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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
New Mac Pros and MacBook Airs to launch this week with OS X Lion — We have been expecting new MacBook Airs this week and now it appears that the ultra-thin notebooks won't be the only new Macs this week. According to our source Mr. X, part numbers for an upgraded Mac Pro line have appeared …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
ROAR! Apple Puts Out The Call For Devs To Submit OS X Lion Apps
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MacRumors, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider and I4U News
Paul Allen / Google+:
Google+ To Pass 10,000,000 Users Tomorrow (on 7/12) — As I promised on Saturday night, I have finished updating my Google+ membership model with new data and re-estimated the Google+ user base. — My surname-based analysis shows that the number of Google+ users worldwide reached 7.3 million yesterday …
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CNET News, The Next Web, The Business Insider and Neowin.net, Thanks:bobcaswell
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Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Google: Changes coming to Google+ this week — Top Google exec acknowledges hearing “lots of criticisms” about Google +, and that the firm plans to respond quickly — Computerworld - It looks like Google will be making some changes to Google+ this week. — In a post on Google+ …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gmail+: Google Already At Work On “Several” Gmail/Google+ Integrations
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Mark Striebeck, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Bill Gross, Examiner, Search Engine Land and Jon Burg's Future Visions, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Joab Jackson / PC World:
Ballmer: Windows Phone 7 Not Successful Yet — While Microsoft has enjoyed many successes over the past year, Windows Phone 7 hasn't been among them, admitted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during the opening keynote Monday at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, being held this week in Los Angeles.
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Fast Company, TechEye, TechFlash, Computerworld UK's News, nanapho.jp, WMPU, GeekWire, eWeek and ITworld.com
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Ballmer mocks Mac sales while touting Microsoft's products
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Gizmodo, The Business Insider, SlashGear, WinRumors and WinRumors
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft: Windows 7 hits 400 million licenses sold
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The Register, Inquirer, WinRumors, The Windows Blog, Microsoft, The Next Web, It's All Tech, Redmond Pie, CNET News, BetaNews, MSDN Blogs, Electronista, Neowin.net and Engadget
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Foursquare Partners Up — Start-up Foursquare Labs Inc. has a large user base and a $600 million valuation, but unlike social-media stars Zynga Inc. and LinkedIn Corp., it has a big hole on the revenue line. — Now, the service, which lets users announce their location to friends by …
Zachary Tracer / Bloomberg:
Cisco Said to Be Cutting as Many as 10,000 Jobs — Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the largest networking-equipment company, may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit growth, according to two people familiar with the plans.
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Disruptors, Neowin.net, Light Reading, Fudzilla, CNET News, @nuveendhingra and The Business Insider
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The iPad Was Built For Something Like StumbleUpon, Now They Have A Worthy App — Since its inception, StumbleUpon has always been one of the most perfect lean-back apps. Long before anyone even used that term, the StumbleUpon toolbar took various pages on the web and allowed …
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Gizmodo, SocialTimes.com, Pocket-lint, Mashable! and The Next Web
Michael Arrington / @arrington:
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Google's Photovine Site Is Live — It Looks Like A Photo-Sharing Service — Last month, Google got the trademark on the word Photovine and registered the domain through MarkMonitor. — A tipster just pointed us to the site and it looks like there's something there now …
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The Next Web, Fusible.com, 9to5Google, Gizmodo and Softpedia News
Reuters:
Exclusive: Key Apple patent lawyer to leave, source says — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's chief patent counsel will soon leave the company, according to a source familiar with the situation. — Richard “Chip” Lutton Junior. manages the iPad and iPod maker's patent portfolio.
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PhoneArena, Fudzilla and The Next Web
Tom Anderson / TechCrunch:
How To Build An Audience On The Internet: The Kevin Rose School Vs. The Fred Wilson School — Editor's note: This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+
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Marco.org, Marshall Kirkpatrick …, Bill Gross, rc3.org, @davewiner, Technology Review, @gaberivera, @centernetworks and A VC, Thanks:brotheryellow
Twitter Blog:
One Million Registered Twitter Apps — Application developers play a fundamental role in helping people get the best out of Twitter. As an ecosystem, we've just crossed one million registered applications, built by more than 750,000 developers around the world. This is up from 150,000 apps just a year ago.
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Twitter Developer Blog, ProgrammableWeb, Softpedia News, AllTwitter, ReadWriteWeb, ITProPortal, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Frederic Lardinois, The Next Web, FierceDeveloper, It's All Tech, CNET News, FT Tech Hub, Digits, PC Magazine, Between the Lines Blog, BetaNews, SFGate, Computerworld and GigaOM
Brenna Ehrlich / Mashable!:
Spotify Plans To Launch as Invite-Only in the U.S. [REPORT] — Word on the digital street is that much-lauded European music subscription service Spotify will land on U.S. shores this week. — Our sources in the music industry told us Spotify won't open the floodgates all at once …
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Know Your Cell, Examiner, SlashGear, The Business Insider and VentureBeat
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Kleiner-Backed Katango Organizes Your Facebook Friends Into Groups For You — Perhaps there's something to these friend circle/list/groups after all. — As you've doubtless heard by now, Google recently launched a social network that revolves around one core idea: people want to share different things …
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Bits, Inside Facebook, SiliconFilter, CNET News, Mac Post, Digits, Mashable!, AllThingsD, louisgray.com and Katango Blog
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
How Banks Plan To Compete With Groupon — So much valuable data here! — Credit card companies are sitting on a wealth of information about their clients — they have a running record of everything they buy. Due to strict rules entitling consumers to financial privacy, though, banks are limited in the secondary use of that data.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Florida Judge Tosses a Key MPAA Claim Against Hotfile (Exclusive) … Some higher-ups in the movie industry have identified file-storage “cyberlockers” as being Hollywood's biggest threat in the war against piracy. In February, the MPAA took action with a major lawsuit against Hotfile, one of the most popular websites on the Internet.
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Ars Technica, Techdirt and TorrentFreak
Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack — Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they've got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked.
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@boozallen, TechEye, Inquirer, Slashdot, Epoch Times, Aljazeera, eWeek, CNET News, The Firewall, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, Digital Trends, PC World, Examiner, Washington Post, techPresident, CNET News and @anonymousirc
New York Times:
Amazon Backs End to Online Sales Tax in California — SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon said Monday that it would back a California ballot initiative that would roll back a new state law that forces more online retailers to collect sales tax. — Amazon's decision to support the proposed referendum pits …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal and @pkedrosky
Pratip Banerji / The Official Google Blog:
The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader: iriver Story HD — Starting this coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Local.com Acquires Screamin' Daily Deals For Up To $32.5 Million — Online local media company Local.com this morning announced that it has acquired Screamin' Media Group, the company behind daily deals site Screamin' Daily Deals. — Local.com paid $12.5 million in cash, stock and debt …
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Business Wire, VentureBeat, Digits and Local Onliner, Thanks:sparabu
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History — Satellite image of the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in Iran taken in 2002 when it was still under construction. The image shows two cascade halls, in the upper right corner, as they were being built deep underground.
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Guardian, @mtoecker and @mygeektime, Thanks:rsingel
