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July 18, 2012, 8:20 AM

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Sriram Krishnan:

Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer — OMG, did you see that Marissa Mayer is now CEO of Yahoo? — That was one of many messages I got from current and ex-Yahoos on yesterday's news. Having recently exited a short stint at Yahoo as an engineering manager and having had hundreds …

Tweets: @chirag_mehta, @joshelman, @ai, @mattrosoff, @rsarver and @codinghorror

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

What the Internet Wants From Marissa Mayer, in Five Words — Earlier this year, in a brilliant, eviscerating, and really sort of heartbreaking essay, Mat Honan told the tale of “How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet.” … As an epilogue, and as an elegy, Honan's piece was powerful …

More: CNET, Techie Buzz, People.com, Forbes, Daily Dot and WebProNews. Tweets: @mm

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations — There are two views of former Google VP and new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in the industry. — One is that she is a brand name product leader who played a crucial role in helping Google develop its most valuable business …

More: TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal, The Network Garden, Social Media and Quora

Tweets: @shannonvarney, @caseynewton, @reillymark and @karaswisher

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Steven Levy / Wired:

Big Tech: The Ultimate Googler Is Yahoo's Ideal CEO

More: CNET, GigaOM, ready,fire,aim, New York Times, BuzzFeed and Mashable!. See also Mediagazer

Hill Ferguson / The PayPal Blog:

PayPal Acquires card.io — I'm excited to announce that PayPal has acquired card.io, a San Francisco-based company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone. — We first met with the team at card.io when we were working …

More: Inquirer, Fast Company, Techie Buzz, CNET, TechCrunch, textually.org, Ubergizmo, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, PC Advisor, Bits, ZDNet, Business Insider, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget and GigaOM. Thanks:@paypal

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Square, Google Wallet Have Mobile-Challenged PayPal Shaking In Its Boots: Enter card.io

More: Gizmodo and The Verge. Tweets: @seansposito. Thanks:@alexia

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

AT&T gets into shared data: ‘Mobile Share’ plans coming late August — Just over a month after Verizon announced Share Everything, AT&T is getting into the burgeoning shared data game (as it's been saying it would) with Mobile Share, a tiered set of plans that allow subscribers to split …

More: Business Insider, CNET, Seattle Times, The Next Web, BGR, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, PR Newswire and Reuters

Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard … When we began planning how touch and new types of PCs might work on Windows 8, we recognized the need to provide an effective method for text entry on tablets and other touch screen PCs. Since Windows XP SP1, which had Tablet PC features built in …

More: The Verge, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, The Droid Guy, Engadget, Neowin, parislemon, WinBeta and BuzzFeed

Intel:

Intel Reports Second-Quarter Revenue of $13.5 Billion — Intel Corporation today reported quarterly revenue of $13.5 billion, operating income of $3.8 billion, net income of $2.8 billion and EPS of $0.54. The company generated approximately $4.7 billion in cash from operations …

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Tech Report, Mashable!, HotHardware.com News, The Register, TechCrunch, ZDNet, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Engadget, Mercury News, Reuters and Business Insider

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Intel: 20 Atom-based Windows 8 tablets in the pipeline, and 140 ultrabook designs

More: CNET, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily and AllThingsD

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Will AT&T Charge For 3G FaceTime? CEO Randall Stephenson Says It's ‘Too Early’ To Know — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson took the stage this afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, where he was asked about a recent report in 9toMac that AT&T might charge customers extra …

More: Engadget, Apple Bitch, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocketables, SlashGear, Macgasm, parislemon, PhoneArena, TechSpot, MacRumors, Tecca, Geek.com, Wired and Mobile Magazine. Thanks:@thepeterha

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Users Targeted By Spam, Possible Address Leak To Blame? (Update: Dropbox Sees Outage) — Some Dropbox users have begun reporting that their accounts are under attack from spam, but what's more troubling is that, in select cases, the spam is hitting accounts where users claim …

More: PC World, Krebs on Security, Softpedia News, Neowin, CNET, ZDNet and Gizmodo UK

James Kendrick / ZDNet:

Google: Your Nexus 7 will ship this week or next — Summary: Lots of people are anxiously waiting word on when their shiny new Nexus 7 tablet will be shipping, while others are already receiving theirs. This is the official word from Google as of today. — James Kendrick — Follow @jkendrick

More: Business Insider, Telegraph, Gotta Be Mobile, Droid Life, The Verge, Android Community and Softpedia News. Thanks:@jkendrick

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit — Last week, Betaworks, a small, privately held company in New York bought a website called Digg for $500,000. — This was shocking news to the Internet industry. — Just six years ago, Digg was a hot startup fielding big buyout offers.

