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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, TG Daily, VG247, SlashGear, The Tech Report, MacNN, Eurogamer, The Register, ITProPortal, techblog.dallasnews.com, bit-tech.net and Slashdot
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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Friending Facebook Blog and The Business Insider
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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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VentureBeat, SFGate, Music Ally, TechSpot, MacStories, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Gadgetsteria, Electronista, Gizmodo, Techland, hypebot, FierceMobileContent, PSFK, TechCrunch, PC Pro and SFWeekly
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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CNET News, Android Phone Fans and Android and Me, Thanks:stuartmiles
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Google+ Brand Pages Coming in Two Weeks
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Adam Sherk, Pulse2, Softpedia News, Quick Online Tips, 9to5Google, ClickZ, @semilshah, @eric_andersen and Adotas, Thanks:steverubel
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 …
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VatorNews, eWeek, AllTwitter and Adotas
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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AllThingsD, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Wall Street Journal, The Register, NBC Bay Area, Inquirer, ITProPortal and TechEye
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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Shiny Objects, InfoWorld, Fortune, CrunchGear, Tools, Crave, ITProPortal, AppleInsider, TUAW, SlashGear, MacDaddyNews.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Computerworld, GigaOM, Softpedia News, Apple Bitch, BGR, Techland, Pocket-lint, T3.com News, Techie Buzz, Gadgetsteria, Digital Trends, MacNN, MacStories, Electricpig.co.uk, MacRumors, Gizmodo and iClarified
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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Ars Technica, Mashable, Tools, SlashGear, MacRumors, CNET News, Gizmodo, ITProPortal, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, iClarified and MacStories
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.
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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eWeek, PC World, Business Wire, eHomeUpgrade, TR Dojo Blog and The Loop
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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DSLreports, Wall Street Journal and GigaOM
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zynga Buys Canadian Mobile App Development Firm Five Mobile; Opens Toronto Studio — Zynga has made its 15th acquisition in 13 months today, with the purchase of Canadian mobile app development firm Five Mobile. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed and the Five Mobile team will now become Zynga Toronto.
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Inside Mobile Apps, VentureBeat, Reuters and MobileSyrup.com
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, MacRumors and iClarified
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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Smarterware
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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Betabeat, Pulse2, Music Ally, NYConvergence.com, hypebot, The Business Insider, VatorNews and VentureBeat
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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SiliconFilter and digiday:DAILY
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
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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GeekWire, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, BGR, 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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VentureBeat
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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BGR, PC World, The Not-So Private Parts, The Atlantic Wire, Pulse2, Technologizer, Neowin.net, Geek.com, Sydney Morning Herald, NBC Bay Area, digiday:DAILY, Appolicious Advisor, Disruptors, TechEye, PetaPixel, ITProPortal, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, msnbc.com, The Business Insider, Examiner, CNET News, iClarified, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Betabeat, MacNN, TUAW, ifoAppleStore, Gawker and Gothamist
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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The Business Insider, @katekellycnbc, bizjournals and DealBook
Sam Gustin / paidContent:
Einhorn's Greenlight Capital Sells Yahoo Stake After Alipay Debacle — Greenlight Capital chief David Einhorn, who made his reputation short-selling Lehman Bros. before its collapse, raised eyebrows earlier this year when he took a long position in beleaguered internet portal Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO).
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Tech and China, AllThingsD, zero hedge and The Business Insider
