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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
PopCap Games To Be Acquired For $1 Billion+ — Huge news in the gaming world: PopCap Games, the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled, is in the process of being acquired — and we're hearing from multiple sources that the price is over $1 billion. — The question now is who the buyer is.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
What's the Top-Selling Phone at Verizon and AT&T? — It's been about five months since Apple's iPhone debuted on Verizon's network and already it's the carrier's top-selling handset. This according to BTIG Research (registration required), which spent the past three weeks asking 250 Verizon …
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BGR, Computerworld, iPhone Download Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, MacGazette.net, TUAW, TiPb, The Business Insider, PhoneArena and The Loop
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Chris Chang / M.I.C. Gadget:
Apple's Tim Cook Visits China Mobile to Discuss 4G LTE iPhone — Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is spotted in China Mobile headquarters this morning. A Chinese reporter from First Financial Daily (one of the most prosperous financial papers in China) managed to take a picture …
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Penn Olson, TUAW, MacRumors, iPhone Alley, MacGazette.net, iLounge, RazorianFly, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, Edible Apple, MacNN, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista and AppleInsider
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Apple granted patent on webpage scrolling behaviors, media granted patent on crazy — So Apple got yet another patent granted today, and now there's yet another media firestorm over whether it means Cupertino will be able to sue every other phone manufacturer out of business …
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MobileCrunch, RazorianFly, PC Magazine, Patently Apple, MacRumors, Gizmodo, MacStories, PC World, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Engadget and MacDailyNews
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Winklevoss twins abandon appeal of Facebook ruling — (Reuters) - The Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling upholding a $65 million cash-and-stock settlement reached with Facebook Inc. — The 2008 settlement was intended …
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TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Friending Facebook Blog, Reuters, Bits, paidContent and Gawker
Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
Verizon's new data plans broken down in complete detail — Having a hard time wrapping your head around the upcoming changes to Verizon's smartphone data plans? We just got all the dirty details dropped in our laps. Charts, e-mails, the whole kit and kaboodle, folks. — Let's start with what you see above.
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Android Community, Gizmodo, Engadget, pocketnow.com, MacRumors, TiPb, CrackBerry.com blogs, Android Phone Fans, TUAW, PhoneNews.com, GrindGadget and Droid Life
Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Hulu puts itself up for sale, retains investment banks — Hulu is putting itself up for sale. — The popular online television site, which has been the cause of much consternation in Hollywood, has retained investment banks Guggenheim Partners and Morgan Stanley to facilitate a potential sale …
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The Wire, Mixed Media, Variety, CNET News.com, @jboorstin, GigaOM, Electronista, Neowin.net, ReadWriteWeb, Gawker, Engadget, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNNMoney.com and Geek.com, more at Mediagazer »
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
What Are Hulu's Owners Really Selling?
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John Biggs / MobileCrunch:
RIM, You're Done Here — Research In Motion is done. They'll be bought in the next year or so, their products will roll into whoever buys them - Microsoft, most probably - and they'll go the way of Nokia, Danger, and countless other mobile platforms. They'll exist independently for a while and then be subsumed.
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
RIM cuts internal PlayBook sales estimates by more than half
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PC World, Electronista, ZDNet, DigiTimes, Hardware 2.0 Blog, ITProPortal, The Tech Trade, ITworld.com, MacDailyNews, Tech Trader Daily, SAI and SlashGear
Bloomberg:
Apple Bid to Bar Amazon ‘Appstore’ Will ‘Likely’ Be Denied — Apple Inc. will “probably” lose its court bid to stop Amazon.com Inc. from using the term “Appstore” for a service selling programs for Android devices, a federal judge said. — Apple, whose top-selling product is the iPhone …
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Apple, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, MacRumors, Reuters, MobileBurn.com, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, The Loop, TUAW and iClarified
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Final Cut Pro X Backlash — Chris Foresman at Ars Technica: … The gist is that many professional editors see Final Cut Pro X as an improved version of iMovie, not an improved version of Final Cut Pro. This Twitter search, for example, is instructive.
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, The Filmmaker Magazine Blog, @scobleizer, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and Tools
Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Google's Schmidt predicts widespread “tap and pay” within a year — Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, believes that a third of check-out terminals in retail stores and restaurants will be upgraded to allow wireless “tap and pay” from mobile phones within the next year.
