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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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@swiftstories, PC Magazine, GigaOM, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Toybox Blog, Bits, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Inside Social Games, Search Engine Land, SiliconFilter, 9to5Google, The Business Insider, VentureBeat, Engadget, iGadgetsReport, Redmond Pie, Epicenter, Android Phones …, Kotaku, Digital Trends, I4U News, LaptopMemo, WebProNews, Social Markets, Liliputing, The Next Web, @rosssclafani, Mashable! and Electronista
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Wastes No Time Putting Games On Google+: Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Zynga On Board — For all the hype it has gotten and all the users it has gained, it's easy to forget that Google+ has only been out for a month and a half. But they're moving fast to ensure they don't flop again in the social space.
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PE Hub Blog and Tecca
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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BetaNews, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, @benioff, Android and Me, SlashGear and Joystiq
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook And Google Duke It Out Over Gaming (Same Day Announcements, Zynga?) — Sometimes the platform wars can get so dramatic. A couple of minutes before we were tipped off on Google+ Games, we were also tipped off on a Facebook Gaming announcement and developer-only event happening later this evening.
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The Business Insider and AllThingsD
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Take that, Facebook: Google+ commission on game transactions is 5 percent, not 30 percent
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The Business Insider
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 — It seems totalitarian states like Egypt and Libya aren't the only ones struggling with the impact of social media and the desire to muzzle services like Twitter and Facebook. In the wake of the riots in London …
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Guardian, BBC, FT Tech Hub, msnbc.com, Daring Fireball, @chrissaad and GeekSugar
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
UK Govt. to meet Facebook, Twitter and RIM about their responsibility to not fuel riots
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Open Rights Group, PC World, BuzzMachine, @anonymousirc, Disruptors, Reuters, The Lede, BBC, TechCrunch Europe, paidContent, Telegraph, Digital Media Wire, BBC, ZDNet, Number 10, All Facebook, msnbc.com, Guardian, AllThingsD, Mashable!, Electronista, Between the Lines Blog, TG Daily, V3.co.uk, Epeus' epigone, FT Tech Hub, Pulse2 and Reportr.net, Thanks:zee
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
David Cameron considers banning suspected rioters from social media
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Techdirt, Digital Trends, @kevinmarks, Techland, techPresident, Global Voices and Pocket-lint
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.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, WinRumors, LiveSide.net, WinBeta, GottaBeMobile, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, Shoutpedia, Electronista, IntoMobile, SlashGear, The Next Web and Neowin.net
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Reveals Big Plans to Integrate Projectors into iOS Devices + — On August 11, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a grand patent application from Apple that reveals their plans of integrating mini or pico-like projectors into future iOS devices while introducing a likely projector accessory for MacBooks.
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Computerworld, AppleInsider, Engadget, Gizmodo, Technologizer, CNET News, VentureBeat, I4U News, iDownloadBlog.com, Gadget Lab, TUAW, MacRumors, App Advice, Unwired View, 9to5Mac, iPhone, iGadgetsReport, Apple Bitch, PadGadget and SlashGear
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
The patent system isn't broken — we are — There is a fundamental problem with patents in the United States. — It is us. — By that I mean all of us: the companies and people who directly interact with the patent system, the media that reports on those interactions …
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The Business Insider and ignorethecode.net
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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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SplatF, PC World, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TUAW, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, everythingiCafe, PadGadget, Cult of Mac, Computerworld, iGadgetsReport, T3.com News, GeekWire, iPhone, IntoMobile, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com, Tools, Touch Arcade, TiPb, iThinkDifferent, GamePolitics blogs, Electronista and The Loop
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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The Business Insider, Computerworld, Digital Trends, CNET News, WinRumors, WinBeta and Electronista
Paul Ducklin / Naked Security:
LinkedIn ‘does a Facebook’ - your name and photo used in ads by default — I'm not a LinkedIn user - at least not yet, though I suspect that like many of my friends and colleagues I may eventually feel compelled to “be there or be square”. As a non-user I haven't been tracking changes …
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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
Even Mark Zuckerberg Gets Annoyed With Spammy Facebook Apps, Does Not Think Dave Morin is ‘Chill’ — Downside of having a technology company once completely beloved but now that everyone's more than ready to delete their account from? Watching it grow large enough to actually find yourself …
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Friending Facebook Blog, Tubefilter, The Business Insider, WebProNews and The Next Web
Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
Heello is Twitter for Pretending — It's easy to write off Heello as a Twitter clone. Created by the founder of Twitpic, the shameless knockoff looks and behaves like a stripped-down version of Twitter, down to the [tweets] pings, [followers] listeners, and [retweets] echos.
