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Apple May Meet Tablet Competition With a Smaller iPad — The tech companies are at it again — trying to catch the blockbuster iPad in a race to win the tablet market. — Google on Friday began shipping its Nexus 7, which is smaller and less expensive than Apple's iPad …
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MSNBC.com Renamed to NBCNews.com as Microsoft and NBC Divorce — On Sunday night, MSNBC.com did something that successful Web sites almost never do: it renamed itself. — The site became NBCNews.com, signifying the end of a relationship between NBC and Microsoft that dates back to the earliest days of the commercial Web.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Store overnights happening July 24. Mountain Lion launch the next day? — We've heard a few whispers (3 and counting) that Apple Stores both in the United States and overseas have planned overnights for Tuesday, July 24th. With OS X Mountain Lion launching “in July”, according to Apple … | Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal: |
Tax Break Nears End For Online Shoppers — Republican Governors, in Need of Revenue, Drop Opposition — Republican governors, eager for new revenue to ease budget strains, are dropping their longtime opposition to imposing sales taxes on online purchases, a significant political shift …
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An iPad Lover's Take On The Nexus 7 — Trolls, feel free to skip to the bottom of this column and post your comments immediately without reading a word. Actually, who are we kidding — you didn't make it this far. — Everyone else, brace yourselves. You may want small children to leave the room.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Here is why Facebook bought Spool — Over the weekend, news reports emerged that Facebook was buying Spool, a mobile-oriented social bookmarking service started by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer. At the surface, this seems like yet another acqua-hire but scratch a little deeper and you start … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Steam store search shows categories for non-gaming apps — The Steam app for Android shows a number of new categories that have little to do with gaming, which could be a shred of evidence that Valve is considering different kinds of apps for its popular game distribution service.
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Sky's pay-as-you-go online Now TV service launches tomorrow on PC, Mac and Android — We knew that BSkyB was launching its pay-as-you-go Internet TV service this summer, but the exact details around the launch, including the date, weren't known until now. — At a launch event in London today … | Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft Hits Back as Google Muscles In — Microsoft Corp. has publicly dismissed Web-based Google Apps as a competitor to its Office software suite. But, behind the scenes, Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to halt Google Inc.'s encroachment on its business-software turf.
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Skype confirms ‘rare’ bug that sends messages to unintended contacts, promises fix soon — Only a handful of Skype users have reported this problem over at the support forum, but what they're complaining about is pretty hair-raising. They say that, following an update in June …
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Evernote Wants To Be The Automatic, Trusted Place To Store Your Life [Interview] — Evernote, the multi-platform app that lets you capture notes, audio and images when you are on the go, and then access those mementos wherever you want to next, has carved out a position as one of the more … | Casey Newton / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Creamery is deal central for SF techies — Miguel Raimilla (l to r), executive director Telecentre.org, and Rebecca Masisal, co-CEO Techsoup Global, who both work for community technology companies discuss work over lunch at The Creamery on Friday, July 13, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle / SFThanks:@jtemple
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days — U.S. venture capitalists put $8.1 billion into 812 deals in the second quarter of 2012, their single largest quarter in more than a decade, according to CB Insights. — It's clear factors like the greater American economy … | Reyhan Harmanci / BuzzFeed: |
The Most Important Tech Company You've Never Heard Of — Information about every cell phone in the country is in a Neustar database. Which is why it's kind of weird that 400 or so companies trust them to deal with law enforcement surveillance requests. — A Delaware-based company …
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Google beefs up security for Chrome browser extensions — Google has moved to shore up security around its Chrome browser after the company added a setting to prevent extensions that are not hosted in the Chrome Web Store from installing in browsers automatically, while it has also begun monitoring submissions to the store.| Roger Yu / USA Today: |
From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business — The nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it. — Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and rent homes … Sponsor Posts
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