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June 26, 2014, 8:50 AM

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Sundar Pichai / The Official Google Blog:
Google evolves Android and Chrome to ease moving between screens on your phone, tablet, laptop, TV, car, and watch  —  Coming to a screen near you  —  This morning we welcomed 6,000 developers to our 7th annual Google I/O developer conference.  The crowd in San Francisco was joined …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Chet Kanojia / Aereo:
Aereo CEO on SCOTUS ruling: “we are disappointed in the outcome, but our work is not done”  —  Statement from Aereo CEO and Founder Chet Kanojia on United States Supreme Court Decision  —  Court decision denies consumers the ability to use a cloud-based antenna to access free …
John Bergmayer:
Supreme Court's Aereo ruling could apply to any online cloud services  —  Uh oh, Aereo  —  The Aereo decision is bad news for consumers, since it could take away a promising new model for watching free over-the-air television.  Cord-cutters still have options.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Ina Fried / Re/code:
Google Courts Businesses With Android for Work Initiative  —  Google is ramping up its efforts to make Android more business and enterprise-friendly.  —  At its annual I/O developer conference on Wednesday, Google announced an “Android for Work” initiative, a means of separating …
Maxine Williams / Facebook:
Facebook releases first diversity report: global employees are 69% male; 57% White, 34% Asian in the US  —  Building a More Diverse Facebook  —  Today we're making Facebook's current diversity figures available publicly for the first time.  —  At Facebook, diversity is essential to achieving our mission.
Benedict Evans:
Android users spend half as much on apps as iOS users, with more than twice the user base  —  Market shares  —  There's lots that was interesting in this year's Google IO, and indeed some of the absences were also interesting (no mention at all of Glass or Plus, for example).
More: 9to5Mac, Tech.pinions and Beyond DevicesTweets: @semil
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Android TV hands-on: Google makes a new play for the living room  —  Google hasn't exactly been successful at taking over the living room — Chromecast aside, its previous efforts have failed to capture much consumer interest.  However, during the I/O 2014 keynote today …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Google previews Android apps running on Chromebooks  —  Google has confirmed that its Chromebook devices will one day be able to run standard Android apps during its IO keynote today.  —  During the presentation, the company showed off Vine and Flipboard apps running on a Chromebook, which, of course, uses Google's own Chrome OS.
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Source: Facebook Is Building FB@Work  —  The phrase “Facebook at work” usually suggests people frittering away the day on the social network and not actually doing their jobs.  But according to an anonymous source inside Facebook, the company is working on a way to put the social network into a more positive light in the office.
More: TechSpot and BGR
Eric DeFriez / Google Apps Developer Blog:
Google introduces new Gmail API, developers can now work with IMAP, POP, or the API  —  Introducing the new Gmail API  —  For a while now, many of you have been asking for a better way to access data to build apps that integrate with Gmail.  While IMAP is great at what it was designed for …
Greg DeMichillie / Google Developers Blog:
Google adds to Cloud Platform with Cloud Dataflow for creating data pipelines, new Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Debugger tools, more  —  Cloud Platform at Google I/O - new Big Data, Mobile and Monitoring products  —  By Greg DeMichillie, Google Cloud Platform team

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