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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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Gizmodo, PC World, The Apple Core Blog, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, App Advice, Digital Trends, Music Ally, Company Town, FreakGeeks, ITProPortal, NBC Bay Area, iDownloadBlog, CNET News, Edible Apple, Hillicon Valley, iLounge, Appolicious Advisor, PadGadget, Techland, Neowin.net, SlashGear, GeekTonic, iPhone Alley, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, @emilychangtv, Deadline.com, TiPb, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, TUAW, MacStories, Electricpig.co.uk, The Next Web, FT Tech Hub and SplatF, more at Mediagazer »
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Don't Hold Your Breath on That Apple Hulu Deal — If you stop by a Subaru dealer and end up kicking the tires on a new Outback, are you in early talks to consider a bid on a new Outback? — Well, sure. But if you drive off the lot and never come back, no one's going to be shocked.
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Concurrent Media, Electronista and Tech Trader Daily
Danny Sullivan / Google+:
Open Letter To Google+ On The Subject Of Brand Pages — Hey Google, I'd say I know you're all new to the social game and should be forgiven that you have messed up with how to handle brands here so badly. Except, you're not new. — For one, you know that Twitter and Facebook both support brands …
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Danny Sullivan, broadstuff, Softpedia News and @jowyang
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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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Digits, Marketing Pilgrim, CNET News, ClickZ, WebProNews, The Blog Herald, thinq_, The Business Insider, parislemon, @dannysullivan, 9to5Google and Search Engine Land
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Vic Gundotra On How Google+ Handled Brands: “It Was Probably A Mistake”
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TechCrunch, Craig Kanalley and Search Engine Land
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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AllThingsD, Network World, VentureBeat and L.A. Times Tech Blog
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Oracle gets to depose Google CEO Larry Page for two hours on willful patent infringement, value of Android — Late on Thursday by local time, magistrate judge issued an order according to which “Oracle may depose [Google co-founder and CEO] Mr. Page for a maximum of two hours, excluding breaks …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, SlashGear, CNET News, Edible Apple, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista and The Business Insider
Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:
Google execs discussed Java license before Oracle filed suit
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paidContent and Electronista
Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
Google Says It Rejected $100 Million Java Deal From Sun in Patent Trial
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FierceMobileContent and eWeek
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Google+ Games Stream confirmed — Google's help pages for Google+ have officially confirmed the upcoming Games Stream, a place where results from what will presumably be social-style gaming on the new network will be pulled together. “If you're looking for updates shared from games …
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Digital Trends, The Next Web, 9to5Google, IndustryGamers and Widgets Lab
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Soon-to-Debut Google+ Games Will Hit Facebook Where it Hurts: The Pocketbook — Google is close to launching a social game network that could make Facebook very, very nervous. — Perhaps the biggest difference between the two platforms will be cost. — According to multiple sources …
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NBC Bay Area and The Business Insider
Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Customers angry, staff defiant at China's fake Apple Store — (Reuters) - Customers at an Apple Store in the Chinese city of Kunming berated staff and demanded refunds on Friday after the shop was revealed to be an elaborate fake, sparking a media and Internet frenzy.
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The Apple Core Blog, Gizmodo, Techdirt, I4U News, TechCrunch and MacNN
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Justin Bieber Takes A Picture Of Traffic, Instagram Usage Explodes — A few minutes ago, the Instagram team noticed their servers blowing up. What happened? Were they under attack? DDoS? No. — Bieber happened. — Yes, Justin Bieber just signed up for Instagram.
