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August 28, 2013, 5:20 PM

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Exclusive: Google+ Hangouts goes HD as it switches from H.264 to VP8.  Next up, WebRTC.  —  Noticed any differences when using Google's Hangouts video chat lately?  If you did, then you may be one of the lucky users who has already received an upgrade to 720p HD video.
Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Plan First Tokyo Retail Store Since 2005  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to open a store in Tokyo's upscale Omotesando shopping district as early as March, according to a person familiar with the plans.  —  Construction is scheduled to be completed by February, the person said …
Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:
HTC Develops China-Focused Mobile Operating System  —  Taiwanese Handset Maker Works With China in Bid to Revive Sales  —  TAIPEI—HTC Corp. is developing a mobile software system specifically for Chinese consumers, people familiar with the project say, as part of a big China bet …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Nintendo dropping Wii U price to $299.99 ahead of Xbox One and PlayStation 4 launch  —  The Wii U hasn't been selling quite as well as Nintendo might like, and September 20th it's giving the new console a $50 price cut that'll bring it down to $299.99.  Earlier this month …
Michael McWhertor / Polygon:
Nintendo 2DS coming this Oct. for $129.99, plays 3DS games in 2D  —  Nintendo is releasing a new version of its Nintendo 3DS hardware that's playable only in 2D.  It's called the Nintendo 2DS and will be available in North America on Oct. 12 for $129.99.  —  Nintendo 2DS plays the entire library …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Apple Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim, A Company That Does Mobile Media And Data Compression  —  Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer graphics while minimizing memory requirements …
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr  —  Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products.  —  After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.
Matthew Prince / CloudFlare Blog:
Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks … At 1:19pm (PDT) today, a researcher noticed that the New York Times' website wasn't loading.  We know the New York Times tech team, so we sent an email to check in.  A few minutes later, the CTO of the NYT called us back.
eMarketer:
Facebook Sees Big Gains in Global Mobile Ad Market Share  —  Google to take home half of $16.65 billion worldwide mobile ad market  —  Facebook's continued emphasis on mobile monetization, along with its users' ongoing shift toward mobile devices, is resulting in dramatic gains in mobile ad market share …
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Unity Game Engine To Get Official 2D Game Support And A Built-In Ad Solution  —  Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, run anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D.  —  At the company's UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things …
More: 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, AllThingsD and GamasutraTweets: @eeenThanks:@grg
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Twitter rolling out new conversations UI for Web, iPhone and Android  —  Twitter has revamped the way it displays conversations on the Web, iPhone and Android by adding a vertical line to indicate the tweets are connected and displaying the first tweet in a discussion above the latest reply.
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Grooveshark Signs With Sony, Steps Over that Wavy ‘Piracy’ Line  —  What's the difference between YouTube and Grooveshark?  —  That's not the start of some terrible geek in-joke but a question that Grooveshark founder Sam Tarantino has always been happy to answer, and for good reason.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Shopify Launches Point-Of-Sale System To Unify Online And Brick-And-Mortar Retail  —  Ottawa-based Shopify, the online storefront provider that helps around 65,000 retailers reach their customers on the web, including Tesla, Crossfit and others, today announced a new retail point-of-sale solution that uses iPads for its terminals.
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
Copy Protection for 3-D Printing Aims to Prevent a Piracy Plague  —  Streaming designs to 3-D printers like Netflix does movies could prevent unauthorized copying.  —  WHY IT MATTERS  —  The surge of companies springing up around 3-D printing could be slowed if digital designs are commonly copied without permission.
Simon Bisson / ZDNet:
What Microsoft and Google's YouTube row says about the future of web development  —  Summary: The Google/Microsoft YouTube dispute tells you more about the way software for the mobile internet is being developed that you might have thought.  —  When it comes to Google and Microsoft's dispute …
Tweets: @saschasegan and @theromit
John Cassidy / The New Yorker:
Steve Ballmer and the Art of Managing a Monopoly  —  Steve Ballmer hasn't been getting much love recently.  On Friday, when he announced that he plans to retire as Microsoft's C.E.O. at some point within the next year, the firm's stock had its best day in years, rising seven per cent.

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