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12:10 PM ET, July 16, 2011

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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
ITC judge finds HTC in infringement of two Apple patents  —  Google's Android mobile operating system is in serious trouble:  —  Bloomberg reports that an ITC judge determined that HTC infringes two of ten Apple patents asserted in investigation no. 337-TA-710.
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Apple wins initial patent victory against HTC  —  The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Android manufacturer HTC has infringed on two Apple patents, handing the iPhone maker an early victory that could have large implications on HTC's business in the U.S. in the worst case scenario …
Paul Allen / Google+:
Breaking News: 33% of Google+ Users Are Female  —  A lot of misinformation about Google+'s male to female ratio is going around Google+ and even being reported on by respectable media sites.  For example:  —  Mashable Headline: Google+ Users Are Nearly All Male: http://mashable.com/2011/07/14/google- plus-male/
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Jolie O'Dell / Mashable:
Google+ Users Are Nearly All Male  —  Here's an interesting tidbit from the Google+ stats trackers: Three quarters (or more) of Google+ users are male.  SocialStatistics, a third-party site that gathers data from select profiles, pegs the percentage of male users at 86.8%, while FindPeopleOnPlus …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Analysts: iPod sales expected to decline 7.2% year over year  —  For once, the amateurs and the professionals are in agreement  —  iPod sales hit 22.7 million in the Christmas quarter of 2008 and have been going downhill, with seasonal spikes, ever since.  —  The quarter that ended nearly …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple hits record high $364.92
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple Q3 2011 earnings preview
Discussion: GeekWire
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
U.S. banks changing out core systems for real-time processing  —  It has been years since the banking industry made any large investments in core IT systems, but some of the largest financial services firms in the U.S. are now in the midst of rolling out multi-million dollar projects, according to industry experts.
Discussion: Slashdot
Jay Yarow / The Business Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Google's Headcount Continues To Soar  —  Last night Google reported strong earnings with big revenue growth.  It also reported that headcount is still soaring upwards, a trend that started a year and half ago.  Below we've charted Google's growing headcount, and its flattening revenue per employee.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Maps Removes Driving With Traffic Estimates  —  I am not sure exactly when this happened, but Google Maps has dropped one of the more useful features.  The feature is, estimating how much time it would take to drive somewhere with traffic, either live traffic or predictive traffic based on day/time.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google, Twitter Flaunt Social Stats ... It's Like 2003 All Over Again  —  Whether on purpose or not, Google and Twitter are having a little back-and-forth this week about the size of their social networks — or, maybe more accurately, about the activity levels on their social networks.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's Upcoming Hardware Refresh to Include Thunderbolt LED Display, Not MacBook [Updated x3]  —  Earlier this week, part numbers for upcoming Apple hardware updates surfaced, with claims that the parts represented new MacBook Air and Mac Pro models.  While the MacBook Air part numbers …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Google wields data openness against Facebook  —  Google is accelerating efforts to make its new social network look like a more open and attractive alternative to Facebook.  —  The latest: Google will allow users to export a list of Web sites that they've recommended through the “+1” button.
Discussion: Data Liberation and Webware.com
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Forget Clues, You Can Find The Google Games Logo (And More) In The Google+ Code  —  Shortly after Google+ was unveiled, Engadget got a tip from someone who dug deep into its source code and found verbal references to something called Google Games.  A tipster of ours has now dug a little deeper and managed to find more of them.
Discussion: SlashGear and Pulse2
Electronista:
iPhone 3GS refurb drops to $9 at AT&T as update looms  —  iPhone 3GS refurb now 9 dollars  —  AT&T gave a clue that the iPhone 3GS was on its way out Friday after it dropped the price of a refurbished iPhone 3GS down to $9.  The terms still demand a two-year contract but put it at its lowest official, non-promotional price yet.
 
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Diane Bartz / Reuters:
U.S., Romania arrest more than 100 for cyber scams
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uTorrent To Launch a Paid Version
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Google's Eric Schmidt explains why he decided to testify
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Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
With Google Gone (For Now), Twitter Tries to Come to Terms With Microsoft's Bing
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Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Blaze Mobile awarded patent for NFC sticker
Discussion: Examiner and Crave
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Opposition Mounts Against Amazon's Acquisition Of The Book Depository
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Microsoft snatches up a pair of Sony related domains, internet runs amok with rumors
Discussion: WinRumors, Pulse2 and GeekWire
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
MYSTERY SOLVED: Here's Why Google Sites Revenue Is Growing Faster Than Google Network Revenue
Discussion: Epicenter and TechCrunch
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Facebook Is Getting Into the News Business
 

 
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UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

 
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