Joe Nocera / New York Times:
On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble — Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google's day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company's plan to raise the amount it charged for in-house day care by 75 percent.

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone 3G lines start at the Apple Cube... one week early — So we heard some really over-eager folks have decided to get a jump on the iPhone 3G line — a really, really big jump. Obviously, we had to head down and see if it was true... and it is. Right now, about ten people have started …

San Francisco Chronicle:
Merchants angry over getting yanked by Yelp — Four years ago, Geri Rebstock started using Yelp, a popular site for consumers to review local businesses and services. She critiqued her favorite veterinarian, a neighborhood print shop and an acupuncturist who took care of her bad wrist.

Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy — The word “privacy” now appears on Google's home page, with a link to the company's privacy policy. — With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the growing controversy over whether its previous practice ran afoul of a California law …

BBC:
Google ‘faces Street View block’ — Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. — Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken.

Yahoo! News:
Firefox Browser Share Tops 19 Percent as Record Set — The Mozilla Foundation has set a world record and achieved new heights in its battle for browser market share. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 Web browser set a record for the most downloads in a day.

Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube, the Web's largest video site by far. — The order raised concerns among YouTube users and privacy advocates …

Karion / RADAR:
GAWKER CUTS STAFF PAY RATE FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE QUARTER — Who ever said the future of media was going to feel great? With the current traffic success of Gawker—70+ posts a day, amazing SEO results, and relentlessly hammered-home top stories to maximize numbers—comes a downside.

Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28... Late one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just released, Advanced Search and Preferences (at the time catchily called “Language, Display, and Filtering Options” :)).

Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Closing Dallas, Denver Office — Google is closing its office in Denver and Dallas, as someone at Friendfeed posted today. “Employees have to choose relocation or severance,” a former Google employee (according to her blog's about page) wrote, adding that the reason was consolidation; “Someone decided the ROI wasn't there.”

Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Jobs 2.0 — Pity whoever has to follow Steve Jobs at Apple. — Not every great company stumbles into oblivion after the departure of a visionary founder. The problem: Jobs has left once before, and until he came back, it looked like Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) would be one of those companies.

Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: July 3, 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: July 8, 2008 — This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on July 8, 2008.

Brendon Chase / CNET News.com:
Stolen: Google employees' personal data — Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. — Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies use to handle human resources functions …

Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple lops $500 off the price of SSD-based MacBook Air — With the price of NAND flash memory continuing its steady sequential decline, Apple Inc. this month cut the price of its Solid State Drive (SSD)-equipped MacBook Air by half a grand, AppleInsider has discovered.

Arn / MacRumors:
1.8GHz SSD MacBook Air Drops $500 — Apple has quietly dropped the price of the high end MacBook Air by $500. — The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598.

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool — Updated: Nvidia said its fiscal second quarter revenue will fall well short of targets because of weak demand, pricing pressure from AMD's ATI and a faulty graphics processors on older notebook systems.

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
WTF! US Court Declares You Have No Privacy On YouTube — You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now.

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Might Offer Carl Icahn Two Seats-But, Uh-Oh, He Wants Four — Yahoo leadership, trying to stave off a major clash at its annual meeting on Aug. 1 with activist investor Carl Icahn (pictured here), is contemplating offering him two board seats to assuage him, said several sources close to the situation.

Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Yahoo! Property Breakdown and Sum of the Parts — Rumors are circulating about another attempt by Microsoft to acquire part of Yahoo!. The latest rumors suggest that Microsoft will try to buy Yahoo! Search with a media company (i.e. Time Warner or News Corp) absorbing the rest of the business.

Jim Reed / BBC:
Virgin defends file-sharing campaign — Virgin Media has told Newsbeat there is “absolutely no possibility” of taking legal action or banning internet users as part of a campaign against illegal file-sharing on its broadband network. — The firm has sent 800 letters to customers …