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Microsoft unveils Surface tablet to rival iPad

By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech June 19, 2012: 9:10 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (CNNMoney) -- Upending one of the world's most successful business strategies over the past three decades, Microsoft has developed a Windows tablet computer of its own design.
The company on Monday unveiled the Surface, a PC tablet that runs a yet-to-be released version of its Windows operating system called Windows 8. The device is the first commercial PC that Microsoft has directly designed and sold.
The tablet features many of the now-standard tablet specs, including a 10.6 inch high-definition touchscreen and front and rear facing cameras, which all fit into a 9.3 millimeter, 1.5-pound frame.

BBC News

Facebook buys Israeli facial recognition firm Face.com

Social networking giant Facebook has decided to buy an Israeli startup specialising in facial recognition technology - Face.com.
The firm already provides software that allows Facebook's members to identify and tag photos of their friends.

V3.co.uk

Google claims Google+ service yet to reach hypergrowth stage

by Rosalie Marshall 

Google has declared that it has yet to reach the intense period of growth with its social networking product Google+ that has been experienced by competitors such as Facebook and Twitter.

Speaking at the Le Web event in London Google product management vice president, Bradley Horowitz, said time was still on the company's side.
"Many of the most successful social networks took four years to get to the hypergrowth stage. I don't think we have got to that hypergrowth stage. Eleven months in the history of social networking is not a long time."