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Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:
Games in Google+: fun that fits your schedule — My family has a games closet. Inside you'll find a few decks of cards, two decades' worth of board games and a Twister mat for those times when we're feeling limber. Playing games is a great way for us to spend quality time with each other …
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David Glazer / Google+ Platform Blog:
Stepping Onto the Google+ Platform
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Take that, Facebook: Google+ commission on game transactions is 5 percent, not 30 percent
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Google's Google+ Adds Games, But Wants Data in Return
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Wastes No Time Putting Games On Google+: Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Zynga On Board
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple to Hold Media Event on September 7th, 2011? — Kodawarisan offers the first specific date for Apple's fall media event. According to the Japanese site, Apple is planning on holding their usual iPod-announcing event on Wednesday, September 7th. — Apple has traditionally held …
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Steve Chuang / CENS.com:
TSMC Kicks Off A6 Processor Trial Production with Apple — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest semiconductor foundry by market shares now, has allegedly started trial production of the A6 processor in cooperation with Apple Inc., with the production design …
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David Ruddock / Android Police:
Exclusive Leak: First Android Ice Cream Sandwich Screenshots, Plus More ICS Details — No, it's not a joke, prank, or some cruel attempt to make you click things. This is for real. The first screenshots of Android Ice Cream Sandwich have been leaked to us as well as RootzWiki …
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Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox — Whenever we write a glowing story about Firefox or Mozilla, the ExtremeTech postbag has a tendency to fill up with letters and missives from concerned readers who are worried about Mozilla's close ties with Google.
Thanks:mrseb
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Acer Iconia Tab A100 — the first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet — goes on sale for $330 — It hasn't been an easy road for Acer's 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 — its US launch was delayed and it has been patiently waiting on Google's Android 3.2 to mend its software issues.
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Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Acer Iconia Tab A100 review
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Did Facebook's Redesign Just Bring Back Viral Spam? — Facebook has launched a major redesign for games, bringing back some viral components that were turned off after users complained about random alerts cluttering their news feeds. — The updates were announced Thursday evening …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Facebook strikes back at Google with its own game enhancements
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Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
‘Angry Birds’ Maker Seeks $1.2B Valuation — Rovio Entertainment Oy, the Finnish creator of the “Angry Birds” mobile-phone game, is in talks to receive funding that would value the company at about $1.2 billion, two people with knowledge of the discussions said.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web? — You may have seen the stories a week or so ago about how it was the 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee putting up the first web page. While many, many people still confuse “the web” with “the internet,” Berners-Lee's creation really did help …
Stephen Hutcheon / Sydney Morning Herald:
Aussie startup recruits Google Maps inventor — THE lightbulb moment for Rebekah Campbell came as she was confronting the awful, imminent prospect of failure. — Tickets to a gig she was promoting were not selling and the band, Evermore, was facing the ignominy of playing before a near-empty house.
Brian Norgard / Chill:
Response to Mark Zuckerberg — Yesterday, we quietly released Chill.com—a site to watch video together—not expecting much more than to test out the user experience with a couple thousand friends. — That was wrong. — Many more showed up. The entire day, we basically sat huddled around …
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Michael Martina / Reuters:
Chinese authorities find 22 more fake Apple stores — (Reuters) - Authorities in China's southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the company's store in the city sparked an international storm.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Unleashes Native Client Into Chrome, Next-Gen Web Apps To Follow? — For well over a year now, Google has been hyping up something called Native Client. It's an open source technology that allows a web browser to run compiled native code. In other words, it's a potential missing link between native apps and web apps.
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Maisie Ramsay / Wireless Week:
Unredacted AT&T Filing Shows $3.8B Price Tag — AT&T's pledge to expand its LTE network to an additional 55 million Americans if the T-Mobile USA mega-merger goes through carries a $3.8 billion price tag, according to data accidentally leaked by the company today.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Millennial: Android Grabs 53 Percent Of Ad Impressions In Q2; iOS Takes 27 Percent Share — The largest remaining independent mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its 50th report today, and to commemorate this, revealed a number of statistics comparing the growth of manufacturers and OS over the past few years.
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Ryan Roslansky / The LinkedIn Blog:
Privacy, Advertising, and Putting Members First — Over the last few days, some of you may have read stories or blog posts about some new forms of advertising, called “social ads"[1], that we are testing on our site. Since the launch, we've also been gathering feedback from our users and we hear you loud and clear.
Faith Merino / VatorNews:
Opinionaided secures $4.3M for real-time mobile Q&A — The Series A round is led by SoftBank Capital and BlueRun Ventures — Following on the heels of its $1 million seed round in March, mobile Q&A app Opinionaided has announced its $4.3 million Series A round led by SoftBank Capital and BlueRun Ventures …
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Steve Kovach / Tools:
Samsung Finally Plans To Announce The Galaxy S II On August 29 — One Week Ahead Of The iPhone 5 — We just got an invite to Samsung's Galaxy S II official U.S. launch announcement. — It's on August 29 at 6 p.m. Eastern. We'll be there live covering the whole thing.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
U.S. Judge Slaps Around Brazilian Court In Zynga v. Vostu — Ah, litigation. Nothing ever really gets done, but the lawyers get paid, and there's always drama. The Vostu v. Zynga case exemplifies all of this. And it just got weird to boot. Today a U.S. judge just told a Brazilian court …
Brad Linder / Liliputing:
Dell discontinues the 5 inch Streak tablet — Dell has stopped selling the Dell Streak 5 inch Android tablet/smartphone. The original Streak launched last year as Dell's first Android product. It blurred the lines between a tablet and a phone by pairing a reasonably large 5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display with cellular capabilities.
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