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July 3, 2014, 12:15 AM

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R. Jai Krishna / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for poorly communicating controversial News Feed study: “We never meant to upset you” — Sandberg: Facebook Study Was ‘Poorly Communicated’ — Facebook 's psychological experiment on nearly 700,000 unwitting users was communicated “poorly …

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

More experiments on social media users could provide us insights into human behavior

More: Medium. Tweets: @zeynep and @zeynep

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone — Microsoft + Wearables — Yes, it's real. It's just not a watch — Everyone's doing it, it seems. Samsung jumped in first. Google formalized it on Android just this past week.

More: The Next Web, Engadget, CNET, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, App Advice, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, The Verge, WinBeta, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow and Connectedly

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU — The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can't find their news stories relating to certain people.

Nick Summers / Businessweek:

How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe — Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths — Whitney Wolfe, a former vice president for marketing at Tinder, the wildly popular hookup facilitation app …

More: Business Insider and Gawker. Tweets: @johnolilly, @m2jr, @bairdjulia, @percival, @_tessr, @felixgillette, @randfish, @neetzan, @nickconfessore, @jenvalentino, @mclamagna, @kevinroose, @thestalwart, @mattdpearce, @doreeshafrir, @samfbiddle, @theman, @llewellynhinkes, @pmarca, @edmundlee and @kevinroose. Thanks:@mattlynley

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Goldman says client data leaked, wants Google to delete email — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc said a contractor emailed confidential client data to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake, and the bank has asked a U.S. judge to order Google Inc to delete the email to avert a “needless and massive” breach of privacy.

More: Ars Technica, The Register, CNET, 9to5Google, TechSpot and The Verge

Tweets: @stilgherrian and @shanselman

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook acquires video ad tech startup LiveRail for $400-500M, plans to keep it running — Facebook Acquires LiveRail For $400M To $500M To Serve Video Ads Everywhere, Improve Its Own — Facebook has just bought video ad tech startup LiveRail, which connects marketers to publishers …

More: Facebook, LiveRail, BBC News, Re/code, TechnoBuffalo, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, Business Insider, VatorNews, ZDNet, AdExchanger, Gigaom, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Mashable and bizjournals

Tweets: @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @joshconstine and @joshconstine

Chance Miller / 9to5Google:

Google Play Services 5.0 now available with Android Wear support, security enhancements, more — Google today announced that a major update to Play Services is now rolled out, bumping it from version 4.4 to 5.0. Many of the details in this update were announced at Google I/O last week …

More: Android Developers Blog, CNET, The Next Web, Gigaom and Android Central

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Thieves in Brazil use malware to hijack online payments, steal billions in aggregate — Brazilian ‘Boleto’ Bandits Bilk Billions — With the eyes of the world trained on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it seems a fitting time to spotlight a growing form of computer fraud that's giving Brazilian banks …

More: PC World, New York Times, SC Magazine and Reuters

Tweets: @ckindel and @rogeragrimes

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Does A “Summer Cleaning,” Shuts Down Its Xobni Acquisition, Plus Other Under-Performing Products — Yahoo's spring cleanings have extended into the summer months, the company announced today, detailing a series of product changes and closures, many of which are nearly obsolete, obscure, or just unpopular.

More: Yahoo, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Fortune and WebProNews

Soma Somasegar / MSDN Blogs:

Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio — Game developers build the apps that hundreds of millions of users play every day across a wide variety of devices, from Xbox and Windows to iOS, Android and the Web. Games are the most popular application type …

More: BetaNews, Ars Technica, ITworld.com, eWeek, TechCrunch, ZDNet, WinBeta, Neowin, The Next Web and GeekWire. Tweets: @lordned

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft seeks Office for Android testers as it readies tablet version — Touch-friendly Office Android apps coming before Windows version — Microsoft may have released a basic Office app for Android phones almost a year ago, but the company is now building a suite designed specifically for Android tablets.

More: ZDNet, Gigaom, Mashable, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Electronista, Tech Times, TechSpot, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Android Authority, PC Magazine, PC World, Pocketnow, Phandroid, 9to5Google, Engadget and Ubergizmo

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Qualcomm buys Wilocity to put gigabit wireless connections in smartphones — Qualcomm confirmed on Wednesday that it is buying gigabit wireless specialist Wilocity in a move that puts the mobile chipmaker firmly behind the new WiGig standard. At some point next year, we will start seeing …

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Qualcomm, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, PC World, SemiAccurate, SlashGear and FierceWirelessTech News

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Daily Dot:

CBS esports site OnGamers fires first employee and senior editor Rod “Slasher” Breslau after Reddit bans the site for vote-rigging — Reddit ban leaves esports site OnGamers fighting for survival — In November, CBS Interactive's flagship esports news site launched with big ambitions.

