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The cat is out of the bag that Facebook is going to launch something big at its developer conference f8 this week.

Source: Facebook To Launch Read, Listened, Watched, And Want Buttons

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/19/facebooks-new-buttons/
http://betabeat.com/2011/09/why-80-percent-of-web-projects-are-total-bullshit-a-freelancers-rant/ By Edward Case 9/19/11 4:11pm Share this: This is a guest post from the pseudonymous Edward Case , a Brooklyn-based freelance developer, which was adapted from an email to Betabeat.

Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples of how its trying to diversify for a later day. It has bought the German Groupon clone Daily Deal and it has started rolling out its mobile payment service, Google Wallet. That raises questions about how and when Google plans to link up these new commercial operations. Daily Deal, which already has operations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, also has plans to expand to Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, according TNW , which first reported the acquisition.

Google Buys A Groupon Clone And Launches Wallet In Quest For Commerce

http://paidcontent.org/2011/09/19/419-google-pushes-portfolio-beyond-ads-buys-daily-deal-launches-google-wall/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-18/at-t-said-to-approach-smaller-rivals-to-sell-assets-save-bid-for-t-mobile.html AT&T Inc. (T) is approaching smaller rivals including MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) and Leap Wireless International Inc.

AT&T Said to Seek Asset Sales to Save Bid for T-Mobile

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220105/Metro_apps_to_be_sold_only_from_Microsoft_s_app_store

Metro Apps to Be Sold Only From Microsoft's App Store | PCWorld

News September 19, 2011 06:01 AM ET Computerworld - Metro apps for Windows 8 will be available only through Microsoft's own store, the company said at its BUILD Windows conference last week.
http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html

blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html

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