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Today in Tech: Apple created how many U.S. jobs?

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* In a first for Apple (AAPL), the Cupertino-based tech giant published the results of a study reporting that it had "created or supported" 514,000 American jobs. Abroad, Apple says it has created almost 700,000 jobs. (Apple via The New York Times)

* Shares of Yelp, the local business reviews site, climbed 64% Friday MORE

Today in Tech: What's Google doing with $120 million?

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* How the music industry adapted to social media. (Brian Solis)

* Private social network Path came under fire in recent weeks after reports hit that the startup was storing users' address book information on their servers. Since then, the company has apologized and reversed its actions, however New York Times columnist argues MORE

Today in Tech: Will Facebook file for IPO today?

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* If the flurry of recent reports prove correct, Facebook could file for an IPO later today, seeking to raise up to $5 billion. (CNNMoney)

* Amazon (AMZN) announced its latest earnings and while revenues climbed 35% to nearly $17.4 billion, the figure was at least a billion dollars less than MORE

Today in Tech: Did the Kindle Fire sell better than expected?

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"Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of the day."
-- Mikael Hed, CEO of Angry Birds-maker Rovio Mobile (The Guardian)

* Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan raised his estimates for sales of the Kindle Fire during the fourth quarter from five MORE

Today in Tech: Research in Motion co-CEOs resign

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* Research in Motion (RIMM) co-CEO Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down after two decades of running the company together. Taking their place: Thorsten Heins, who joined RIM in 2007 and had been serving was one of two chief operating officers, overseeing software, hardware and sales. In an interview, Heins believes MORE

Today in Tech: Is Google launching an iTunes competitor?

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"Little startups are ridiculously overfunded... The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups." -- Entrepreneur Sean Parker (TechCrunch)

* According to John Stanton, chairman of the venture capital firm Trilogy MORE

Dick Costolo: Twitter has 100 million active users

The rapidly growing social network held a so-called State of the Union to reveal new stats about its ongoing rise.

FORTUNE -- This week, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo hosted a small gathering at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco to give a brief update on the social network's growth. His self-described "State of the Union" highlighted a number of new user stats. The overall message? That Twitter thinks it is in a MORE

Brainstorm video: Dick Costolo on Twitter's business model

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sat down with Fortune's Adam Lashinsky at Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, CO to discuss the company's future.

Below is an unedited transcript of the talk.

ADAM LASHINSKY:  Dick, thanks for being here.

DICK COSTOLO:  Sure.

ADAM LASHINSKY:  Welcome back to Aspen.  You were here last year.  Biz Stone was with us the year before that.

I feel like we have a small elephant in the room, and we should get it MORE

Biz Stone departs, Trouble@Twitter continues

Another one of Twitter's founders, Biz Stone, will leave the start-up.

FORTUNE -- In the continuing game of musical chairs among executives at Twitter, another of the company's founders is leaving. In a June 28 blog post, Biz Stone announced he will join founder Evan Williams, who left the CEO position last fall, and Twitter's former vice president of product Jason Goldman, who left the company abruptly in December. The trio MORE

Twitter: All grown up, but can it find a job?

No need to question Twitter's bona fides as a useful service, but can Costolo, Dorsey and team figure out how to start paying the rent?

The first in a series of articles leading up to Fortune Brainstorm Tech, a conference from July 19-21 in Aspen, Colorado that will round up many of the best and brightest thinkers in technology. Our coverage will examine the progress of companies that presented last year MORE