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9:10 AM ET, June 20, 2011

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Revealed: Facebook's music plans involve Spotify, others  —  For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services.  However, Facebook's musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications.
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CircleID:
New Top-Level Domains Approved by ICANN  —  The Board of ICANN today gave final approval to the most dramatic change to the Internet in four decades — allowing the expansion of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs).  This monumental decision will allow companies and organizations to turn their own brands …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
New Net addresses mean new trademark issues  —  ICANN announced new generic top-level domains (GTLDs) at a news conference in Singapore.  From left to right are outgoing Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom, and Senior Vice President of Services Kurt Pritz, who led the GTLD effort.
Lauren Weinstein / Lauren Weinstein's Blog:   The Shame on the Internet: ICANN Votes to Massively Enrich the Domain-Industrial Complex
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Huawei MediaPad revealed: world's first 7-inch Android 3.2 tablet, dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm CPU  —  It's here folks — the planet's first Android 3.2 tablet.  Huawei just introduced a downright luscious new slate over in Singapore, with CommunicAsia being the launchpad for the 7-inch MediaPad.
Joseph Galante / Bloomberg:
Skype Fires Executives, Avoiding Payouts After Microsoft Buyout  —  Skype Technologies SA, the Internet- calling service being bought by Microsoft Corp., is firing senior executives before the deal closes, a move that reduces the value of their payout, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Tech Firms' Workers Sell Shares, Fearing a Bubble Will Burst  —  SAN FRANCISCO — While Silicon Valley and Wall Street debate whether a new technology bubble is in the making, some early Facebook employees are not taking any chances.  They're leaving the company to cash out on millions …
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Small Group Rode LinkedIn to Big Payday
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Adobe Software Updates To Help Devs Build iOS, PlayBook And Android Apps  —  Adobe is today pushing updates to its application development software product Flash Builder and the open source Flex framework to enable developers to build apps for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook …
Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:
Abracadabra!  Magic Trumps Math at Web Start-Ups  —  Over a decade ago, Internet companies promoted new ways to measure their business performance, introducing concepts like “eyeballs” and “mindshare” to investors.  —  Now the latest wave of Internet start-ups are adding their own particular yardsticks to the valuation vocabulary.
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Bitcoin prices plummet on hacked exchange  —  The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes.  Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page …
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Economist:   Bits and bob  —  Bitcoin has got geeks excited.  What about economists?
Ross Dawson / Trends in the Living Networks:
Why Turntable.fm's Lame/Awesome button is awesome  —  Turntable.fm has certainly created a sensation - over the last couple of weeks it has been one of the hottest topics on the web.  —  Deservedly.  It really changes the game in making music truly social.  And the concept, the strategy, and the execution are superb.
Dave Mosher / Scientific American:
High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain?  —  Brain scans hint excessive time online is tied to stark physical changes in the brain  —  Kids spend an increasing fraction of their formative years online, and it is a habit they dutifully carry into adulthood.
Discussion: PLoS ONE and IdeaFeed
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
TiVo iPhone & Android Apps Coming “Soon”  —  While TiVo has alluded to additional companion mobile apps, via Twitter and other venues, the June issue of CEPro provides concrete details via a full page advertisement targeting custom installers: … It'll be interesting to see what sort …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The 3 most undervalued tech stocks: Google, Apple, IBM  —  By the same “PEG” measure, the 3 most overvalued are Amazon, Cisco and Netflix  —  Click to enlarge.  Date: NASDAQ.  Chart: PED  —  Here's a simple exercise suggested by one of my readers.  —  Take a stock you're interested …
 
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
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Facebook Users Want Professional Networking: BranchOut Nears a Million New Users Within a Week
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Sega says 1.3 million users affected by cyber attack
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
All new Mac Pros and upgraded Mac minis with Sandy Bridge and Thunderbolt in early August?
Jonathan / awe.sm:
URL shorteners are dead. Long live URL shorteners!
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Chris Willman / Variety:
Taylor Swift acquires the rights to her first six albums from Shamrock Capital; sources say the deal was in the mid-$300M range
 
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