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Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Consider Making an Offer for Hulu Online Television Service — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is considering making a bid for the Hulu online video service, according to two people with knowledge of the auction. — Apple is in early talks that may lead to an acquisition offer for Los Angeles-based Hulu …
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@emilychangtv, 9to5Mac, CNET News, SplatF, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, The Business Insider, MacRumors, Reuters, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, MacStories, The Next Web and Webomatica
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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TechCrunch, SplatF, Between the Lines Blog, The Business Insider, eWeek, The Seattle Times, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, TechFlash, The Register, BGR, CNET News, Gizmodo, Reuters, TechSpot, Engadget, WPCentral.com, Tech Trader Daily, Daring Fireball, Network World, Electronista, Techie Buzz, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Liliputing, SlashGear, Neowin.net and WinBeta
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft smashes Q4 2011 earnings estimates thanks to Xbox
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Matt Richman
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.
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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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VentureBeat, Computerworld, TUAW, MacStories, Webomatica, The Register, Between the Lines Blog, This is my next, Inquirer, SlashGear, Geek.com and MacRumors
iFixit:
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2011 Teardown — July 21 brought us a bountiful harvest of Apple produce! Today, Apple released updates to the 11" and 13" MacBook Airs, as well as an updated Mac mini. Although today is an exciting day for consumers, it is a sad day for consumer repair.
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AppleInsider, Engadget, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, iFixit Blog, SlashGear, MacRumors, TUAW, 9to5Mac, MacNN, FreakGeeks and MacStories
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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
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Lodsys sues Rovio over Angry Birds for iPhone and Android — Today Lodsys has amended its complaint against mobile app developers and modified the list of defendants, leaving out one of the seven developers sued on May 31 (Vietnamese company Wulven Games) but adding five famous games companies:
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CNET News, mocoNews, 9to5Mac, MacStories, Edible Apple, Electronista and TiPb, Thanks:timo_ruohomaki
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, WebProNews, 9to5Google, VatorNews, SocialTimes.com and All Facebook
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Fridge Acquired by Google to Build Groups in Google+
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PC World, SlashGear, MediaPost, Fridge blog, BetaNews, Search Engine Watch, Softpedia News, Marshall Kirkpatrick …, Mashable!, Androinica, TechCrunch and CNET News
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Judge criticizes Google and Oracle at hearing — (Reuters) - Both Oracle Corp and Google Inc have taken unreasonable positions on the scale of damages involved in a high stakes patent battle over the Android operating system, a U.S. judge said in court. — “You're both asking for the moon …
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Mercury News, Between the Lines Blog, mocoNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat and FOSS Patents
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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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The Next Web, Computerworld, Hillicon Valley, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, BetaNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, NPR, Fox News, SC Magazine US, SiliconANGLE, Techie Buzz, TG Daily, The Register, SlashGear, ZDNet, PC World, Redmond Pie, ZeroPaid.com, The Loop, Mashable! and msnbc.com
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Christian Oestlien / Google+:
Here is a quick update on Google+ and businesses: — A few weeks ago we mentioned we would be doing a test of business profiles and asked people interested to apply. Believe it or not we actually had tens of thousands of businesses, charities, and other organizations apply to take part from all over the world.
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Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan, The Business Insider, parislemon and @dannysullivan
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Anger Mounts As Google+ Plays Favorites With Brands
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Search Engine Land and KCET, more at Mediagazer »
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Winklevosses lash out at Larry Summers over remarks — The Winklevosses are taking their grievances over a public tongue lashing from Larry Summers to Harvard University President Drew Faust. — In a letter to Faust that lashes back at Summers, the Winklevosses and their partner …
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Digits, TechCrunch and @tylerwinklevoss
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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A VC, Betabeat, Digits, The Business Insider, AllThingsD, PE Hub Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Adotas and CNET News
Loretta Chao / China Real Time Report:
Fake Apple Store Clerk Speaks Out — Suddenly, one of the most famous Apple stores in the world is one that not only isn't a real Apple Store, but apparently isn't even an authorized Apple reseller. As noted earlier on China Real Time, the fake Apple Store, located in the southwestern Chinese city …
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Gizmodo, MacNN, MediaFile, MacRumors, Reuters, TechFlash, The Register, PC World, PC Magazine, Geek.com, Pocket-lint, Laughing Squid and The Next Web
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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Technologizer, Thanks:bobcaswell
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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Fast Company, Good Press Release, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, mocoNews, Electronista, Tech Sanity Check Blog, TUAW and GigaOM
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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ReadWriteWeb, Wolfram Blog, PC Pro, O'Reilly Radar and The Next Web
Chris Kanaracus / PC World:
Oracle Buys Ksplice for Linux ‘zero Downtime’ Tech — Oracle has purchased Ksplice, maker of technology that allows Linux administrators to apply important security updates without having to reboot the system, Oracle announced Thursday. Terms were not disclosed.
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eWeek, Oracle and internetnews.com
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.
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 Microsoft Blog, Technologizer, Search Engine Land, PC World, Within Windows and The Business Insider
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
New York Times Ad Dollars Still Shrinking, but Digital Subscriptions Might Be Working — The New York Times says print advertising is dropping while digital ads are increasing. Nothing new there. What is news: The paper says its Web pay wall strategy appears to be working …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring multilayer displays for three-dimensional computing — Apple has shown interest in creating a new type of display with multiple transparent layers, offering the ability to display a three-dimensional image without the need for glasses. — The details come from a new patent …
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CNET News, freepatentsonline.com, Electronista and TG Daily
