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July 23, 2013, 3:45 PM

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Verizon Reveals The $99 Motorola Droid Mini, $199 Droid Ultra, And The $299 Droid Maxx  —  As if we didn't already have enough Motorola phones to wait for, Verizon showed off a trio of new Motorola DROID smartphones at a (surprisingly cozy) event in New York City.
Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:
Exclusive: Moto X Camera's New Minimalist User Interface And Swipe Gestures  —  Are you sick of hearing about the Moto X yet?  Too bad: it's just over a week until Motorola's official debut, and the Good Ship Google is as leaky as ever.  The latest tidbits of information from an anonymous tipster …
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Flipboard Brings Its Mobile Magazines To The Web  —  Flipboard started on mobile devices, but the magazine app is moving to the web today with the launch of a new site.  Its 75 million registered users will be getting access to its superior formatting and curation features for articles, photos and video on their desktops and laptops.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's Q3 2013  —  The forecasts of 58 Apple analysts — 38 Wall Street professionals and 20 independents  —  FORTUNE — The results of Fortune's quarterly survey of Apple (AAPL) analysts are in.  The professionals are, as usual …
Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed:
Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It  —  No one took ownership of Google Reader internally because it wasn't a top priority for Larry Page and his inner circle of lieutenants.  And if you aren't working on something that the boss cares about, then what's the point?  —  Via: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
MaskMe: an online disguise for your email and credit card  —  Why give away your private data?  —  Every time you sign up for a web service or buy something online, you're entrusting some company with your information — whether your email address, an account login, or your credit card number.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter's One-Two Punch Now Lets All US Advertisers Target People Who Just Saw Their TV Commercials  —  Hit 'em with a television commercial, then with a Twitter ad to really drive the message home.  That's the promise of Twitter's TV Ad Targeting it's rolling out to all US advertisers today after its beta launch in May.
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 625 official: Entry-level LTE Windows Phone with a 4.7-inch display (video)  —  The rumors were (unsurprisingly) true.  Nokia's revealed its biggest phone to date, with a screen measuring in at 4.7 inches.  It's the Lumia 625 and the series has certainly grown a fair bit since the Lumia 620 launched earlier this year.
AnandTech:
Samsung Updates Exynos 5 Octa (5420), Switches Back to ARM GPU  —  In the first part of our series on ARM, we mentioned that with every major microprocess design ARM tries to choose 3 licensees to get early access to technology.  It's very clear that Samsung was among the early three to get ahold of Cortex A15 IP.
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:
LinkedIn Rolls-Out Sponsored Updates Ad Program To All Companies  —  LinkedIn announced today that Sponsored Updates are rolling out to companies with a LinkedIn account representative today.  By the end of the month administrators of all 3 million Company Pages will have access to LinkedIn Sponsored Updates.
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Dating app Tinder briefly exposed the physical location of its users  —  Tinder, the popular mobile dating app that matches people based on how they rate each other's photographs, briefly exposed the physical location of its users to other people on the service.  —  The location information wasn't visible in the app.
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Brings Cloud Print To Windows, Makes Printer Sharing Easier  —  Google today launched a number of updates to Cloud Print that finally bring it to Windows and make it easier to share printers with others.  —  Even Google knows that there are still some occasions when you just need to print something …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Akamai: Average Internet speed up 17% year-over-year to finally pass 3 Mbps, while mobile data traffic doubled  —  For the first time, global average connection speeds have surpassed the 3 Mbps mark.  At the same time, the demands of the mobile world are growing very fast, with data traffic doubling in the last year.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Viber Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army  —  Viber has confirmed a situation earlier this morning in which Viber appeared to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (a pro-government group of computer hackers aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad).
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Foursquare announces self-serve ads product, rolls it out to “a few thousand” businesses  —  Foursquare has just launched self-serve ads, a new service which the company says is rolling out now to “a few thousand local businesses today.”  —  According to Foursquare, these new ads use …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Cisco Acquires Cybersecurity Company Sourcefire For $2.7B  —  Cisco has just announced the acquisition of Sourcefire, a company that creates cybersecurity products to protect companies from attacks.  The purchase price is $2.7 billion, or $76 per share in cash plus retention-based incentives.

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