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Katherine Kuan / The Official Google Blog:
Google Keep—Save what's on your mind  —  Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember.  Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine.  Unfortunately, if you're like me you probably often discover …
Jessica Wohl / Reuters:
Walmart adds iPhone scan-and-checkout feature to 12 more markets  —  (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters.  —  Walmart's “Scan & Go” …
Kellex / Droid Life:
Preview of New Google Play Version 4.0  —  The Google Play store is an ever-evolving marketplace that has seen its fair share of changes throughout the last few years.  It was once incredibly fussy and difficult to navigate while lacking features, but over time, has become much more polished …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
YouTube reaches 1 billion unique monthly users, almost 15% of planet Earth  —  Google has announced that YouTube is now at 1 billion monthly users.  Assuming Wolfram Alpha's estimate of 6.79 billion people on Earth, that means roughly 14.7% of the world watches something on YouTube every month.
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Starbucks's Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers  —  The Starbucks clerk was at a loss.  I had just ordered a mocha Frappuccino and asked to pay with Square, a service that allows customers to purchase goods at the coffeehouse chain via their smartphone.  “What?
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
MacBook Pro with Retina display: Problems in every dimension  —  When Apple unveiled its first Retina MacBook Pro with the 15.4-inch model in June, it came with an all-new, slimmed down design, all-flash architecture, and its flagship Retina display with over 5 million pixels.
Nielsen:
New Study Confirms Correlation Between Twitter and TV Ratings  —  U.S. TV viewers are taking to Twitter to talk about TV, and the digital chatter is building steam.  According to SocialGuide, 32 million unique people in the U.S. Tweeted about TV in 2012.  That's quite the confab, but what does it all really mean for the TV industry?
Business Insider:
Amazon On The $99 Kindle Fire HD Tablet: 'It's Not Happening'  —  So much for all that!  —  Amazon is not doing a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet, a company spokesperson tells us: “It's not happening—we are already at the lowest price points possible for that hardware.”
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Visa CEO calls digital wallet fee on PayPal “appropriate”  —  (Reuters) - Visa Inc Chief Executive Charlie Scharf suggested on Wednesday that the payment network may impose a fee on digital wallet operators like PayPal, following rival MasterCard Inc.  —  MasterCard said earlier this year …
Bernie Becker / Hillicon Valley:
Internet retailers bash Senate attempt to ‘sneak through’ online sales tax  —  Opponents of an online sales tax measure are pushing back on efforts to get the bill added to the Senate budget this week.  —  Phil Bond, the executive director of the WE R HERE coalition, accused backers …
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Wealthfront, The Investing Service That Has Made Me Money, Raises $20M From Index, Greylock and Social+Capital Partnership  —  Wealthfront is one of my favorite startups out there today — because it has actually made me money.  I'm not alone.  The automated investments company has been growing …
Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Under CISPA, Who Can Get Your Data?  —  Under CISPA, companies can collect your information in order to “protect the rights and property” of the company, and then share that information with third parties, including the government, so long as it is for “cybersecurity purposes.”

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