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Sarah Kessler / Mashable!:
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Store Sets Secret Service on Spy Camera Artist — Artist Kyle McDonald installed a program on computers in two New York Apple Store locations that automatically takes a photo every minute. Now his personal computers have been confiscated by the U.S. Secret Service.
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The Atlantic Wire, The Not-So Private Parts, ITProPortal, The Business Insider, NBC Bay Area, Sydney Morning Herald, digiday:DAILY, Appolicious Advisor, Disruptors, Gizmodo, TechEye, Digital Trends, PetaPixel, CNET News, Examiner, 9to5Mac, msnbc.com, iClarified, MacNN, SlashGear, Betabeat, ifoAppleStore, TUAW, Gawker and Gothamist
James Brightman / IndustryGamers:
John Carmack: ‘Unquestionable’ That Mobile Will Surpass Current Consoles — id Software's John Carmack has taken a greater and greater interest in mobile gaming over the last couple years, and the rate at which the hardware iterates in the smartphone and tablet space has allowed the technology to nearly catch up with consoles.
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mocoNews, SlashGear, The Tech Report, ITProPortal, VG247, The Register, Eurogamer, bit-tech.net and Slashdot
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Apple Store overnight planned for July 13th, new MacBook Airs and Lion signage awaits — We've heard from a few overseas sources that Apple Retail stores are planning ‘overnights’ on July 13th. Overnights are generally where Apple refreshes store displays and trains up management on new products.
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Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
I Flunked My Social Media Background Check. Will You? — Your next job application could require a social media background check. Odds are, you have no clue what that means. Nobody does. It's new and scary and probably scours the Web for pictures of you puking on the beach. — But screw speculation.
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Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:gizmodo
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Has Dropbox set the stage for a privacy revolution? — Life has been something of a rollercoaster ride for Dropbox lately. In May, the consumer cloud-storage service was hit with an FTC complaint based on allegedly misleading contractual language about data security.
Sarah McBride / Reuters:
Google's Schmidt sees room for several social networks — Google Inc is leaving open the door to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it rolls out its own, executive chairman Eric Schmidt said.
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The Register, Wall Street Journal, ITProPortal, NBC Bay Area, Inquirer and TechEye
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Although Many Investors Are Spinning, Turntable.fm Has Not Yet Picked A DJ — Although many investors are spinning for the chance to invest in Turntable.fm, the hot music startup has not yet picked a DJ, despite reports to the contrary. Business Insider claims that Turntable has raised $7.5 million …
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Alyson Shontell / The Business Insider:
CONFIRMED: Turntable.fm Has Raised $7.5 Million Round At $37.5 Million Valuation
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Betabeat, Music Ally, NYConvergence.com, Fortune, VentureBeat and Betabeat
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Good Bet: We Can Stop Betting on Spotify's U.S. Launch Next Week — Alrighty. So we know that Spotify has a new round of funding, and deals with most of the big music labels, and we know that the music service itself says it's coming to the U.S. soon. So when will it actually open for business in America?
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Music Ally, MacStories, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Electronista, Gadgetsteria, Gizmodo, Techland, hypebot, FierceMobileContent, PSFK, SFWeekly and PC Pro
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Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ — According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to “a fate worse than death,” and the only way out is “bite the bullet and rewrite everything.”
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Marketing Pilgrim, @edwardoneill and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wants to Beat HP's WebOS Sharing Feature with Something Cooler — When HP first introduced the TouchPad's “Touch to Share” feature earlier this year, fans and industry pundits alike applauded them for their innovation. Well, it appears that Apple has been working on something similar for about 18 months now.
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The Business Insider, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Mashable!, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, iClarified, CNET News and MacStories
Zach Epstein / BGR:
The BlackBerry PlayBook is my favorite tablet — Research In Motion launched its first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, on April 19th of this year. Since that point in time — and even before, courtesy of reviews — the slender slate has been lambasted. A vocal minority belts praises …
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Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
As Web IPOs Hit, Few Share the Spoils — Silicon Valley's technology boom is giving a lift to the venture-capital industry. — But many of the gains are being disproportionately reaped by brand-name venture firms, which are benefiting from a wave of Internet IPOs and the soaring valuations …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Betabeat and Digits
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Hangouts gives the “Alive Web” a big boost — A few weeks ago when I fell in love with Turntable.fm, I wrote about the emergence of a web that was alive. Driven by constant connectivity, this “Alive Web” is a web that is experienced when and if we want. It was about immersion and interactions.
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Off On A Tangent
Brian David Eoff / ReadWriteWeb:
How We Use the Tools We Choose: A Week of Worldwide Usage Data — Does the type of device that you use change the way that you consume and create information? Does it alter the types of content that you look at? We were curious, so we took a look at a week of Bitly click data (June 6th - 12th) to find out!
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9to5Mac, MacStories and MacRumors
Timothy Lee / Disruptive Economics:
Microsoft's Android Shakedown — In the 1980s, attorney Gary Reback was working at Sun Microsystems, then a young technology startup. A pack of IBM employees in blue suits showed up at Sun headquarters seeking royalties for 7 patents that IBM claimed Sun had infringed.
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AllThingsD, The Business Insider and Guardian
Thomas Ricker / This is my next:
How Sony accidentally did the right thing with Light Peak — Sony and Thunderbolt — they go together like Memory Stick and SD, ATRAC and MP3, or Betamax and VHS. Consequently, Sony's high-speed I/O implementation is similar to Thunderbolt, but it isn't Thunderbolt.
Jay Yarow / The Business Insider:
Amazon Put In An Order For 1.2 Million Tablets, More Than Any Other Company Besides Apple — Amazon is feeling more optimistic about its tablet than any non-Apple company, DigiTimes reports. — Sources in the supply chain told DigiTimes how many tablets each big company was ordering.
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BGR, PadGadget, Android Phone Fans and DigiTimes
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Wow! Mobile is now 2% of global GDP — The worldwide mobile industry should bring in $1.3 trillion in 2011 and will represent about 2 percent of global gross domestic product, according to data released today by analyst Chetan Sharma. In his review of the first half of 2011 he estimates …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Open-Xchange launches Facebook contact exporter — Open-Xchange, a company making open-source software for e-mail and other collaboration tasks, released a tool today to help people migrate extract contact information their Facebook friends have shared. — “The cloud needs to be open …
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ZDNet, The Open Source …, Neowin.net, hypebot and ReadWriteEnterprise
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With Google+ (And A Tweak For Analytics), The Social Sharing War Is Fully On — Google and Facebook are at war. This is old news. They both want to be the center of the Internet — but there can be only one center. For a while, it looked like things were quickly shifting Facebook's way after years of dominance by Google.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Netvibes Debuts Powerful Social Analytics Platform For Brands And Agencies — Netvibes, a company that provides social media dashboards and news aggregators for brands and agencies, is debuting a powerful new analytics platform tonight. Netvibes' new social analytics and monitoring platform …
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