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July 27, 2013, 2:50 PM

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Reuters:

Insight: How Samsung is beating Apple in China — (Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that “over the arc of time” China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which has been around far longer …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, New York Times, Fortune, Mercury News, internetretailer.com, InvestorPlace, Tech Trader Daily and Yahoo! News. Tweets: @whatthebit

Ryan Knutson / Digits:

Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits — Apple has fallen off the profit throne. — Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time, according to a report by Strategy Analytics. — Samsung's operating profit for handsets …

More: CNET, Forbes, The Register, StreetInsider.com, BGR, dailywireless.org and BBC

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Nexus 7 (2013) - Mini Review — At an event in San Francisco, Google announced an updated version of the popular Nexus 7 tablet which first appeared at last year's Google I/O. The big new features update the Nexus 7 platform with inclusion of a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) SoC …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @piercedavid and @512px

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

New Nexus 7 now available through Google Play ahead of expected release date

More: pocketdroid.net, Pocketnow, Engadget, The Verge and TechHive. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Don't Panic: Google has prototypes for ‘real-time’ translation device, ‘near perfect’ in some uses — It sounds like Google's Babel fish-esque instant translation solution is making progress — Android VP Hugo Barra told The UK Times that Google's got hardware prototypes (in the form of mobile phones) already working.

More: The Times, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, AndroidHeadlines.com, The Verge, BGR, Tested, Mashable, Gadget Helpline, PhoneArena and TechCrunch

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Timehop, The Place To Reminisce Online, Raises $3M Led By Spark Capital — While present-focused social networks like Facebook and Instagram make plenty of room for the narcissists in us, there's not really a dedicated and focused place to reflect on the past.

More: Pulse 2.0

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Plans Splashy New San Francisco Digs (And Dreams of Neon Billboard's Return) — According to multiple sources close to the situation, Yahoo is close to signing a lease for a splashy new San Francisco outpost to keep up with the fast growth of other Web companies that have opened high-profile offices here.

More: VatorNews. See also Mediagazer

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

When ‘Smart Homes’ Get Hacked: I Haunted A Complete Stranger's House Via The Internet — “I can see all of the devices in your home and I think I can control them,” I said to Thomas Hatley, a complete stranger in Oregon who I had rudely awoken with an early phone call on a Thursday morning.

More: Boing Boing, Business Insider, Gizmodo and TechPresident. Thanks:@kashhill

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Mobile Payment At U.S. Starbucks Locations Crosses 10% As More Stores Get Wireless Charging — Starbucks is seeing impressive adoption of mobile payments in its U.S.-based store locations, the company revealed during its quarterly earnings conference call last night (via WSJ).

More: Corporate Intelligence, PR Newswire, The Verge, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget and Engadget

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Apple's Developer Center returns after 8-day outage due to security breach — After being down for more than a week due to an embarrassing security breach, Apple has brought its Developer Center back up. — Apple took the site down last Thursday, eventually notifying developers that it was overhauling its systems after an intrusion.

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Reuters, AppleTell, Engadget, nextbigwhat.com, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Softpedia News, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, The Verge, Digits and MacRumors

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Spy agencies reportedly have a long-standing ban on Lenovo PCs due to back-door vulnerabilities — Spy agencies in the UK, Australia and the US have internally banned using Lenovo PCs because of remote access vulnerabilities that were discovered during testing, a new report from the Australian Financial Review alleges.

More: The Australian Financial …. Tweets: @mikko

Todd R. Weiss / CITEworld:

Los Angeles plans to give 640,000 students free iPads — Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will receive 31,000 free iPads this school year under a new $30 million program launched by the district. The goal is to improve education and get them ready for the workforce …

More: GeekWire, Electronista, BGR, 9to5Mac, Fast Company, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, TUAW, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, AllThingsD, NBC Bay Area, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Engadget, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and MacRumors

Curt Woodward / Xconomy:

Apple's Boston-Area Team: Working on Speech in Nuance's Backyard — It's been one of the Boston-area tech industry's more intriguing questions for months: Just what is Apple doing here? — Today, we've got an answer. — Apple has assembled a small team of notable names in speech technology …

More: 9to5Mac, Forbes, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Patently Apple, Macworld, iPhone Hacks, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, MacRumors, GeekWire, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, Electronista, iLounge, iClarified and GigaOM. Thanks:@curtwoodward

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