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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Will Launch In-Browser Video Chat Next Week In Partnership With Skype — Earlier this week Facebook while visiting Seattle CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company would be launching an “awesome” new product next week that has been built by Facebook's Seattle team.
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Mike Blumenthal / Understanding Google Maps …:
Google+ To Have Business Profile Pages — Jeff Huber, Google VP of Local and Commerce, has indicated that Google+, at some point in the near future will include the option for business profile page. Here is his comment: … He has additionally indicated that he will be using Google+ as his primary voice …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why yo momma won't use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end) — OK, I've been putting many hours into Google+. In just the few days that it's been released I've followed 2,723 people, written many dozens of posts there, and have thoroughly used the product.
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iKnerd, Irregular Enterprise Blog, CNN, Fast Company and Googling Google Blog
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Why Twitter Should be Very Worried About Google+ — When Google unexpectedly launched its new social network Google+ earlier this week, many pundits were skeptical about the company's latest attempt to enter the social arena. Given Google's dismal track record when it comes to these kinds of products …
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Steve Rubel
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google to disable public sharing of private posts in Google+ [Updated]
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CNET News, Techdirt and Between the Lines Blog
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Engineer Builds Google+ Inspired Facebook Hack
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Digitizor
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Dealtalk: Google bid “pi” for Nortel patents and lost — (Reuters) - At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128. — Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant …
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I, Cringely and @eghosao
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Zynga Finally Files for IPO to Raise $1 Billion — Zynga, a four-year-old company which has made its riches off selling virtual goods in social games, has filed to raise $1 billion in an IPO. — The IPO may potentially rank among the largest of the year, especially among tech companies.
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Zynga Gets “Substantially All” Its Revenue And Players From Facebook
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@emilychangtv and BetaNews
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
A Snapshot Of Zynga's Financials: Revenues Grew 392 Percent Last Year To $600 Million
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Inside Facebook, TechCrunch, Venture Capital Dispatch, @danprimack, @danprimack and VentureBeat
Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:
Google Inc. in preliminary talks to buy Hulu — Google Inc. is in preliminary talks to buy online video pioneer Hulu, people familiar with the situation said. — Hulu has begun meeting with potential buyers including Google, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. to drum up interest in a sale …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
OS X Lion Allows Running Multiple Copies on the Same Machine (Virtualization) — For the first time, Apple is allowing owners of OS X (client version) to run multiple virtual copies on the same machine. Previously, Apple extended this ability to Mac OS X Server only.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple to ship OS X Lion on July 14th
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DigiTimes:
iPhone 5 and iPad 3 upstream suppliers begin to prepare materials — Taiwan-based companies included in the supply chain for iPhone 5 and iPad 3 have begun to prepare materials for the production of the two devices, which are likely to make their debuts in September and to hit the market in October, according to industry sources.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Thanks to Google Plus, Picasa Gets Unlimited Storage for Photos & Videos, Also Better Tagging — With the launch of Google Plus, there may be some confusion as to how the photos uploaded to the social network (Google+) integrate with Google's online photo-sharing service (Picasa), especially in terms of storage limits.
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9to5Google, SocialTimes.com, Liliputing, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Technologizer
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Hulu halts Facebook Connect after exposing user data — Updated. Hulu's Facebook Connect integration apparently isn't going as planned. The ability to log in is offline as of this writing, with many people reporting issues with the sign-in option earlier today.
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Betina Chan-Martin / Hulu Blog:
TV Just Got A Whole Lot More Social
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VentureBeat, GigaOM, PC Magazine and SocialTimes.com
Robert Francis / @robert_francis:
Adding class and reality to the story of Google+, Andy Hertzfeld shares the spotlight with the rest of the team: http://bit.ly/kYf5rE #fb
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Google+ and @charlietuna
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Scott Ard / CNET News:
Google+ contributor and Mac pioneer talks with CNET (Q&A)
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The Business Insider and Pulse2
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Here's The Legal Complaint WikiLeaks Is Threatening To File Against Visa, MasterCard — More than six months have passed since Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and others cut WikiLeaks' purse strings. And if that blockade lasts six more days, the secret-spilling group plans to take its financial fight to the courtroom.
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Windows Thin PC download now available — Several weeks after its release to manufacturer build shipped, the Windows Thin PC client is now available for general download by Microsoft Software Assurance customers. Windows Thin PC is a small Windows 7 footprint build that is designed for use in the enterprise sector.
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Michael de la Merced / DealBook:
Go Daddy to Sell Itself to K.K.R. and Silver Lake — The Go Daddy Group, the controversial giant of Internet address registration companies, said on Friday that it will sell itself to a group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Silver Lake. — While the company did not disclose financial terms of the deal …
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Digital Trends, Reuters, Domain Name Wire, @percival, Business Wire, Domain Name Wire and Data Center Knowledge
Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
Facebook Goddess Sheryl Sandberg On Short List To Replace Tim Geithner As Treasury Secretary — Yesterday, word was leaked that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is considering quitting soon, which immediately triggered speculation about who would replace him. — One of the names that came up?
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James Pethokoukis
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
More letters to RIM; employees rally alongside anonymous exec — BGR published an open letter to Research In Motion yesterday from an anonymous high-level RIM executive who begged for senior management to take notice of all of the issues within RIM. The exec explained how the company …
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