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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google demands Microsoft removes YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads — Microsoft updated its own YouTube application for Windows Phone just over a week ago and Google isn't impressed. The Verge has obtained a copy of a cease and desist letter that Google has sent to Microsoft recently …

More: Wired, Search Engine Watch, CNET, VatorNews, Windows Phone Central, ZDNet, CITEworld, The Register, Android Beat, memeburn, BGR India, VentureBeat, Businessweek, Marketing Land, WinBeta and Engadget. Tweets: @qualresearcher. See also Mediagazer

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, ‘more than happy’ to include ads if Google allows it — Following Google's demands for Microsoft to remove its Windows Phone YouTube app, Microsoft has responded saying it's happy to include advertising. Google sent a cease and desist letter to Microsoft recently …

More: TechnoBuffalo, Digits and AppleInsider

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Microsoft's Anti-Google Campaign Gets a Boost, From Google — For the last few months, Microsoft has been running a pointed PR and ad campaign against Google, where it accuses the search giant of screwing over its customers. — You gotta hand it to Microsoft: Yesterday they got Google to help promote their message for them.

More: TechEye, Ars Technica, TechCrunch and Network World

Matt Brian / The Verge:

Google Play Books enables user ebook uploads, Google Drive support — Google has updated its Play Books e-reader apps for iOS and Android to include support for EPUB and PDF files from outside the Play Store. The new feature has been enabled as part of Google's strategy to unite its cloud services …

More: The Next Web, Android Police, gHacks Technology News, MobileSyrup.com, MacRumors, MacNN, SlashGear, Engadget and The Digital Reader

Hugo Barra / Official Android Blog:

Android@I/O: Just press Play — As our developer audience knows, Android is more than simply a phone or tablet. It's a platform, an ecosystem, and an opportunity for developers around the world to build exciting services and apps that reach millions of people every day.

More: Telegraph, AllThingsD, ZDNet, GigaOM and Android and Me. Tweets: @levie

Jessica Leber / MIT Technology Review:

Google Wants to Help Apps Track You

More: The Official Google Blog and Pocketnow

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Google takes on Spotify with Google Play Music All Access subscription service, priced at $9.99 per month

More: LAPTOP Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Beat, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, Cult of Mac, The Verge, CNET, internetretailer.com, TechHive and Gotta Be Mobile. See also Mediagazer

Vic Gundotra / Google+:

New Google+: Stream, Hangouts, and Photos — Technology works best when it gets out of the way, and lets people do what makes them happiest: living, learning and loving. That's why, when we started the Google+ project nearly two years ago, we aimed to bring real-life sharing to software.

The Verge:

Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess

More: MacStories and Gizmodo

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Google Hangout video chats don't work on AT&T cellular connections on Android, but why?

More: Gizmodo, SlashGear and PhoneArena

Travis Green / Google Commerce:

Send money to friends with Gmail and Google Wallet — Paying back your friends is now as simple as sending an email, whether you're chipping in for lunch or reimbursing your roommate for your share of the rent. — Google Wallet is now integrated with Gmail, so you can quickly …

More: Wired, Engadget, memeburn, Pocketables, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Yahoo! News, SlashGear, GadgeTell, AndroidGuys and The Next Web

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Gmail is getting quick action buttons that let you RSVP to events, rate restaurants, view flights, and more

More: Gmail Blog, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, HotHardware.com News, TechCrunch and Technology Personalized

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Google Versus — Larry Page, on stage at I/O today: … Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook, and now a subscription music service after Spotify.

