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Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Consider Making an Offer for Hulu Online Television Service — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is considering making a bid for the Hulu online video service, according to two people with knowledge of the auction. — Apple is in early talks that may lead to an acquisition offer for Los Angeles-based Hulu …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results — REDMOND, Wash. — Jul. 21, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced record fourth-quarter revenue of $17.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, an 8% increase from the same period of the prior year.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft smashes Q4 2011 earnings estimates thanks to Xbox
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Apple:
Lion Downloads Top One Million in First Day — CUPERTINO, California—July 21, 2011—Apple® today announced that in just one day, over one million users bought and downloaded Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yes, Google Chrome Built For OS X Lion Is Coming — But It Will Take Time — Like just about every other Mac user in the world, yesterday I upgraded my machines to OS X Lion. It's great. But perhaps the most annoying quirk is that Google Chrome, my browser of choice, isn't so great on it.
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iFixit:
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2011 Teardown — July 21 brought us a bountiful harvest of Apple produce! Today, Apple released updates to the 11" and 13" MacBook Airs, as well as an updated Mac mini. Although today is an exciting day for consumers, it is a sad day for consumer repair.
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AppleInsider, GottaBeMobile, iFixit Blog, 9to5Mac, MacNN, SlashGear, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Gizmodo, MacStories, Engadget, FreakGeeks, TechCrunch and TUAW
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
Judge criticizes Google and Oracle at hearing — (Reuters) - Both Oracle Corp and Google Inc have taken unreasonable positions on the scale of damages involved in a high stakes patent battle over the Android operating system, a U.S. judge said in court. — “You're both asking for the moon …
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mocoNews, Mercury News, Between the Lines Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Electronista, VentureBeat and FOSS Patents
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Christian Oestlien / Google+:
Here is a quick update on Google+ and businesses: — A few weeks ago we mentioned we would be doing a test of business profiles and asked people interested to apply. Believe it or not we actually had tens of thousands of businesses, charities, and other organizations apply to take part from all over the world.
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Danny Sullivan, The Business Insider, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, parislemon, @dannysullivan and Benzinga
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Anger Mounts As Google+ Plays Favorites With Brands
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Lodsys sues Rovio over Angry Birds for iPhone and Android — Today Lodsys has amended its complaint against mobile app developers and modified the list of defendants, leaving out one of the seven developers sued on May 31 (Vietnamese company Wulven Games) but adding five famous games companies:
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CNET News, paidContent, 9to5Mac, Electronista, MacStories, Edible Apple and TiPb, Thanks:timo_ruohomaki
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No. — If that headline looks familiar to you, you're probably remembering our story about Google offering to buy Path for $100+ million from earlier this year. Path turned that deal down. — About the same time …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iPad's Dominance of the Tablet Market — So this new report from the consulting firm Strategy Analytics, “Global Tablet OS Market Share: Q2 2011”, came out yesterday and made some news today:1 … Clearly, Strategy Analytics are talking about unit shipments, not sales.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
iPad Trouncing Android in Enterprise
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Good Press Release, Daring Fireball, Fast Company, Tech Sanity Check Blog, TUAW, The Next Web, mocoNews, MobileBurn.com, Electronista, GigaOM and everythingiCafe
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Winklevosses lash out at Larry Summers over remarks — The Winklevosses are taking their grievances over a public tongue lashing from Larry Summers to Harvard University President Drew Faust. — In a letter to Faust that lashes back at Summers, the Winklevosses and their partner …
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Digits, TechCrunch, All Facebook and @tylerwinklevoss
Alyson Shontell / The Business Insider:
Google+ Makes Its First Aquisition And Buys Social Group Startup Fridge — This past weekend we wrote that social group startup Fridge was shutting down the product. We assumed that meant it was being acquired. — We assumed right. Austin Chang, Fridge's founder …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, WebProNews, VatorNews, 9to5Google, SocialTimes.com and All Facebook
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Loretta Chao / China Real Time Report:
Fake Apple Store Clerk Speaks Out — Suddenly, one of the most famous Apple stores in the world is one that not only isn't a real Apple Store, but apparently isn't even an authorized Apple reseller. As noted earlier on China Real Time, the fake Apple Store, located in the southwestern Chinese city …
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Pastebin:
Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement — Hello thar FBI and international law authorities, We recently stumbled across the following article with amazement and a certain amount of amusement: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/ 138555799/fbi-arrests-alleged-anonymous - hackers The statements …
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Brad Stone / Business Week:
Google+'s Circle Logic — Will the search giant's easy way to organize one's life in “circles” allow it to catch archrival Facebook? — In the beginning, there was Friendster, which captivated the early Web'ites before it was smitten by slow servers and exiled to the Far East.
Chad Dickerson / The Etsy Blog:
Our Next Chapter at Etsy: A Letter to the Community — I never thought I would be writing this letter when I joined Etsy almost three years ago. Then there were 60 people at the company — now we are 200. I've been here for a long time and we've been through a lot.
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The Business Insider, Betabeat, PE Hub Blog, Digits, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Adotas and CNET News
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Soon-to-Debut Google+ Games Will Hit Facebook Where it Hurts: The Pocketbook — Google is close to launching a social game network that could make Facebook very, very nervous. — Perhaps the biggest difference between the two platforms will be cost. — According to multiple sources …
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The Business Insider and O'Reilly Radar
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
More Than Two-Thirds of Google+ Activity Is Private — While following the activity of tech industry folks and celebrities on Google+ might lead you to believe that Google's new social network is a sort of long-form Twitter, where users pontificate for a public audience, Google says that's not the case.
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Technologizer, Thanks:bobcaswell
Chris Kanaracus / PC World:
Oracle Buys Ksplice for Linux ‘zero Downtime’ Tech — Oracle has purchased Ksplice, maker of technology that allows Linux administrators to apply important security updates without having to reboot the system, Oracle announced Thursday. Terms were not disclosed.
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Oracle, eWeek and internetnews.com
