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Apple:
Apple's App Store Downloads Top 15 Billion — Apple® today announced that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store™ by the more than 200 million iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users worldwide. The App Store offers more than 425,000 apps …
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
App Store hits 15 billion downloads, $2.5 billion paid by Apple to developers
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PC Magazine and PC World
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple prepping major iPhone revamp for 2012 with “new way of charging the phone” — HP's Touchstone wireless charging technology as shown with the Pre — The Wall Street Journal follows up on their earlier report about the iPhone 5, once again calling for a thinner and lighter device …
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PC World, The Toybox Blog, AppleInsider, Guardian, paidContent, I4U News, The Business Insider, Geek.com, SlashGear, Gizmodo, TUAW, The Next Web and Softpedia News
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Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
iPhone 5 redesign likely says WSJ, but have you met the iPad HD? — The Wall Street Journal now seems to be confirming what our sources told us back in April about the iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple decides to call it). According to the report (which closely mirrors some of the chatter …
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MacRumors, The Business Insider, AppleInsider, GigaOM, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, TechSpot, MacStories and PhoneArena
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple's IAd Mobile Business Is Said to Trim Prices as Advertisers Defect — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iAd mobile-advertising business has cut rates by as much as 70 percent as some marquee clients are using rival services, two people with knowledge of the matter said, signaling the company …
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Mobile Marketing Watch, paidContent, App Advice, MacRumors, The Business Insider, Daring Fireball, Tech Trader Daily, SplatF and New Media Age
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook & its double standard on sharing — Mark Zuckerberg announced the Skype-Facebook collaboration yesterday and showed off a great product built by the Skype team. As he talked about the world, he amplified his long held belief that people love to share and sharing on Facebook will only keep growing.
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Associated Press:
Apple vows to fix security hole in iPhones, iPads — Apple vows to fix critical security hole in iPhones, iPads following Germany's warning — Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — 351.76 — BERLIN (AP) — Apple says it is working on fixing a security hole …
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GigaOM, The Next Web, Guardian, bizjournals, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors, The Business Insider, IntoMobile, TUAW, iClarified, App Advice, SlashGear, iPhone Download Blog, MacStories and Pocket-lint
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Facebook and Google+'s video chat tools compared — Video chat is the big thing again, at least according to Facebook, which let loose a new video chat service yesterday. Powered by Skype, the new feature lets Facebook users start a video calls with one another while continuing to use the site.
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Webware.com, Digits, GigaOM and SocialTimes.com
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Video Chat v. Google Hangouts: It's No Contest
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Digits, Guardian, WordStream, Computerworld, GottaBeMobile, Between the Lines Blog, AllThingsD, Mashable!, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, Engadget, Reuters and ReadWriteWeb
Google Mobile Blog:
“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android — (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — One way we bring you new product features is through Google Labs—a collection of fun, experimental features you can turn on if you're interested in the functionality.
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Judge rejects Apple bid for injunction against Amazon — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge denied Apple Inc's attempt to quickly stop online retailer Amazon.com Inc from using the “App Store” name, according to a court document. — Apple, the maker of best-selling iPhones and iPad tablets …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, GeekWire, eWeek, TechFlash, CNET News, InfoWorld, Softpedia News, TUAW, MacRumors, AllThingsD, The Business Insider, FierceMobileContent, IntoMobile, mobiputing, DailyTech, Engadget, Gadgetsteria, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, Android Community, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, App Advice, MacStories, USA Today, AppleInsider, Inquirer and MobileBurn.com
Nick Bilton / Bits:
A Walk in the Woods With Mark Zuckerberg — You might think a long quiet walk through the woods with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is a treat only his closest friends and dearest family get to enjoy. Yet a chummy stroll with one of the richest men in the world is actually reserved …
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ZDNet, Gizmodo, The Business Insider and Gawker
YouTube Blog:
Check out Cosmic Panda, A New Experimental Experience for Videos, Playlists, and Channels — With nearly 8 years of video uploaded and 3 billion views logged every day on YouTube, it's clear you like to watch and share YouTube videos. While you're watching your favorite or new videos …
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9to5Google, SiliconFilter, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Gizmodo
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Major ISPs agree to “six strikes” copyright enforcement plan — American Internet users, get ready for “six strikes.” Major US Internet providers—including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable—have just signed on to a voluntary agreement with the movie and music businesses …
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Gizmodo, CNET News, Threat Level and WebProNews
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Motorola Droid 3 officially hits Verizon, coming July 14th for $199.99 — Sure, after months of leaked videos and specs Verizon's announcement of the Droid 3 doesn't really come as a shock, but hey, that doesn't take the excitement away from some of us physical keyboard lovers.
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Verizon, Ars Technica, BGR, VzBuzz, Electronista, SlashGear, MobileCrunch and Android Phone Fans
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
The Kids Are All Right...Running the Company — Young founders are nothing new for Silicon Valley companies. But they are growing in number and prominence these days—another sign, tech-watchers say, of how the Internet is changing entrepreneurship. — The trend can be seen in the actions …
Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:
Google: Hold Off On Creating Business Profiles On Google+, “Non-User Profiles” Will Be Shut Down — Tonight Christian Oestlien, the Ads Leads for the Google+ Project, posted a message along with a brief YouTube video about future Google+ plans on his Google+ account.
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Search Engine Watch, The Next Web, VentureBeat, CloudAve and Christian Oestlien
Tom Anderson / Google+:
Mark Zuckerberg's first public response to Google+ - — Today at the Facebook news conference, +Ben Parr had the stones to ask Mark what he thought of Google+. (He was polite about it. I approve.) Zuckerberg responded by saying that lots of companies are going to build things like video chat …
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Nicke's shared items … and TechCrunch
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Zuckerberg on Google+: It's a Validation of Facebook's Vision
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The Business Insider, BitShare, Beth's Blog, Redmond Pie and AllThingsD
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Turntable.fm and the Siren Song of the Start-up Pivot — There is no more overused and reviled word in the world of tech start-ups than pivot. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. — It seems to capture the manic energy of the current tech industry, in which an idea can get millions in funding …
Thanks:nitashatiku
Dan Taylor / The Next Web:
Airbnb takes on Europe. Will it revolutionize the industry, again? — Three years ago, Airbnb was a tiny startup that no investor wanted to touch. Whether not returning emails, or providing a flat out, “No” the San Francisco based firm had a “snowball's chance in hell” of getting out of the gate.
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The Business Insider
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Patent trolling with Microsoft — Sometimes I really can't figure out Microsoft. Does the left-side corporate brain not connect to the right? — Take this new business in Microsoft patents supposedly applied to Android. HTC already coughs up five bucks per handset in licensing fees …
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Network World and ZDNet
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Say What? Thanks To Digital Music, Album Sales Up For The First Time Since 2004 — SoundScan, Nielsen's report that tracks point-of-purchase music sales across real and digital sources, was released today, and at long last contains a few rays of hope for the beleaguered music industry.
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Media Maverick, Electronista, FT Tech Hub and CNET News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay Buys Zong For $240 Million In Cash To Boost PayPal's Mobile Payments Technology — eBay has acquired mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011. — Zong has been one of the pioneers in the mobile payments space …
Business Week:
Zynga's Quest for Big-Spending Whales — A tiny number of virtual-goods high rollers supply the bulk of the game maker's revenue — Joelle Ibgui collects horses. Lots of horses. In her stable of 108 colorful creatures is a Clydesdale, an Asian wild foal, a spotted appaloosa …
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The Business Insider
