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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
New Mac Pros and MacBook Airs to launch this week with OS X Lion — We have been expecting new MacBook Airs this week and now it appears that the ultra-thin notebooks won't be the only new Macs this week. According to our source Mr. X, part numbers for an upgraded Mac Pro line have appeared …
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CNET News, TUAW, TodaysiPhone.com, I4U News, MacStories, MacRumors, MacNN, PC World, Electronista, It's All Tech, iSource and Gizmodo
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
ROAR! Apple Puts Out The Call For Devs To Submit OS X Lion Apps — A Lion is quickly approaching. OS X Lion — aka OS X 10.7. Some are saying it will hit this week. Other signs point to next week. Either way, it's coming very soon. How do we know?
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, SlashGear, Cult of Mac and Gizmodo
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Foursquare Partners Up — Start-up Foursquare Labs Inc. has a large user base and a $600 million valuation, but unlike social-media stars Zynga Inc. and LinkedIn Corp., it has a big hole on the revenue line. — Now, the service, which lets users announce their location to friends by …
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CNET News, About Foursquare and Mashable!
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Pratip Banerji / The Official Google Blog:
The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader: iriver Story HD — Starting this coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple users buying 61% more apps, paying 14% more per app — Apple's (AAPL) business model is increasingly dependent on the health of its App Store, the rich breeding ground of the company's software ecosystem, and a report to clients issued Monday by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster suggests that the ecosystem's vital signs are good.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iOS ‘stickiness’ grows as average Apple user has $100 in content per device
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LAPTOP Magazine and Fast Company
Brenna Ehrlich / Mashable!:
Spotify Plans To Launch as Invite-Only in the U.S. [REPORT] — Word on the digital street is that much-lauded European music subscription service Spotify will land on U.S. shores this week. — Our sources in the music industry told us Spotify won't open the floodgates all at once …
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Examiner, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Know Your Cell and The Business Insider
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Spotify Won't Have An Exclusive On Facebook's Music Service
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SlashGear
Bill Gross / Google+:
I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history. — Okay, that's a bold proclamation - here's why I think it will achieve that. The service is great. It is timely. People are engaging with it like crazy. There are rumors that there are already 4.5m people.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gmail+: Google Already At Work On “Several” Gmail/Google+ Integrations
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VentureBeat, Examiner, Jon Burg's Future Visions, Mark Striebeck, WebProNews, GigaOM and Pocket-lint, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Zachary Tracer / Bloomberg:
Cisco May Cut About 5,000 Jobs: Analyst — Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the world's largest networking-equipment company, may cut at least 5,000 jobs to revive profit growth as rivals erode market share, analysts at Gleacher & Co. and Miller Tabak & Co. said.
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The Business Insider and @nuveendhingra
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Ballmer mocks Mac sales while touting Microsoft's products — Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft took the verbal gloves off: During his keynote, CEO Steve Ballmer mocked Apple's Mac sales numbers. He compared the number of PCs sold in the last twelve months …
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The Business Insider, PC World, WinRumors and SlashGear
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft: Windows 7 hits 400 million licenses sold
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PC World, InfoWorld, The Register, The Windows Blog, Macworld, Daring Fireball, BetaNews, CNET News, WinRumors, MSDN Blogs, Electronista, PC Magazine, Engadget and Neowin.net
Tom Hals / Reuters:
Courts approve Nortel patent sale to Apple/RIM group — Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion Ltd and three other leading tech companies received court approval on Monday to buy wireless patents from the bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp for $4.5 billion.
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AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Associated Press, eWeek, The Next Web, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld, CNET News, TUAW and MacRumors
Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Google: Changes coming to Google+ this week — Top Google exec acknowledges hearing “lots of criticisms” about Google +, and that the firm plans to respond quickly — Computerworld - It looks like Google will be making some changes to Google+ this week. — In a post on Google+ …
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AppScout, Geek.com, Technology Review, Search Engine Land, Techland and InfoWorld
Twitter Blog:
One Million Registered Twitter Apps — Application developers play a fundamental role in helping people get the best out of Twitter. As an ecosystem, we've just crossed one million registered applications, built by more than 750,000 developers around the world. This is up from 150,000 apps just a year ago.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Florida Judge Tosses a Key MPAA Claim Against Hotfile (Exclusive) … Some higher-ups in the movie industry have identified file-storage “cyberlockers” as being Hollywood's biggest threat in the war against piracy. In February, the MPAA took action with a major lawsuit against Hotfile, one of the most popular websites on the Internet.
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Techdirt, Ars Technica and TorrentFreak
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Philly Papers to Sell Android Tablets — Publishers, desperate to prop up their legacy print business, have been scrambling to put their content on tablet devices. Now the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sibling Philadelphia Daily News are making what may be the boldest tablet push yet.
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Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack — Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they've got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Color Labs Chief Product Officer DJ Patil Resigns — Color Labs Chief Product Officer DJ Patil will soon be leaving the company as a full time employee, we've confirmed. Patil, who was LinkedIn's chief scientist until March, was only with Color for about 5 months. He'll transition to become an advisor to the company.
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ReadWriteWeb and The Business Insider
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Facebook Hires New Director of Product, Tom Stocky, From Google — Longtime Googler Tom Stocky is Facebook's newest director of product, AllThingsD has learned. — Stocky posted about the move on his online profiles and Facebook confirmed he'd been hired.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple seeds iOS 5 beta 3, iTunes 10.5 beta 3, Xcode 4.3 Preview 3, Xcode 4.1 GM to developers — Apple has just seeded the third beta of iOS 5 to registered to developers. Beta 3 of iTunes 10.5 is also available and will be required to sync with iOS 5 beta 3 devices.
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It's All Tech, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, BGR, App Advice, MacRumors, MacRumors, AppleInsider, MacStories, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, TUAW, Gizmodo Australia, GigaOM, Tools, Mac Post, SlashGear and Engadget, Thanks:ybrammer
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
HP shakeup: webOS now led by Stephen DeWitt, Jon Rubinstein in charge of ‘product innovation’ — It looks like HP's decided to shake things up in its webOS division, almost exactly a year after it completed its purchase of Palm. Stephen DeWitt is now the senior vice president of webOS …
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New York Times:
Amazon Backs End to Online Sales Tax in California — SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon said Monday that it would back a California ballot initiative that would roll back a new state law that forces more online retailers to collect sales tax. — Amazon's decision to support the proposed referendum pits …
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Reuters and @pkedrosky
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
AT&T now selling the HTC Status: The 1st phone with a Facebook share button — BREAK THE NEWS! — AT&T announced today that it is now taking pre-orders for the HTC Status, the first phone with a dedicated Facebook share button. The phone is exclusive to AT&T customers for $49.99 …
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TechCrunch, USA Today, BGR, AT&T, PC World, SlashGear and Friending Facebook Blog
Lizette Chapman / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Google Ventures Scaling Up With More Cash, ‘Googlers In Residence’ — Google Ventures is scaling. … The two-year-old venture arm of Google Inc. is doubling its investment in start-ups to as much as $200 million a year, doubling its office space at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. …
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Googling Google Blog, The Business Insider and Pulse2
