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July 13, 2014, 10:50 AM

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David Carr / New York Times:

Hulu receives exclusive rights to stream South Park immediately after broadcast and entire back catalog in deal worth $80M+ — Hulu to Stream ‘South Park’ as More Players Jostle for Online Rights — While the media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, jockeyed for parking spaces for their jets …

More: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Hulu Blog, Re/code, Engadget, South Park and The Verge

Tweets: @pkafka, @markmilian and @katherinefink

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Inside Dark Wallet: two crypto-anarchists' user-friendly system for anonymous BTC transactions — Waiting for Dark: Inside Two Anarchists' Quest for Untraceable Money — Amir Taaki and — Cody Wilson are cruising north through Texas on Interstate 35 in the 4:30 am predawn darkness.

More: The Verge and Gigaom

TechCrunch:

Curated Food Delivery Startup Caviar In Talks To Be Acquired By Square For $100 Million — Curated food delivery startup Caviar is in talks to be acquired by Square in a deal that could be worth at least $100 million, according to several sources. While we've heard the deal is slated …

Tweets: @alex and @danprimack

Benedict Evans:

Unable to fork Android and keep Google services, Samsung faces commoditization similar to PC-makers — Unbundling innovation: Samsung, PCs and China — It seems pretty clear now that the Android OEM world is starting to play out pretty much like the PC world.

Tweets: @mblumenthal, @fmanjoo, @ppkarppi, @stevesi, @bmann and @marinperez. Thanks:@srikardr

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple-designed iBeacon hardware hits FCC: for Apple Stores, developers, or consumers? — On July 4th of this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made filings public from Apple regarding an Apple-branded piece of iBeacon equipment. The hardware is shown above to be a rounded hub …

More: VentureBeat, TUAW, MacRumors, AppleInsider and App Advice. Thanks:@mikebeas

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple China denies location tracking claims: we're ‘deeply committed to protecting the privacy of all our customers’ — This past week, Chinese State TV called the iPhone a “national security concern” because of its location tracking capabilities. The iPhone's operating system utilizes location …

More: Apple, AppleInsider, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, MacRumors, Macworld, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, iMore and Engadget

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Just Like Facebook, Twitter's New Impression Stats Suggest Few Followers See What's Tweeted — Twitter has new analytics available that let anyone understand exactly how viewed their tweets are. Those stats also clear something else up. Just like Facebook, what you share on Twitter isn't seen by all your followers.

More: Conversation Agent. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan and @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:

Is The Thiel Fellowship Program Really Just A Sabbatical From College? — Twenty brilliant minds, all under age 20, just started their venture this summer with the Thiel Fellowship program. All of these bright young things were carefully selected from over 1,000 other hopefuls this year …

Tweets: @nils_gilman, @counterparties and @gillianim

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 …

Tweets: @alexia, @balajis, @stephenfleming and @qthrul

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: Fusion dot net /*^_^\, Ars Technica, PandoDaily, Daily Dot, msnbc.com, PC Magazine, Engadget, Washington Post, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Scripting News, The Verge, Motherboard and Stowe Boyd

Tweets: @congressedits and @wynkenhimself

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