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June 23, 2014, 4:55 AM

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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Quirky unveils Wink app and $79 hardware hub to connect smart home devices, partners with Home Depot, expects 60 Wink-enabled products by July  —  Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company  —  The repurposed red brick warehouse in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is a bustling hub of modern industrial activity.
Liam Spradlin / Android Police:
HTC planning an 8.9" Tegra K1 tablet internally referred to as the Nexus 9 for Q4 2014  —  This Is Volantis, HTC's Nine-Inch Nexus Tablet  —  With Android Silver rumors brewing, and LG's Ken Hong indicating that the manufacturer doesn't have a Nexus phone in the cards …
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Marissa Mayer tries to make Yahoo a “daily habit” with Tumblr-inspired digital magazines  —  Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too)  —  Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food's offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road …
Wall Street Journal:
Andreessen Horowitz invests $90M in enterprise cybersecurity firm Tanium at $900M valuation  —  Andreessen Invests in Cybersecurity Firm  —  Tanium, Which Helps Pinpoint IT Threats, Gets $90 Million  —  Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is placing its second-biggest bet ever …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Feature Google Killed The + Command For — Direct Connect — Is Now Dead  —  Cast your mind back to November 2011, only a few months after the launch of Google+.  That's when Google made one of its biggest Google+ification moves.  It demoted a long-standing search feature involving …
Andy Baio / Medium:
How public profiles and friending could improve discovery in the App Store and help indie devs  —  Friending the App Store  —  How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest.  Here's one way to fix it.  —  I love indie games, and follow the indie game scene pretty closely.
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David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago installing sensors in light poles to observe air, weather, sound, and cell phone traffic  —  New sensors will scoop up ‘big data’ on Chicago … The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture …
Luke Vnenchak / New York Times:
NYT's content management system Scoop manages 700 articles, 600 images, and 50 videos a day  —  Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS  —  You know the importance of technology to the future of journalism has become a widely accepted fact when a prominent editor decides to join a new company because of its content management system.

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