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July 16, 2012, 8:45 AM

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New York Times:

Apple May Meet Tablet Competition With a Smaller iPad — The tech companies are at it again — trying to catch the blockbuster iPad in a race to win the tablet market. — Google on Friday began shipping its Nexus 7, which is smaller and less expensive than Apple's iPad …

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Smaller iPad Costing “Significantly Less” Than $499 Coming This Fall, According to NYT — The New York Times has added to the concerto of reports hinting at the arrival of an iPad with a 7.85" screen this fall. Two weeks ago, Bloomberg offered a similar report, also citing anonymous sources …

More: The Verge, IntoMobile, Mobile and Know Your Mobile

Seth Fiegerman / Business Insider:

Amazon Is Working On A Bigger Kindle Fire Tablet To Compete With The iPad [REPORT] — The New York Times has finally jumped on the iPad Mini rumor mill with a new report about the size and expected release date sometime of the device. The publication failed to surface any new details …

More: Know Your Mobile

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

MSNBC.com Renamed to NBCNews.com as Microsoft and NBC Divorce — On Sunday night, MSNBC.com did something that successful Web sites almost never do: it renamed itself. — The site became NBCNews.com, signifying the end of a relationship between NBC and Microsoft that dates back to the earliest days of the commercial Web.

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Apple Store overnights happening July 24. Mountain Lion launch the next day? — We've heard a few whispers (3 and counting) that Apple Stores both in the United States and overseas have planned overnights for Tuesday, July 24th. With OS X Mountain Lion launching “in July”, according to Apple …

More: TechnoBuffalo, Pulse2 Technology …, ZDNet, Apple Bitch, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo UK and iClarified

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

An iPad Lover's Take On The Nexus 7 — Trolls, feel free to skip to the bottom of this column and post your comments immediately without reading a word. Actually, who are we kidding — you didn't make it this far. — Everyone else, brace yourselves. You may want small children to leave the room.

More: Inquirer and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @spencerchen

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Evernote Wants To Be The Automatic, Trusted Place To Store Your Life [Interview] — Evernote, the multi-platform app that lets you capture notes, audio and images when you are on the go, and then access those mementos wherever you want to next, has carved out a position as one of the more …

Reyhan Harmanci / BuzzFeed:

The Most Important Tech Company You've Never Heard Of — Information about every cell phone in the country is in a Neustar database. Which is why it's kind of weird that 400 or so companies trust them to deal with law enforcement surveillance requests. — A Delaware-based company …

More: Betabeat

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Steam store search shows categories for non-gaming apps — The Steam app for Android shows a number of new categories that have little to do with gaming, which could be a shred of evidence that Valve is considering different kinds of apps for its popular game distribution service.

More: Engadget and VG247

Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:

Tax Break Nears End For Online Shoppers — Republican Governors, in Need of Revenue, Drop Opposition — Republican governors, eager for new revenue to ease budget strains, are dropping their longtime opposition to imposing sales taxes on online purchases, a significant political shift …

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Here is why Facebook bought Spool — Over the weekend, news reports emerged that Facebook was buying Spool, a mobile-oriented social bookmarking service started by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer. At the surface, this seems like yet another acqua-hire but scratch a little deeper and you start …

More: Techie Buzz

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days — U.S. venture capitalists put $8.1 billion into 812 deals in the second quarter of 2012, their single largest quarter in more than a decade, according to CB Insights. — It's clear factors like the greater American economy …

More: GamesIndustry International

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:

Some Thoughts on App.net — A few weeks ago Dalton Caldwell, founder of imeem and Picplz, wrote a well received blog post titled What Twitter could have been where he laments the fact that Twitter hasn't fulfilled some of the early promise developers saw in it as a platform. Specifically he writes

Fred Wilson / A VC:

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