Week in review: Microsoft’s secret social project Tulalip leaked

Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days:

Oops: Microsoft accidentally reveals secret social project — Microsoft is working on a social/design project called Tulalip, according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com recently.

Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran out of disk space” — Many Google+ users saw a massive amount of notification email messages from the service last week, and now Google’s head of social, Vic Gundotra, has an explanation.

Why Apple’s ITC patent victory over HTC Android phones is scary — Apple on Friday dealt a serious legal blow to HTC and the Android platform in general.

Netflix raises plan prices by 60%, with 4100 negative comments and counting — Netflix on Tuesday announced significant changes to its pricing plans that include a 60% price bump on combination DVD and streaming plans.

TouchType uses the entire internet to upgrade its Android keyboard — To upgrade its Android keyboard, TouchType drew on the combined linguistic intelligence of the entire online universe.

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Here’s what you missed at MobileBeat 2011 — We just wrapped our MobileBeat 2011 conference this week, which featured many notable speakers including Square’s Keith Rabois, Yelp’s Jeremy Stoppelman, and PayPal’s Laura Chambers.

Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games — Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week and this is our chance to thank our participants, speakers and sponsors as well as fill you in on the important things that transpired at the vent.

Spotify launches in U.S., users can wait for an invite or pay to get inside — The much-hyped European music service Spotify launched this week in the U.S.

Google’s record-breaking Q2: Over $9B in revenue, 32% growth — Google announced its second quarter earnings this week, soundly trouncing Wall Street expectations.

Idealab CEO: Google+ will be fastest service ever to hit 100M users (and why he may be right) — Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of the business incubator Idealab, has high hopes for Google+.