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Google Announces Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2011. — “We had a great quarter, with revenue up 32% year on year for a record breaking over $9 billion of revenue,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Being Shared Per Day — Google CEO Larry Page headlined Google's earnings call today and of course revealed some interesting statistics on Google's most recent product, Google+. Page said the new management structure he implemented is …
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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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Steve Kovach / Tools:
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 announced 500,000 Android devices were being activated per day.
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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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Sean Parker / The Business Insider:
Spotify Signals A Golden Age Of Music
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and TechCrunch
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
New Service Offers Music in Quantity, Not by Song
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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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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
One big Windows world. It's coming, but when and how?
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ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, Hardware 2.0 Blog, ITProPortal and Network World
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, Electronista, The Business Insider, PC World and GottaBeMobile
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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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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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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
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
New MacBook Airs Coming Next Week, Not This Week — Still waiting for the MacBook Air refresh? You can put your credit card down for a bit. Although many speculated it would, Apple didn't bring the new machines to market today. And it's not going to do so tomorrow, either.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Electronista, The Next Web, TodaysiPhone.com and Tools
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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VentureBeat, Inside Mobile Apps, AppleInsider, The Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, 9to5Mac, CNET News, GigaOM, Fortune and MacDailyNews
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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eWeek, Search Engine Land, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Macworld and Boston Globe, Thanks:bobcaswell
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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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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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
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 and Neowin.net
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 and TechCrunch
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Hotmail bans common passwords and introduces hacking alert system — Microsoft announced two new key Hotmail security features on Thursday. — The software giant is introducing a “My friend's been hacked!” feature alongside banning commonly used and weak passwords.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
How to transfer Facebook friends to Google+, but do you really want to? — There are several ways to move your Facebook friends to Google+. They all require several steps to complete, but they generally work. Before you try it, ask yourself a few questions. Do I really want to replicate my Facebook “friends” on Google+?
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Joanna Stern / This is my next:
gScreen's actually producing its crazy dual 17-inch Spacebook, launches pre-order — Well, color us shocked! It's been almost two years since gScreen, a small Alaskan company, set out to bring its mega-dual-screen Spacebook to market, and well, it seems to have finally done it — or at least …
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SlashGear and The Windows Blog
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Tulalip: Is A New Social/Search Hybrid On The Way? — It appears that Microsoft is planning a new project called Tulalip and could be positioning it as a hybrid search/social networking service. — First reported by Fusible, Tulalip currently sits on the SOCL.com domain, which is owned by Microsoft.
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Myriam Joire / Engadget:
SwiftKey X virtual keyboard launches for Android tablets, we go hands-on (video) — We're no strangers to SwiftKey here at Engadget HQ, and today TouchType is launching a major new version of everyone's favorite Android virtual keyboard — SwiftKey Tablet X for devices running Honeycomb, and SwiftKey X for devices running Android 2.x.
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