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The Official Google Blog:
Coming soon: make your phone your wallet — Today in our New York City office, along with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint, we gave a demo of Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone your wallet. You'll be able to tap, pay and save using your phone and near field communication (NFC).
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Ellis Hamburger / SAI:
Google Introduces Google Wallet, Works At Over 300,000 Mastercard PayPass Merchant Locations — Google just announced its mobile payments system Google Wallet, which will also be bundled with its Groupon-killer Google Offers. — The Google Wallet website just went up.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Wallet On iPhone, WP7, RIM: “We Will Partner With Everyone” (But Will *They*?) — Today, during their Google Wallet/Offers unveiling at the NYC headquarters, Google touted the openness of their new system. Naturally, someone asked a question about what this meant for other, non-Android phone?
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Electronista, MacStories and Local Media Watch
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Gives Everyone $10 to Try New Google Wallet...but There's a Catch
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paidContent and @graywolf
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google Wallet: Handicapping why it will (and won't) work
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Visa's Blog, ZDNet and Techland
Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Microsoft board backs Ballmer over Einhorn — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's board stood behind Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer on Thursday, defending its longtime leader after influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn touched off a debate by calling for his dismissal.
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Ryan Block / gdgt:
It's time for Bill Gates to come back to Microsoft. — This has not been Steve Ballmer's week. Well, it hasn't really been his half-decade, but it's really not been his week: first, long-time industry stalwart IBM takes Microsoft's place behind Apple as the second most valuable technology company …
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Computerworld and The Register, Thanks:rockbandit
Reuters:
Hedge fund star calls for Microsoft CEO to go — (Reuters) - Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn called for Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the software company's long-time chief was stuck in the past. — Einhorn, speaking at the annual Ira Sohn …
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Dmitry Shapiro / Altly Blog:
The need for an Alternative to Facebook — For those of us that don't like to read, you can find a Summary of this post here. — Over the last few years, we have entered an important new era of digital communication. Social Networking is allowing us to communicate with each other in ways …
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All Facebook and @kevinmarks
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Ex-Myspace Exec to Launch Facebook Alternative With Funding From DFJ
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Tools, TechCrunch and Pulse2
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Amazon launches Mac Download Store — Amazon already has a mobile App Store, but the company on Thursday launched the Mac Download Store. — Competing directing with Apple's Mac Store, Amazon says its store has 250 of the biggest software and game titles available for Mac.
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, CNET News, AllThingsD, SAI, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, RazorianFly, MacStories, TiPb, The Next Web, Lifehacker and everythingiCafe, Thanks:kakanturing
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge: Eating only what he kills (and yes, we do mean literally...) — Last year Mark Zuckerberg set out to learn Chinese. Now he's determined to get in touch with his food. If the goats, lobsters and chickens of Silicon Valley aren't trembling, they should be.
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SAI and WebProNews
Zohair Hyder / Gmail Blog:
Introducing the people widget — (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog) — Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you communicate about. We think it can be helpful to view relevant information in context, which is why over the next two weeks we're rolling …
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The Next Web, TechCrunch and SiliconFilter, Thanks:steverubel
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Facebook Slams Man Who Claims Ownership — Facebook on Thursday answered the New York wood pellet salesman who claims he owns a good part of Facebook. And it doesn't mince words. — On the heels of the Winklevoss twins, who have claimed for years that they came up with the idea for Facebook …
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SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Square's name and design were changed by a lunch at Apple — According to Jack Dorsey, payment service Square was almost called ‘Squirrel’ and the card reader dongle was made of wood and shaped like an acorn. Until he had lunch at Apple. Update below. — Dorsey, Twitters co-founder …
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MacStories, Pulse2, SAI and RazorianFly
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Files Lawsuit Against Teenager Who Sold White iPhone 4 Conversion Kits, Settlement Reached? — Last November, we highlighted the story of New York City teenager Fei Lam, who had managed to sell $130,000 worth of white iPhone 4 parts in just a few months to customers eager to get their hands …
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Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Pulse2, App Advice, Patently Apple, 9 to 5 Mac, The Loop, Network World, RazorianFly, MacStories and Make
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Blacklists, ahoy! PROTECT IP Act sails on to Senate floor — The Senate Judiciary Committee this morning unanimously approved the PROTECT IP Act by a voice vote after a brief markup; the hugely controversial Internet blacklisting bill now moves to the Senate floor with minimal changes, and may—or may not—soon come to a vote.
