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July 22, 2013, 9:25 PM

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Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Tests Larger Screens for iPhones, iPads  —  Tests Suggest Apple Exploring More Ways to Draw Consumers  —  TAIPEI—Apple Inc. and its Asian suppliers are testing larger screens for iPhones and tablets, officials at the company's suppliers say.  —  In recent months …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix's Q2 Misses Due To Lower-Than-Expected Subscriber Adds, Earns 49 Cents Per Share On $1.07B In Revenue  —  Netflix just released its second-quarter earnings report, missing analyst expectations with lower-than-expected subscriber numbers.  For the second quarter …
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Samsung to cut out Google middleman with own developers' conference  —  Samsung's own devcon will put the hardware manufacturer first.  —  Samsung plans to hold its first developers' conference this October in San Francisco, the company announced Monday morning.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company  —  According to sources, Yahoo's media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant.  —  Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the company in recent months.
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Victory Lap for Ask Patents  —  There are a lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days.  I say, stop complaining, and start killing them.  It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a crappy Microsoft patent from being approved.  Got fifteen minutes?  You can do it too.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Analyst: New iPhones to be in short supply, no new iPad mini, Haswell iMacs/MacBook Pros in 2013  —  Analyst Ming-Chi-Kuo, who has a fairly strong track record in predicting future Apple products (timing not withstanding), has issued a new report with claims for some of Apple's new products for the rest of 2013.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iPhone 5 accounts for half of Apple's smartphone sales, iPhone 4S takes 30%  —  More than half of all smartphones sold by Apple in June were the latest-generation iPhone 5, according to new data, while the iPhone 4S, first released in 2011, accounted for 30 percent of sales.
Lex Friedman / Macworld:
Apple: One billion iTunes podcast subscriptions and counting  —  Apple on Monday announced that the iTunes Store eclipsed 1 billion podcast subscriptions.  That's a whole lot of talking.  A special promotion appeared in the iTunes Podcasts directory to commemorate the big number.
Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science:
The First Affordable Home Security System That Can Think For Itself  —  Canary, a new networked home security system, was posted on Indiegogo this morning.  There are lots of similar inexpensive systems out there - most notably the Dropcam - but we're intrigued by the Canary because it's …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law  —  Since last year the Finnish public has had the option of suggesting the kind of laws they want to be governed under.  —  A recent modification of the national Constitution allows citizens to make legislative proposals for Parliament to vote on …
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Researcher Reported iAd Workbench Hole Before Apple's Dev Center Went Dark, Here's What He Found  —  Apple's developer site went dark unexpectedly last Thursday and remained dark straight through the weekend.  The company revealed yesterday that it was because an “intruder” …
David Meyer / GigaOM:
Game on!  Canonical wants to crowdfund $32M in a month to make Ubuntu Edge  —  The Ubuntu firm must now find 40,000 people who are willing to pony up at least $600 up-front for a handset running an as-yet-unproven mobile operating system.  Then again, the specs are outrageous...
TechCrunch:
Yahoo Buys 40M Shares From Third Point ($1.2B In Value) As Loeb, Wilson And Wolf Resign From Board  —  Looks like Yahoo is trying to take control of its own destiny once again.  The company today announced that it would repurchase 40 million shares owned by Third Point LLC at a price of $29.11 per share …

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