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July 30, 2012, 4:50 AM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo: Free Food! Friday Afternoon All-Hands! New Work Spaces! Fab Swag! — Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer's second week is showing even more signs of what the company will be like under her regime. — In short: It will be just like Google from whence she came.

More: Telegraph, Mashable! and VentureBeat

Tweets: @mm, @michaelpilla and @greghertzke

Dave McClure:

Pink is the New Purple! Dear Marissa: Think Different. — I'd like to write a different Open Letter to Marissa Mayer, that plays to both her strengths, as well as those of Yahoo. It's a bit off the wall, but if you think it thru with me, I bet you'll agree with the strategy.

Tweets: @prtini and @jowyang

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Samsung Makes Another Case to Have Apple's “Sony Style” Put Before Jury — One of the key debates raging ahead of next week's big patent trial is whether Samsung will be able to present a jury with evidence that Apple's iPhone was heavily influenced by Sony.

More: Computerworld, San Francisco Chronicle and PhoneArena. Tweets: @bigjsl

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Google at Center of Samsung-Apple Phone Patent Trial — When Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. face off in a high-stakes patent trial Monday, there will be another elephant in the room: Google Inc. — Though the litigants are the two largest makers of smartphones …

More: Gizmodo, New York Times, Bloomberg, AllThingsD and Telegraph

Nate Ralph / The Verge:

Apple refutes claim it cribbed notes from Sony, reveals prototype ‘Purple’ — When we last checked in on the Apple vs Samsung trial, filings revealed Samsung's aggressive plans to beat Apple, but also suggested a glimpse at Apple's Sony-inspired design process.

More: Engadget and Edible Apple

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

New purported next-generation iPhone parts photos show fully assembled device — You'll remember that 9to5Mac was the first to show photos of purported next-generation iPhone parts. Since then, many of the details - including the smaller dock connector - were affirmed by multiple mainstream reports.

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Disruptions: Innovations Snuffed Out by Craigslist — In 1995, a good-hearted programmer named Craig Newmark thought of a way to make newspaper classified ad listings simple, and in turn, people's lives easier. His free Web site, called Craigslist, quickly gained millions of users.

More: Uncrunched and TechCrunch. Tweets: @craignewmark, @mat, @parneetg, @markmilian and @nickbilton

Reuters:

Don't tweet if you want TV, London fans told — (Reuters) - Sports fans attending the London Olympics were told on Sunday to avoid non-urgent text messages and tweets during events because overloading of data networks was affecting television coverage. — Commentators on Saturday's men's …

More: ZDNet, The Next Web, I4U News, AllThingsD, The Verge, Guardian, The Next Web, paidContent, CNET, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, USA Today and The Register. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Let's Not Get Too Excited About Google Fiber... Yet — Earlier this week, Google provided details of its Google Fiber rollout in Kansas City. To hear some blogs tell it, it's like the heavens will open from above and grant Kansas City blazing-fast Internet and competitive TV packages …

More: Zatz Not Funny! and PC World. Thanks:@eldon

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

Google Fiber Is The Most Disruptive Thing The Company's Done Since Gmail

More: TechCrunch and The Verge

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Korea's KT Telecom hacked, 8.7m customers' data sold to telemarketers — South Korea's KT Telecom has admitted that hackers infiltrated its system to conduct a five-month long campaign which saw them grab and then sell personal details belonging to an estimated 8.7 million of its customer base, Reuters reports.

More: PC World, ZDNet, Reuters, Bloomberg, Yonhap News Agency, The Verge, ZDNet, Neowin, Associated Press and MarketWatch

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:

Apple earns a place on Chinese blacklist — Guangdong's watchdog has placed Apple on a “company integrity” blacklist due to after-care and policy concerns.

More: The Register, M.I.C. Gadget, People's Daily Online and Macworld Australia

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

How to Fight iPhone Theft — Device theft has exploded. New solutions are on the way. Is the industry doing enough about ‘Apple picking’? — Police across the nation are fighting surges in mobile phone and tablet thefts. But can technology and blacklists help bring down the statistics?

More: Business Insider, TUAW and Slashdot

Kurt Eichenwald / Vanity Fair:

Microsoft's Lost Decade — Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the tech industry; indeed, it was the wealthiest corporation in the world. But since 2000, as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it has fallen flat in every arena it entered: e-books, music, search, social networking, etc., etc.

More: GeekWire, Guardian, Global Nerdy, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology … and Slashdot. Tweets: @dondodge

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

You Have To Read This Blistering Response From Microsoft's PR Boss On Its ‘Lost Decade’

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