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Google Q2 Revenue 32% Plus, Google+ 10 Million Users are Mostly Male

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Google continues to wow the world, this time with some real pluses. In its Q2 earnings announcement, the search engine giant revealed that its revenue grew 30 percent year-on-year in the second quarter to $9.03 billion, according to the company's report released on Thursday. Google+ has gathered 10 million users in its first two weeks of beta test.
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Can Google+ Deal a Killer Blow to Facebook? Not Really

After the mega failure of Google Wave and Google Buzz , Google may have hit the bull’s eye with Google+ in social networking ‘circles’ by smartly integrating Facebook and Twitter with a smattering of additional features. But the fact is, it is yet to get into public domain and prove successful there.
HTC High-Up Claims Apple Legal Policy is Killing iPhone ‘Cool’ Factor

HTC Infringes on Two Apple Patents ITC Says

Apple won a preliminary ruling from the International Trade Commission as it seeks put an injunction on rival HTC to halt what it believes is infringing its intellectual property.
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U.S., Romania arrest more than 100 for cyber scams

U.S. and Romanian police have arrested more than 100 people in a year-long effort to stop Internet fraud schemes that have cost Americans more than $100 million, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
RIM Co-CEOs Lazaridis and Balsillie attend the firm's annual general meeting of shareholders in Waterloo

Why Does RIM Have Two CEOs?

RIM shareholders have long questioned this executive management arrangement at the top, and now with the stock in a deep free-fall (shares have plunged about 60 percent since February), calls are getting louder for either or both of the CEOs to step down
Google

Is Google Changing Your Brain? Study Says So

It has become a part of the everyday vernacular to say, Oh, just Google it, in order to find information not readily known. Because Google has seemingly become a part of life, says a new study that indicates the search engine is altering our brains.
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Investors toast Google results, shares surge

Shares of Google Inc surged as much as 13.5 percent on Friday, a day after blockbuster results and signs of success in mobile and social networking revived hopes the Internet titan was getting back on a growth track.
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Is Google Changing the Way we Store Memory?

A recent study out of Columbia University headed by Betsy Sparrow argues that the rise of Internet search engines like Google has actually changed the way our brains remember information.
Microsoft

Is Microsoft Following Google Again?

On Friday, technology blogs picked up on a possible Microsoft social media application called Tulalip. The app said on its front page With Tulalip you can find what you need and share what you know easier than ever, before Microsoft developers quickly took it down.
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Is Apple iPhone 5 Arriving Even Late Due to A5 Chip Overheating?

When will the next generation of Apple iPhone - iPhone5 - be launched? Well, there have been a lot of speculations regarding that and many others are surfacing every other day. As per a Chinese website, Apple has been delaying the launch of iPhone 5 due to the A5 chip overheating and not for Japan tsunami or the Verizon iPhone release.
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Apple Could Shift from Samsung as Chip Supplier: Report

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has started trial manufacturing of the next generation A6 chips for Apple, according to a Reuters report, citing a source familiar with the matter. This is a sign that the iPad maker is shifting from its traditional chip supplier, Samsung.
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Networked restaurants: from finance to funky tunes

Making money from social networks is the holy grail for tech startups, and a Moscow firm reckons it has found a way to do so by creating a front-to-back restaurant management system that includes a loyalty scheme.
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Apple Source Confirms Macbook Air, Mac OS X Lion Details

Speculation over the new Macbook Air and Mac OS X Lion software hit new heights this week as news outlets pegged releases for Thursday -- but an Apple employee pointed to a different date, while also shedding light on what would make it inside.

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