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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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PC Magazine, TeleRead, Appolicious Advisor, Mashable!, SlashGear, Electronista and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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DigiTimes:
Foxconn reportedly lands 10.1-inch tablet PC orders from Amazon — Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reportedly landed orders for 10.1-inch tablet PCs from Amazon with shipments to begin in 2012, while Quanta Computer has begun shipping a 7-inch model to Amazon.
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Mobilized, Android Community, I4U News, Electronista, The Digital Reader and SlashGear
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Plans Tablet Computer By October
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Report: Amazon Tablet And Two Updated Kindles Coming This Fall
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TechEye, BGR, VentureBeat and Examiner
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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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, Digital Trends, PC World, TUAW, MacPost, CNET News, Inquirer, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, ZOMGitsCj, TiPb, Computerworld, O'Grady's PowerPage, SoMobile, I4U News, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Tools, PalmAddicts, The Next Web, Electronista, Edible Apple, T3.com News and GottaBeMobile
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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TechCrunch, Don Dodge on The Next …, WebProNews, Boston Globe, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and The Business Insider, Thanks:bobcaswell
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., Neowin.net, Softpedia News, eWeek, Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, Tech Trader Daily, WinRumors and C-Scape
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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TechCrunch, Thanks:jhstrauss
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Netflix managers prepared for backlash to price hike — Netflix managers knew that some customers would be unhappy with the company's decision to raise prices, and a day before announcing the fee increase they told customer-service personnel to be prepared for angry callers.
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CNET News, PC World, DailyTech, The Business Insider, mediabistro.com, Neowin.net, Techdirt and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
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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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All about Microsoft Blog, GottaBeMobile and Liliputing
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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Christian Oestlien, ITProPortal, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Mashable! and Cisco Blog
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers — Under France's new Hadopi law, alleged copyright infringers will be hunted down systematically with the ultimate goal of decreasing piracy. Alleged offenders are identified by their Internet providers and will be reported to a judge once they have received three warnings.
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Fast Company, Inquirer, Neowin.net, Electronista and Tech Europe
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 …
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Tech Boom Drives Turnover At Popular SoMa Address — For a sign of how the region's technology boom is progressing, consider the growth going on at just one San Francisco building that has attracted start-up tenants. — A year ago, the 75,000-square-foot building at 410 Townsend St. …
BBC:
China: 1.3 million websites shut in 2010 — Chinese web users are frequently blocked from accessing sites such as Youtube — More than one million websites closed down in China last year, a state-run think tank has said. — The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said there were were 41% fewer websites …
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Digital East Asia
Hermione Way / The Next Web:
The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself — As a Brit who gave up cheerleading the European tech scene to make the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to live, eat and breath the world's leading hub for technology startup innovation, I've been largely unimpressed and disappointed by the quality of startups here.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, digiday:DAILY and FM Blog
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Firespotter Labs Launches Nosh: A Food-Centric Instagram That'll Tell You What To Order — The cofounder of Google Voice is back for more. And he's hungry. — Back in May we reported on Firespotter Labs, a new incubator started by GrandCentral cofounder and CEO Craig Walker …
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AllThingsD, GigaOM and atmaspheric
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Nuance's Dragon Go Is a Voice-Powered Search App That Knows Where to Look — When it comes to voice-powered search, there are plenty of options. Of course, Bing and Google have voice search as a built-in option and there are plenty of other apps specializing in all manner of specific queries.
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Nuance, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, MacStories, Softpedia News, TUAW, USA Today, Bits, 9to5Mac, Macworld and MobileBurn.com
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Apple pays $945 to settle iOS location tracking suit — Apple has paid up for inadvertently tracking a user's location in iOS-based devices. — The company was ordered by a South Korean District Court judge in June to pay 1 million won ($945) for tracking a man's location, according to court documents obtained by CNET.
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BGR, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, Yonhap News, Gizmodo, Times of India, TechEye, MobileBurn.com, iPodNN, iClarified, SocialTimes.com and The Next Web
