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Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Dealtalk: Google bid “pi” for Nortel patents and lost — At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128. Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant …
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Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
The enemy of my enemy — Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian telecom company, came that much closer to disappearing completely yesterday with the cash sale of its portfolio of 6000 patents for $4.5 billion to a consortium of companies including Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion (RIM), and Sony.
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Fred Wilson / A VC:
Why I'm Rooting For Google+ — The day Google+ launched, I sent a friend at Google who was involved in building the service an email requesting an invite. I got the invite late that day and started playing with the service. Here's my profile. I'm not sure if this page is public or you need a Google+ login to see it.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why yo momma won't use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end) — OK, I've been putting many hours into Google+. In just the few days that it's been released I've followed 2,723 people, written many dozens of posts there, and have thoroughly used the product.
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iKnerd, The Business Insider, Mark Evans Tech, CNN, Irregular Enterprise Blog, Googling Google Blog and Fast Company
Mike Blumenthal / Understanding Google Maps …:
Google+ To Have Business Profile Pages
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Social Studies Blog, Search Engine Land and Screenwerk
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Why Twitter Should be Very Worried About Google+
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Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google to disable public sharing of private posts in Google+ [Updated]
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eWeek, Techdirt, CNET News and Between the Lines Blog
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
The World Is An Internet Startup Now — Nothing beats face to face, semi-serendipitous conversation. You always learn something new, and the amount of knowledge that can be shared in even a few minutes of face time simply cannot be replicated with technology, social media, or even a long form post like this one.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Engineers Build Google+ Inspired Facebook Hack — With many asserting that Google+ is heavily Facebook influenced, Facebook engineers Vladimir Kolesnikov, Peng Fan, Zahan Malkani, Brian Rosenthal have flipped the switch and taken inspiration from the novel Google Circles design with Circlehack …
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PC World, Lifehacker and Digitizor
Tim Stiffler-Dean / PreCentral.net:
Jon Rubinstein sends message to HP staff; Addresses TouchPad reviews — In an internal email sent out to HP staff, Jon Rubenstein (Senior Vice President and General Manager, Palm Global Business Unit) has reached out to his employees to address a growing concern from the reviews of the HP TouchPad …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
OS X Lion Allows Running Multiple Copies on the Same Machine (Virtualization) — For the first time, Apple is allowing owners of OS X (client version) to run multiple virtual copies on the same machine. Previously, Apple extended this ability to Mac OS X Server only.
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9to5Mac, Appletell, MacStories and iClarified
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple to ship OS X Lion on July 14th
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Softpedia News, Apple Bitch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Geek.com, SlashGear, CrunchGear, OS X Daily, MacNN, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, CNET News, iClarified, Gizmodo Australia, TUAW, BGR, Macworld and Lifehacker
Kellex / Droid Life:
Exclusive: DROID3 Launching July 7 Via Direct Fill, Hits All Stores July 14 — Well, we told you long ago that the DROID3 was launching on July 7 and just had it confirmed through our friends at Verizon. The device will be available via direct fill next Thursday followed by a mass store rollout on July 14 as a Big Red exclusive.
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The Phone Blog, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Engadget, DroidMatters.com, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans and PhoneDog.com
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Here's Who Gets Rich Off The Zynga IPO — Zynga just filed to raise more than $1 billion in an IPO. — Like usual, the filing lays out all shareholders who own more than 5% of the company. — It's a pretty select list, and CEO Mark Pincus and “related entities” are still on top.
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DealBook, PE Hub Blog, The Business Insider, AllThingsD and TechCrunch
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
On Attribution and Credit — Ina Fried's story yesterday for AllThingsD about iPad-native apps crossing the 100,000 mark now credits MacStories by name, and includes this note: … The reference in the article now reads: … That's better, and crosses the line into what I consider acceptable attribution.
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Growing Fiber Internet in Rural America: A Stimulus Success Story — If you think the Obama administration's stimulus package is about digging ditches, you'd be right — at least when it comes to funding broadband efforts in rural areas. — Take for instance the Mandan …
Robert Francis / @robert_francis:
Adding class and reality to the story of Google+, Andy Hertzfeld shares the spotlight with the rest of the team: http://bit.ly/kYf5rE #fb
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@charlietuna, Google+ and @scobleizer
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Scott Ard / CNET News:
Google+ contributor and Mac pioneer talks with CNET (Q&A)
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