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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 …
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 …
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 …
Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:
Square, Google Wallet Have Mobile-Challenged PayPal Shaking In Its Boots: Enter card.io  —  PayPal announced today that it has acquired card.io, its partner company that allows developers to use a smartphone to capture credit information.  —  In the mobile payments space …
More: Gizmodo and The Verge.  Tweets: @seansposito.  Thanks:@alexia
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 …
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 …
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.
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Yahoo reports Q2 revenues of $1.22 billion, earnings of $0.27 per share  —  Today Yahoo reported its second quarter financial performance.  The firm had revenues of $1.22 billion in the quarter, and diluted earnings of $0.27 per share.However, after all factors were considered, revenue was $1.1 billion.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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 …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Ouya's video game console Kickstarter tops $5M raised so far (exclusive interview)  —  The people have spoken.  And they want their Ouya.  The new video game console company, Ouya, has raised more than $5 million in a crowd-funded Kickstarter project in just seven days, with 22 more full days to go in the solicitation.
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 …
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.
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Emerges as Mint for Tech Managers  —  Longtime Google Inc. executive Marissa Mayer's appointment as Yahoo Inc.'s new chief executive fits squarely into a recent pattern: “Googlers” who were recruited to lead other Internet companies.  —  In the eyes of some Silicon Valley observers …
Tweets: @eldon

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Axios:
Sources: Paramount seeks a business-side counterpart to Bari Weiss, implying she would oversee editorial across CBS News and CNN if Paramount's WBD deal closes

Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becomes the first release of 2026 to cross $1B in global grosses; Michael Jackson biopic Michael is on the verge of crossing $900M

Peter Chapman / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA launches a probe into Paramount's $110B acquisition of WBD, and sets an initial ruling deadline on August 7; the EU has already set a July 7 deadline

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