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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bing, Now With Extra Facebook: See What Your Friends Like & People Search Results — At long last, Facebook's social data is coming to search in a big way. Bing is now making use of it to show new “Liked By Your Friends” matches and Facebook-powered people search results.
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Bing / Search Blog:
Bing Gets More Social with Facebook — As you read in Satya's post, today we announced a significant expansion of our partnership with Facebook, where Bing will provide much more personalized experiences to you by allowing you to bring your Facebook friends into your search experience.
Satya Nadella / Bing Community:
New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer — The technology search engines employ to retrieve that needle in the information haystack is staggering and humbling; it's one of the things that get us fired up to come to work at Bing every day. — Today we announced an exciting expansion to our long-term partnership with Facebook.
Matt Rosoff / Silicon Alley Insider:
Suddenly, Bing Has What Google Doesn't: Data From 500 Million Facebook Users — The Smart Decisions series is supported by Mercedes-Benz. — Bing will incorporate users' social data from Facebook to improve the personal relevance of your search results starting today.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Microsoft's Facebook stake: Maybe not so crazy
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ClickZ and MSDN Blogs
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
Apple holding ‘Back to the Mac’ event on October 20 — This just in: Apple will be holding a media event titled “Back to the Mac” on October 20. The invitation seems to indicate that the focus of the meeting will be on/around Mac OS X 10.7 — maybe to be called “Lion”? — and the Mac.
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Wall Street Journal:
AOL, Private-Equity Firms Explore Bid for Yahoo — AOL Inc. and several private equity firms are exploring the possibility of buying Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group LP are among the firms that have expressed interest …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With Their Own QR Code Trick, Bit.ly Eats Google's Balls — Back in April, Google added a very nifty feature to their URL shortener, goo.gl. If you simply add “.qr” to any shortened URL, you will be taken to a page with a QR code for that URL. If you scan that image with a QR code reader …
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Niall Harbison / Simply Zesty:
Bit.ly Adds Impressive Automatic QR Code Generation To Shortened Links
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VentureBeat, The Next Web, Software Testing Blog, Mashable! and AppScout
David Benoit / Wall Street Journal:
Zuckerberg's Residence at Issue in Facebook Suit — Lawyers for a man who claims he is entitled to 84% of Facebook Inc. argued Wednesday that the social-networking site's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, lives a transient life out of a duffel bag. — In a hearing in a federal courthouse in Buffalo …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Apple Patents Anti-Sexting Device — Today the US Patent and Trademark Office approved a patent Apple filed in 2008, which, get this, prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages. The patent's official title? “Text-based communication control for personal communication device” …
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Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
#100% — As of today, everyone who uses Twitter now has access to the new Twitter. Whether you're just signing up today or you've been a user for years, this new experience is finally real for everyone - all 160 million of you - and in six languages to boot.
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TechCrunch, Erictric, Neowin.net, Techie Buzz, The Next Web and Twittercism
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 sync software for Macs due this year — Even though we kind of saw this coming, it's still nice to hear. Microsoft has gone and done the (nearly) unthinkable, announcing this evening plans for a Mac compatible sync client for its soon-to-be-launched Windows Phone 7 devices.
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Cameron Meierhoefer / comScore Voices:
comScore September 2010 qSearch Reporting Enhancements — When comScore publicly releases its September qSearch reporting this week, there will be a couple of important enhancements to highlight. The first change is that September will be the first month reflecting the impact of Google Instant …
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The Microsoft Blog, Network World and comScore, Inc.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Search Share Up After Instant, Yahoo Down After Bing Transition
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Tech Trader Daily, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News and DailyFinance, Thanks:michaelkroker
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice — Instead of simply listing what it believes to be the advantages of Microsoft Office over the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Microsoft has compiled comments from 15 customers who switched to Office after evaluating OpenOffice.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Next Web and Neowin.net
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Three Colossal Multi-Touch Related Patents — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 18 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this first report, we focus on one of the most important technologies that are empowering Apple's smart device revolution: Multi-Touch.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, PhoneDog.com, Gearlog, TUAW and FierceMobileContent
Toby Padilla / TweetDeck's posterous:
Android TweetDeck 1.0: Ready for Market — It's been a crazy couple months here at TweetDeck. We announced our public beta of Android TweetDeck on August 12th and since then we've done 11 releases, crushed millions of bugs and listened to a tonne of feedback.
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Droid Life, ReadWriteWeb, RCR Wireless News, IntoMobile, AndroidGuys, Android Police, The Next Web and SiliconANGLE, Thanks:iaindodsworth
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Worldwide Q3 PC Shipments Up 7.6%; Below Gartner's Forecast — Global PC shipments increased 7.6% in the third quarter, Gartner reports, well below the research firm's previous forecast of 12.7%. — In a statement, Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said that “the major inhibitor” …
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CNET News, The Microsoft Blog, The Seattle Times, 9 to 5 Mac, The Register, PC World and AppleInsider
Michael Kan / Computerworld:
Microsoft Bing partners with Alibaba's Taobao search engine — Microsoft has found a new partner to promote it's Bing search engine technology in China by working with the country's largest online retailer Taobao.com to power web results for its new Etaosite.
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SFGate, CNET News, Mashable!, LiveSide.net, Search Engine Journal and WinBeta
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Kills “Clear Chat History” Feature, Users Go Crazy — When Facebook pushed out their chat upgrades recently, they also killed of a feature that some people found to be extremely useful: “Clear Chat History”. The feature protected users who were concerned about others looking …
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TechCrunch, TechSpot and msnbc.com
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
AT&T, Verizon May Have to Warn Mobile-Phone Users Topping Limits — Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. and smaller competitors may have to start alerting mobile-phone subscribers who are about to exceed their monthly limits and trigger higher service charges, a U.S. regulator said.
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GigaOM, Techland, Daring Fireball, Obsessable and Electronista
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
CarWoo unveils a better way to buy a car — As the influence of the Internet creeps into more and more of our lives, the car-buying process is one of the few areas that remains untouched — at least, that's what Tommy McClung, cofounder and chief executive of CarWoo, argues.
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IBD Click, PE Hub Blog, Xconomy and ReadWriteWeb
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon's Android Success Augurs Well for Its iPhone — Verizon Wireless's embrace of Google Inc.'s Android operating system did more than provide the carrier with devices to compete with the iPhone. It also gave the company experience dealing with the data hogs who can hobble a wireless network.
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VentureBeat, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, Geek.com, FierceWireless, IntoMobile, Phone Arena and Electronista
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
I Like to Dislike! Facebook Introduces Comment Voting, Threads — For those of you tirelessly campaigning for a dislike button, it looks like it's arrived, at least in some format. Facebook has upgraded its comments plugin and now allows users to up- and down-vote other comments …
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TechCrunch, Download Squad, Computerworld, All Facebook, Mashable!, Switched, VatorNews, Softpedia News and Fast Company
