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5:20 PM ET, July 21, 2011

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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results  —  REDMOND, Wash. — Jul. 21, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced record fourth-quarter revenue of $17.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, an 8% increase from the same period of the prior year.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:   Microsoft smashes Q4 2011 earnings estimates thanks to Xbox
Alyson Shontell / The Business Insider:
Google+ Makes Its First Aquisition And Buys Social Group Startup Fridge  —  This past weekend we wrote that social group startup Fridge was shutting down the product.  We assumed that meant it was being acquired.  —  We assumed right.  Austin Chang, Fridge's founder …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Fridge Acquired by Google to Build Groups in Google+  —  Fridge, a group social networking site, was acquired by Google last night, co-founder Austin Chang tells AllThingsD.  —  It's an interesting move for Google+, whose signature feature is its Circles, which are managed by each user rather than as collaborative groups.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million.  Color Said No.  —  If that headline looks familiar to you, you're probably remembering our story about Google offering to buy Path for $100+ million from earlier this year.  Path turned that deal down.  —  About the same time …
Apple:
Lion Downloads Top One Million in First Day  —  CUPERTINO, California—July 21, 2011—Apple® today announced that in just one day, over one million users bought and downloaded Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system.
Chad Dickerson / The Etsy Blog:
Our Next Chapter at Etsy: A Letter to the Community  —  I never thought I would be writing this letter when I joined Etsy almost three years ago.  Then there were 60 people at the company — now we are 200.  I've been here for a long time and we've been through a lot.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:   Etsy Moves CTO Dickerson to CEO, Replacing Founder Rob Kalin
Pastebin:
Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement  —  Hello thar FBI and international law authorities, We recently stumbled across the following article with amazement and a certain amount of amusement: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/ 138555799/fbi-arrests-alleged-anonymous - hackers The statements …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
‘Anonymous’ hackers to FBI: There is nothing you can do to stop us  —  Global hacker collective “Anonymous Operations” together with “Lulz Security” on Thursday issued a statement to the FBI and other international authorities.  The release is a response to statements made by FBI Director Steve Chabinsky tied …
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:
Read It And Weep: Nokia Reports Loss Of Nearly €500 Million, Huge Declines  —  Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop once said that his chief competitor is not Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but if you compare today's quarterly figures from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) with those of the Cupertino mobile upstart, the contrast couldn't be greater.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
iPad Trouncing Android in Enterprise  —  The tablet is not yet a standard-issue sidearm in enterprise, but it's well on its way to becoming one — particularly Apple's iPad.  —  According to Good Technology, which provides mobile device management services to 49 of the Fortune 100 and 182 …
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Adobe:
Known Issues with Adobe products on Mac OS 10.7 Lion  —  All Products: Files stored in Library Java Runtime needs to be installed manually, otherwise applications may behave inconsistently Crash Reporter Scrolling behavior opposite of expected Rosetta support no longer included with Lion Mac OSX 10.7 …
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Loretta Chao / China Real Time Report:
Fake Apple Store Clerk Speaks Out … More In Apple  — Asia Today: Lenovo's New Tablets; Apple, Intel  — The Ultimate Knock-Off: A Fake Apple Store  — Asia Today: Apple in China; Media Clampdown  — Internet Users Riled Up Over China Mobile iPhone 5 Rumor
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Wolfram launches new document format, meet CDF  —  Wolfram on Thursday rolled out its Computable Document Format (CDF), which aims to turn documents into interactive applications.  —  The goal is to turn “lifeless documents” into ones that bring data to life, show the data behind assumptions and illustrate concepts.
BMI.com:
BMI Sets Licensing Agreement with Turntable.fm  —  BMI has entered into a licensing agreement with social music site turntable.fm, covering the use of BMI's repertoire of more than 6.5 million works in the U.S., according to an announcement by Richard Conlon, BMI Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media.
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Bing gets Metro treatment, includes HTML5 live tiles  —  Microsoft is testing live tiles across its Bing search engine homepage.  —  The software giant first announced its HTML5 version of Bing at the original beta launch of Internet Explorer 9 in September.
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Anger Mounts As Google+ Plays Favorites With Brands  —  Unless you count the bacteria parties during the Cambrian Explosion, Google+ is the fastest growing social network in history, hitting 18 million users in just its first two weeks.  Not surprisingly many companies want to get in on the gold rush …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
20th Century Fox to launch movies on Android phones  —  Twentieth Century Fox is bringing movie downloads to Google's Android smartphone and tablet platform for the first time later this year, setting up the fast-growing operating system as a media platform to rival Apple's digital dominance.
Nick Marshall / Electricpig:
2011 MacBook Air benchmarks are amazing, outperforms all 2010 MacBook Pros  —  The subtle change in clock speed from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz in the 2011 11-inch MacBook Air might sound small on paper, but in terms of benchmarks, it's nothing short of monumental.  Using Geekbench as a baseline …
Discussion: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Gadget Lab and Geek.com
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to the Pirate Bay  —  A user called Greg Maxwell just uploaded a torrent with 18,592 scientific publications to the Pirate Bay, in what appears to be a protest directed both at the recent indictment of programmer Aaron Swartz for data theft as well as the scientific publishing model in general.
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Deep packet inspection used to stop censorship in new “Telex” scheme  —  The Internet has become so economically important that few countries can afford to cut off access altogether.  Instead, repressive regimes allow 'Net access, but try to block individual websites they don't want their populations to see.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Facebook users in iPhone app revolt  —  Facebook was set to release an update to its iPhone app on Thursday in response to a deluge of complaints by users who have suffered crashes, failed delivery of messages and other faults.  —  Tens of thousands of iPhone owners around the world have posted …
Discussion: The Next Web, Thanks:tim
 
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Comments Can Now Display Photos, Play Videos, and Preview Websites
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Wowd Assets Split Up Among Three Companies, Including Facebook
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google And Facebook Spent Record Amounts On Lobbying In Q2 2011
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
More Than Two-Thirds of Google+ Activity Is Private
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Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Groupon data collection scrutinized by Congress
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Nexus S for AT&T landing on July 24th for $99.99, pre-orders start today
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
The Decline and Fall of Facebook
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Circles Fatigue: The Dark Side Of Google+
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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