Tweets: @kevinrose and @kevinrose. Thanks:@mattlynley

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Quietly Acq-hires Part Of Design Firm Cuban Council For Google+ — In the midst of today's news whirl, this tidbit slipped through the cracks; Part of the design team Cuban Council has apparently been acq-hired by Google, according to a note on their blog.

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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Already Valued at $4B, China's Xiaomi Has Declared War on Apple — China's answer to Apple occupies the 12th floor of a staid office tower in a sprawling commercial area of Beijing. It has no signage on the building's exterior, so the only clue that suggests I'm in the right place …

More: CHINAdaily

Cade Metz / Wired:

NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate — The Senate Armed Service Committee isn't exactly pleased with the NSA's Google-like database. — Image: jim.greenhill/Flickr — In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google.

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Import ban on Motorola's Android products takes effect Wednesday — The Motorola Xoom is one of 18 Android products affected by a pending import ban. — Motorola — An import ban on Motorola Android devices ordered by the US International Trade Commission is scheduled to take effect tomorrow.

More: Inquirer, digitaltrends.com, PC World, Reuters, AllThingsD, Associated Press, Android Phone Fans, Android News, Rumours …, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, FOSS Patents, CNET, Pocketnow, BGR, VentureBeat, 9to5Google and MacDailyNews

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Wins another Major iPhone & iOS Interface Patent — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-five newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In today's first granted patent report we focus entirely on a single patent that represents another major iPhone and iOS interface victory for Apple.

More: Fortune, Wired, The Verge, Android Phone Fans, Pocketables, AppleInsider and CNET

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

California passes bill legalizing voice-activated hands-free texting while driving — California is taking a step back from laws that place an outright ban on texting and emailing while driving with a modification to the state's vehicle code that was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on Friday.

More: SlashGear

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Real-time rules: Google to retire the old version of Google Analytics — Google announced today that the company is ready to retire the old version of Google Analytics, which it has continued to support for the past year. — If you use Google Analytics to track your site's traffic and trends …

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, CNET, Google Analytics Blog, ZDNet, Softpedia News, WebProNews and TechCrunch

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Broken Glass: Father of wearable computing allegedly assaulted — Wearable computing pioneer Steve Mann has allegedly been attacked by employees of a French McDonald's after sporting his own version of Google's Glass AR headset, with the EyeTap eyepiece grabbing snapshots of those involved.

More: CNET, The Huffington Post, LAPTOP Magazine, Daily Mail, Business Insider, msnbc.com, Mashable!, The Firewall, PC Magazine, Physical assault … and Geek Beat Technology News. Thanks:@t_chrisburns

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

HTC countersues Apple over two U.S. patents it recently acquired from HP — The latest escalation in the “smartphone patent wars” is that HTC today brought infringement counterclaims against Apple in the Southern District of Florida over two patents it acquired from HP last December.

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Engadget, PC World, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider and CNET

Stephanie Mlot / PC Magazine:

Google Adds Panoramic Antarctica Images to Street View — Google is bringing the freezing Antarctic weather to the comfort of your climate-controlled home. — Today, the search giant announced additional panoramic imagery of historic Antarctic locations as part of the juggernaut's World Wonders site …

More: CNET, 9to5Google, Twin Cities, TechnoBuffalo, Los Angeles Times, Google LatLong, Techland, The Next Web, Wired and Boing Boing

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Facebook and Washington state join forces to register voters — Collaborating with Microsoft, Washington state and Facebook partner to create an app that lets the state's residents register to vote via the social network. — Follow @darakerr — Washington State Election's Facebook page.

More: Associated Press, The Verge, Ars Technica, NationalJournal.com, GeekWire, Forbes, WebProNews and AllFacebook

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Report: Chrome For iOS Now Owns 1.5% Of iOS Browser Market — At its I/O developer conference last month, Google launched Chrome for iOS. Despite the fact that it's being held back by Apple's security protocols and can't use its own rendering engine, Chrome has been among the most popular free downloads …

More: Chitika Insights, App Advice, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com and AppleInsider. Thanks:@forrestkoba

Reuters:

Facebook shares slide as user growth in question — (Reuters) - Shares of Facebook Inc (FB.O) fell about 1 percent on Tuesday, extending the previous day's losses after an investment analyst reported a decline in U.S. users for the No. 1 social network. — Capstone analyst Rory Maher …

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Marketing Pilgrim, CNET, StreetInsider.com and Los Angeles Times

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