More: Slate, Marco.org, Technovia, CNET, NYT Bits and TechCrunch

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @jtemple, @kevinmarks and @davewiner

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google CEO Larry Page speaks at I/O about competition and negativity in innovation

More: TechHive, Gizmodo, LiveSide.net, The Verge, GeekWire, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, ZDNet, NEWS.com.au, AllThingsD, NYT Bits, The Network Garden, GigaOM, InfoWorld, Yahoo! News, Business Insider, Business Insider and VentureBeat

Tweets: @karaswisher and @reckless

Google LatLong:

Meet the new Google Maps: A map for every person and place — What if we told you that during your lifetime, Google could create millions of custom maps...each one just for you? — In the past, such a notion would have been unbelievable: a map was just a map, and you got the same one for New York City …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google Maps for desktop: hands-on with the world's most-advanced web app — Google I/O this year has a stronger developer focus than in years past, which meant that consumer-facing products sometimes didn't get much airtime during the keynote. That's certainly the case for the new version of Google Maps …

More: Softpedia News, AndroidOS.in, SlashGear, The Mac Observer, Business Insider, Geek.com and TechSpot

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Here's That Steve Jobs E-Book Email to James Murdoch — “Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99.” — That's an excerpt from an email sent by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to James Murdoch of News Corporation …

More: Gizmodo, AppleInsider and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Trey Ratcliff / Stuck in Customs:

Why the new Google server farm could displace Adobe Lightroom — Are you taking more photos per week in 2013 than 2012? How about 2010? My guess is yes. And it doesn't matter if you're a pro or just a casual photographer — it's really crazy how much visual data we are all generating.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google+ Photos Can Now Automatically Create Animated GIFs, Panoramas, HDR Images And Better Group Shots

More: Engadget and CNET

Amit Singhal / Inside Search:

A multi-screen and conversational search experience — Search has always been about giving you the best answers quickly, regardless of what device you use. At Google I/O today, we gave an update on where we are in building the search engine of the future—a search engine that can answer your questions …

More: Computerworld, TechCrunch, Telegraph, Marketing Land, CNN, The Next Web, The Huffington Post, CNET, Internet Evolution, ReadWrite, Digital Trends, Co.Labs, POPSUGAR, Ars Technica and Search Engine Land

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Is It Wrong to Use Data From the World's First ‘Nice’ Botnet? — When Morgan Marquis-Boire heard about the Internet Census 2012, he was excited. — Marquis-Boire, a Google engineer by day, spends his spare time looking for state-sponsored spyware, and here was something new that he could use.

More: Digital Trends. Tweets: @wired

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Leaping to Conclusions on a Pilot's Speculation — An article on the Bloomberg News Web site on Wednesday noted an airline pilot's claim that an iPhone could interfere with a plane's compasses during takeoff and landing. — But the report cited in the article isn't based on scientific research.

More: Examiner. Tweets: @jake_dwyer

Tom Bergin / Reuters:

Amazon UK pays $3.7 million tax on $6.5 billion sales — (Reuters) - Amazon.com's main UK unit paid taxes of $3.7 million on its 2012 income, despite group UK sales of $6.5 billion (4 billion pounds), its accounts published on Wednesday showed. — The company received 2.5 million pounds in government grants during the year.

More: London News, mirror, The Independent and Sky News

Guardian:

Amazon faces new questions over tax

Don Reisinger / CNET:

One-third of all smartphone sales were prepaid in Q1 — That's the word from The NPD Group, which found that 21 percent of purchased smartphones were prepaid last year. — Prepaid smartphone sales are starting to become more popular, according to new data from research firm The NPD Group.

More: TechSpot and GigaOM

Steve Dent / Engadget:

NEC's Medias X smartphone for DoCoMo features first-ever liquid-cooled CPU — NEC's just broken some new ground with the Medias X, the world's first liquid-cooled smartphone that was launched as part of DoCoMo's summer lineup. Rather than aiming it at the propeller-heads usually associated with that tech …

More: The Verge, TechEye, Geek.com, Phones Review, The Inquisitr, Ubergizmo, Macgasm, Electronista, Android Police and GSMArena.com

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Outfit Loses Company Status, Faces Penalties — During the summer of 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States, announcing their “six strikes” anti-piracy plan. — The parties founded the Center for Copyright Information …

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