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Matt Stopera / BuzzFeed:
How To Find Out Who Has Unfriended You On The New Facebook Timeline — Culture Buzz It's official: You can use Facebook Timeline to see who has unfriended you. Prepare to be upset. — 1,533 people like this. Be the first of your friends. — If you don't already have Facebook Timeline then you should get it here.
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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook's new features, and nothing will ever be the same, and all I can do is sit here and weep at the beauty and magic that Mark Zuckerberg has brought to this world — I don't mean to overhype this, but frankly …
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Mashable!, @dannysullivan, @pkedrosky, @edzitron, @mathewi, GigaOM and The Social Media …
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches Music Dashboard That Shows What Friends Are Listening to Across Services
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earbits.com and Music Ally
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
“Read” in Facebook - It's Not a Button, So Be Careful What You Click!
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Dueling Internal Memos: Board, Followed by CEO, Spam Employees in Race to Explain — Today, Yahoo leaders — all of them in two different memos — took to the keyboards to fill their 14,000 employees in on what's up. — Reading them, Yahoos must now be more confused than ever.
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paidContent, Reuters, Business Insider, The Microsoft Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Electronista
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
LEAKED MEMO: Jerry Yang Tells Yahoos The Company Is For Sale — After Yahoo fired CEO Carol Bartz, cofounder Jerry Yang told employees that the company had not begun a sales process. — Since then, reports here and elsewhere have suggested that is a bunch of malarkey and that Yahoo's board …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Whether Google is a monopoly isn't the point — Much has been made of Google chairman Eric Schmidt's admission on Wednesday that the web giant might be a monopoly, during his testimony before a Senate hearing into Google's market dominance and its effect on consumers and the marketplace.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Launches A New Blog, Uncrunched — TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently left the company he founded over six years ago, is back in action. Or at least, he has proven that he still knows how to set up a WordPress blog.
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Michael Arrington / UNCRUNCHED:
Here I Am
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Aaron Lee / DigiTimes:
HP likely to cancel plans to spin off PC unit — Hewlett-Packard (HP) may back off from its previous announcement to spin off its PC business unit if CEO Leo Apotheker is ousted as is being reported, according to notebook makers. HP is expected to ship 37-38 million notebooks in 2011.
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ITProPortal, Neowin.net, Softpedia News and CNET News, Thanks:michaelkroker
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Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:
HP's Whitman Says She'll Keep Strategies Begun by Apotheker
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PhoneArena, Mercury News, ZDNet, DailyTech, PC Pro, @mrinaldesai and Bloomberg
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Therapists Are ‘Seeing’ Patients Online — THE event reminder on Melissa Weinblatt's iPhone buzzed: 15 minutes till her shrink appointment. — She mixed herself a mojito, added a sprig of mint, put on her sunglasses and headed outside to her friend's pool. Settling into a lounge chair, she tapped the Skype app on her phone.
Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:
Google+ Gains Nearly 10 Million Users In First 2 Days Of Being Open To The Public — A Google+ post by Paul Allen, founder of ancestry.com and a self-proclaimed “unofficial Google+ statistician, shows significant growth of Google's social network since opening to the public.
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Brad Linder / Liliputing:
Barnes & Noble to launch $349 Android tablet? — The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color is one of the best-selling Android tablets in the US, even though the company positions it as a color eBook Reader first and a tablet second. Now it looks like B&N's 7 inch, $249 tablet may be getting a pricier sibling.
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PC World, The Digital Reader, CNET News, MacNN, 9to5Google and TechCrunch
David Downs / Billboard.Biz:
Killers, Snoop Dogg, Jane's Addiction Rock Sean Parker's f8 Conference/Party — To celebrate Thursday's f8 announcement of Facebook and Spotify's partnership, Sean Parker hosted an exclusive “A Celebration of Music” that night in a San Francisco warehouse, inviting the Killers, Snoop Dogg …
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Google+ for iOS Update: Mobile Hangouts, New Notification Settings, And More — A major update to the official Google+ app for iOS has been released on the App Store, and it adds the features mentioned by Google earlier this week when the service hit official “beta” status (open to everyone) after a limited field-trial period.
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Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, TiPb, Social Media Examiner, PC World India, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN and TUAW, Thanks:viticci
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Uh-Oh: Groupon Loses New COO, Who's Going Back to Google — In a blog it just posted, Groupon said its recently hired COO, Margo Georgiadis, “has decided to return to Google (her former employer) in a new role as President, Americas.” — She was only hired in April, just months before the company filed to go public.
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Groublogpon, @fromedome, PE Hub Blog, Wall Street Journal, The Tech Trade, TechCrunch, DealBook and Business Insider
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
More: Groupon Amends Its S-1 IPO Filing — Again — Over Accounting Issues and CEO Letter
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Business Insider, Deal Journal, paidContent and DealBook
