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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here's How Spotify Plans To Invade the U.S., With Facebook's Help — Spotify should finally get to the U.S. this month. Then what? — We can get some sense by taking a look at the marketing materials the European music service is showing off to potential advertisers.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Good Bet: We Can Stop Betting on Spotify's U.S. Launch Next Week
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MediaPost, VentureBeat, SFGate, TechSpot, MacStories, Music Ally, 9to5Mac, Gadgetsteria, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Electronista, Techland, hypebot, FierceMobileContent, PSFK, PC Pro and TechCrunch
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google To Buy Mobile Loyalty Card Startup Punchd — We've just gotten word that that Google is acquiring digital loyalty card service Punchd. The team, which consists of developers Reed Morse, Xander Pollock and Niket Desai (and formerly Grantland Chew), will most likely still be working …
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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Hardware 2.0 Blog, TechSpot, mocoNews, SlashGear, VG247, The Tech Report, TG Daily, The Register, ITProPortal, Eurogamer, MacNN, techblog.dallasnews.com, bit-tech.net and Slashdot
Nancy Gohring / Network World:
Oracle win would strain Android growth — Oracle is reportedly already asking handset makers to pay as much as $20 per Android phone — Will handset makers maintain their dedication to Android if they have to pay to license it? That's the question experts following Google's battle …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Oracle fights to keep its Java patent claims alive
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InfoWorld, CNET News and Between the Lines Blog, Thanks:fosspatents
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Tablet shipments below lofty expectations, says IDC — Global tablet shipments in the first quarter fell 28 percent from the fourth quarter and failed to hit expectations, according to research firm IDC. — Specifically, tablet shipments were 7.2 million units worldwide.
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Shiny Objects, VatorNews, mocoNews, Business Wire, eWeek, eHomeUpgrade, The Loop and TR Dojo Blog
Hunter Skipworth / Pocket-lint:
Google confirms Google Apps users will gain Google+ access — The recent release of Google+ has since launch seen Google Apps users screaming out for access. Now thanks to Google's president of enterprise, Dave Girouard, we know its coming.? — Girouard confirmed via Google+ that the Apps access was in the works:
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ZDNet, CNET News, Android Phone Fans, Pulse2, Quick Online Tips, 9to5Google and Android and Me, Thanks:stuartmiles
Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:
Report: Facebook Like Button Most Used, Google +1 Button Surging — Today BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform, released a report on the adoption of social sharing plugins on websites and links to those sites. The findings show that about half of the top 10,000 websites have a link …
Dan Redding / Smashing Magazine:
Inside Google's User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google's Marcin Wichary — Marcin Wichary's fascination with the relationship between humans and machines began at an early age. As a boy in Poland, he was mesmerized by the interaction between arcade patrons and the video games they played.
The Politico:
Tech experts exit White House — When President Barack Obama took office, he brought with him a pack of technology advocates with impressive résumés and ambitious visions. They wanted to improve the government through the use of Internet tools and iPhone apps and help shape communications policy to expand broadband.
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Gov 2.0 and Smart Mobs
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams on Blogger & blogging's future — When the rumors of Google retiring the Picasa and Blogger brands hit the web last week, it sent me down memory lane. It made me think about blogging in general and how it had evolved. I wanted to write an Om Says newsletter …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Mac OS X Lion: This Is Not the Future We Were Hoping For — It breaks my heart to say this, but Mac OSX Lion's interface feels like a failure. Its stated mission was to simplify the operating system, to unify it with the clean experience of iOS. That didn't happen.
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AppleInsider and 9to5Mac, Thanks:gizmodo
AppleInsider:
Apple could test limited iTunes HD+ 1080p movie service — Apple as early as this fall may choose to test the waters for 1080p video sales through its ubiquitous iTunes service, AppleInsider has been advised. — Thus far, 1080p HD content has largely eluded users of Apple products …
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Ars Technica, MacRumors and MacNN
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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MediaPost and Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:gizmodo
Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
Latest Android Stats: More Using Version From 2009 Than Using Tablets — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has updated the dashboard that tracks all the different installed versions of Android out in the wild, and two things are clear: fragmentation continues to be a problem although things are settling down …
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AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, MobileSyrup.com and Digital Trends
The Strategy Sesion Blog:
Living Social Selects Underwriters for Planned IPO — Living Social, the number two competitor to the group-discount website Groupon, has selected the lead underwriters for a planned initial public offering, among them JP Morgan, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, DealBook, The Business Insider, @katekellycnbc, bizjournals and PE Hub Blog
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Surpasses Myspace For U.S. Visitors To Become No. 2 Social Network; Twitter Not Far Behind — Professional social network Linkedin surpassed Myspace in terms of traffic to become the No. 2 most visited social networking site in the U.S. in June. LinkedIn, which has seen a resurgence …
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.
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Google chairman Schmidt agrees to testify at Senate antitrust hearing — Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has agreed to testify at a September hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust subpanel. — Google had earlier declined an invitation from the subcommittee's leadership …
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Wall Street Journal, paidContent, CNET News, Reuters and Bloomberg, Thanks:brendansasso
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Netflix criticizes new Internet billing by bits — Netflix said Friday that moves by Internet service providers to charge users by the amount of data they use could end up costing consumers more. — In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Netflix General Counsel David Hyman …
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Technology Liberation Front, Wall Street Journal, DSLreports, The Precursor Blog and GigaOM
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple snags 50% of handset industry profits ahead of first 100M iPhone year — In less than four years, Apple went from not making a dime on handset sales to commanding approximately half of the industry's profits, and is now poised to set the bar even higher by shipping 100 million iPhones over a 12-month span, financial experts say.
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iSuppli, BGR, SlashGear, The Next Web, PC Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD, Futures Magazine, CNET News, dailywireless.org and MacDailyNews
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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MediaPost, digiday:DAILY and SiliconFilter
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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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Netflix launches a new $7.99 DVD-by-mail plan — While streaming is all the rage these days, Netflix hasn't given up on DVDs entirely: The company has quietly launched a new page where users can sign up for an unlimited DVD-by-mail package that matches the $7.99 price of its unlimited streaming offering.
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Gizmodo
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Curation Grows Up: Storify Becomes Blog & SEO Friendly — Thirteen years ago this Spring, Dave Winer's UserLand Software launched a technical protocol that made it easy to publish content from one web page onto another. (Winer was the inspiration for ReadWriteWeb and countless other blogs.)
