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it's Wednesday December 7th 2011 I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com and it's time to get loaded Verizon may be planning to launch a streaming movie and TV service putting it in direct competition with Netflix Reuters reports of the companies and talks with programming partners for a possible 2012 launch for roughly 85 million homes in the u.s. companies like epics that stream content to Netflix have contracts that expire soon leaving the door open for partnerships potentially with Verizon google plus is adding a check-in feature starting next week similar to Foursquare Google+ users can take advantage of discounts by checking into a company through the social networking site a neat feature with Google Plus is that users have the option to share offers that they redeem with people in their circles with Facebook being the top competitor Google hopes adding new features like this will drive more people over to the service in other Google News its Android Market hit a significant milestone this week announcing that 10 billion apps have now been downloaded sure it's got a long way to catch up with Apple's established ecosystem iTunes and its 18 billion downloads but the Android growth has been steep and strong in honor of that nice round number Google will be selling select apps for just 10 cents over the next 10 days starting today the app Flipboard will now be available for the iPhone the super slick app for the iPad came out last year it takes content that your friends have shared inside your social networks and gives them a magazine style layout download it for free from the App Store according to Facebook users if sama bin Laden's death was the most memorable thing to happen in 2011 over the year the social networking site keeps track of what shared and what trends even breaking it down by country for example in the UK it shouldn't surprise anyone that the Royal Wedding ranked number one visit Facebook's own page to see all of 2011's highlights twitter also keeps track of top tweets according to the number of times a subject was tweeted per second and these results couldn't be any more different than Facebook's in 2011 Osama bin Laden's death didn't even crack the top five number one was the MTV Video Music Awards with nearly 9,000 tweets per second and since these results are based on worldwide data it reasons why the FIFA Women's World Cup and Brazil's elimination from the Copa America were amongst the most tweeted about those are your headlines for today I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com