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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 — Welcome to the Google+ Platform blog! Only 6 weeks ago we launched the Google+ project to fix sharing on the Web. Since then, tens of thousands of you have expressed an overwhelming desire to build applications for Google+ — we can't wait to help you out.
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Music Ally, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, API Evangelist, Android and Me, Electricpig.co.uk and The Register
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Take that, Facebook: Google+ commission on game transactions is 5 percent, not 30 percent — For the launch of its Google+ social games platform, Google has found one way to differentiate itself from Facebook. For in-game transactions, Google is only going to be charging a 5 percent commission …
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Disruptors, Computerworld and The Business Insider
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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TechCrunch, Rovio, parislemon, Tecca and Betabeat
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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Inquirer, thinq_, Ars Technica, Electricpig.co.uk, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, VR-Zone, VentureBeat, Tech Shout!, Techie Buzz, Pulse2, Neowin.net, pocketnow.com, I4U News, Mashable!, IntoMobile, RootzWiki, This is my next, The Next Web, Digital Trends, BGR, PhoneDog.com, Know Your Cell, PhoneArena, Android and Me, GottaBeMobile, AndroidGuys, Electronista, 9to5Google, Engadget, Computerworld, SlashGear, Android Phones …, Android Phone Fans and Examiner
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 …
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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Facebook strikes back at Google with its own game enhancements — Fighting back against Google's new social game platform, Facebook announced its own game announcements today. The enhancements are part of a larger set of improvements for Facebook users. — The social networking giant …
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Facebook Blog, Mashable!, CNET News, The Business Insider, WinBeta and @miguelrios
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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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Facebook Developer Blog, Friending Facebook Blog and Softpedia News
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.
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Greater Manchester Police tweeting names, dates of birth and addresses of looters — As you may already know, names, dates of birth and addresses of convicted criminals are all public record in the UK. It's been customary for these things to be published for years.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Blaming the tools: Britain proposes a social-media ban
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Guardian, CNN, Open Rights Group, BuzzMachine, BBC, The Lede, OUT-LAW News, Daily Patricia, Disruptors, Electronic Frontier Foundation, paidContent, The Blog Herald and Electronista
Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Mixed messages from Twitter, Facebook and RIM over Cameron's riot block threat
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New York Times, TechnoLlama and memeburn
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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BBC, Fortune, Good E-Reader Blog, TiPb, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, SlashGear, MacRumors, AppleInsider and BGR
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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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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AllThingsD, Gizmodo, PC World, Engadget, ZDNet, Between the Lines Blog, ZDNet, TechCrunch, PC Magazine and SlashGear
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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Google Chrome Blog, InfoQ, SlashGear, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb and CNET News
Adam Rawnsley / Danger Room:
Chinese Army Targets iPhone, iPad With Propaganda App — The U.S. isn't the only military with designs on invading the smartphone world. China's armed forces are starting to fill the app gap with a new iPhone program from the People's Liberation Army. — China's Ministry of Defense announced Monday …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Box.net Bets On HTML5 For New Mobile Site; Launches PlayBook And Android Tablet Apps — Box.net's CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie has been open about his belief that mobile is a key pillar to the cloud storage company's future. The company already offers native apps for a number of platforms …
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Market Wire, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, CloudAve and Between the Lines Blog
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Google Tells ITC Judge: Microsoft Revealed Our Secret Source Code — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has asked a judge at the International Trade Commission to sanction Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), saying that the company revealed “highly confidential source code” to an expert witness in violation of the court's rules.
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Computerworld, CNET News, Fudzilla, The Business Insider, SlashGear, BGR, WinRumors and WinBeta
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.
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 …
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Mango landing 1 September — Microsoft will roll out its latest phone operating system, currently codenamed Mango, to Windows Phone 7 users starting on 1 September, Pocket-lint has exclusively learnt. Therefore, that will be the date that the company will start its fightback against Android and the iPhone.
Bloomberg:
Nintendo's Mario Pressured to Jump to IPhone — In “Super Mario 3DLand,” Nintendo Co. will make its iconic Italian plumber battle turtle-like Koopa Troopas on its 3-D player. The company instead should develop titles for Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone, investors say.
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Mobile Entertainment, thinq_, ITProPortal, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, SplatF, everythingiCafe, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Brad Molen / Engadget:
Nokia N9 gets axed in Germany, global tour looks even more meager — Like slowly waking up from a sweet dream, the Nokia N9 is gradually slipping away from our conscious mind before it's even released. We knew Stephen Elop & Co. didn't have high interest in the one (and only) …
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PhoneArena, SlashGear, DisplayBlog and Electronista
