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Apple Said To Prepare ITunes Changes To Improve Sharing  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans an overhaul of iTunes that would mark one of the largest changes to the world's biggest music store since its 2003 debut, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Google's Andy Rubin and Asus' Jonney Shih on How They Cooked Up the Nexus 7  —  Building the Nexus 7 tablet was no easy task, says Asus Chairman Jonney Shih.  —  First off, Google gave the company only four months to build the product.  Then there was the task of building a high-end tablet that could sell for just $200.
Brian Klug / AnandTech:
Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review  —  The fact that Google launched a 7" tablet by ASUS isn't a particularly huge surprise, given that ASUS showed off the Eee Pad Memo back at CES.  The story goes that Google liked that particular tablet so much, it became slotted in to become …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts  —  June, it seems, is the season for new product announcements in Silicon Valley.  At its annual WWDC shindig, Apple announced a slew of new products including its hot-new Macbook Pro with Retina display and iOS 6.
Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court  —  A case that seemed, just 5 months ago, to be a veritable David and Goliath fight is certainly living up to its billing.  —  The battle between Megaupload (David) and the US Government and the MPAA (Goliath) started out with a flurry …
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Google Nexus Q media streamer: first impressions and video  —  One of Google's surprises yesterday was the Nexus Q media streamer, a product that sees the company expanding into the living room with its own branded hardware.  The Nexus Q differs from competing devices in that it only serves as a conduit.
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Hands-on with new Google+ tablet app and events features (video)  —  Outside of the web interface, Google has brought its social network to tablets for the first time ever.  The new app is available now (you'll need Android 4. or greater to get the full experience), and beyond including …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Google+ Now Has A Tablet Version, Events, 250M Users, 75M Daily, More Mobile Than Desktop
Peter Ha / TechCrunch:
Project Glass Is The Future Of Google  —  Over the last few years one could easily say that Google had lost their way.  They were no longer known for search.  Somehow they'd turned into a company that acquired a series of nonsensical entities, launched half baked products that eventually hit …
More: ZDNet
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google to merge Hangouts, Talk & Messenger  —  Google is working on unifying its various real-time messaging applications across all devices, and the result could be a unified messenger that allows you to do one-on-one chats as well as group video Hangouts.  That's the major news out of a session …
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Institutional Venture Partners Raises $1 Billion For Fund XIV, Its Biggest Yet  —  Angel investing may be hot, but it looks like things are not too shabby for the tech industry's most powerful late-stage venture capital firms either.  —  Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) …
Susan Crawford / scrawford.net:
The sledgehammer of usage-based billing  —  Brian Stelter's article today, “Sweeping Effects as Broadband Moves To Meters,” illuminates a part of the local cable monopoly story for high-speed Internet access and the consequences of this power for America's future.
Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg:
Amazon Said To Add Social Features To Digital Games For Tablet  —  Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) will make it easier for developers to add social features to games for the Kindle Fire tablet, a person with knowledge of the matter said, working to narrow Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s lead in the market for tablets.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Expands Maps & Places APIs With Reviews, Transit & More  —  Google announced a few upgrades and new features to its Maps and Places APIs during the Google I/O developers conference on Wednesday.  —  On the API front, Google Maps' Product Manager Thor Mitchell announced that business reviews …
Rands In Repose:
Someone is Coming to Eat You  —  One of my favorite Apple product announcements happened on September 7, 2005.  In an Apple music event announcement, Steve Jobs got on stage, gave the usual state of the business update, and then he did something I'd never seen before.  He killed a wildly successful product.
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Google App Engine gets more global  —  Google App Engine got some important feature updates Wednesday as well as new European data centers that could make the platform more attractive to developers outside the U.S. That should help prove to skeptics that Google is serious about its platform …
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Google Drive SDK version 2 supports Android and iOS apps, common file tasks  —  Virtually every corner of the Google universe is being touched at Google I/O, and that now includes Google Drive.  A version 2 update to the Drive SDK gives Android and iOS developers the option of building …
Juliet Chung / Wall Street Journal:
SEC Slaps Falcone With Suit  —  U.S. securities regulators accused hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone of putting his own interests, including Manhattan townhouses, a security detail and other trappings of a “lavish lifestyle,” ahead of investors in his firm, Harbinger Capital Partners LLC.
More: The Verge
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Path broadens its global appeal with 7 new languages, including Traditional Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia  —  Back in April, Path adopted the Twitter-like approach to globalising its service when it announced plans to crowdsource the translation of the private social network into 20 new languages.

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