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Zach Rait / Facebook Blog:
Introducing the Subscribe Button — Until now, it hasn't been easy to choose exactly what you see in your News Feed. Maybe you don't want to see every time your brother plays a game on Facebook, for example. Or maybe you'd like to see more stories from your best friends, and fewer from your coworkers.
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The Next Web, GeekWire, Digital Trends, All Facebook, The Huffington Post, Poynter, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Inside Facebook, Front Side Bus, MediaFile, InfoWorld, Lost Remote, The New Persuaders, ReadWriteWeb, Bits, @carnage4life, Jeff Jarvis, @parislemon, Pulse2, PC Magazine, Marketing Pilgrim, GigaOM, gHacks Technology News, HubSpot's Inbound …, Business Insider, Search Engine Land, Between the Lines Blog, Adotas, SiliconFilter, VatorNews, Gawker, CNET News, Gizmodo and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Along With Subscriptions, You'll Soon Be Able To Update Twitter From Facebook
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Inside Facebook, GigaOM, Poynter and BetaNews
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
At Long Last, Facebook Adds Twitter-Style Following, Calls It “Subscribe”
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Mashable!, Robert Scoble, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Inside Facebook, Techland, Lifehacker and VentureBeat
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple is Building iMessage into OS X Lion's iChat — Back in June, Apple unveiled iMessage, one of the major new features of the upcoming iOS 5 update. iMessage is a unified messaging service for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that allows users to send text and multimedia messages over Wi-Fi …
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Examiner, Computerworld, CNET News, The Next Web, Apple Bitch, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, TiPb, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Edible Apple, App Advice, Techie Buzz, Redmond Pie, MacStories, ReadWriteWeb, iLounge and everythingiCafe
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Code strings indicate iMessage might eventually integrate with iChat
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Electronista, BGR and GigaOM
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Ballmer: 500,000 Downloads of Windows 8 Since Last Night — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance at Microsoft's developer conference on Tuesday, touting the importance of the company's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system. — Ballmer noted the early enthusiasm for the product …
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The Microsoft Blog, BetaNews, SlashGear, L.A. Times Tech Blog, This is my next, CNET News, Liliputing, Front Side Bus, DailyTech and Engadget
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Metro — I don't think there's any hyperbole in Microsoft's claim that this is “Windows Reimagined”. But it's not so much that Windows 8 is Windows reimagined, but Metro that is Windows reimagined. It's truly a whole new concept in how a computer interface should look and work.
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MacStories, V3.co.uk and This is my next
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Microsoft takes Visual Studio and Windows 8 Server to the cloud
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eWeek, PC World, Ars Technica, The Register, MSDN Blogs, The Next Web, WinRumors, All about Microsoft Blog, @jurjenknarren and ReadWriteWeb
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Windows 8: The Verdict Isn't In! — My lousy photo …
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The Microsoft Blog, Computerworld, PC World, TechCrunch, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MediaPost, eWeek, Lifehacker, blog.chron.com, Windows 8 Beta, WinRumors, The Seattle Times, The Register, CNET News, Stowe Boyd, Between the Lines Blog, MSDN Blogs, gHacks Technology News and ITworld.com, Thanks:harrymccracken
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Windows 8 Developer Preview: Come and get it
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Good E-Reader, Connected Planet Online, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Mashable!
April Dembosky / Financial Times:
Facebook IPO delayed until late 2012 — Facebook is preparing to launch its blockbuster initial public offering in the US towards the end of next year, a later public debut by the social networking site than had been widely anticipated, say people familiar with the company.
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Bloomberg:
Google Buys 1K IBM Patents for Android Defense — Google Inc. (GOOG) bought 1,023 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) as the Internet search and advertising company bolsters its strategy of defending against smartphone lawsuits. — Transfers recorded by the U.S. Patent …
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AppleInsider, Front Side Bus, SEO by the Sea, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, DroidMatters.com, The Tech Trade, Droid Life and Android and Me
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo for Sale: Possible Bidders Circling — Including Marc Andreessen — as Board Pressure Mounts — A range of major players interested in acquiring all or a large piece of Yahoo have been prepping possible bids and have been in touch with the Internet giant's board over the last several days.
