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Twitter Blog:
Timely Tweets: Now easier to see — We all come to Twitter to connect with the latest information on the topics and people we care about. So when we decide to follow a favorite brand, business or charitable organization, we expect to be among the first to get a special announcement, access to exclusive content or a great offer.
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CNET News, SFGate, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digital Trends, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Bits, VatorNews, TechCrunch, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, Between the Lines Blog, The Next Web, Marketing Pilgrim, @sg, Search Engine Land, Social Markets, MarketingVox News & Trends, AllTwitter, @cpen, Techie Buzz, Techland and WebProNews, Thanks:hornokplease
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Pumps Up Its Ads Today With “Promoted Tweets To Followers” — Twitter's slow-moving ad business takes another step forward today: Sources tell me that the company will formally launch its new “Promoted Tweets To Followers” ad plan. — What that means to advertisers …
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Computerworld, TechCrunch, Macworld, Network World, Wall Street Journal and @mathewi
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's latest Google-compete weapon: The Gmail man — Microsoft managed to keep its 12,000 or so attendees of its annual Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference from tweeting and blogging company secrets last week. But at least one enterprising attendee managed to grab …
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GeekWire, TechFlash, The Microsoft Blog, Dave Girouard, WinBeta, The Business Insider, Marketing Pilgrim, Network World, The Next Web, WinRumors and Neowin.net
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
That Didn't Take Long: Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market — Hello Spotify. Welcome to America, where if you do anything even remotely innovative, you get sued for patent infringement. Indeed, just a couple weeks after entering the US market (finally) …
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VentureBeat, Digital Media Wire, TechCrunch, paidContent, Between the Lines Blog, Digitizor and SlashGear
NielsenWire:
In U.S. Smartphone Market, Android is Top Operating System, Apple is Top Manufacturer — According to June data from Nielsen, Google's Android operating system (OS) now claims the largest share of the U.S. consumer smartphone market with 39 percent. Apple's iOS is in second place with 28 percent …
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AppleInsider, VatorNews, VentureBeat, CNET News, InfoWorld, GigaOM, Android Police, LAPTOP Magazine, WinRumors, SlashGear, WinBeta, Gadget Lab, ITProPortal, Techie Buzz, Redmond Pie, DisplayBlog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Shiny Objects, Engadget, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, Mobile Marketing Watch, AllThingsD, eWeek, WMPoweruser, MobileBurn.com, ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet, Android Community, Between the Lines Blog, MacGazette.net, PhoneArena, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, I4U News, paidContent, iDownloadBlog, AndroidGuys, Boing Boing, IntoMobile and TUAW
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Exclusive iPad 3 contract goes to Pegatron, not Foxconn — Pegatron has been awarded the exclusive contract to build Apple's next-generation iPad tablets, Taiwan Economic News reports. According to the report, Pegatron underbid Hon Hai for the exclusive contract for the iPad 3 …
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CENS.com, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Between the Lines Blog, TUAW, iGadgetsReport and iClarified
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Logitech CEO steps down after money losing Q1, Revue price slashed to $99 — This is becoming a trend. After a disappointing Q4 saw Logitech reduce the price of its Revue it revealed today that after a net loss of $29.6 million for the first quarter it is cutting the price of the Revue to $99 …
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Logitech: More people are returning Google TV boxes than buying them
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AllThingsD, GigaOM, Search Engine Land and Geek.com
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Steve Perlman unveils DIDO white paper explaining “impossible” wireless data rates — DIDO is a new wireless technology that is supposed to be impossible, since it allows people to send and receive data over a wireless network at speeds that aren't possible with today's technology.
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Digits, Business Week, Mike Cane's xBlog and Electronista
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iPhone 5 Launching in Second Week of September? iPad 3 Later? — The China Times pinpoints the iPhone 5 release to the second week of September with an initial order of 4 million units. Suppliers are said to be currently preparing 400,000 trial run units.
