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UK property search websiteZooplahas announced a partnership with News International which will see it power The Times, The Sunday Times and and The Sun’s property sections on the publications’ respective websites. News International is the UK newspaper publishing division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, and under the terms of the deal, Zoopla will exclusively power the property search function for all three websites, replacing Globrix, and News International will begin promoting its new online property offering more extensively via its national newspapers....

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m terrible with bookmarks. Most of them get stuffed into a folder to be forgotten for months until I perform my ritual cleansing of links, deleting them without ever having visited again. Zootool [App Store, $1.99] offers a great alternative to traditional bookmarks, especially for sharing links with media content. Theweb versionof Zootool’s visual bookmarking service is already a fantastic way to gather text, video and image bookmarks from your web browsing....

China’sZTE Corp, the world’s 4th largest phone manufacturer, sure isn’t conservative with its 2011 sales forecast. The company claims that it will not only aim for a double or triple in sales growth in smartphones, but instead aims for 5-fold growth to boost its sales up by 30-40%. To reach this goal, the Chinese manufacturer will be focusing on the smartphone market, a senior official said. To further boost its position in the smartphone market, it will launch new models and a tablet running Google’sAndroidsoftware....

It’s been nearly a year sincethat unfortunately unforgettable photo of Mark Zuckerberg surfing in Hawaiilooking like a White Walker surfaced. And just so it doesn’t have the chance to completely fade from memory, ol’ Zuck’s got your back with a little video of himself on the water again — and he looks more patriotic than you will ever be. In the clip captioned, “Happy July 4th!,” Zuckerberg is surfing while majestically holding up an American flag… and it’s set to John Denver’s ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads....

Top Google employees who have amassed many followers on the company’s social networking site, Google+, have disappeared overnight from the top 100 users list atSocialStatistics.com. It seems that the data on who these users are following and who is following them have disappeared from their profiles, which could point to a number of theories — from experiments with privacy features to a new company policy for Googlers on the network designed to curb the popularity contest....