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Bloomberg, eWeek, CNET News, Deal Journal, GMSV, Tech Trader Daily and Hillicon Valley
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's Sprint-compatible iPad appears ready and waiting for launch — Apple and Sprint have completed work on a version of the iPad for Sprint's data network. This Sprint compatible iPad appears to be ready for public consumption and will join the family of GSM (AT&T) and Verizon capable Apple tablets before the holidays.
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Examiner, CNET News, The Toybox Blog, Neowin.net, iPhone Alley, MobileWhack.com, Digital Trends, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, Redmond Pie, dailywireless.org, I4U News, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, TiPb, PadGadget, MacRumors, BGR, Pulse2, App Advice and How To Arena
z3ntv:
TECHCRUNCH FOUNDER VS NEW EDITOR TURNS UGLY — Apparently the Techcrunch controversy involving Michael Arrington won't be limited to AOL and Arianna Huffington, now the tech blog founder has publicly admonished the new Editor of the site Erick Schonfeld. New York-based Schonfeld …
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TechCrunch and The Loop, Thanks:marsmag
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New York Times:
Groupon Back on Track for Its I.P.O. — Groupon is planning to put its initial public offering back on track even as markets remain rocky. — After postponing presentations to potential investors early this month, the online coupon giant is now aiming to go public in late October or early November …
Thanks:m_delamerced
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo In Ad Deal Vs. Google — AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft compete for ad dollars. But a new pact calls for the rivals to cooperate on ad sales, too. — The three companies are going to start selling ad inventory on each others' sites, in a plan they hope will make them more competitive with Google.
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Mixed Media, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, The Microsoft Blog, MediaPost, All Facebook, Adotas, Search Engine Journal, GMSV, Pulse2, Mashable!, The Next Web, Business Insider, ClickZ, Digital Trends, CNET News, GeekWire, Search Engine Land, paidContent and VentureBeat, more at Mediagazer »
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Is...Shaker — Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to seven finalists, which included Bitcasa …
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VentureBeat, Bits, @scobleizer, @thekenyeung, @greeterdan, Local Media Watch and BostInnovation.com
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Pavel Vodenski / Google Mobile Blog:
Your smartphone camera is now smarter with Goggles 1.6 — Today, we launched a new version of Google Goggles that enhances the camera on your Android-powered phone. With this new opt-in feature in Goggles, you can simply photograph an image using your phone's camera, and Goggles will work in the background to analyze your image.
Zach Epstein / BGR:
BlackBerry PlayBook said to be destined for ‘same graveyard as the HP TouchPad’ — As Research In Motion prepares to report its fiscal second-quarter earnings on Thursday after the market closes, the future of the company and its next-generation products again takes center stage.
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Bloomberg, BetaNews, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, I4U News and Electronista
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Amazon Kindle tablet sales projections cut in half, still likely to be No. 1 Android tablet — Even with sales estimates that creep closer to reality, Amazon's Kindle tablet is poised to become the best-selling Android tablet to date when following its launch later this fall.
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Good E-Reader and Know Your Mobile
Bradley Horowitz / The Official Google Blog:
+Snippets on Google Maps: if you can see it, you can share it — We recently launched +snippets for users and publishers, making it easy to visit a webpage and then share it on Google+. We want to make sharing across Google just as easy, so today we're bringing +snippets to Google Maps.
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Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, SlashGear, Search Engine Land and The Next Web
Aidan Crook / Bing:
Adapting Search to You — Ambiguity is a tough problem for a search engine. — You generally search with a clear intent in mind but, without context, the phrase you enter may have a very different meaning to someone else. For example, if you were to type “CSI” odds are you're interested in the TV show.
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Search Engine Land, The Next Web, WinRumors, GeekWire, Neowin.net and WebProNews
Agam Shah / PC World:
Acer, Asus to Bring Intel's Thunderbolt Speed Technology to Windows PCs — Acer and Asustek Computer next year will deliver Windows PCs with Intel's Thunderbolt interconnect, which for a time was available exclusively on Apple's Macintosh computers, Intel said on Wednesday.
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The Register, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, AppleInsider and Macworld