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Techdirt, paidContent, Slyck, CNET News, PlagiarismToday, Hollywood Reporter and Company Town
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Peter Parkes / Heartbeat:
[UPDATED] Problems signing into Skype and making calls for a small number of users — A small number of you may have had problems signing in to Skype. This predominantly affects people using Skype for Windows. We have identified the problem and will issue a fix in the next few hours.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Now You Can See Twitter The Way I See Twitter — Twitter has just rolled out a nifty little feature. Now on anyone's profile, when click on the “Following” link, you'll be able to see exactly how they see Twitter. In other words, you can see the same timeline of tweets that they see when they're looking at their main feed.
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ReadWriteWeb, @twitter and The Next Web
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Samsung Galaxy S outsells the iPhone in Japan during Q1 2011 — The Japanese mobile industry is one that's filled with ridiculous devices made by handset vendors that almost never sell their creations overseas. It's why many call Japan the Galápagos Islands of mobile.
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9to5 Google
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Rumor: Apple courting Samsung to build AMOLED displays for iPad 3? — File this one under the highly improbable drawer because there's little chance Samsung will let Apple get their hands on its active-matrix organic LED technology, better known as AMOLED, which is an important differentiating …
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ASIA NEWS NETWORK, PC Magazine, OLED-Info, Edible Apple, eWeek, MacStories, SlashGear, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Computerworld, MacDailyNews, App Advice, GSMArena Blog, RazorianFly, TiPb and I4U News
Lee Hower / Fortune:
How LinkedIn first raised money (and endured rejection) — LinkedIn went public last week, with investors falling over each other to buy shares at a market cap that now exceeds $9 billion. But it wasn't always so easy for the social network to raise money.
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft To Show Tablet Software Next Week — Microsoft Windows chief Steve Sinofsky will show Microsoft's upcoming tablet software at the AllThingsDigital D:9 conference next week, according to sources who spoke to Bloomberg (no link because its on the Bloomberg terminal).
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All about Microsoft Blog, I4U News and The Business Insider
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Amazon Repeats $0.99 Deal On Lady Gaga Album, Says Servers Won't Melt This Time — Earlier this week, Amazon offered the new album from superstar Lady Gaga, ‘Born This Way’, for a mere $0.99 in an effort to get people to discover its recently launched Cloud Drive / Player service.
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PC Magazine, Electronista, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Between the Lines Blog, Ubergizmo, Gadgetell and GeekWire
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Online Shopping Startup ProjectSlice Raises $9.4 Million From Eric Schmidt, Michael Birch And Others — Stealthy startup ProjectSlice is launching to the public today and announcing a $9.4 million Series A funding round led by DCM and Lightspeed Venture Partners with Michael Birch …
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alarm:clock, ReadWriteWeb, gigaom.com, AllThingsD, Changing Way and VatorNews
Wall Street Journal:
Ballmer Details China Piracy Problems — BEIJING—Microsoft Corp.'s revenue in China this year will be about 5% of what it gets in the U.S. even though personal-computer sales in the two countries are almost equal, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in remarks that offer new details on the software giant's struggle with piracy.
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SAI and Neowin.net
Nick Hughes / So Entrepreneurial:
Bubbles and Golden Ages — I once watched an interview where angel investor Fred Wilson offhandedly noted reading a book which transformed the way he looked at markets and the web in general. I instantly went to Amazon and ordered it and spent the next week reading it front to back.
