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June 29, 2012, 4:35 PM

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Nadia Damouni / Reuters:

Exclusive: Microsoft tie-up, network sale among RIM options: sources — (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd's board is under mounting pressure to consider unpalatable options such as selling its network business or forming an alliance with Microsoft Corp after the Blackberry maker again delayed …

Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:

RIM Apparently Not Interested In Switching To Windows Phone — Research In Motion might be on the road to failure, but give them credit for this: they intend to do it on their own. — According to a report from Reuters, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer approached RIM in recent months about cutting …

More: TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo and FierceWireless

Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb:

RIM's Sad Reality: Collapse Has Been Obvious for a Long Time — Let's be real: Anyone who's been paying attention isn't surprised by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion's recent collapse. It's unfortunate, but it's been inevitable. — On Thursday, RIM announced its latest bad news …

More: CNN, Gizmodo and iPhone

Michael Sippey / Twitter Developers:

Delivering a consistent Twitter experience — Just over two weeks ago, I talked about more interactive experiences within expanded Tweets and how easy it is for users to discover even more great content on Twitter. The technology behind expanded Tweets — Twitter cards …

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @jkupferman, @willie, @kevindente, @theonetruebix and @samgavindotcom

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Twitter Gives LinkedIn The Bird — According to a LinkedIn blog post, Twitter is dropping a two-and-a-half-year-old partnership with LinkedIn that allowed users of the professional social network to publish tweets to their LinkedIn profiles. — Twitter consumer product chief Michael Sippey wrote …

More: LinkedIn Blog, msnbc.com, The Next Web and Mashable!

Tweets: @rosswallenstein, @antonmccarthy and @thestalwart

Thanks:@owenthomas

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Minneapolis street test: Google gets a B+, Apple's Siri gets a D — 1,600 questions — 800 in a quiet room, 800 in a noisy street — FORTUNE — Pi per Jaffray's Gene Munster is nothing if not methodical. When customers queue up for a new Apple (AAPL) product, he's the analyst who goes to the line and counts heads.

More: Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, Android News, Rumours …, Lifehacker, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, everythingiCafe, iClarified, App Advice, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider

Brad Reed / BGR:

Siri still can't match old-fashioned Google search, analyst says

Seth Fiegerman / Business Insider:

The Man Behind The Mac OS Is Working On A Mystery Startup With Other Ex-Apple Employees — Bertrand Serlet is widely considered to be the brains behind Apple's Mac operating system. He was even mentioned as a possible successor to Steve Jobs at one point.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, App Advice, MacNN and iClarified

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Facebook testing ‘Want’ button plugin — Facebook appears to be testing a new “Want” button plugin similar to its popular Like button. — Developer Tom Waddington from Cut Out + Keep discovered that a Want button has been added to the Facebook Javascript SDK as an XFBML tag - <fb:wants>.

More: PC Magazine, Marketing Land, Los Angeles Times, Betabeat, Techie Buzz, Mashable!, Redmond Pie, Tom Waddington, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Business Insider, WebProNews, Macgasm, Gizmodo and Pulse2 Technology …. Thanks:@insidefb

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

Nexus 7 review — Google's Nexus 7 aims for the Kindle Fire and iPad — but can a true Android tablet finally make a dent? Google's Nexus 7 tablet is not exactly a surprise. Nor is the fact that I'm able to work on a review of the product just hours after the device was announced.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Search Engine Land, Digits, Computerworld, Network World, SlashGear, IntoMobile, The Register, VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, 9to5Google and Forbes

Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:

Apple demands iPad3.com domain name — Apple files complaint over iPad3.com domain name. — Apple didn't name its third generation iPad the “iPad 3″, but that hasn't stopped most people from calling it that anyway. — The company doesn't own the domain name iPad3.com, but that might change soon.

More: CNET, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, MacRumors and MacNN

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Sundar Pichai: Chrome ‘exceptionally profitable’ for Google (q&a) — Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president in charge of Chrome and Apps, speaking at Google I/O. — (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) — SAN FRANCISCO—It began with a mere toolbar, an add-on that gave browsers a handy Google search box.

