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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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, 9to5Google, All Facebook, VatorNews and WebProNews
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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 …
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The Business Insider and Gawker
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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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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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Nokia: Q2 dreadful, but at least it's closer to Windows Phone 7
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Computerworld, Inquirer, PC Magazine, Smartphones … and CNET News
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Official: Apple sold more iPhones than Nokia's entire range of smartphones in Q2
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Financial Times, Edible Apple, iPhone, MacRumors, BGR, TUAW, Gizmodo, FreakGeeks, 9to5Mac and TiPb
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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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Apple's iPad remains dominant as Windows tablets outsell the PlayBook
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Benzinga, 9to5Mac, Reuters, BGR, 9to5Google, Android Phone Fans and Pocket-lint
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 …
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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The Register, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, MacRumors, iClarified, Photography Bay, The Next Web, MacNN, Pulse2, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Edible Apple, The Ed Bott Report Blog and The Loop
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Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Lion disables Flash Player hardware acceleration (and other Adobe goodies)
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This is my next, VentureBeat, TUAW, Inquirer, BetaNews, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Apple and MacStories
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.
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BetaNews, Wolfram Blog, PC Pro, The Next Web, Electronista, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, O'Reilly Radar, TechEye, thinq_, TeleRead, PC World and ITProPortal
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.
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The Business Insider, Betabeat, The Next Web, hypebot, Betabeat and Gadgetwise
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
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PC World, PC Magazine, Laughing Squid, The Next Web, Guardian and Softpedia News
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 …
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Search Engine Land and KCET, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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9to5Mac, Geek.com, Gizmodo, Electricpig.co.uk and MacRumors
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.
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The Business Insider, Within Windows, WPCentral.com, Electronista, LiveSide.net, The Next Web and Neowin.net
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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WinRumors
Todd Haselton / BGR:
Nexus S for AT&T landing on July 24th for $99.99, pre-orders start today — Samsung on Thursday announced that an AT&T-ready version of its Nexus S smartphone will be available from Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile Stores beginning on July 24th for $99.99 on contract.
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BetaNews, TechCrunch, Google Mobile Blog, Examiner, 9to5Google, Techland, IntoMobile, The Business Insider, This is my next, Engadget, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and Electronista
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.
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CNET News, The Toybox Blog, TechRadar.com, TechCrunch, Pulse2 and FierceMobileContent
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
More Than Two-Thirds of Google+ Activity Is Private — While following the activity of tech industry folks and celebrities on Google+ might lead you to believe that Google's new social network is a sort of long-form Twitter, where users pontificate for a public audience, Google says that's not the case.
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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.
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Pulse2, O'Reilly Radar, Gawker and MediaFile
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google And Facebook Spent Record Amounts On Lobbying In Q2 2011 — It looks like both Google and Facebook spent record amounts on lobbying in the second quarter of 2011, as evidenced by the most recent disclosure reports filed in the U.S. Senate's lobbying database.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Wowd Assets Split Up Among Three Companies, Including Facebook — Social search start-up Wowd has shut down, with Facebook “acqhiring” seven of its engineers and licensing its technology, another company outright buying its patents, and a co-founder starting a new company based on some of the same ideas.
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