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7:15 PM ET, August 19, 2010

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Intel Buys Cyber Security Giant McAfee For $7.68 Billion In Cash — Intel has just bought McAfee according to a release issued this morning. The deal is worth $7.68 billion, or $48 per share. See the release below. — According the statement issued by Intel, McAfee will continue operate …

Andrew Jaquith / Forrester Blogs:
Intel-McAfee: Horseless Carriage Vendor Buys Buggy-Whips

Discussion: Technology Review, Securosis Blog, Network World, DealBook and TechSpot

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Intel's McAfee Buyout Inspires Head Scratching

Discussion: McAfee Security Insights Blog, PC World and Buleyean String

George Kurtz / McAfee Security Insights Blog:
Performance, Connectivity and Protection

Discussion: CNET News, Software & Services …, VentureBeat, PC World, CircleID, PC Magazine, Securosis Blog, SC Magazine US, V3.co.uk, The Firewall and We Got Served

Vic Gundotra / Google Mobile Blog:

To 100 million and beyond with Google Maps for mobile — Almost five years ago, we launched Google Maps for mobile to help you get where you needed to go from your phone instead of a paper map. Today, more than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps for mobile to get from point A to point B …

Discussion: Screenwerk, 901am and Erictric

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Trys To Steal Facebook's Thunder, Plays Up Impressive Maps Userbase — Attention those who still remember their parents' stacks of old Thomas Guides, Google Maps for Mobile has hit a userbase milestone. More than 100 million people a month use the service across various mobile devices …

Discussion: CNN, Macworld and Google LatLong, more at Mediagazer »

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Foursquare CEO Fights Back! …

Discussion: internetnews.com, BoomTown, All Facebook and NewsGrange

Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
One Big Reason Why Facebook Places Beats Foursquare: Clarity of Identity

Discussion: Ray Valdes, PC Magazine and Silicon Alley Insider

Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Facebook Places now available to 100% of US users

Discussion: Computerworld

Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Facebook Places takes aim at Google

Discussion: Inside Facebook, Macworld and Search Engine Land

Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
The Paranoid Can Relax, Facebook Dials Up Privacy With Places

Discussion: Digits, CNN, CNET News, The Social, GigaOM, Mashable!, ACLUNC dotRights, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Electricpig.co.uk

Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Bing, Google get split decision in Facebook Places mapping feature

Discussion: LiveSide.net

Michael Eyal Sharon / Facebook Blog:
Who, What, When, and Now...Where

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
New Facebook Places Logo Is A “4.” In A Square. Yeah.

Discussion: Booyah!, IntoMobile, The Raw Feed, Computerworld and Telegraph

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Time Inc. breaks the iPad logjam — This week's People app is free to subscribers. Time, SI and Fortune are expected to follow — Image: Time Inc. — There's more to the iPad issue of People that appeared on the Apple (AAPL) App Store this morning than Sandra Bullock's new joy.

Discussion: AppleInsider, PadGadget, MarketingVOX, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, iLounge and Silicon Alley Insider, more at Mediagazer »

Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com:

Revealed: Android Honeycomb next up from Google — Will it be Android 3.1 or Android 3.2? — Tell us what you think [ 1 comments ] — Google is set to call the next iteration of its mobile OS Android Honeycomb, following on from the tablet-friendly Gingerbread platform.

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

Google Founders Sergey Brin And Larry Page Get Feature Film Treatment — EXCLUSIVE: The founders of Facebook aren't the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London's Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Fortune and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

RIM Said to Adopt BMW, Crusher Tank Software for Planned Tablet Computer — Research In Motion Ltd. is turning to technology used in BMW audio systems and the Army's Crusher tank as it tries to distinguish its new tablet computer from Apple Inc.'s iPad, said three people familiar with the plans.

Discussion: Engadget, Electronista, Pulse2, PhoneDog.com, Geek.com, IntoMobile, Digital Trends, Techie Buzz, CrunchGear, netbooknews.com, Gizmodo, BB Geeks, PadGadget, SlashGear, Unwired View, Liliputing, I4U News, Ars Technica, Inquirer and PocketBerry

Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:

Apple testing iOS 4.1 alongside next-gen iPod touch, iPad and ‘unknown’ product — Apple is internally testing the first material update to its iOS 4.0 mobile operating system against a handful of new devices, including next-generation iPod touches, an iPad revision, and an “unknown” product, AppleInsider has discovered.

Discussion: MacRumors Page 2, everythingiCafe, I4U News, iLounge and Gizmodo Australia, Thanks:usamabenn

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

Apple Shutting Down Quattro Wireless Network On Sept. 30 To Focus Exclusively On iAd — Apple will shut down the Quattro Wireless ad network it acquired last year for $275 million, and will focus its efforts solely on the iAd mobile advertising product that Quattro's team has led at Apple.

Discussion: AppleInsider, VentureBeat, CNET News, Macsimum News, SiliconANGLE, paidContent and Digital Daily

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Google Launches Chrome's ‘App Store For The Web’ In Developer Preview — Earlier this week we covered new details about the Chrome Web Store, an ‘App Store for the web’ that Google first announced at its I/O conference in May. Now Google is giving developers their first taste of what they can expect …

Discussion: CNET News, InformationWeek, Chromium Blog, Erictric, GeekSmack and The Next Web

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Begins Charging Devs $5 To List Chrome Extensions, Themes, And Apps

Discussion: Chromium Blog and NewsGrange

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

Groupon Having A $4 Million Day Thanks To The Gap — Groupon is having a smashing day, likely generating over $4 million in net revenue, thanks to a deal with the Gap. — Today's Groupon gives users a $25 discount at the Gap if consumers spend over $50 at the store.

Discussion: TechCrunch and Blog.games.com

Joe Rauch / Reuters:

BofA to test retail payments with cell phones — North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp plans to begin a test program next month that lets customers use smartphones to pay for purchases in stores. — The program, set to run from September through the end of the year in the New York area …

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:

Why Are There So Many Porn Ads on Britney Spears' Facebook Page? — Britney Spears' official Facebook page, which has over four million fans, is rife with links to escort services. — Apologies for the link-bait, but it's true: Britney Spears' Facebook page is overrun by erotic pictures …

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Rogue Apple Exec Trashes Rivals' ‘Mediocre Engineers’ — It's amazing that Phillip Shoemaker still works at Apple. The app store director obsessed with porn and escorts, as we reported yesterday, has also used Twitter to attack execs at rival companies and media critics, we've learned.

Discussion: PC World and Wired News

Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:

Music industry questions Google on piracy — The music industry wants assurances from Google and Verizon that their proposed regulatory framework for the Internet would include protections against piracy and child pornography. — Several groups representing the music industry including …

Discussion: Techdirt

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