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August 13, 2013, 7:15 PM

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Bloomberg:
BlackBerry Said to Have Sought Buyers Since 2012 Without Success  —  BlackBerry Ltd.'s announcement yesterday that it's considering takeover bids followed almost a year of advisers unsuccessfully canvassing potential buyers in search of a deal, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
More: GeekWire
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Benedict Evans:
Defending iOS with cheap iPhones  —  Over the last 12 months, Google Android devices have outsold iOS by about 3 to 1.  There are now perhaps 775m-800m ‘official’ Android devices in use, versus perhaps 415m iOS devices.  This is without counting sales of the Amazon Kindle Fire or the (very) …
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Carl Icahn Makes a Large Investment in Apple  —  Shares of Apple are rising by more than four percent on word that Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor trying to take over Dell, has made a large investment in the company behind the iPhone and the Mac.
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Facebook Testing VIP App With Some Celebs  —  The VIP app, which sources say Facebook is currently testing with a small group of famous people, essentially lets celebs (or their handlers) easily monitor Facebook fan chatter about themselves from a mobile device.
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
Some 2013 Nexus 7 users report buggy multitouch, Google is investigating  —  A muddled sense of direction isn't the only problem affecting the new generation of Nexus 7 slates, it seems, as some users are also reporting issues with multitouch on the 1,920 x 1,200 display.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Starts Sharing Mobile User Counts For Each Country: 78% Of US Users Are Mobile  —  A new level of transparency from Facebook will help the world see whether its mobile growth is entirely propped up by international users that don't earn the company as much money.
More: AllFacebookThanks:@joshconstine
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
To Square Up To Foursquare, Yelp Now Lets Users Post Reviews Directly From Its Mobile App  —  It's been a long time coming, but user-generated local reviews site Yelp is finally getting with the program: today it is rolling out the ability for users to write reviews directly in its mobile app …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter Buys Open Source Training Company Marakana To Power New “Twitter University” For Engineers  —  Twitter today announced its latest acquisition, along with a move into offering richer resources to attract better engineering talent to the company.  It has bought Marakana …
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Norway blocks Apple map flights  —  Oslo (left) is visible in 2D on Apple's map but Danish capital Copenhagen (right) is in 3D  —  Norway's government is refusing to let Apple take aerial photography of the capital city Oslo to create 3D images for its Maps app, reports local media.

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