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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 The Register
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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BGR, mocoNews, The Business Insider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, CNET News, ZDNet, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, Mac Post, Neowin.net, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, everythingiCafe, ReadWriteWeb, Geek.com, GigaOM, Fonehome, Appolicious Advisor, TechSpot, I4U News, IntoMobile, MacStories, PhoneArena and iClarified
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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, Techland, Guardian, paidContent, I4U News, Apple Bitch, SlashGear, TUAW, Electricpig.co.uk and Softpedia News
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Apple to launch ‘iPad 2 Plus’ with better display this year, analyst claims
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VentureBeat and International Business Times
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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GigaOM, DSLreports, Gizmodo, Threat Level, CNET News, White House.gov Blog, Pulse2, Gadgetsteria and WebProNews
Google Mobile Blog:
“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android — 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. In fact, Google Maps itself started as a lab.
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, AppleInsider, paidContent, App Advice, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, The Business Insider, ITworld.com, TUAW, Tech Trader Daily, iLounge and SplatF
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zynga Combines Privacy Education, Gaming And Rewards With PrivacyVille — Getting ahead of any privacy issues surround your product is an important part of product development for any company. Facebook, unfortunately, learned this the hard way. Social gaming giant Zynga is adding a layer …
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Inside Social Games, VentureBeat, CNET News, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, USA Today, 1UP.com and Games.com The Blog …
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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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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg Explains His Law Of Social Sharing [Video]
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GigaOM
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Top Editor Makes Another Talent Raid on AOL's Engadget for New Competing Gadget Site — I love the smell of blog wars in the morning! — Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel …
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This is my next
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 …
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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Friending Facebook Blog, Gizmodo, Techie Buzz, The Business Insider and Gawker
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 …
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VatorNews, Thanks:nitashatiku
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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Ars Technica, VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, GeekWire, eWeek, TechFlash, GMSV, InfoWorld, AllThingsD, TUAW, Softpedia News, MacRumors, Engadget, DailyTech, Gadgetsteria, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, FierceMobileContent, Android Community, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, App Advice, mobiputing and The Business Insider
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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Google Watch, Webware.com, Digits, The Atlantic Online and GigaOM
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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The Toybox Blog, eWeek, Ars Technica, Verizon, Macworld, VzBuzz, BGR, SlashGear, MobileCrunch, Electronista and Android Phone Fans
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
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft adds co-authoring to Web version of Word — One of Google's justifiable criticisms of Microsoft's Office-based cloud play was it's hard to figure out what you can and can't do with Office Web Apps — the Webified versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — especially in terms of document co-authoring
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The Windows Blog, LiveSide.net, The Microsoft Blog, MSDN Blogs, Neowin.net and WinRumors
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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PC World, Network World and ZDNet
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 …
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 …
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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Electronista and Media Maverick
