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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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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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Take that, Facebook: Google+ commission on game transactions is 5 percent, not 30 percent — For the launch of its Google+ social games platform, Google has found one way to differentiate itself from Facebook. For in-game transactions, Google is only going to be charging a 5 percent commission …
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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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David Ruddock / Android Police:
Exclusive Leak: First Android Ice Cream Sandwich Screenshots, Plus More ICS Details — No, it's not a joke, prank, or some cruel attempt to make you click things. This is for real. The first screenshots of Android Ice Cream Sandwich have been leaked to us as well as RootzWiki …
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Brian Norgard / Chill:
Response to Mark Zuckerberg — Yesterday, we quietly released Chill.com—a site to watch video together—not expecting much more than to test out the user experience with a couple thousand friends. — That was wrong. — Many more showed up. The entire day, we basically sat huddled around …
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TechCrunch, The Business Insider, The New York Observer and Tubefilter, Thanks:briannorgard
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Facebook strikes back at Google with its own game enhancements — Fighting back against Google's new social game platform, Facebook announced its own game announcements today. The enhancements are part of a larger set of improvements for Facebook users. — The social networking giant …
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Bruce Rogers / Facebook Developers:
Making Apps on Facebook more engaging and social
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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
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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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Ryan Roslansky / The LinkedIn Blog:
Privacy, Advertising, and Putting Members First — Over the last few days, some of you may have read stories or blog posts about some new forms of advertising, called “social ads"[1], that we are testing on our site. Since the launch, we've also been gathering feedback from our users and we hear you loud and clear.
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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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.
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
‘Angry Birds’ Maker Seeks $1.2B Valuation — Rovio Entertainment Oy, the Finnish creator of the “Angry Birds” mobile-phone game, is in talks to receive funding that would value the company at about $1.2 billion, two people with knowledge of the discussions said.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Rumor: Low-cost ‘iCloud iPhone’ to accompany iPhone 5 — Using iPhone 4 parts and less memory, Apple might bring the subsidized cost to $0.00 — There's been much speculation over the past year about the possibility of Apple (AAPL) shipping a lower-cost phone to compete in markets …
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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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Focused on Advancing iOS Metaphors to a Higher Level — On August 11, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the possible next chapters for Apple's iOS. Apple's patent application focuses on advancing iOS metaphors to a higher level.
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Michael Martina / Reuters:
Chinese authorities find 22 more fake Apple stores — (Reuters) - Authorities in China's southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the company's store in the city sparked an international storm.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
T-Mobile to Start Charging Overages on Low-End Data Plan — T-Mobile pioneered the notion of throttling data speeds rather than charging overages for those who use up their allotted data amount in a given month. Now the company has decided it needs to start assessing overage charges on its lowest-end data plan.
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Brad Molen / Engadget:
Nokia N9 gets axed in Germany, global tour looks even more meager — Like slowly waking up from a sweet dream, the Nokia N9 is gradually slipping away from our conscious mind before it's even released. We knew Stephen Elop & Co. didn't have high interest in the one (and only) …
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Electronista, DisplayBlog and PhoneArena
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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Electronista:
AT&T ready to sell $8b in networks to clear T-Mobile deal — ATT hires banks to sell 8b of assets for merger — AT&T is anticipating that it might have to sell as much as $8 billion or more of its network to get regulatory approval for its buyout of T-Mobile, sources said Thursday night.
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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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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Eye-Tracking Study Shows Users Perceive Google+ and Facebook Virtually Identically — Google+ was quite obviously designed as a competitor to Facebook, sharing much in common with the leading social network, plus a sprinkling of some innovative ideas of its own.
