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July 10, 2012, 6:00 PM

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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

RIM Said To Sell Jet To Help Save $1 Billion — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), which has lost 95 percent of its market value since 2008, is selling one of its two business jets under a plan to save $1 billion in operating costs, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

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Joash Wee / e27:

Research In Motion announces US$100M investment to grow developer community for BlackBerry platform — Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations at RIM — Research in Motion engages developers at BlackBerry 10 Jam in Singapore to talk about developing for the BlackBerry 10 platform that will be released first quarter of 2013.

More: TechCrunch and BlackBerry Developer Blog

Omar El Akkad / The Globe and Mail:

RIM brass takes heat from shareholders

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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

BlackBerry 10 confirmed to get video chat in BBM

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Alastair Sharp / Reuters:

RIM's board re-elected at annual meeting

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Steven Burke / CRN:

Exclusive: Microsoft's Ballmer Throws Down Gauntlet Against Apple — Declaring that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) and its partners had in the past “ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation” to Apple (NSDQ:AAPL), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CRN in an exclusive interview Monday …

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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:

Betting the Company on Windows 8

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Sung Hu Kim / Twitter Blog:

Expansive experiences in latest mobile apps for iPhone, Android — Today you can download new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates to bring you closer to everything you care about. — Expand Tweets

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Twitter for iOS and Android updated with content previews, individual notifications, and more

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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:

Google set to pay record $22.5M fine for violating Apple users' privacy — Google is expected to pay a $22.5 million fine, the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, for bypassing the privacy settings of users of Apple's Safari Web browser.

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Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:

Google, FTC Near Settlement on Privacy — Google Inc. is close to a deal to pay $22.5 million to settle charges related to its surreptitious bypassing of the privacy settings of millions of Apple Inc. users, according to officials briefed on the settlement terms.

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Let's Try to Think This iPad Mini Thing All the Way Through — We're Talking About a Smaller iPad, Not a Bigger iPod Touch — I've seen a fair bit of speculation that, if Apple produces a 7-inch iOS device, then maybe it would be a bigger iPod Touch, not a smaller iPad.

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Tim Bray / ongoing:

How Many Devices? — Does it make sense to carry around two, three, or more portable computing devices? Select from: — Regular-size laptop; say 15"-screen or higher. — Skinny laptop i.e. Air at 13" or even 11". — Big tablet at ~10" as in current iPads. — One-hander tablet, typically at 7".

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Bradley Horowitz / The Official Google Blog:

Google+ app for iPad available now in the App Store — In May, we redesigned the Google+ experience for iPhone, adding full bleed photos that fall into place and bold visual elements that bring your stream to life. Today, we're introducing new features for iPhone and an iPad app that you won't be able to put down.

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Joel Schectman / The CIO Report:

San Francisco Officials Plan to Block Apple Procurement — San Francisco city officials say they are moving to block purchases of Apple desktops and laptops, by all municipal agencies, after the company removed a green electronics certification from its products.

More: Business Insider, CNET, TUAW, Ars Technica, BBC, Computerworld, The Verge and GigaOM

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Bitly Raises $15M Led by Khosla Ventures — Bitly, the link-shortening and tracking service, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures. — The round is aimed to help Bitly hire and grow. “We make many millions of dollars per year …

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews, Betabeat, NBC Bay Area, GigaOM and TechCrunch. Thanks:@forrestkoba

Don Beck / The Involver Blog:

Oracle Buys Involver — Today we are excited to announce that we have signed an agreement for Oracle's purchase of Involver and we expect the transaction to close in the summer of 2012. The proliferation of social media has changed the way that organizations and consumers interact.