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Computerworld, CNET News.com, AdAge, Electronista, adafruit industries blog and Near Field Communications …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
How PARC wants to reinvent the Internet — Xerox PARC's engineers developed the Ethernet, the mouse, the laser printer and many other staples of everyday computing back in the 1970s. Forty years later, the lab is back at it: Teresa Lunt, VP and director of the computing science lab at PARC …
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
American Express Teams With Foursquare — Foursquare, which made its debut in 2009, quickly began popularizing the idea of “checking in,” or using a cellphone application to tell friends that you are at a particular restaurant, bar or park. — Then Facebook and Google borrowed the concept — and even the term check in.
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The Business Insider, Gizmodo, About Foursquare and Adotas
Brian Proffitt / ITworld:
Oracle's patents case against Google weakening — Judge may stay case pending patents' reexamination — Oracle's Java infringement case against Google isn't going exceptionally well for the database giant these days, with another setback delivered by the US Patent and Trademark Office …
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Manu Kumar / K9 Ventures:
The Making of Lytro — This is how I remember it: It's September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. In walks Ren Ng, introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” Ren, now Dr. Ren Ng, was a fellow PhD student with me at Stanford.
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PC Magazine, New York Times and PC World
David Weir / 7x7SF:
Salon CEO Gingras Resigns to Become Global Head of News Products at Google — The CEO of Salon.com, Richard Gingras, held an emotional “all-hands” meeting with his staff today to tell them he is resigning, effective July 8th, to become global head of news products for Google.
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AppleInsider:
‘CNBC Titans’ biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs airs Thursday night — The season premiere of “CNBC Titans” will kick off this Thursday at 9 p.m. when the program offers an unauthorized look at Apple's iconic chief executive, Steve Jobs. — In previous seasons, “CNBC Titans” …
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MacNN, MacRumors, RazorianFly, The Next Web and CNBC
Stu Woo / Digits:
EBay Plans Fulfillment Service for Sellers — EBay said it will start testing a merchandise storage-and-shipping service for its sellers later this year, a move that would help the online marketplace standardize delivery times for its merchants. — Spokeswoman Johnna Hoff said the San Jose …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to make inbound data transfer free on Windows Azure cloud — Microsoft plans to tweak its Windows Azure pricing, come July 1, to make the platform more attractive to users who want to migrate lots of data to the cloud. — The change, announced on June 22, also will result …
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MSDN Blogs, I'm Just Being Manan, The Register, The Next Web and TechNet Blogs
Adrian Bathgate / Reuters:
Australia's $38 billion broadband plan clears last major hurdle — (Reuters) - Australia's plan to build a $38 billion national broadband network cleared a major hurdle on Thursday with a deal to pay top telecoms firm Telstra A$11 billion ($11.6 billion) for using its infrastructure.
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Facebook Forms ‘Client Council’ to Advise the Social Network on Advertising — McCann Worldgroup's Nick Brien and Coke's Wendy Clark to Serve on Formal Group — Dear ad industry: Facebook wants your help, so it's forming a 12-member client council that will give the social network input …
Alex Kennedy / The Huffington Post:
Xperia Ray, Xperia Arc Smartphones Outed By Sony Ericsson (VIDEO) … (ALEX KENNEDY, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) SINGAPORE — Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled two new Android models Wednesday in a bid to grab more of the burgeoning smartphone market. — The company, a joint venture …
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MobileCrunch, PC World, BetaNews and Electronista
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month — We are blogging and DJing. At The Same Time — Betabeat was just settling down for some refreshing key lime pie and Vint Cerf's new inspirational autobiography, ICANN and so Can You!, when we received an after hours email from Turntable.fm co-founder Billy Chasen.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Box.net Ups The Ante Against Microsoft With In-Depth Google Docs Integration — Cloud storage and collaboration startup Box.net is upping the ante against competitor Microsoft SharePoint today with the launch of an in-depth integration with Google's productivity suite Google Docs and Spreadsheets directly within the platform.
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The Box Blog, Market Wire, ReadWriteWeb, Google Operating System, PC World, 9to5 Google, InfoWorld and VentureBeat
Russell Holly / Geek.com:
Google TV 2.0 - a look into the Android 3.1 “Fishtank” — One of the things that seemingly wasn't covered much at Google I/O was Google TV. It was clearly difficult for the Android team to admit that Google TV was not received nearly as well as everyone had hoped.
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GigaOM, Engadget, Electricpig.co.uk, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, Android and Me, 9to5 Google, I4U News and Android Community
