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Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:
Google+: 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99... 100. — The Google+ project has been in field trial for just under 90 days, and in that time we've made 91 different improvements (many of which are posted here). Google+ is still in its infancy, of course, but we're more excited than ever to bring …
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Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Google draws a big blue Google+ ad on its homepage — Have you visited Google.com today? — Now that Google+ is available to everyone in the world, the company is making it crystal clear in reminding its users it's now open to the masses. Check out the shot below of the enormous arrow animation …
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Richard Dunn / Google+ Platform Blog:
Introducing the Google+ Hangouts API — In the three months since we launched face-to-face-to-face communication in Google+ Hangouts, I've been impressed by the many ways people use them. We've seen Hangouts for game shows, fantasy football drafts, guitar lessons and even hangouts for writers to break their solitary confinement.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google+ Renames Its Group Messaging App; From The Already Taken ‘Huddle’ To, Get This, ‘Messenger’
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google+ Opens To Everyone, Adds Search, Expands Hangouts
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Gling? Glam Buys Ning for $200 Million. — Glam Media, a social content platform for sites primarily targeting women, said it's buying Ning, the custom social-platform start-up co-founded by Marc Andreessen. — The purchase price wasn't disclosed, but sources close to the deal said the sale price was $200 million.
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Marc Andreessen / pmarca:
Merging Glam and Ning — Today, my company Ning, where I serve as chairman and cofounder, is announcing that it has agreed to merge into Glam Media. In this post, I'd like to briefly explain the whats and whys, and to thank a lot of people who have worked very hard to get us to this point.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Updated with real deal price: Glam Buys Ning For $150 Million, Andreessen Joins Board — After many twists and turns, DIY social network Ning has finally found a home. Glam Media is buying the network of social networks. A final price is not being disclosed.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Windows Phone manager who tweeted inside info about Nokia device is out at Microsoft — A Windows Phone principal program manager has left the company two weeks after making headlines for tweeting his impressions of an unreleased Nokia phone running the Microsoft mobile operating system.
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Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog:
Seeking a level playing field... Yelp helps consumers find great local businesses. One important way consumers find Yelp is through a search on Google. — You may have heard that a number of government officials are investigating whether Google has violated state and federal anti-trust laws.
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Mark Tonkelowitz / Facebook Blog:
Interesting News, Any Time You Visit — When you visit Facebook, you should see the things you're most interested in, like status updates from your family and closest friends. Last week, we announced improvements to Friend Lists and a new Subscribe button to help you see more of what you care about, and less of what you don't.
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David Goldman / CNN Money:
Microsoft's plan to stop Bing's $1 billion bleeding — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Bing, Microsoft's two-year old search engine, is losing nearly a $1 billion a quarter, with no sign of letting up. — Microsoft ( MSFT, Fortune 500) has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since the search service launched in June 2009 …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With Version 2.0, Instagram Focuses On Re-engineering The Camera — It was exactly one year ago today that I wrote up my initial lengthy preview of Instagram. I had a feeling that when it launched, it was going to be big. I underestimated it. — Fast forward to today.
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Instagram:
Introducing Instagram v2.0
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Dylan Love / Business Insider:
Here's What Sergey Brin Just Posted To Google+ After Not Using It For Weeks — We just called out a laundry list of senior Googlers for not using Google+. — Among them was Sergey Brin, whose last update was on August 29, sharing a picture of a blimp sailing over San Francisco.
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AppleInsider:
Apple begins slowly taking wraps off Fifth Ave glass cube — Apple on Tuesday began to remove wooden supports from the structure covering its under-construction glass cube on Fifth Avenue in New York, as work on the multi-million dollar project at the company's flagship store moves toward completion.
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Google Wallet - why you shouldn't throw away your wallet just yet — Google has announced, to some fanfare, what it hopes will be a revolution in the way we pay for things: Google Wallet. — Google Wallet is a smartphone app (currently only available for the Nexus S 4G Android phone) that aims to replace your credit cards.
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Jared Newman / PC World:
Beyond Google Wallet: A Look at the Competition
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Facebook's Big F8 Plans Get Dialed Back, Just a Bit — Facebook's soon-to-be-announced overhaul is designed to help people find and consume more media. But the social network's original plan, which was to have its users consume that media without leaving the site, has changed.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Announces f8 Speakers, Including Spotify And Turntable.fm CEOs
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Dunstan Prial / Fox Business:
Feds: Full Tilt Poker a Giant ‘Ponzi Scheme’ — Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that a popular online poker site already accused of money laundering and bank fraud operated essentially as a giant Ponzi scheme. — Full Tilt Poker and its board of directors, which includes some of the world's …
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Matt Drance / Apple Outsider:
What Netflix Could Have Said This Week — In the 14 years since we started Netflix, we've gained more than 25 million customers worldwide by providing the best DVD by mail service anywhere. Along the way, we've built an unrivaled streaming service that continues to grow every day.
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Introducing Engadget Distro! — Say hello to Engadget Distro. At its most molecular level, it's nothing more than a series of ones and zeros, cobbled together in a compiler and made to look like words and images on Apple's iPad. But in reality, it's something far greater …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Comcast's $9.99 Internet for low-income families goes nationwide — Comcast rolled out its Internet Essentials program nationwide today, offering low-income families in its service territory $10/month Internet connections and access to $150 computers. — Any family with at least one child …
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Motorola ATRIX 2 images and details revealed — BGR has just been given photos of the follow up to the original Motorola ATRIX 4G, the Motorola ATRIX 2, internally known as the Motorola Edison. The Motorola ATRIX 2 will not be an LTE device according to our source, though the phone will launch …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Amazon responds to complaints about poor working conditions in warehouses — An article from the Morning Call that was published on Saturday sparked a wave of discussion about the working conditions in Amazon warehouses. The article cited a healthy sampling, by way of anecdotal examples …
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A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
In Small Towns, Gossip Moves to the Web, and Turns Vicious — MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. — In the small towns nestled throughout the Ozarks, people like to say that everybody knows everybody's business — and if they do not, they feel free to offer an educated guess.
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Al Jazeera Chief Steps Down, WikiLeaks Cables a Culprit? — The director-general of Al Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar, has resigned after eight years leading the family of cable news channels. His resignation comes after U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks seem to indicate that Khanfar …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Food Delivery Search Engine GrubHub Raises $50M, Buys Campusfood And Allmenus — Chicago-based startup GrubHub, a service that lets you order food for delivery or take out from local restaurants online or by mobile phone, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Lightspeed Ventures …
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Study: patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars — By now, the story of patent trolls has become well-known: a small company with no products of its own threatens lawsuits against larger companies who inadvertently infringe its portfolio of broad patents.
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Wall Street Journal Social on Facebook: A First Look — The Wall Street Journal has unveiled WSJ Social Beta, a new way to consume news on Facebook. The effort from the News Corp. paper provides users full access to Journal articles within the walls of Facebook, along with the Journal's own advertising.
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