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Music Ally, Techland, App Advice, Betabeat and The Business Insider
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yes, Google Chrome Built For OS X Lion Is Coming — But It Will Take Time — Like just about every other Mac user in the world, yesterday I upgraded my machines to OS X Lion. It's great. But perhaps the most annoying quirk is that Google Chrome, my browser of choice, isn't so great on it.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, OStatic blogs, TUAW, Electricpig.co.uk, MacStories, Pocket-lint and Inquirer
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Apple:
Lion Downloads Top One Million in First Day
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ReadWriteWeb, The Business Insider, Fortune, Naked Security, DailyTech, TechSpot, Network World, The Next Web, ITworld.com, Engadget, VR-Zone, Redmond Pie, BGR, The Register, Techie Buzz, GottaBeMobile, AllThingsD, Neowin.net, CNET News, The Loop, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google+ Pulls In 20 Million In 3 Weeks — When Google Inc. launched its Google+ social-networking site three weeks ago, executives handed out sailor hats to the hundreds of employees working on the project, symbolizing their year-long journey to that point. — So far, the sailing has been mostly smooth.
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PC World, PC Magazine, Venture Capital Dispatch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, DailyTech, CNET News, The Next Web, msnbc.com, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Neowin.net and Gizmodo
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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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Anybody Who Thinks Microsoft Is Going Out Of Business Is Nuts — Here's Why
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Inquirer, Computerworld and Softpedia News
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon: 2.3 million iPhone 4 activations; strong Q2; McAdam CEO — Verizon delivered strong second quarter results, named Lowell McAdam CEO, added 1.3 million postpaid customers and activated 2.3 million iPhone 4 units. — The company reported second quarter earnings of $3.6 billion …
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MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, PC World, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, PR Newswire, paidContent, AppleInsider, Engadget, TechCrunch, BGR, IntoMobile, iLounge, SlashGear, MacStories, Associated Press, Reuters, TUAW and iPhone
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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PC World, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Engadget, The Register, MacRumors, MobileBurn.com, iPhone, Pocket-lint, FierceMobileContent, CNET News, MacStories, Edible Apple, Electronista, mocoNews, TiPb, 9to5Mac and SocialTimes.com, Thanks:timo_ruohomaki
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iPad's Dominance of the Tablet Market — So this new report from the consulting firm Strategy Analytics, “Global Tablet OS Market Share: Q2 2011”, came out yesterday and made some news today:1 … Clearly, Strategy Analytics are talking about unit shipments, not sales.
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GigaOM, All about Microsoft Blog, SlashGear, I4U News, Examiner, ITProPortal, SplatF, parislemon and DailyTech
Desire Athow / ITProPortal:
iPhone 5 To Use Bluetooth 4.0 Rather Than NFC? — Two months after Apple joined the board of the Bluetooth special interest group, the company launched the first truly mainstream Bluetooth 4.0 devices in the world yesterday, namely the new Macbook Air & Mac Mini 2011 edition.
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Network World, Digital Trends, TG Daily, Geek.com, SlashGear and everythingiCafe
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, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, TUAW, The Apple Core Blog, Pocket-lint, iFixit Blog, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacNN, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider
Electronista:
Acer insists return to profit in Q3, plans MacBook Air rival — Acer vows bounce back in summer — Acer chairman JT Wang at a presentation Thursday argued his belief that the company would return to profit in 2011. After posting two successive losses in the first half due …
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eWeek, Inquirer, DigiTimes, Liliputing, Softpedia News and The Tech Report
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Places Stops Stealing Reviews — Google Places looks different. It is cleaner, and there is a much bigger emphasis on user reviews and photos. And not just any reviews from all over the Web, but reviews written by Google users themselves. This should be a welcome change …
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Dell quietly pulls the Streak to perform an update, might bring it back next month? — What Dell can give, it can taketh away. That's the story with the Streak, which has quietly vanished from retail as well as the outfit's online storefront. We first got wind of this when a tipster wrote …
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9to5Google, Android Phone Fans and PhoneArena
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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Fortune, Digits, GMSV, AllThingsD, New York Magazine and @tylerwinklevoss
John Cook / GeekWire:
Zillow IPO sparks bubble worries, but here's what the pundits are missing — Zillow started out its second day as a publicly-traded company with continued momentum as shares gained another four percent to $37. The company is now valued at $651 million — which means investors now value …
Thanks:toddbishop
