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Spotify:
Hello America. Spotify here. — We're excited to let you know that today we're bringing Spotify to the US. — This is a great day for anyone who loves music in the US and, of course, a real milestone for us at Spotify. I'm proud of the fantastic team who have been working tirelessly …
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ReadWriteWeb, PC World, The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Business Insider, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, The Next Web, GigaOM, DailyTech, WebProNews, BGR, WMPU, The Sonos Blog, MarketingVox News & Trends, 9to5Mac, VatorNews, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Engadget, FT Tech Hub, Mashable!, Digital Trends, IntoMobile, Geek.com, Gadgetell, Lifehacker, Tools, MacStories, @ischafer, App Advice, Electronista, Evolver.fm, CNET News and MacRumors
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Sean Parker / The Business Insider:
Spotify Signals A Golden Age Of Music
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Tablet Is No Threat To Apple, It's A Huge Threat To Google — Last September, we got a tip from a source that Amazon was preparing a tablet that would run Google's Android operating system. The source was a good one — they had also correctly called Amazon releasing their own Android app store.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Amazon's Tough Decisions on Its Android Tablet — Waiting for Amazon to sell a full-fledged tablet feels like waiting for the grass to grow: we know it's going to happen, but it's taking an awfully long time. — As we have reported over the last year, Amazon has been readying a color screen tablet …
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paidContent, The Business Insider, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, PC World, TeleRead and Appolicious Advisor
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Microsoft says it will have a ‘single ecosystem’ for PCs, tablets, phones, and TVs... and is ‘Windows’ dead? — So here's an interesting coincidence: Tuesday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, Andy Lees said that the Redmond would eventually have just a “single ecosystem” for PCs, phones, tablets, and even the TV.
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PC Magazine, Liliputing, IndustryGamers, Techie Buzz, The Next Web, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile and GottaBeMobile
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
One big Windows world. It's coming, but when and how?
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, ITProPortal and Network World
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Back On Track In Q2, Beats The Street With Over $9 Billion In Revenue — Google has just released their Q2 2011 numbers, and after a slightly-off Q1, it looks like Q2 is right back on track for the search giant. They beat the number The Street was expecting across the board.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Business Insider, BGR, paidContent, Engadget, Reuters, The Next Web and WebProNews
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Steve Kovach / The Business Insider:
GOOGLE: 550,000 Android Activations Per Day — During Google's Q2 earnings call, Larry Page just announced that 550,000 Android devices are being activated every day. — It was just over two weeks ago that Android boss Andy Rubin annnounced 500,000 Android devices were being activated per day.
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Inside Mobile Apps and The Next Web
Washington Post:
24,000 Pentagon files stolen in major cyber breach, official says — The Defense Department lost 24,000 files to “foreign intruders” in the spring in what appears to be one of the most damaging cyberattacks to date on the U.S. military, a top Pentagon official acknowledged Thursday.
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The Business Insider, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, New York Times and Zero Day Blog
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Shuts Down OS X Downloads Page — As announced back in December 2010, Apple has shut down [thanks, Daylen] the OS X Downloads page that used to list applications, widgets and utilities users could download for their Macs. Instead, Apple is now featuring the Mac App Store at the same URL …
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MacNN, TUAW, The Next Web and RazorianFly
David Pogue / New York Times:
Google+ Improves on Facebook — Google, the most popular Web site on earth, is worried about the second-most popular site. That, of course, would be Facebook. — Why else would Google keep trying, over and over again, to create a social network of the same type?
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GigaOM, eWeek, Search Engine Land, Macworld, Tools, TechCrunch, Boston Globe, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and WebProNews, Thanks:bobcaswell
Charles Newark-French / Flurry:
iPad 2 and Verizon iPhone Take Some Wind Out of Android's Sail — In this new age of mobile computing, Apple and Google's long-term success depends largely on their ability to amass third-party developer support. Developer innovation improves the way consumers connect with others …
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Inside Mobile Apps, AppleInsider, ReadWriteWeb, 9to5Mac, Fortune, CNET News, GigaOM and MacDailyNews
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google hastens Google+ corporate account launch — Google is accelerating a test of corporate accounts on Google+ after “thousands upon thousands” of businesses applied for a place in the program, a Google executive said. — The company plans next week to choose who'll get into the test …
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VentureBeat, SlashGear, Christian Oestlien, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, Poynter and ITProPortal
The Business Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: This Is What Microsoft Is Getting For Its Big Bing Investment — After spending billions of dollars over the last two years fighting Google with Bing, what does Microsoft have to show for it? — Not much from a marketshare perspective. The latest comScore data shows Bing's share …
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Search Engine Watch, comScore, Inc., Softpedia News, eWeek, Neowin.net, Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land and Tech Trader Daily
Jonathan / awe.sm:
Twitter drives 4 times as much traffic as you think it does — Over the last few weeks, TechCrunch has run a couple posts using their own referrer logs to measure how sharing on various social services drives traffic. In these and other analyses based solely on referrer information …
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AllThingsD and TechCrunch, Thanks:jhstrauss
Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:
Sony Preparing New Reader to Challenge Kindle — Sony Corp. (6758), Japan's largest exporter of consumer electronics, plans to introduce a line of upgraded digital book readers in the U.S. as early as next month to challenge Kindle-maker Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)
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Best Ereaders, Geek.com, SlashGear, Mike Cane's xBlog, TechCrunch, TeleRead, Electronista, Gizmodo and Tools
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Zynga Bid $1 Billion In Cash For PopCap Games, Source Says — The social gaming company Zynga offered $1 billion in cash to acquire PopCap Games, but was turned down in favor of a more complex and potentially more lucrative offer from Electronic Arts, according to a source close to the deal.
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VatorNews, The Business Insider, AllThingsD, IndustryGamers, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, VG247, GeekWire and Venture Capital Dispatch, Thanks:taylorbuley
Luke Westaway / CNET News:
Job posting points to iPhone 5 launch on 16 August … A job posting for iPhone sales specialists on employment website Reed could indicate that the iPhone 5 will be released in mid-August. — The post, which was sent to us by a tipster, asks for “full-time iPhone Sales Staff for an exciting project …
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AppleInsider, PC Magazine, Geek.com, iSource, Techland, Redmond Pie, Digital Trends, PC World, ZOMGitsCj, Computerworld, MacPost, Ubergizmo, O'Grady's PowerPage, TiPb, PalmAddicts, Inquirer, TUAW, parislemon, SlashGear, CNET News and SoMobile
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Soars to Third Place in U.S. PC Market With 10.7% Share — Research firms Gartner and IDC today released their preliminary quarterly personal computer shipment data, offering up a picture of market performance during the second quarter of 2011. Overall, the PC industry exhibited small growth …
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Ars Technica, SlashGear, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Mashable!, eWeek, Computerworld, DailyTech, The Tech Report, Guardian, Gartner, BetaNews, Softpedia News, ITProPortal, Fudzilla, Between the Lines Blog, The Register, Inquirer and IBD Click
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Gogo launches in-air multimedia platform, details international expansion plans — It's at least six months behind schedule at this point, but we guess late's better than even later. We'd known that [Aircell] Gogo (yeah, it's officially changed!) was aiming to get into the in-flight entertainment business …
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Between the Lines Blog and Electronista
