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Milo Medin / Google Fiber Blog:
Google Fiber's Next Stop: Austin, Texas  —  We know that your time is valuable and so we've always focused on speed — from search to Gmail, Chrome to Android.  Two years ago, we announced that we'd be bringing Google Fiber to Kansas City to show what's possible with super fast Internet access …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Take that, Google: AT&T ups the ante with plans for its own Austin gigabit network  —  Updated throughout at 2:12 p.m. PT with comments from AT&T.  —  AT&T plans to build a gigabit network in Austin, Texas according to a company release Tuesday.  On any day this would be big news …
Simon Dawlat / AppGratis:
AppGratis pulled from the App Store.  Here's the full story.  —  I'm Simon Dawlat, CEO at AppGratis.  —  I founded AppGratis back in 2008, and have been running it ever since.  —  Today, for the first time, my company is dealing with an incredibly difficult moment.
Michael Siliski / Official Android Blog:
A fresh new look for Google Play  —  Whether you're in the mood to listen to Justin Timberlake's new album, read Harlan Coben's latest bestseller or discover a new game to play, you want the experience of finding and making your purchase to be quick and easy.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Facebook Home review: are people more important than apps?  —  Facebook invades Android with a new lockscreen and a new chat experience  —  On April 12th, the much-vaunted Facebook Phone will arrive — but it's not a phone at all.  Facebook Home, as its called, is a couple of pieces …
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership  —  Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc. are getting cozier.  —  The two companies have been discussing how more of Yahoo services can play a prominent role on Apple's iPhone and iPad, people briefed on the matter said.  —  Data from Yahoo Finance …
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight  —  A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Boxee rebrands new device as Cloud DVR, tones down cord cutting rhetoric  —  Okay, I didn't see this coming: Boxee has rebranded its new consumer electronics device just five months after it first became available.  The $100 device, which combines live TV and cloud DVR functionality with apps like Netflix …
Jessica Roy / Betabeat:
TripAdvisor Acquires Jetsetter for Undisclosed Amount  —  Gilt says goodbye to its travel site.  Jetsetter, the luxury travel site that Gilt Groupe put up for sale for around $50 million back in October, has been acquired by TripAdvisor, according to a press release published to PRNewswire.
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
YAHOO SOURCE: Here's The Real Reason Marissa Mayer Bought A 17-Year-Old's Startup For $30 Million  —  Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million.  —  Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones.  —  The deal got a lot of attention …
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Coinsetter Lands $500K From SecondMarket Founder & Others To Help Bring Leverage, Shorting To Bitcoin Trade  —  Today, Coinsetter, a New York City-based startup looking to launch a new Forex trading platform for Bitcoin, announced today that it has raised $500,000 in seed capital.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Can you find me now?  How carriers sell your location and get away with it  —  Companies are selling ‘anonymized’ location data left and right — but do they know how to keep it private?  —  Check your cell phone contract, and you might come across the following turn of phrase: “We do not sell your personal information.”
More: DSLreports
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Walmart's Vudu Resets All Customer Passwords After Office Break-In  —  Walmart-owned video service Vudu is undergoing a service-wide password reset after having data stolen during a break-in at its offices late last month.  —  The company emailed customers on Tuesday to inform them of the break …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple Says iMessage and Facetime Services Are Down For Some  —  Update: The outage has concluded, according to Apple's Support page.  Total downtime appears to have been just over 5 hours.  —  For about an hour, we've been getting reports of Apple's iMessage system encountering errors and issues including delays and send failures.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
AOL's new publisher tool to compete with Google, Armstrong says it's back in “ad tech game”  —  AOL announced Marketplace, an effort to consolidate the stack of tools publishers use to serve ads.  AOL is competing with Google in the ad tech field as it tries to diversify its revenues
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Flurry launches market to match mobile advertisers with content in real-time  —  July 9-10, 2013  —  Flurry is launching an exchange dubbed Flurry Marketplace for its mobile advertising platform so that the right advertisers can be matched with the right content publishers.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Asks You To Please Select Your Emotion  —  It could make us more willing to express how we feel.  Or you could say it over-simplies our complex moods and lives.  But today the Facebook status update box began offering the option to “share how you're feeling or what you're doing” …
Tim Peterson / Adweek:
EBay Opens Up Its Data for Ad Targeting  —  Retailers possess a crazy amount of really valuable data for advertisers—e.g., what products someone has bought or have browsed through and may one day buy, potentially sooner if they're shown an ad for that item.
Christopher Mims / Quartz:
China just surpassed the US in semiconductor manufacturing—and the trend is likely to accelerate  —  Amount of materials used to produce semiconductors, by region.  Quartz/SEMI  —  For the first time since the depths of the Great Recession, the the total value of materials consumed …
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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

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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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