GigaOM and parislemon
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Reed Hastings: Netflix vying for ‘wallet share’ — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says his company can't afford brand-new content yet. — Netflix is still fighting movie release “windows” and not offering new releases as quickly as it likes, Hastings said at the D9 conference here this morning.
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AllThingsD, The Tech Trade, Digital Trends, Digits, Crave, GigaOM and AllThingsD
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Cable, Competition and Company Culture
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The Tech Trade, Apple Headlines, Digits, MacStories, Fast Company, Gizmodo and Between the Lines Blog
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said to Limit Chipmakers Using Windows to Only One Tablet-Maker — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has asked chipmakers that want to use the next version of Windows for tablets to work with no more than one computer manufacturer, three people with knowledge of the plan said.
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PC World, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Digital Trends, SAI and DigiTimes
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Groupon Books Travel Plans Through Expedia Partnership — Groupon is partnering with Expedia to create a new discount travel service that will let people book hotel rooms and airfare at half the cost. — The announcement is being made today at the D Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes …
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VatorNews, Screenwerk, GeekWire, CNET News and Tnooz
Jeremy A. Kaplan / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Northrop Grumman May Have Been Hit by Cyberattack, Source Says — Top military contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. may have been hit by a cyber assault, the latest in a string of alarming attacks against military suppliers, a source within the company told FoxNews.com.
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Computerworld, The Register, CSO's blog and SiliconANGLE
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Samsung Chromebook goes on sale early at Gilt (update: sold out) — We can't say we expected Gilt to be the first place to offer Samsung's new Chromebook but, well, here we are. Google's now sending out emails like the one above to at least some folks that signed up to be a part of the Cr-48 pilot program …
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This is my next, Betabeat, Gizmodo, Geek.com, The Digital Reader and Electronista
Sandro Villinger / ITworld.com:
10 hidden features in Windows 8 — Windows 8 is coming in 2012: Here's an early look at 10 major new features and areas of improvement. … Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer finally confirmed what tech pundits knew all along: the next generation of Windows will be out in 2012.
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Windows 8 Center and All about Microsoft Blog
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Official: Google Offers Goes Live, First Portland Offer Arrives — [As promised below in our post from late Tuesday night, the first Google Offer just arrived minutes ago in my Gmail inbox. Here's a screenshot, followed by the remainder of Tuesday night's post about it.]
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Macworld, Search Engine Watch, BetaNews, Computerworld, Oregonian, Digital Trends, SiliconFilter, The Official Google Blog, ReadWriteWeb and GeekWire, Thanks:mattmcgee
Evan Williams / EVHEAD:
The Future of Identity Belongs to Apple and Google — Why is it, when you install an app from the AppStore that requires an account, and you don't already have an account on the service, you have to fill out a form and create one? — It seems like a dumb question, until you consider that this is not your computer.
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MediaPost
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Google WebRTC browser voice/video chat released to take on Skype and FaceTime — Google has released a developer preview of WebRTC, its open real-time voice and video chat system that uses HTML and JavaScript to put video and audio conferencing into the browser.
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The Next Web and Geeky-Gadgets
