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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
EXCLUSIVE: Google to Retire Blogger & Picasa Brands in Google+ Push — Say goodbye to the Picasa and Blogger names: Google intends to retire several non-Google name brands and rename them as Google products, Mashable has learned. — The move is part of a larger effort to unify its brand …
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VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, The Business Insider, 9to5Google, CNET News, Neowin.net, Technologizer, lalawag, TechSpot, SlashGear, Geek.com, TechnoRocket.net, Digitizor, Pulse2, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Google+ Info, WebProNews, Webomatica, @dannysullivan, @chartier, @adamostrow and @zee
FierceWireless:
Verizon confirms it will ditch unlimited smartphone data plans starting July 7 — Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) will switch to a new, usage-based pricing model for smartphone data starting July 7, a company spokeswoman confirmed. — Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney told FierceWireless …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Pegatron receives orders for 15 million iPhone 5s from Apple — Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is estimated to have landed orders for 15 million iPhone 5s (iPhone 4S) from Apple and is set to start shipping in September of 2011, according to sources from upstream component makers.
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AllThingsD, Shiny Objects, Redmond Pie, Ars Technica, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, IntoMobile, CNET News, GottaBeMobile, PC World, iPhone Download Blog, TechSpot, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, MobileCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin.net, BGR, Geek.com, Appolicious Advisor, App Advice, Techland, iThinkDifferent, @qthrul, TiPb, GigaOM, Techie Buzz, iPhone, iPhone Buzz, Gadgetsteria, The Business Insider and Apple Bitch, Thanks:michaelkroker
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BackType:
BackType Has Been Acquired by Twitter — We're thrilled to announce that BackType has been acquired by Twitter! We'll be bringing our team and technology to Twitter's platform team, where our focus will be developing tools for Twitter's publisher partners.
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VentureBeat, @twitterglobalpr, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, StartupNorth, TechCrunch, AllTwitter, Digitizor, Mashable!, Techie Buzz, Fast Company, The Next Web, PE Hub Blog and @swhitley, Thanks:davemcclure
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Twitter Testing Facebook-Like Message Wall [PIC] — Twitter is testing a Facebook-like message wall on profile pages, prompting users to send public tweets (a.k.a @ replies, or mentions) to specific users directly from their profile pages. — Twitter is testing the feature with a small percentage of users.
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Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends — Facebook Friend Exporter is a Chrome extension developed by Mohamed Mansour, an open source software engineer, that lets you grab all the information about your Facebook friends so you can import them elsewhere.
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CNET News, All Facebook, BetaNews, Mashable!, Digitizor, The Register, Inside Facebook, Digital Trends, OStatic blogs, thechromesource, SlashGear, TechCrunch, TG Daily, Gadgetsteria, WebProNews, @jowyang and Neowin.net
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
New Financing Values Twitter As High As $7 Billion — Twitter Inc., the fast-growing Internet messaging service, is privately raising hundreds of millions of dollars in a new financing round that values the company at as high as $7 billion, said a person familiar with the matter.
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Mashable!, VatorNews, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNET News, The Business Insider, The Tech Trade and Deal Journal
Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Nokia's $200m secret shows the rot goes way, way back — There have been plenty of attempts to pinpoint where Nokia, the struggling Finnish mobile company, really started to go wrong. Some think it was when the iPhone launched and left it in the dust; some would suggest it was when the board …
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SlashGear, Thanks:bobbiejohnson
Kate Murphy / New York Times:
iPads Replacing Pilots' Paper Manuals — What is in those bulky, black flight bags that pilots carry into the cockpit? It is not a change of clothes but reams of reference material needed for the flight — about 40 pounds of it. There are the aircraft's operating manual, safety checklists …
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9to5Mac, WebProNews and Techland
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Ailing Nokia cuts smartphone prices to halt slump — (Reuters) - Struggling Nokia has cut the prices of its smartphones in Europe, two industry sources told Reuters on Tuesday, raising the possibility of a more intensive price war in the mobile phone market.