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Gizmodo, CNNMoney.com, The Next Web, @jkottke and VentureBeat
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zynga's New S-1: Zynga's Internal Valuation In March 2011 Was $11.5 Billion — Zynga just filed another version of its S-1 for the company's $1 billion public offering and here's what's new. First, Zynga says in the filing that in March of this year, the company had an internal valuation at around $11.5 billion.
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CNET News, AllThingsD, Digits, VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, Fortune, Social Markets, Deal Journal and @danprimack
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Digitally Fatigued, Networkers Try New Sites, but Strategize to Avoid Burnout — WHEN Jessica H. Lawrence left her job with the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council in Redlands, Calif., to pursue a new life in New York City, she arrived in late January without a job, an apartment or someone to keep her warm through the winter nights.
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Betabeat, Marketing Media and Gawker
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook: We Aren't Stealing Your Phone Numbers And Posting Them So Everyone Can See — Facebook has responded to a privacy scare meme likely deriving from a recent HackerNews thread called “Facebook has your complete phonebook” both with an official post on Facebook's Wall and a personal message …
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Mashable!, All Facebook, Runnin' Scared, Help Net Security, Naked Security, Facebook, Gadgetwise, PC Magazine, Gawker, Betabeat and Digits
Economist:
Slicing an Apple — How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung? — APPLE doesn't make the iPhone itself. It neither manufactures the components nor assembles them into a finished product. The components come from a variety of suppliers and the assembly is done by Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm, at its plant in Shenzhen, China.
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PC World, Gizmodo and MacDailyNews
Staska / Unwired View:
Motorola's Sanjay Jha openly admits they plan to collect IP royalties from other Android makers — As you have probably heard, a major patent war is raging in mobile industry, and competitors are ganging up on Android, exploiting Google's weakness in intellectual property assets.
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mocoNews, TechCrunch, Engadget, SlashGear and 9to5Google, Thanks:uvstaska
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Silicon Valley's Undertaker: 'We're Anticipating a Major Fallout' — As longtime readers know, we occasionally like to check in with Sherwood Partners in Palo Alto, long known to industry insiders as “the undertaker” because its primary role is to efficiently shutter companies.
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Epicenter and Venture Capital Dispatch
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
IBM executive says PC era is in its twilight — On the eve of the IBM PC's 30th anniversary, Mark Dean says the PC era is on its last legs. As one of the IBM engineers who helped create the original PC, he is certainly qualified to make this claim.
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The Loop, Technologizer, Inquirer, CNET News, GMSV, A Smarter Planet Blog, USA Today, blog.chron.com and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
University of Wisconsin hacked: 75,000 social security numbers, student names exposed — The University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee campus has been subject to a malware attack, which has exposed names and social security numbers of students — past and present — and staff alike.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google Chromebooks molt, grow fresh browser — Two month olds get new lease on life — Google has released a new version of Chrome OS - the browser-based operating system that first arrived less than two months ago - offering VPN hooks, 802.1x secure Wi-Fi , and what the company claims is a 32 per cent faster resume time.
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Google Chrome Blog, BetaNews, 9to5Google, ReadWriteWeb, Liliputing and SiliconFilter