More: onGamers. Tweets: @ongamers_com, @mathewi, @mioff, @devinconnors, @slasher, @slasher and @kmmokai

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Joon Ian Wong / CoinDesk:

Coinbase Announces High-Security ‘Vault’ Bitcoin Accounts — Called ‘Vault’, the new account was designed in response to demand for a more secure type of wallet from Coinbase's growing customer base of institutions and wealthy individuals, according to company CEO Brian Armstrong, who explained:

More: The Coinbase Blog, TechCrunch and NEWSBTC

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Samsung shuts down its Video and Media Hub, transfers users' accounts to M-Go — M-Go to Take Over Samsung's Movie Business — Samsung Electronics has discovered that making great screens and delivering great on-screen entertainment require different skills.

More: Variety, ZDNet, FierceOnlineVideo News, Gigaom and Ubergizmo

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter — Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol — The gala on a recent Thursday evening was typical boom-time San Francisco glitz. Attendees from Google , Yahoo and Facebook traded in jeans and hoodies …

Tweets: @alyssa_milano and @kashhill. Thanks:@themadhacker

David Katzmaier / CNET:

Samsung to end plasma TV production this year — Following in the footsteps of Panasonic, Samsung says it will end production of plasma display panels by the end of this year. — The Samsung PNF8500 is the last great plasma TV. — Sarah Tew/CNET — Samsung SDI has announced …

More: Slate, Tech Times, TechSpot, The Verge, Engadget and SlashGear

Tweets: @wirecutter and @dkatzmaier

Kif Leswing / Gigaom:

Google announces the first 100 Project Ara beta testers — It appears Google's ambitious modular phone experiment is moving into the next phase. At Google's I/O developer conference, the Advanced Technology and Projects team was able to boot a Project Ara device in public for the first time …

More: 9to5Google, Dan Makoski, Techaeris, Android Central, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys and Ubergizmo

Juliette Garside / Guardian:

Study: 19% of top 100K most visited websites are blocked by Britain's adult content filters — Internet filters blocking one in five most-popular websites — Jezebel and Guido Fawkes sites among those blocked by at least one mobile or fixed line service provider in UK, campaigners say

More: TorrentFreak, BetaNews, BGR, The Independent, Forbes, Wired.co.uk, PandoDaily, Telegraph and Inquirer

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon resists FTC request to tighten in-app purchase policy for children — Amazon Resisting FTC on Policy Change for In-App Purchases — Amazon-FTC Dispute Is Over Limiting Children's Purchases — Amazon.com Inc. is bucking a request from the Federal Trade Commission that it tighten …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Register, The Verge, Pocketnow, Electronista, GeekWire and TIME

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:

Microsoft, Google form Ethernet consortium for datacenter networks — Summary: Microsoft, Google and other firms have come together to form the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium with the aim of improving cloud datacenter networks. — Charlie Osborne — Five tech giants, including Google and Microsoft …

More: EnterpriseTech, TechSpot, Data Center Knowledge and Inquirer

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Developer preview test for Android L's Project Volta shows promise, 2 hours or 35% more battery life on Nexus 5 — Examining Project Volta: We put Android L through our battery test — For each Android release, Google likes to have a “Project” that picks an area of weakness and focuses on tuning the whole OS to fix it.

More: ExtremeTech, Redmond Pie, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Geek.com, TechSpot, Android Beat and Gigaom

Chris Morris / CNBC:

Google bans porn from its ad network — Google is getting out of the porn advertising business. The changes, which went into effect late Monday, prohibit any promotion of most sexually themed sites, specifically those that feature “graphic sexual acts with intent to arouse including sex acts such as masturbation.”

More: CNET, Mercury News, Re/code and TIME. Tweets: @squawkalley

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Investor Tim Draper wins auction for 29,655 bitcoins seized from Silk Road, partners with Vaurum to leverage the pool as a liquidity source in emerging markets — Famed investor Tim Draper wins auction of Silk Road's 29,655 bitcoins — Draper to partner with Vaurum, which offers “secure storage solutions” to banks.

More: Medium, Gigaom, Reuters, PC Magazine, The Register, CoinDesk, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, Fortune and Los Angeles Times

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