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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 …

Sean Parker / The Business Insider:

Spotify Signals A Golden Age Of Music — Today represents the realization of a dream. For a decade I have waited for a music service that could rekindle my excitement about music by enabling music to be shared freely across the world—all the while empowering artists to reap the economic benefits of selling their music.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Ben Sisario / New York Times:
New Service Offers Music in Quantity, Not by Song

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.

Nick Bilton / Bits:

The Amazon Android Tablet Conundrums — 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 its taking an awfully long time. — As we have reported over the past year, Amazon has been readying a color screen tablet …

Discussion: The Business Insider, GottaBeMobile, TeleRead, Appolicious Advisor, parislemon and Electronista

DigiTimes:
Foxconn reportedly lands 10.1-inch tablet PC orders from Amazon

Discussion: Mobile Marketing Watch, Mobilized, Android Community, I4U News, Electronista, The Digital Reader and SlashGear

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Report: Amazon Tablet And Two Updated Kindles Coming This Fall

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Ars Technica, Consumer Reports News, PC World, TechEye, VentureBeat and BGR

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.

Discussion: All about Microsoft Blog, Liliputing, Techie Buzz, The Next Web, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile 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?

Discussion: GigaOM, Tools, TechCrunch, Boston Globe, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, WebProNews and The Business Insider, Thanks:bobcaswell

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 …

Discussion: AppleInsider, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, iSource, Techland, Redmond Pie, PC World, TUAW, Ubergizmo, ZOMGitsCj, TiPb, Computerworld, MacPost, O'Grady's PowerPage, Inquirer, CNET News, SlashGear, PalmAddicts, SoMobile, I4U News, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, The Next Web and Tools

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 …

Discussion: Search Engine Watch, comScore, Inc., Softpedia News, eWeek, Neowin.net, Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land and Tech Trader Daily

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Christian Oestlien, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, WebProNews, Poynter, Softpedia News and Neowin.net

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 …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, 9to5Mac, Fortune, CNET News, GigaOM and MacDailyNews

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 …

Discussion: AllThingsD and TechCrunch, Thanks:jhstrauss

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.

Discussion: VatorNews, The Business Insider, AllThingsD, GeekWire, Softpedia News, VG247, Neowin.net, Venture Capital Dispatch, IndustryGamers and Joystiq, Thanks:taylorbuley

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.

Discussion: CNET News, PC World, DailyTech, The Business Insider, mediabistro.com, Neowin.net and Techdirt

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Reed Hastings Doesn't Want You To Pay More For Netflix. He Wants You To Stop Using DVDs.

Discussion: Appolicious Advisor, Mashable! and GigaOM

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 …

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 …

Discussion: The Next Web and RazorianFly

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 …

Discussion: Between the Lines 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.

Discussion: Inquirer, Fast Company, paidContent:UK, Neowin.net, Electronista and Tech Europe

David Alexander / Reuters:

Pentagon to treat cyberspace as operational domain — Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn unveiled a new U.S. strategy on Thursday for protecting military computer networks, moving away from a passive defense toward treating cyberspace as an “operational domain” in which trained forces defend against attacks.

Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post

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)

Discussion: Best Ereaders, SlashGear, TechCrunch, TeleRead, Electronista, Tools and Gizmodo

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 …

Discussion: AllThingsD, GigaOM, Mashable! and atmaspheric

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