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August 2, 2012, 5:20 AM

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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:

Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone — Today, I am excited to announce that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM)! This means we've completed the product development and testing of the product and have started handing off the final code to our OEM partners.

Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Releasing Windows 8 - August 1, 2012

More: MSDN Blogs, Forbes, TechNet Blogs, GeekWire, InfoWorld, I4U News, ReadWriteWeb, AnandTech, PC World, ABCNEWS, Mashable!, The Register, Business Insider, Techie Buzz, WebProNews, Channel 9, The Windows Blog, Bright Side Of News*, WinBeta, Seattle Times and CNET. Thanks:@keithdsouza

John Callaham / Neowin:

Windows Store in Windows 8 RTM now open for paid app submissions

More: MSDN Blogs, The Next Web and Redmond Pie

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

The Future of Twitter's Platform Is All in the Cards — On June 29, Twitter VP of Product Michael Sippey posted a foreboding 439-word letter to the company blog, broadly sketching the direction Twitter's platform is headed. — Upon its reception, most of the public attention focused on a single passage …

More: TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Betabeat, Mashable! and VentureBeat. Tweets: @pkafka

MG Siegler:

Twitter's Landscaping Problem — Twitter. On the surface, it's another year, another bitch session. Developers are up in arms! Everyone is threatening to leave! Or, at least, hundreds of people! There's talk of open source competitors! It's over! Maybe!

Tweets: @avibryant and @mathewi

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

As Twitter Goes To War With Its Developers, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue Quits The Board

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

With Three Key Exits, Facebook's Top Talent Departures Continue — The question on everyone's minds after Facebook's May IPO — How long till the brain drain starts? — Apparently, not that long. Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships at Facebook, announced on Wednesday via Facebook that he will soon leave the company.

More: Fortune, memeburn, CNET, Digits, TechCrunch and Ethan Beard

Dalton Caldwell:

Dear Mark Zuckerberg … On June 13, 2012, at 4:30 p.m., I attended a meeting at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, California. In addition to myself, the meeting was attended by executives at Facebook with the following titles: “VP, Engineering & Products”, “VP, Partnerships”,"VP …

More: Guardian, The Next Web, PC Pro, Google+, 9.blog, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Forbes, TechCrunch and Business Insider

Tweets: @hunterwalk, @jason, @bling0, @cdixon, @tolles, @stephlauren, @erickschonfeld, @mims and @hunterwalk

Thanks:@andybritcliffe

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

App.net's Dalton Caldwell Turned Down A Facebook Acqui-Hire Offer Before Rebooting His Company

More: Business Insider

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills — A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives attempts to deter frivolous patent litigation by forcing unsuccessful patent plaintiffs to cover defendants' legal costs. Introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) …

More: GeekWire, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Electronista and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tweets: @rickasaurus, @binarybits, @richardbuckle and @michaelramsgate

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple to file sanctions over Samsung's evidence ‘leak’ — In a letter to Judge Lucy Koh on Wednesday, Apple said it plans to file an emergency motion for sanctions and “other relief that may be appropriate” as a result of Samsung's issuance of excluded evidence to media outlets earlier this week.

More: ZDNet, PhoneArena and MacNN

Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:

Samsung Denies Trying to Sway Jury With Statement to Media

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET and TUAW

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Google Acquires Wildfire, Will Now Sell Facebook And Twitter Marketing Services [Update: $350M Price] — Google has just bought social marketing software developer Wildfire, which lets brands serve marketing and ad campaigns on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and LinkedIn.

More: Small Business News …, Los Angeles Times and Inquirer. Tweets: @sebprovencher

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

A Further Blow to Online Lurking: Quora Will Now Publicly Show Who Has Read a Post — Quora today is introducing a feature that shows which of its users have read each Quora post, and how they found it. It's another move by a social Web service to share passive activities …

More: Geek News Central, broadstuff, VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge, BostInno, Quora, TechCrunch and GigaOM. Tweets: @semil

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Yelp Q2 Beats The Street With Top-Line Growth, Narrowing Losses: $32.7M Revenue, $2M Net Loss — Yelp today reported its earnings for the second quarter of 2012, its second ever financial report as a publicly-traded company. Overall, the reviews site showed continued top-line revenue growth …

More: Yelp Investor Relations, VatorNews, Forbes, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, WebProNews and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @eldon and @dcurtis

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman On Mobile: Apps Account For Majority Of Weekend Searches, Ads Coming Soon

More: Forbes

Digits:

Past Apple-Twitter Investment Talks Were Tied to Product Integration — Apple Inc. floated the idea of investing in Twitter Inc. as the companies discussed integrating the social service into Apple's mobile operating system last year, according to people familiar with the discussions.

More: AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, Ars Technica and iLounge

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Lenovo Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 aimed at iPad business users, includes pen input and dock — Lenovo has previously shown off a prototype Windows 8 tablet back at Computex Taipei in June, which recently passed through the FCC. A leaked Lenovo document on the tablet, sent to us by a tipster …

More: Good E-Reader, SlashGear, Techin5, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, PadGadget, newlaunches.com, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Neowin, Engadget, Liliputing, T3 News and Business Insider

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

HP Wins Key Ruling in Itanium Lawsuit With Oracle — The judge hearing the lawsuit between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle has ruled that the software giant is bound by its commitment to continue making software that is compatible with Intel's Itanium server chip.

More: BetaNews, eWeek, The Register, CNET, Mercury News, Reuters and Ars Technica

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Nokia Maps update brings route planning, Groupon Now! integration — Today Nokia released a new version of its Maps application for Windows Phone. In it is support for route planning, at last, and also integration with the Groupon Now! product. — Route planning, the ability to determine …

More: Engadget, Nokia Conversations, Light Reading, SlashGear, CNET, Ubergizmo, Reuters, AllThingsD, PhoneArena and The Verge

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Facebook Stock Crash Hoses California's Tax Revenue — Well, the hits from the Facebook stock implosion keep coming. — Now, it's the State of California, which apparently overestimated how much tax revenue it was going to collect from Facebook employees after the IPO.

More: PolitiCal and Capitol Alert. Tweets: @jonerlichman

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Zynga COO Said To Lose Product Oversight As Growth Slows — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) Chief Operating Officer John Schappert, who was wooed from Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) last year, was stripped of his role overseeing game development in a reorganization aimed at reviving growth and making more money …

More: Reuters, Business Insider, AllThingsD, WebProNews, VentureBeat and Mobile Entertainment

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Microsoft-owned Yammer quietly introduces Facebook-like live chat feature — It's been a couple of weeks since Microsoft officially announced its move to buy Yammer and already the $1.2 billion service has its first post-acquisition feature, as the professional social network introduced a Facebook-like chat service.

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Platform Wars, PC Magazine and Datamation.com. Thanks:@jonrussell

Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:

Nokia reportedly planning to sell Qt as more developers are laid off — Nokia is shutting down its Qt offices in Australia, laying off the team that was responsible for developing key parts of the open source development toolkit, including the QML user interface layout system.

More: The Register, ZDNet, Phoronix, lists.qt-project.org …, Delimiter, PhoneNews.com and Slashdot

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