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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson / PerthNow:
Google's Eric Schmidt slams Apple iPhone lawsuits — Google's Schmidt hits out at lawsuits — 'They're suing instead of innovating' — GOOGLE has launched a stinging attack on major mobile phone rival Apple, saying its smartphone lawsuits are inspired by jealousy and a lack of innovation in its own iPhone.
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Apple's win against HTC driving some firms to Windows Phone — Apple may push phone makers to WP7 with HTC win — Apple's early win against HTC has sent some Chinese phone makers running to Windows Phone 7, a source said. Mainland Chinese paper 21st Century Business Herald understood …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple holding overnight Tuesday for possible Wednesday OS X Lion launch — We're hearing from multiple retail sources across the world that Apple's retail chain will be holding employee overnights Tuesday night. The likely topic? Lion. — In the employee halls of the retail chain sit large tubes …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Retail Stores Receive Golden Master Copies of OS X Lion
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John Leyden / The Register:
LulzSec say they'll release big Murdoch email archive — Rebekah Brooks apparently not a password genius — The hacktivists behind a hack on The Sun's website claim to have extracted an email archive which they plan to release later on Tuesday. — News International systems were hacked …
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
LinkedIn CEO: Does Anybody Have The Free Time For Google+? — LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner wonders where everybody will get the free time to use Google+ — Weiner shared the stage with super-agent Ari Emanuel and AllThingsD's Kara Swisher at a Churchill Club event this evening.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Asking Twitter To Commit Suicide With A Google+ Dagger
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Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Breaking: New video of Nokia Sea Ray prototype running WP7 — Look at what we have here, leaking clearly out of a development factory in either China or Hong Kong (forgive us, it's 2am), we get a nice clear look at the Nokia N9, cough, ‘Sea Ray’ for Windows Phone 7.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Zynga and Facebook Exclusivity Goes Far Beyond Credits — An extensive addendum to Zynga's S-1 filing with the SEC today paints an intricate picture of Zynga's dependence on the Facebook platform. Here's a parsing of the key parts of that relationship. — The fuller disclosures …
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Zynga Updates IPO Filing to List Investors and Google's One of Them
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Patrick Avenell / Current:
Apple to open a new Store every 50 hours before end of 2011 harvest — Apple Retail Stores have attracted over one billion visitors since the first outlet was opened in Washington DC on 19 May 2001, according to a rare response to questions from Apple's local PR team.
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Vic Gundotra / Google+:
iPhone, meet Google+ — Share just the right stuff, with just the right circles :-) — This app should be rolling out over the next few hours. Try getting it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/ id447119634?ls=1&mt=8
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Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
The Verge — Yes folks, the rumors are true. Extra true. Super true. Our new home come fall-time will be called The Verge. Why The Verge, you ask? Well put simply, I don't think a single idea better defines the news we cover or the way we cover it.
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial — MIAMI — Assertions by the prosecution that Casey Anthony conducted extensive computer searches on the word “chloroform” were based on inaccurate data, a software designer who testified at the trial said Monday.
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Homes of Suspected ‘Anonymous’ Hackers — The FBI is executing search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning, FoxNews.com has learned. — More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Time Magazine Rolls Out Print/Digital Subscriptions — And Puts Up Another Web Pay Wall — Time magazine is making it easier for readers to subscribe to its digital and print editions. And it is making it harder for non-subscribers to read the magazine on the Web.
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Craig Kanalley / Google+:
LIST OF FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES ON GOOGLE+ — So, there seemed to be a lot of interest in this Googlers on Google+ list: http://goo.gl/KhpIf Facebook employees are also on G+ and can make for a very interesting circle. Here we go! — Founder/CEO — +Mark Zuckerberg — Executive Team
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Meet Proust, a social network that digs deeper — Nowadays, a lot of information can be found online. The starring actress of the 1996 movie “The Craft”? Fairuza Balk (courtesy of IMDB.) Where was Gordon Moore born? San Francisco (thank you, Wikipedia.)
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Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
The history of Mozilla and Firefox — On July 15, 2003, the Mozilla Foundation burst forth from Netscape, and in one fell swoop both created and cemented its preeminent position as the champion of The Open Web. A flurry of Firefox beta builds were released — first under the name of Phoenix …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Gigwalk Signs Up Microsoft to Provide Thousands of Paid Tasks for iPhone-Carrying Part-Timers — Gigwalk, a service that offers a variety of paid odd jobs via iPhone, announced that it now has more than 100,000 “gigs” available or completed and has signed up more than 50,000 people to perform work in eight U.S. cities.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Scribd Aims For Niche Between Instapaper And Pulse With Reader App Float — Document sharing site Scribd is expanding its mobile publishing efforts with the introduction of Float, a free, Instapaper-like iPhone app that allows readers to organize their online reading in one space.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Borders May Be Dead, But e-Reader Kobo Is Still Alive And Kicking — I am old enough to remember when going into a chain store like Borders and picking out books physically was something one did to save time. Plus, as any bookworm will tell you, rifling through bookstore shelves …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Bye Bye, Borders: Chain Shuttering All Remaining Stores
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier — Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as “one of the few cool VCs.” Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio …
Adam Penenberg / Fast Company:
Digital Oxytocin: How Trust Keeps Facebook, Twitter Humming — Internet users—Facebookers most of all—are a trusting bunch. Why? Because we are wired to build relationships around trust. — The most surprising takeaway from the recent Pew Research Center study …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Frustrated judge pushes Google digital book deal — (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge set a September 15 deadline for Google Inc, authors and publishers to come up with a legal plan to create the world's largest digital library, expressing frustration that the six-year-old dispute has not been resolved.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intel Buys Semiconductor Company Fulcrum Microsystems — Intel has announced the acquisition of fabless semiconductor company Fulcrum Microsystems. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011, are not being disclosed.
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Pui-Wing Tam / Digits:
Reputation.com Raises a New $41 Million Round — Reputation.com has raised a $41 million round of funding, as the online privacy start-up aims to expand its business with new offerings. — The new round was led by venture-capital firm August Capital, with participation from Insight Capital …
Dan Levin / New York Times:
Baidu, China's Search Giant, Announces Music Licensing Deal — BEIJING — Baidu, the dominant Chinese Internet search engine, on Tuesday announced a major licensing deal with three of the world's largest music companies that would allow Chinese Web users to legally download and stream hundreds of thousands of songs free.
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