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James Brightman / IndustryGamers:
John Carmack: ‘Unquestionable’ That Mobile Will Surpass Current Consoles — id Software's John Carmack has taken a greater and greater interest in mobile gaming over the last couple years, and the rate at which the hardware iterates in the smartphone and tablet space has allowed the technology to nearly catch up with consoles.
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TechSpot, mocoNews, TG Daily, VG247, SlashGear, The Tech Report, The Register, Eurogamer, ITProPortal, MacNN, techblog.dallasnews.com, bit-tech.net and Slashdot
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here's How Spotify Plans To Invade the U.S., With Facebook's Help — Spotify should finally get to the U.S. this month. Then what? — We can get some sense by taking a look at the marketing materials the European music service is showing off to potential advertisers.
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Friending Facebook Blog, The Business Insider, The Business Insider, Evolver.fm, SlashGear and eHomeUpgrade
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Good Bet: We Can Stop Betting on Spotify's U.S. Launch Next Week
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VentureBeat, SFGate, MediaPost, TechSpot, Music Ally, MacStories, 9to5Mac, Gadgetsteria, SlashGear, Electronista, Gizmodo, Techland, hypebot, FierceMobileContent, PSFK, PC Pro, SFWeekly and TechCrunch
Nancy Gohring / Network World:
Oracle win would strain Android growth — Oracle is reportedly already asking handset makers to pay as much as $20 per Android phone — Will handset makers maintain their dedication to Android if they have to pay to license it? That's the question experts following Google's battle …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Oracle fights to keep its Java patent claims alive — Yesterday's big news concerning Oracle v. Google was this article, which cites Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg as the source for Oracle approaching Android device makers, demanding royalties between $15 and $20 per unit under an “early adopters program”.
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PC World and Between the Lines Blog, Thanks:fosspatents
Hunter Skipworth / Pocket-lint:
Google confirms Google Apps users will gain Google+ access — The recent release of Google+ has since launch seen Google Apps users screaming out for access. Now thanks to Google's president of enterprise, Dave Girouard, we know its coming.? — Girouard confirmed via Google+ that the Apps access was in the works:
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CNET News, Android Phone Fans and Android and Me, Thanks:stuartmiles
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Google+ Brand Pages Coming in Two Weeks
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WebProNews, MarketingVox News & Trends, Adam Sherk, Pulse2, Softpedia News, ClickZ, Quick Online Tips, @semilshah, 9to5Google, @eric_andersen and Adotas, Thanks:steverubel
Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:
Report: Facebook Like Button Most Used, Google +1 Button Surging — Today BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform, released a report on the adoption of social sharing plugins on websites and links to those sites. The findings show that about half of the top 10,000 websites have a link …
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VatorNews, AllTwitter, Adotas and eWeek
Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
I Flunked My Social Media Background Check. Will You? — Your next job application could require a social media background check. Odds are, you have no clue what that means. Nobody does. It's new and scary and probably scours the Web for pictures of you puking on the beach. — But screw speculation.
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MediaPost and Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:gizmodo
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams on Blogger & blogging's future — When the rumors of Google retiring the Picasa and Blogger brands hit the web last week, it sent me down memory lane. It made me think about blogging in general and how it had evolved. I wanted to write an Om Says newsletter …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Tablet shipments below lofty expectations, says IDC — Global tablet shipments in the first quarter fell 28 percent from the fourth quarter and failed to hit expectations, according to research firm IDC. — Specifically, tablet shipments were 7.2 million units worldwide.
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eWeek, Business Wire, eHomeUpgrade, The Loop and TR Dojo Blog
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Has Dropbox set the stage for a privacy revolution? — Life has been something of a rollercoaster ride for Dropbox lately. In May, the consumer cloud-storage service was hit with an FTC complaint based on allegedly misleading contractual language about data security.
Dan Redding / Smashing Magazine:
Inside Google's User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google's Marcin Wichary — Marcin Wichary's fascination with the relationship between humans and machines began at an early age. As a boy in Poland, he was mesmerized by the interaction between arcade patrons and the video games they played.
