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June 10, 2012, 9:45 PM

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Zee / The Next Web:

Twitter just aired its first ever TV commercial promoting its brand new hashtag pages [Videos] — Twitter aired its first ever TV commercial today during the 2012 Pocono 400 Nascar race. The ad features driver Brad Keselowski, who finished in a disappointing 24th place, using his phone to share his point of view with the world.

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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

A Bit of History Behind the Mac OS X on Intel Project “Marklar” — Apple's announcement to move their Macs from PowerPC to Intel processors in 2005 was a huge surprise at the time. Serious reports about the plan hit the web only two days before the official announcement at WWDC 2005.

More: parislemon, TUAW, Quora and Quora. Tweets: @danieldamrill

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

A Letter To The FTC Regarding Search Engine Disclosure Compliance — In 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission created guidelines on how search engines should disclose paid placement and paid inclusion listings. It's become clear to me over the past two weeks that the search engine industry …

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Former Card Counter's New Start-Up Helps Measure Productivity — In Silicon Valley, there's a theory called the “10x engineer,” which holds that the best engineer at a company is 10 times more productive than the average engineer. — Jeff Ma is an entrepreneur and a member …

More: VentureBeat. Thanks:@tenxer

Justin Rubio / The Verge:

Google allegedly working on Wallet 2.0, but Sprint wants its own mobile payment system — Despite being the only carrier to pre-load Google Wallet on its devices, Sprint is purportedly looking at offering its own mobile payment system. Sources have told NFC Times that Sprint is currently working …

More: parislemon, CNET, The Pondering Primate, Android News, Rumours …, Android Phone Fans, DroidMatters.com, Pocketables, BGR, PhoneArena and 9to5Google

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

LinkedIn: New security enhancements in pipeline — LinkedIn has promised new security features above and beyond a switch to salting users' passwords, as it continues to recover from the hack which saw 6.5m encrypted credentials leak from the site. “We continue to execute on our security roadmap …

More: VentureBeat, The H Security, Wall Street Journal, eWeek, Mashable!, Neowin, Linkedin Blog, Reuters, msnbc.com and CNET

Geoff Gasior / The Tech Report:

Intel's 4-inch Next Unit of Computing to cost $400 — Computex — Intel's got next... The Next Unit of Computing, that is. While making our way through the madness at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, we stopped by Intel's booth to check out the company's new small-form-factor PC.

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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

Here's What Google Will Lose When Apple Wipes Google Maps From The iPhone — This is a news note from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet businesses. Sign up for a free trial here. — Reports say that Apple is planning …

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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

Mobile Advertising: The $20B Opportunity Mirage — There are a lot of questions left to be answered about Facebook's IPO fiasco, but one thing we know is this: As consumers shift their use of Facebook from PCs to smartphones, investors worry about lower mobile advertising revenues.

More: Business Insider

David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:

Microsoft ending consumers' ability to file class-action suits — Microsoft, maker of the dominant Windows computer operating system and the Xbox game console, is changing many of its customer contracts to prohibit class-action lawsuits. — Microsoft's Windows operating system accounts for about 84% of the personal computer market.

More: Pulse2 Technology …

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Twitter Flies The Nest And Moves Into Its New 1355 Market Street Headquarters — After two and a half years, Twitter has moved out of its old office at 795 Folsom Street in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood. — Employees filled their streams with tweets about the move on Friday.

Rebecca MacKinnon / Foreign Policy:

The War for India's Internet — Why is the world's biggest democracy cracking down on Facebook and Google? — “65 years since your independence,” a new battle for freedom is under way in India — according to a YouTube video uploaded by an Indian member of Anonymous, the global “hacktivist” movement.

More: GigaOM, The Next Web, TechSpot, BBC, ZDNet, Times of India and Wall Street Journal

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