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Richard Florida / Wall Street Journal:

Why High-Tech Companies Are Moving to the City — Goodbye, office parks. Drawn by amenities and talent, tech firms are opting for cities — For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley …

More: Slashdot. Tweets: @jhagel and @fredericl. Thanks:@saokar

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

AlleyCorp Seeds a Blossoming Internet Hub in New York — Kevin Ryan reclines in a designer chair in his Park Avenue office, wearing a Luciano Barbera suit and a vintage Rolex watch. A picture of Mr. Ryan with President Obama is on the wall and an ornate Oscar de la Renta gown hangs from the door.

Tweets: @darlin and @ryanchris

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone 8 backup includes SMS sync to Hotmail and Outlook.com — We got an early glimpse at some planned Windows Phone 8 backup options in July when an SDK for the new mobile operating system leaked. Until now, we haven't known exactly how the options — like SMS, photo, and settings backup — will work.

More: Inquirer, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile and Neowin

New York Times:

New iPhone Announcement Has Apple Rivals Jostling for Spotlight — Back when Apple was an underdog, it had an easier time shrouding its product announcements in mystery and perhaps catching its competitors off guard. But now tech companies are watching every one of Apple's moves — and scrambling to get out in front of them.

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Google reportedly preparing to release a 3G Nexus 7 within 6 weeks — Fresh from opening its popular Nexus 7 tablet up to a bunch of new international markets, Google is said to be just six weeks away from launching a 3G-compatible version of its tablet device, according to Paul O'Brien at MoDaCo.

More: 9to5Google, CNET, BGR, focustaiwan.tw, Modaco, SlashGear, GadgeTell, Softpedia News, The Verge, Neowin, MobileSyrup.com, Know Your Mobile, T3 News, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, Fudzilla, Electricpig.co.uk and Mobile Entertainment

Jamie Doward / Guardian:

How online reviews are crucial to a restaurant's takings — US economists find that when a restaurant rating improved by just half a star it was very much more likely to be full at peak dining times — It is something every restaurateur and hotel owner knows: good reviews boost takings while terrible ones can close you down.

More: Betabeat, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and Softpedia News

Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:

South Korea Reassesses Its Great Imitator — SEOUL, South Korea — When a jury in San Jose, Calif., ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $1.05 billion in damages for violating Apple's patents for the iPhone and iPad, it did more than decide who had infringed upon whose intellectual property.

More: Guardian

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Baidu, China's Google, jumps on mobile, launches speedy Android browser — Baidu, the dominant leader in China's search market, has leapt on to Android with a new browser for the Google-owned mobile OS. The browser features a new HTML5 and Javascript engine that the company says is fast enough …

More: Inquirer, PC World, Reuters, Tech in Asia, GigaOM, Reuters, memeburn, SlashGear and Bloomberg. Thanks:@beijingdou

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Threat to BSkyB as Freesat partners with Netflix — Freesat, the satellite television joint-venture owned by the BBC and ITV, is to launch a major new assault on the pay-TV market by partnering with rival Netflix. — Freesat's new set-top box will allow viewers to watch shows like Doctor …

More: SlashGear, The Next Web and Engadget

David Carr / New York Times:

Reddit Thrives Under Hands-Off Policy of Advance Publications — There are many ways to measure the traction of a social media platform: time spent, page views or unique users. But it might be useful to add one more metric: if the leader of the free world stops by to answer questions from your users, you're probably doing O.K.

AFP:

Russia Unveils Secure “Almost Android” Tablet To Keep Data Away From Google — It seems that Russia's defense ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.

More: Inquirer, Telegraph, Liliputing and Slashdot. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Twitter's Chief Lawyer as Defender of Free Speech — SAN FRANCISCO — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his company. — That conviction explains why he spends …

More: GigaOM. Tweets: @ggreenwald and @hunterwalk

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

The first dedicated App.net client for iOS hits the App Store — The milestones in the quickly developing story of App.net keep coming. Today has seen the first dedicated client for iOS hit Apple's App Store. — AppNet Rhino is a collaboration between two Croatian companies - Planet 1107 …

More: The Verge, PC Magazine and PC World

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

App.net's Baby Steps: 250,000 Posts, 17,500 Users

More: Apps blog, TechCrunch, Slashdot and ZDNet

Trevor Timm / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Members of Congress Demand Answers for Homeland Security's Unjust Domain Name Seizures — This morning, a bipartisan group of Representatives, led by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), sent a pointed letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano protesting …

More: hypebot and The Verge

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Oops: After Seizing & Censoring Rojadirecta For 18 Months, Feds Give Up & Drop Case

More: Ars Technica, PC World and Hillicon Valley

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