More: PC Magazine, AllThingsD, ZDNet, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, eWeek, Oracle, Business Insider, Inside Facebook, The Next Web, silicontap.com and the Econsultancy blog

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Dropbox offers pro users twice the space as competition heats up — This story was corrected at 11:10 a.m. with the correct pricing for Box.net's services. — Dropbox pro subscribers can now get excited about twice as much storage space on their accounts for no additional cost …

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Michael McWhertor / The Verge:

Ouya console meets $950,000 Kickstarter funding goal in 8 hours — The makers of Ouya, the low-cost video game console based on Google's Android OS and designed by Yves Behar, have already surpassed their $950,000 fundraising goal on Kickstarter. The project, a $99 game console and controller …

More: Business Insider, Engadget, 9to5Google, Joystiq and Techli

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Ouya's Android-based, hackable game console now official: we chat with designer Yves Behar

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

A Reality Series Intrudes on Silicon Valley, and Finds It Cringing — SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley is finally getting the treatment once reserved for rowdy housewives and excitable chefs: its own Bravo reality series. But the tech world is not quite ready for its close-up.

More: Fortune, Betabeat, Forbes, The Verge and Forbes. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Salesforce.com suffers worldwide disruption after power outage — Summary: Salesforce.com has suffered a series of outages that left many unable to use the CRM service. Even the service status page was down for a while. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhittaker

More: Data Center Knowledge, Wired and channelregister.co.uk

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Apple launches new iPad in China on July 20th (update: here's why) — Apple is about to complete an important part of the puzzle for the new iPad's world rollout: it just confirmed that its Retina display-packing tablet will reach mainland China on July 20th.

More: CNET, Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, IntoMobile, MacRumors, Mashable!, The Verge, Apple Bitch, TUAW, Tech in Asia, Reuters, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and PhoneArena

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Judge Will Let Kleiner Perkins Ask Again for Arbitration in Gender Discrimination Case — As promised, a judge today ruled against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in its efforts to compel its partner Ellen Pao to arbitrate her gender discrimination and retaliation suit.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, TechCrunch, Betabeat and PE Hub Blog

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Facebook eyeing Hulu's Kilar for senior position — With Facebook stepping up its courtship of the media business, the buzz is building that Mark Zuckerberg is eyeing Hulu chief Jason Kilar for a top job. — Sources say that Zuck “likes” Kilar, a well-respected Internet executive …

More: TVWeek.com, Business Insider and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Take that, vCloud: Microsoft opens Windows Azure to web hosts — Updated: It looks like Microsoft is serious about becoming the operating system for cloud computing. At its Worldwide Partner Conference on Tuesday, the company announced what amounts to a white-label version …

More: ZDNet, PC World, SlashGear, Apprenda and Softpedia News

Michael Steeber / Cult of Mac:

Steve Wozniak Shares His Thoughts On Google Glass And Microsoft's Surface Tablet — Steve Wozniak recently spoke at the Entel Summit in Chile, and as usual, expressed his thoughts on emerging technology. Wozniak offered his opinion on Google Glass, Microsoft's Surface tablet, and even the Kim Dotcom case surrounding Megaupload.

More: Stuff.co.nz, Examiner and SlashGear

Alana / Nielsen Wire:

Global Internet Ad Spend Sees Double-Digit Growth, Outpaces Other Media — With consumer confidence up and brands looking to reconnect, spending on advertising is on the rise—around the globe and across media types. TV, newspapers, radio, outdoor, Internet, and cinema all saw an increase …

More: The New Persuaders, VatorNews, CNET, ZDNet, TechCrunch and Marketing Pilgrim

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Jason Citron's Phoenix Guild prepares for the post-PC world of gaming — Consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony may still rule the living room, but Aurora Feint (and OpenFeint) founder Jason Citron has his eye a time on when tablets will take over. Hardcore tablet gaming is the purview …

More: Inside Mobile Apps, TechCrunch and TUAW

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Wins a Major Patent for iTravel & More — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 23 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our first granted patent report of the day we mainly focus on a major patent relating to iTravel, Apple's transportation check-in system.

More: Los Angeles Times, CNET, Unwired View, ZDNet, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified and 9to5Mac

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Shows Up in Benchmarks — Amid continued rumors that Apple intends to release a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro in the coming months, a Geekbench 2 benchmark submitted late last month as a “MacBookPro10,2” appears to represent the machine in question.

More: CNET, DigiTimes, Pocketables, TechnoBuffalo and Examiner

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