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Today in Tech: Google + tops 10 million users

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* One third-party reported it, but now it's official: Google+ grew to 10 million in two weeks, with users sharing more than 1 billion items being shared daily. "We're only at 1% of what's possible," Google CEO Larry Page said during this week's conference call. "Google's just getting MORE

Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet

Signs of exuberance are everywhere: Tesla roadsters, soaring real estate, overpriced vinegar - and eye-popping valuations for pre-IPO companies like Facebook and Zynga. So why are so many Silicon Valley denizens reluctant to use the B-word?

By David A. Kaplan, contributor

FORTUNE -- Michael Dreyfus, 49, is a leading real estate broker in the heart of Silicon Valley. During the winter he sensed the housing market was coming back, though he hadn't MORE

Today in Tech: Why you should switch to Google +

Fortune's curated selection of the holiday weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.

"At MySpace we had the luxury of having social first, and building the products on top of that layer. Then I choked and Facebook realized that vision." -- MySpace founder Tom Anderson (The Telegraph)

* Facebook may reportedly have nearly 700 million active users, but Google + has MORE

MySpace's doom was in its DNA

News Corp. will reportedly sell the early social media star at a fraction of what it paid in 2005. But the company's problems go back to its earliest days.

Today in Tech: The Winklevoss twins back down

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* Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled game maker PopCap is reportedly in final talks to get scooped up  by Electronic Arts for $1 billion. According to TechCrunch, the company already pulls in revenues of between $100 million and $150 million (TechCrunch)

* Foursquare will announce its largest partnership to date, a MORE

Today in Tech: Did Skype fire execs to avoid pricey payouts?

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"If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company." - Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO (GeekWire)

* Bloomberg reports that Skype fired several high-ranking executives -- including vice presidents David Gurle, Christopher Dean, Russ Shaw, MORE

Today in Tech: Facebook hires ex-White House secretary

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* Apple Senior Vice President Ron Johnson, the guy largely credited for masterminding the Apple Store retail experience, is reportedly leaving for J.C. Penney, where he'll be the franchise's new president and eventual chief executive. In some ways, the move may not be all that surprising -- Johnson actually MORE

Today in Tech: Google buys AdMeld

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* Google scooped up ad optimization platform AdMeld for some $400 million according to TechCrunch. The four-year-old company had just recently raised $30 million in venture capital from the Foundry Group, Spark Capital, and Norwest Venture Partners. (TechCrunch)

* Has texting peaked? That's what a recent story in The Wall Street Journal suggests, with a MORE

Today in Tech: DVD sales drop, streaming services soar

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Several high-profile Facebook employees have recently left the company, including Jim Midgal, director of business development, Jonathan Heiliger, VP of technical architecture, and Marcel Laverdet, one of three employees who got their jobs by once hacking the social network to resemble MySpace.
(Business Insider)
AOL's latest quarterly earnings are in, MORE

Today in Tech: RIP, Friendster (sort of)

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Remember Friendster? The social network pioneer which launched in 2002 and lost ground to MySpace and then Facebook, is deleting all user-uploaded photos, blogs, comments and groups -- effectively killing off its roots -- repositioning itself as a social entertainment site, and focusing on Asian users. MORE