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AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Electronista, Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Nokia Blog, @ldignan, DailyTech, IntoMobile, TechEye, My Nokia Blog and PhoneArena
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Rumored To Launch ITA-Powered Travel Search Product Soon — We're hearing that Google is planning to launch an ITA integrated-flight search product as soon as a few weeks from now, according to a well-placed industry source. In April, the DOJ finally approved Google's $700 million acquisition …
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VentureBeat and The Business Insider
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Business Insider:
“Apple's... Exclusive Supply Chain Of Advanced Technology [Is] Literally Years Ahead Of Anyone Else On The Planet” — An amazing take by an anonymous user on Quora on why Apple products sometimes seem so superior. Because they are. Because they get them before anyone else.
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Quora, App Advice, MacRumors, The Register, Fortune, Shiny Objects, Gizmodo, TiPb and iClarified
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Why Latin America is Netflix's next big market — Netflix announced plans to go truly global Tuesday, with the news that it would introduce its streaming video subscription service in 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. While many expected Netflix to launch in one or maybe …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google plans to open Hangouts for interoperability — Hangouts, the group video chat component of Google Plus that everyone's been raving about, could eventually be usable with other video chat clients and services as well. Google Real-time Communications Tech Lead Justin Uberti wrote …
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juberjabber, VentureBeat, Gadgetwise and Softpedia News
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
As of July 31st, all Google profiles will be public — Google will no longer allow users to have private Google profiles after July 31st, reports Search Engine Land. The company had previously allowed users to create and maintain profiles on its service without publicly disclosing their existence.
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Search Engine Land
Krishna Panicker / The Big Blog:
New Skype 5.2 Update for Mac Brings Group Screen Sharing and Improved Multi-tasking — We are excited to announce that the Skype 5.2 update for Mac is now available for download. — With this new update, Skype for Mac users can now share their screen during a group video call.
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, Skype Garage, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Coolest Gadgets, TUAW, GigaOM and MacStories
Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
When Guests Check In, Their iPhones Check Out — When booking a weeklong yoga retreat, Amanda Levy signed up for a special package. Called “digital detox,” it promised a 15% discount if Ms. Levy, a sales executive at a San Francisco social-networking company, would agree to leave …
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The Business Insider
Todd Haselton / BGR:
Android market share jumps as BlackBerry slides; smartphones now owned by 1 in 3 Americans — According to a new report from comScore, 1 in 3 Americans now own a smartphone. Google's Android OS is ahead of the pack with a 38.1% share of the market during the 3-month period ending in May — up 5.1% from the last report in February.
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comScore, Inc., Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, TechFlash, TechCrunch and The Business Insider
Francis Tan / The Next Web:
China to deploy huge Big Brother surveillance network with Cisco's help — China plans to put a network of 500,000 surveillance cameras in place around Chongqing to keep an eye on its citizens, with the help of Western tech and networking companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. The government claims …
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BetaNews, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Digits, GMSV, Gizmodo and TechEye
Simon Mackie / GigaOM:
Why Google+ could find a home in the workplace — Last week, Google rolled out a beta of its highly-anticipated new social networking platform, Google+. Reaction to the launch so far has been mainly positive, with praise for the app's design and features.
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Social Business Blog, MediaPost and AppleInsider
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft Bing innovates on iPad with ‘Lasso’ quick search — The new “lasso” feature for quick searching in the Bing app for iPad — Microsoft today is releasing an update for its well-received Bing app for Apple's iPad, with a new feature designed to streamline the process of conducting online searches on the touch-screen device.
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Amazon's Android Appstore, not so amazing — Running a successful app store isn't trivial. Building out the necessary features and services and making it appealing to both consumers and developers can be hard work, something Amazon is learning. The company has been taken to task …
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ExtremeTech, Appolicious Advisor, SmoothSpan Blog, Android Phone Fans, Inquirer and Mike Cane's xBlog
Samantha Murphy / New Scientist:
Exclusive first interview with key LulzSec hacker — It was early May when LulzSec's profile skyrocketed after a hack on the giant Sony corporation. LulzSec's name comes from Lulz, a corruption of LOL, often denoting laughter at the victim of a prank. For 50 days until it disbanded …
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New York Times
