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August 29, 2013, 12:00 PM

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AllThingsD:
Android's Hugo Barra Departs Google for China's Xiaomi  —  One of Google's top Android executives is leaving the company.  —  Hugo Barra, whose official title is vice president of product management for Android, has been one of the more public faces of the mobile operating system …
Hugo Barra / Google+:
A new Android chapter  —  After nearly 5½ years at Google and almost 3 years as a member of the Android team — the most amazing group of people I've ever worked with in my life — I have decided to start a new career chapter.  In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Twitter's new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO  —  No one in Silicon Valley has any doubt that San Francisco-based Twitter is on a road to a public offering.  Given its current valuation — estimated at around or over $10 billion — and the amount of money it has raised …
Leo Kelion / BBC:
Skype confirms 3D video calls are under development  —  Skype said that limitations with current 3D technologies had stopped it launching the feature  —  Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls.  —  The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype's tenth anniversary.
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
Here's how one hacker is waging war on the Syrian government  —  As President Obama weighed U.S. air strikes in Syria this week, a lone American hacker was waging his own attack on the Syrian government.  He works a white-collar job in the United States by day, while at night he's …
David Beren / TmoNews:
T-Mobile Scheduling Employee Blackout Dates For September 20th-22nd?  —  I do love a good rumor and this one should make all you iPhone fans happy as I'm hearing whispers T-Mobile is planning blackout dates between September 20th and 22nd.  Like all good rumors, we should take this with the standard …
App Annie Blog:
App Annie Index: Apps - Messenger Apps Go To Battle For The World's Messages  —  The Competition for The Top Messenger App is Heating Up  —  The App Annie Apps Index brings you the top-performing publishers and apps outside of games across both the iOS App Store and Google Play.
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Facebook spam: a $200m business in links alone  —  Italian researchers uncover price lists for posting third-party links to Facebook fan pages - and calculate that they earn substantial amounts for most popular ones  —  Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people …
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.
Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo:
Quantum Cryptography Could Make Your Phone Uncrackable Someday  —  As the world of cybersecurity becomes increasingly volatile, more advanced solutions to problems like encryption couldn't come soon enough.  This is why everybody's excited about a team of British physicists' testing a method …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki Have Split  —  Brin and Wojcicki on Gavin Newsom's interview show in 2012.  —  Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile couples, are living apart.
Wall Street Journal:
Sales of BlackBerry's Q10 Keyboard Phone Fall Flat  —  Carrier Executives and Retailers Report Dismal Sales and Returns  —  When BlackBerry Ltd. Chief Executive Thorsten Heins was asked why he decided to start selling the company's new keyboard-equipped smartphone months after a new touch-screen device …

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