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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Next Issue brings its all-you-can-read magazine store to the iPad, plans start at $10 a month  —  The last time we heard about Next Issue, the all-you-can-read magazine store was launching on Android, with an iOS version said to be coming “soon.”  Three months later, the startup's made good on its promise …
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.
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Google Nexus Q hacked to run launcher, apps, Netflix, and more  —  While Google's Nexus Q is an undeniably attractive piece of hardware, we found the device to be lacking in overall functionality.  Enterprising developers are already on the case, however, with the latest Nexus Q hack bringing apps …
More: VentureBeat and Gizmodo
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
AirPlay for all?  Miracast promises video streaming without the router  —  WiFi Alliance takes a stab at vendor-neutral interoperability.  —  This cartoon family has discovered the joys of vendor-neutral video streaming.  —  WiFi Alliance  —  Streaming audio and video from a handheld device …
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Eric Schmidt: The Great Firewall of China will fall  —  Technology and information penetration in China will eventually force the Great Firewall of China to crumble and even lead to the political opening of the Chinese system, according to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Paydiant Gets $12M More To Build Out Its White-Label Mobile Payments API  —  Paydiant, one of the more recent entrants in mobile payments, has closed a $12 million round of funding that it plans to use to build out its white-label, API-based product for banks and merchants to offer …
More: AllThingsD and ZDNet
David Pierce / The Verge:
Motorola announces Atrix HD for AT&T: 4.5-inch 720p display, LTE, Android 4.0 for $99  —  Motorola officially announced the much-leaked Atrix HD this morning, bringing the new handset to AT&T's LTE network.  At first blush, the new phone's something of a Droid RAZR / RAZR Maxx hybrid …
Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:
Chrome Drops OS X 10.5, Adds New Video and Gaming Tools  —  Chrome 22, which Google just dropped into the Chrome developer channel, marks the end of the line for Mac OS X 10.5 users.  When Chrome 22 arrives in final form roughly three months from now it will require OS X 10.6 or newer.
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: TechCrunch and TUAW

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