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CNET News, The Business Insider, Examiner, Fast Company, Electronista, CNN, Macgasm, Daring Fireball, PadGadget, Apple Bitch, PC World, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo and Eurogamer
Manan / I'm Just Being Manan:
[Video] Microsoft's SkyDrive Starts Streaming Music On WP7 — Let's file this one under - “Holy sweet Microsoft, why don't you talk about this stuff?!” — Last month I wrote about how Microsoft could use Azure as a paid expansion to SkyDrive. The idea behind it was the consumer cloud offering …
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MobileTechWorld, Engadget, SlashGear, WMPoweruser, WinRumors, LiveSide.net, The Next Web and WinRumors
Bill Hartzer:
Facebook Sues Over Massive Cybersquatting Attack on Its Brand — Facebook, the social network, has filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California, claiming trademark infringement. The case, “Facebook, Inc. v. Cyber2Media, Inc. et al”, involves a lot of domain names, which are essentially …
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VentureBeat, Elliot's Blog, Domain Name Wire, Justia Dockets & Filings, Pulse2, The Domains and Domain Name News
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
The inside scoop on Apple's new giant Los Angeles “Apple Store 2.0″ location — Apple Upper West Side in New York - Showing the floating Apple in the glass front — Apple will open their newest Apple Store this Saturday at 10 AM in the heart of Glendale, California; a city within the Greater Los Angeles Area.
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MacNN, Thanks:jakeosmith
Timothy B. Lee / Disruptive Economics:
The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents — Last weekend I was thrilled to hear one of my favorite radio programs, This American Life, take up the issue of software patents. Computer programmers have been sounding the alarm about this problem for two decades …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono's iPad App — As we've written in the past, Drchrono, a startup thatsimplifies the professional lives of doctors by bringing electronic health records and much more to the iPad, has received official government certification.
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ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, The Next Web and GigaOM
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Exclusive: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy — Chat logs, video evidence indicate that the arrest was misdirection — Earlier today the blogosphere lit up with news that “Topiary” a key hacker from Anonymous and LulzSec was arrested.
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The Register, Naked Security, LulzSec Exposed, PC World and Digital Trends
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Offers To Re-Write Your Webpages On The Fly, Promising 25% To 60% Speed Improvements — Google has long been obsessed with speed. It's paramount in pretty much everything they do. Which is why the launch of Google+ with some — gasp — attention paid to design is even more surprising.
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Google launches ‘Hotel Finder’, a new experimental search tool — Google is today launching an experimental search tool called Hotel Finder, which is specifically designed to help users find the perfect hotel. Google's Hotel Finder helps users narrow down their search options in the following ways:
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Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, GigaOM, Inside Search, MarketingVox News & Trends, WebProNews, Pulse2, Tnooz, Lifehacker and Mashable!
Thijs van As / The Official Google Blog:
Catch the London Underground with Google Maps — Starting today, you can get public transport directions for London within Google Maps. One of Europe's largest metropolitan areas, London is a major destination for both business travelers and tourists. More than 1 billion passengers …
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9to5Google, eWeek, iClarified and Phone Scoop
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Improved Lion compatibility coming to Office, but not for a few months — Microsoft's iconic productivity suite Office for Mac will gain support for new Lion features, including auto save and fullscreen mode, in an upcoming update. But don't get excited just yet, as those features won't be available for the next few months.
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AppleInsider, The Business Insider, MacRumors, Macworld and WinRumors
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Expedia And Zillow Founder Launches Location-Based Mobile Discovery iOS App Trover — The idea of discovering items, products and locations around you is a challenge that a number of startups and companies are trying to solve, including Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and many others.
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Digits, TUAW, AppScout, GigaOM, Seattle Times, TechFlash, Tnooz, GeekWire, mocoNews and The Next Web
Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog:
Yelp Names Rob Krolik CFO — Every now and then we like to break some news here. So, live from my desk to yours, I'm proud to announce that Rob Krolik, former CFO of Move, Inc. will be joining the ranks of our management team. — As Yelp's CFO, Rob will oversee corporate finance …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill — Internet providers will be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year in case police want to review them in the future, according to legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it's an optical drive — Is it a portable DVD drive, or is it a 32GB thumb drive? As a matter of fact it's both: the Isostick, which is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, is basically a memory stick that automatically converts ISO images into physical …
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Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Motorola Mobility: 440K Xoom tablets shipped in Q2, but earnings outlook weak — Motorola Mobility topped Wall Street expectations for the second quarter, but it could still be doing better. Meanwhile, the company's earnings outlook fell short of expectations.
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Engadget, The Business Insider, mediacenter.motorola.com, 9to5Google, PC World, AllThingsD, mocoNews, CNET News, Tech Trader Daily and IntoMobile