The Strategy Sesion Blog:
Living Social Selects Underwriters for Planned IPO — Living Social, the number two competitor to the group-discount website Groupon, has selected the lead underwriters for a planned initial public offering, among them JP Morgan, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank
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DealBook, Wall Street Journal, CNET News, AllThingsD, The Business Insider, @katekellycnbc and bizjournals
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With Google+ (And A Tweak For Analytics), The Social Sharing War Is Fully On — Google and Facebook are at war. This is old news. They both want to be the center of the Internet — but there can be only one center. For a while, it looked like things were quickly shifting Facebook's way after years of dominance by Google.
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MediaPost, SiliconFilter and digiday:DAILY
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Surpasses Myspace For U.S. Visitors To Become No. 2 Social Network; Twitter Not Far Behind — Professional social network Linkedin surpassed Myspace in terms of traffic to become the No. 2 most visited social networking site in the U.S. in June. LinkedIn, which has seen a resurgence …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wants to Beat HP's WebOS Sharing Feature with Something Cooler — When HP first introduced the TouchPad's “Touch to Share” feature earlier this year, fans and industry pundits alike applauded them for their innovation. Well, it appears that Apple has been working on something similar for about 18 months now.
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Mashable, Ars Technica, Tools, SlashGear, CNET News, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, ITProPortal, iClarified and MacStories
Sarah McBride / Reuters:
Google's Schmidt sees room for several social networks — Google Inc is leaving open the door to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it rolls out its own, executive chairman Eric Schmidt said.
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AllThingsD, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Wall Street Journal, The Register, NBC Bay Area, ITProPortal, Inquirer and TechEye
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Google chairman Schmidt agrees to testify at Senate antitrust hearing — Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has agreed to testify at a September hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust subpanel. — Google had earlier declined an invitation from the subcommittee's leadership …
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paidContent, CNET News, Reuters and Bloomberg, Thanks:brendansasso
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Netflix criticizes new Internet billing by bits — Netflix said Friday that moves by Internet service providers to charge users by the amount of data they use could end up costing consumers more. — In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Netflix General Counsel David Hyman …
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DSLreports, Wall Street Journal and GigaOM
Brian David Eoff / ReadWriteWeb:
How We Use the Tools We Choose: A Week of Worldwide Usage Data — Does the type of device that you use change the way that you consume and create information? Does it alter the types of content that you look at? We were curious, so we took a look at a week of Bitly click data (June 6th - 12th) to find out!
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9to5Mac, MacStories, MacRumors and iClarified
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Wow! Mobile is now 2% of global GDP — The worldwide mobile industry should bring in $1.3 trillion in 2011 and will represent about 2 percent of global gross domestic product, according to data released today by analyst Chetan Sharma. In his review of the first half of 2011 he estimates …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
The BlackBerry PlayBook is my favorite tablet — Research In Motion launched its first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, on April 19th of this year. Since that point in time — and even before, courtesy of reviews — the slender slate has been lambasted. A vocal minority belts praises …
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Engadget and PalmAddicts
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Apple Store overnight planned for July 13th, new MacBook Airs and Lion signage awaits — We've heard from a few overseas sources that Apple Retail stores are planning ‘overnights’ on July 13th. Overnights are generally where Apple refreshes store displays and trains up management on new products.
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Gizmodo, Shiny Objects, CrunchGear, Computerworld, Fortune, Tools, AppleInsider, CNET News, SlashGear, Pulse2, MacDaddyNews.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, GigaOM, Apple Bitch, BGR, Techland, TUAW, Softpedia News, ITProPortal, T3.com News, Pocket-lint, Gadgetsteria, Techie Buzz, MacNN, Digital Trends, Electricpig.co.uk, MacStories, MacRumors and iClarified
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zynga Buys Canadian Mobile App Development Firm Five Mobile; Opens Toronto Studio — Zynga has made its 15th acquisition in 13 months today, with the purchase of Canadian mobile app development firm Five Mobile. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed and the Five Mobile team will now become Zynga Toronto.
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StartupNorth, zynga.com, Inside Mobile Apps, VentureBeat, Reuters and MobileSyrup.com
