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Dan Frommer / Quartz:

Marc Andreessen's tweets so far in 2014: 120 tweets/day on average, personable, links a lot — Marc Andreessen's first six months on Twitter were unbelievably epic — Marc Andreessen—co-founder of Netscape, now a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz—officially registered …

More: Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @toluogunlesi, @davepell and @fromedome

Ed Summers / inkdroid:

Bot @congressedits tweets all anonymous Wikipedia edits made from Congressional IP addresses — why @congressedits? — Note: as with all the content on this blog, this post reflects my own thoughts about a personal project, and not the opinions or activities of my employer.

More: Ars Technica, PandoDaily, Daily Dot, Motherboard, Washington Post, msnbc.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, Scripting News, The Daily Caller, Digital Trends, The Verge and Stowe Boyd. Tweets: @wynkenhimself

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Silicon Valley's Real Estate Crunch Is A Golden Opportunity For Other American Cities — Curse CEO Hubert Thieblot moved his company headquarters to “Rocket City” Huntsville, Alabama from San Francisco last year. — When Curse CEO Hubert Thieblot told his employees last year that he was moving …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @stephenfleming and @qthrul

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Jury finds Apple did not push MLB, others to adopt its live video streaming format and cause them to infringe Emblaze patent — Apple Wins Emblaze Patent Trial Over Live Video Streaming — Apple Inc. (AAPL) defeated a lawsuit brought by Emblaze Ltd. (BLZ) claiming the iPhone-maker pushed …

More: AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac and App Advice

Patrick May / Mercury News:

Yahoo sued for sexual harrassment, complaint alleges female exec coerced female engineer into sex — Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment — A high-level female Yahoo executive helping to lead the company's mobile-content efforts was named Friday in a state lawsuit filed …

More: GeekWire, CNET, Valleywag and VentureBeat

Tweets: @nitashatiku, @sdkstl and @fmanjoo

Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:

Google expands in San Francisco: leases space at 1 Market Street, buys 8-story building at 188 Embarcadero — Google expanding its San Francisco offices — Google is expanding its already sizable presence in San Francisco by leasing space in one office tower and buying another on the Embarcadero …

Thanks:@brandonbailey

Barton Gellman / Washington Post:

Washington Post writer responds to criticism of analysis of 160K conversations intercepted by the NSA, sheds light on data set, analysis methods — How 160,000 intercepted communications led to our latest NSA story — The Debrief An occasional series offering a reporter's insights

More: Guardian, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lawfare and Freedom to Tinker

Tweets: @yegg, @charlie_savage, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, @bartongellman, @csoghoian and @ashk4n

See also Mediagazer

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Rap Genius rebrands as “Genius”, raises $40M led by Dan Gilbert, and makes annotations embeddable — The Inside Story Of How Rap Genius Fired A Cofounder — And Just Raised $40 Million (Annotated!) — On May 23 of this year, things were finally coming together for Rap Genius.

More: TechCrunch, Ben's blog, The Verge, VentureBeat, Fortune, TheDomains.com, SlashGear, The Next Web, Valleywag and Mashable

Tweets: @nitashatiku, @dmccabe, @nichcarlson and @stevekovach

Thanks:@mattlynley

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Lyft reverses under legal pressure, cancels Friday night New York launch — Attorney General insists NY Supreme Court issued injunction—but Lyft denies it. — Facing the weight of the New York Attorney General, Lyft now says it will delay its planned launch in the Big Apple on Friday evening.

More: Lyft Blog, ag.ny.gov, Electronista, Betabeat, The Verge, The Register, SlashGear, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, Forbes, The Technology Chronicles and Turnstyle. Tweets: @buzzfeedben

Wall Street Journal:

SEC halts trading of CYNK Technology, investigates “potentially manipulative transactions” after company with no revenue reaches $6B valuation — Cynk Technology's Valuation Defied Gravity Without Revenue, Rousing SEC — Market Capitalization Shot Up to $6 Billion; Regulator Flags ‘Potentially Manipulative Transactions’

More: BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Slate, TIME, Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Times, Financial Post and Forbes

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Apple launches new Swift blog, offers Xcode 6 beta for free — Apple's new Swift programming language has attracted a lot of interest from developers since it was announced last month at WWDC, and now the company is looking to get it in the hands of more developers.

More: Apple Developer, iMore, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, Mashable, Forbes, GeekWire, MacNN, TUAW, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, The Verge, inessential.com, Macworld, Softpedia News and SlashGear

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Dropbox updates desktop client with streaming sync: Up to 2x faster via overlapping uploads and downloads — Dropbox today announced its desktop client is getting streaming sync, a new feature that significantly reduces the time needed to synchronize large files.

More: The Dropbox Blog, PC Magazine, Tech Times, Engadget, Business Insider, ZDNet, Gigaom, WinBeta and Lifehacker

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