More: ZDNet, Pulse2 Technology … and WebProNews

Zach Epstein / BGR:

Chrome for iOS hits No.1 in Apple's App Store

More: Computerworld, Internet Evolution, 9to5Mac, TPM IdeaLab, AllThingsD, Lifehacker, The Official Google Blog, Pulse2 Technology …, Guardian, blog.chron.com, Inquirer, IntoMobile, Phones Review, MyBroadband Tech and IT News, Marketing Land, The Next Web, CNET and SlashGear

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Lytro CEO Ren Ng to Step Aside, Become Executive Chairman — Lytro CEO Ren Ng said Friday that he is stepping aside as CEO of the light-field photography company, in order to spend more time on the vision for the company and less on its day-to-day operations.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @spencerchen

Erick Schonfeld / TechStream:

Infographics Are Broken. We Can Do Better. — Infographics on the web are so bad and so broken. They are everywhere, yet few actually do a decent job of conveying information (click on the one at left to see what I mean). Some even argue that they are ruining the Internet.

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Report: Tablets now drive more ecommerce traffic than smartphones — Tablets, as we've written about before, are ideal shopping devices, generating outsized sales despite their smaller reach. But now, it appears that tablets have outpaced smartphones in the sheer amount of traffic they deliver …

More: VentureBeat and WebProNews

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Reorganizes Into Membership, Brand And Ad Units [Incl Armstrong's Memo] — After yesterday's $400 million share buyback, some more news today from our owners, AOL: it's reorganizing into three operating units, plus a separate one for corporate support of all three: they will be called AOL Membership …

More: Dice Blog Network, Fortune, Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider, WebProNews and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1, stops new Flash installs from Google Play on August 15th — Adobe was very public about dropping mobile Flash last fall. In case that wasn't clear enough, the developer just drew a line in the sand: Android 4.1 doesn't, and won't ever, get certification for Flash.

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Path and Nike FuelBand Pair Up, Flaunting the Benefits of a Private API — Facebook and Twitter rose to prominence in part because they played so nicely with others. Yes, the sites were great products first. But they became even better platforms, opening their application programming interfaces …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Path Blog, NikeInc.com, TUAW, The Verge, SlashGear, The Verge, everythingiCafe and The Next Web

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter's Mobile Ads Begin to Click — Majority of Revenue on Social Network Comes from Phones; One Advertiser Calls Results Staggering — Twitter Inc. is showing early signs of success selling advertising on mobile devices, an area that is bedeviling Internet companies including Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.

More: blogs.ft.com, GigaOM, Business Insider, Mobile Marketing Watch, Pulse2 Technology …, Marketing Land, Venture Capital Dispatch, AllTwitter, The Verge, WebProNews, Media Decoder, fiercemobilecontent.com and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Shawn Hess / WebProNews:

New Facebook Study Reveals Motivation Behind Facebook Visits — Published this month in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, a new Facebook study suggests personality type determines how much time you spend on the social networking site and how often you visit.

More: ReadWriteWeb

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Has A New Polling Startup, Calls It ‘Maybe’ — Can't decide what shoes to buy? Or what book to read next? AdMob founder and former CEO Omar Hamoui is launching a new startup called Maybe to help with your decision. — Last month, Hamoui told me that he was leaving …

Tweets: @hsabri and @omarh

Staci D. Kramer / GigaOM:

Google scrambles to fix Events after celebs yelp — Despite the “Google+ is a ghost town” mantra, a number of high-profile or widely connected people are active users who promote what they like. They also yelp when they're unhappy and when Google+ Events went live during the week's Google I/O …

More: PC Magazine, 9to5Google, TechCrunch and WebProNews

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Flickr taps Nokia Maps to bring better geotagging to photos — Flickr has partnered with Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia to bring improved mapping and geotagging to its millions of users around the world. — The Yahoo-owned image and video-hosting service has announced that whilst …

More: PC Magazine, Engadget, The Verge, SymbianTweet, GadgeTell, WebProNews, Flickr Blog and My Nokia Blog

Jon Orlin / TechCrunch:

How Google Pulled Off Their Live Video Skydiving With Glasses Demo — Google won the Internet by pulling off a truly impressive Google Glass skydiving stunt, twice, during their I/O event. Skydivers in wingsuits 4,000 feet above San Francisco delivered the high tech glasses to the Moscone stage …

More: Social Markets, Pulse2 Technology …, Softpedia News and CNET

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