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Google+ users up 30 percent since going public? | Digital Media - CNET News | |

Apple slashes fourth-quarter iPad orders, report says | The Digital Home - CNET News | |

Only One New iPhone This Year; It Will Look a Lot Like the iPhone 4 - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD | |

The Amazon tablet will look like a PlayBook -- because it basically is. - gdgt | |

Google Plus Users Can Now Share Their Circles | | ?

Check out this engagement chart, courtesy of Citigroup’s Mark Mahaney. It’s a neat illustration of the Web 2.0 era, and does a nice job of explaining why Google is so freaked out about Facebook, and why AOL and Yahoo seem to be in eternal turnaround mode.

The PAC, supported by company contributions, plans to back candidates in future elections. “FB PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals of promoting the value of innovation to our economy while giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected,” a spokesperson told The Hill.

Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple’s iPhone 5 launch event on Oct. 4, Mashable has learned. In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone app and may unveil an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace.

The app, it turns out, had become the hostage of a tense negotiation between Facebook and Apple executives for a deal to further integrate Facebook into the next version of Apple’s operating system, iOS 5. On Monday, news of the iPad app surfaced online again. MG Siegler, of the blog TechCrunch, discovered a blog post by Jeff Verkoeyen, a former Facebook employee who said he worked on Facebook’s iPad application. (His site may be down or overloaded.) He said he had quit the company after the iPad app had been completed and placed on shelves for several months.

Spotify has come under a lot of fire for a recent decision to force users to use Facebook to sign up for its streaming music service. The change, made not long after Facebook’s f8 developer conference on Thursday, removes the option of signing up with an email address and a password. Instead, users have to use Facebook Connect.

“The onus is on us is to take all the data and scrub it,” said Arturo Bejar, a Facebook director of engineering. “What really matters is what we say as a company and back it up.” In a statement, a Facebook spokesman said “no information we receive when you see a social plugin is used to target ads.” Bejar said Facebook is looking at ways to avoid sending the data altogether but that it will “take a while.”

Scientists agree if the results are confirmed, that it would force a fundamental rethink of the laws of nature.

Glassdoor.com, which allows employees to anonymously rates their employer, reports that 55 percent of employees disapprove of Ballmer and 45 percent approve, based on 1,691 ratings. An influential hedge fund manager called for Ballmer to quit in May. Microsoft’s board of directors supported Ballmer following the calls for him to quit. Microsoft’s nine-person board, including Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates, supported Ballmer at the end of May. Microsoft’s stock has suffered since Ballmer has been in charge but most analysts and investors feel it would be a hard task to find someone adequate to replace him. Is it really time for Ballmer to step down?

Apple has formally announced its upcoming media event after months of rumors and speculation. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 4 at 10am Pacific Daylight Time on Apple's campus in Cupertino—just as the latest rumors predicted—and will be led by Apple's new CEO Tim Cook. Apple's invitation graphics (shown above) include four iOS app icons (Calendar, Clock, Maps, and Phone) along with the quote "Let's talk iPhone." Apple doesn't usually get this specific when sending out its invitations, but apparently it's trying a new, more direct approach this time around.

Google to government: Let us build a faster Net | Deep Tech - CNET News | |

Santorum & Google's Search Quality Czar Matt Cutts Makes The Colbert Report | | ?

Don Draper Presents Facebook Timeline - YouTube | |

Larry Page: Biggest Threat To Google? "Google" | |

Oh, one more thing about the Amazon tablet: the second, better version is coming very soon - gdgt | |

YouTube founders relaunch Delicious, rebuilt from the ground up - latimes.com | | ?

Google+ traffic surges, closes in on MySpace, Linkedin - Yahoo! News | |

Google to Build Three Data Centers in Asia - WSJ.com | |

Why Facebook Works for All, Twitter for Some - NYTimes.com | |

Google CEO Larry Page Interview (Video) - Peter Kafka - News - AllThingsD | |

Earlier today, Microsoft and Samsung disclosed that they reached a cross-licensing agreement over patents. The key point: it’s a bad blow to the notion that Android is free. Instead, it’s more like “free” with huge Android OEM partners like HTC and now Samsung agreeing to pay Microsoft to use Android. Google must be pissed off.

Apple to stream iPhone event live for press at its Covent Garden store | |

Goldman: Microsoft Is Getting $444 Million Annually From Android Patent Licenses | |

RT @mashable: WATCH: Jeff Bezos Introduces Amazon’s Kindle Fire [VIDEO] -

RT @TheNextWeb: iPhone 5 to be HSPA+ "4G" enabled, according to China Unicom by @m4tt on @TNWapple

Amazon tablet costs $209.63 to make, IHS estimates | Reuters | |