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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Comments On Google+'s Success, Claims “Millions” Of Users — Speaking at a press event on Thursday at the Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, former Google CEO and now Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt gave a 70 minute talk to the relatively few reporters …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
More Celebs Show Up on Google Plus, but Which Ones are Real? — Google's social networking service Google Plus is so new that it currently lacks a verification system for user accounts. This isn't a big deal for most users, of course, but it can be an issue when someone famous signs up …
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Tom Krazit / paidContent:
Why Google And Android Must Deal With The Mobile Protection Racket — It's kind of amazing to consider that in just three short years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) found its answer to critics fond of the “one-trick pony” slur with Android, currently the world's most popular mobile operating system …
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Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post:
Antitrust officials probing sale of patents to Google's rivals — It's not often that search giant Google looks like the little guy. But in a move unprecedented in the tech world, six of Google's rivals — including Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion — combined forces recently …
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Against Monopoly and parislemon
Cade Metz / The Register:
Microsoft muzzles IE chief's ‘native HTML’ nonsense — Balderdash bug report closed — Microsoft has abandoned its nonsensical effort to recast HTML as a native Windows technology. We can once again applaud the company's long overdue embrace of the latest web standards.
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The Next Web, ITProPortal and ReadWriteHack
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Despite Google+ Competition, Disco, Google's Hushed Messaging App, Continues To Improve — It has been over three months since we first broke the news on the existence of Disco, the group messaging app made by the Slide team within Google. Google still refuses to talk about it. But work continues nonetheless.
Vic Gundotra / Google+:
Please accept our apologies for the spam we caused this afternoon. — For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. Yikes.
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Naked Security, The Business Insider, VentureBeat, The Next Web and CNET News
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
MiniDisplay Port to HDMI Cables ‘Unlicensed’ and Cannot Be Sold — Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables, such as those used to connect recent-generation MacBook Pro's to high-definition televisions do not comply with the official HDMI specifications. — HDMI Licensing, LLC …
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Geek.com, TUAW, TechSpot, PC Magazine, Electronista, MacStories and iClarified
Wayne Lam / iSuppli:
Teardown of HTC ThunderBolt Provides Insights on Rumored LTE iPhone — If the rumors are true that the next-generation iPhone will support 4G long-term evolution (LTE), the new Apple Inc. smartphone likely will be significantly more expensive to make than the current iPhone 4 model …
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9to5Mac, SlashGear, IntoMobile and CNET News
Clay Shirky:
Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic — The business environment for newspapers continues to be grim. Pew recently reported that advertising revenue rebounded in 2010 for all forms of media, except newspapers. * This might just be a matter of transitioning from print …
Rocky Agrawal / TechCrunch:
Solving The Scoble Problem In Social Networks — I finally blocked Robert Scoble in Google+. I have absolutely nothing against Scoble. I quite admire him, actually. He's a great asset to the startup scene and he works damn hard. I've met him a few times and I'm sure we'll meet again.
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New York Times:
Marc Andreessen on the Dot-Com ‘Bubble’ — Contrary to all the recent hype about a bubble, you've said that tech companies are actually undervalued. So in true 1999 fashion, should I take my life savings out of mutual funds and toss it into tech stocks? — I'm certainly not an investment adviser …
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Chris Sacca: Bad environment for seed-stage investors
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