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June 23, 2012, 12:05 AM

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Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:
First hints of a Facebook ad network: Sponsored Stories appear on Zynga.com  —  Zynga's off-Facebook games platform Zynga.com now displays Facebook ads and Sponsored Stories, as part of what could be the beginnings of a Facebook ad network across the web.  —  According to the Facebook Help Center …
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook's Zynga Alliance Demonstrates Its Threat to Google  —  Facebook knows who you are.  Google knows what you're looking for.  Which piece of information is more valuable?  The future of online advertising - and the ad-driven, free sites we use every day - hinges on the answer.
More: CNET and TechCrunch
Thor Mitchell / Google Geo Developers Blog:
Lower pricing and simplified limits with the Google Maps API  —  Since launching the Google Maps API seven years ago, we've been awed by the many ways developers have used the service to build great mapping apps.  As you may know, last year we introduced limits on the number of free maps …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Facebook's Instagram bid to be probed by OFT  —  Office of Fair Trading concerned social network might prevent picture uploads to other sites from the app  —  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate Facebook's $1bn bid for Instagram, because it is concerned the giant social network …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
RIAA's New War: Shutting Down The Equivalent Of Internet VCRs  —  The entertainment industry just won't quit trying to kill perfectly legal technologies with substantial non-infringing uses.  Back during the big legal fight over Grokster, the RIAA insisted that it had absolutely no interest …
More: CNET and TechEye
Paul Sandle / Reuters:
Acer slates Microsoft's hardware push  —  (Reuters) - Acer, the world's fourth largest PC maker, has dismissed Microsoft's chances of becoming a rival to Apple by building its own devices and urged its software partner to focus on its new operating system instead.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Comcast Wins Protest Against “Shake Down” of BitTorrent Pirates  —  The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide  —  Comcast Wins Protest Against “Shake Down” of BitTorrent Pirates  —  A big win for Comcast and its subscribers in a federal court in Illinois.
Wall Street Journal:
What's Ailing Google Chief?  —  Google Inc. GOOG +1.11% says Chief Executive Larry Page has “lost his voice,” but it won't say much more about the matter.  Some corporate governance experts think the Internet company should speak up.  The billionaire co-founder missed Google's annual meeting Thursday …
Mary Branscombe / TechRadar.com:
Hands on: Microsoft Surface tablet review  —  An in-depth look at the new player in the tablet race  —  1.Overview and design  —  Update: We've spent some time updating our experience with the Microsoft Surface tablet's interface - including detailing that elusive portrait mode.
Sean Buckley / Engadget:
Nintendo announces $199 3DS XL with 4.88-inch top screen, available August 19th  —  Folks holding their breath for a “3DS Lite” might want to exhale — Nintendo has decided to go a different route.  Company head honcho Satoru Iwata revealed the 3DS LL these evening on Nintendo Direct …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Revenues Could Pass $3.6 Billion in 2012: Citi's Mark Mahaney  —  Is Google making money off of YouTube?  You betcha, Google execs told shareholders today, without offering the slightest bit of detail.  Par for the course.  —  So in lieu of real numbers from Google …
Don Reisinger / CNET:
Apple's iPad costs you $1.36 per year to charge  —  Apple's iPad costs precious little for you to charge it each year, according to a new study.  —  The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducted a study recently to see how much the iPad costs in electricity if users fully charge it every other day.
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Said To Seek Tech-Savvy CEO For Comeback  —  New York Times Co. (NYT), seeking a chief executive officer who can reverse a six-year sales slump, is looking for a tech-savvy executive to help wring more revenue from the Internet, according to people familiar with the matter.
Ryan Block / gdgt:
Crunching the numbers on Retina: what to expect in iMacs, MacBook Airs, and Thunderbolt monitors with Retina displays  —  Ready to geek out on pixel densities?  Great, me too.  —  So when Apple announced its first computer with a Retina display, the revamped 15.4 MacBook Pro …
More: MacStories, BuzzFeed and GizmodoThanks:@gdgt
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Coolest class ever: Valve brings Portal 2 to schools  —  One time in high school, I was able to convince a stern teacher it was “essential” that I play Grand Theft Auto III for a presentation.  It was easily one of my favorite experiences at school simply because I was able to mix gaming and education.
Basil Katz / Reuters:
U.S. judge sets 2013 trial date for Apple e-book lawsuit  —  (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday set a 2013 trial date for a lawsuit from the U.S. government accusing Apple and book publishers of conspiring to fix the prices of electronic books.  —  Following a hearing in Manhattan federal court …
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
Verizon turns on Razrs' GSM radios, pushes out Android 4.0 upgrade  —  We knew international roaming was coming to Verizon's LTE phones - the GSM radios shipped in many of its LTE handsets were just sitting there dormant - but on Friday, Verizon is finally turning them on in two of its devices …

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