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July 22, 2014, 12:40 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Apple asks manufacturers to supply between 70M-80M 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones by December 30 — Next iPhone Will Offer Bigger Screens — Apple Tells Suppliers to Gear Up for 4.7-inch and 5.5-Inch Screen Sizes — Apple Inc. is preparing for its largest initial production run of iPhones …

Scott Burke / Yahoo:

Yahoo to Acquire Flurry to Strengthen Mobile Products — Over the past couple of years, Yahoo has been focused on re-imagining our users' daily habits, and mobile is at the center of everything we do. Today, I'm excited to announce the next step in our vision, that we have reached …

More: Flurry Insights, Computerworld, Bloomberg, AdExchanger, ReadWrite, New York Times, Light Reading, Valleywag, Marketing Land, CrackBerry.com, Mashable, CNET, VentureBeat, The Next Web, USA Today, Forbes, bizjournals and SocialTimes

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Source: Yahoo is paying $200M-$300M for Flurry — Yahoo Buys Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of $200M — Yahoo has made no secret of its ambitions and advances in mobile, earlier this month reporting 450 million monthly active users and search and display mobile ad revenues growing 100%.

More: Re/code, BBC, TechnoBuffalo, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Forrester Blogs, BuzzFeed, Electronista, VentureBeat, Business Insider and App Advice. Tweets: @dmac1. Thanks:@alex

Julia Angwin / ProPublica:

AddThis tests canvas fingerprinting, a cookie alternative for tracking, on thousands of sites — Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block — This story was co-published with Mashable. — A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors …

More: PC World, RT, Gizmodo, The Verge and Mashable

Tweets: @williamcander, @juliaangwin, @mtigas, @ashk4n, @michaelroston and @csoghoian

Jason D. O'Grady / ZDNet:

Forensic scientist identifies suspicious ‘back doors’ running on every iOS device — Summary: During his talk at HOPE/X Jonathan Zdziarski details several undocumented services (with names like “lockdownd,” “pcapd,” “mobile.file_relay,” and “house_arrest") that run in the background on over 600 million iOS devices.

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix ends Q2 with 50 million members, survives price hike without blemishes — Netflix ended the second quarter with a total of 50.05 million subscribers worldwide, up from 37.56 million in Q2 of 2013. The company added 570,000 subscribers in the U.S. last quarter, compared to 630,000 in Q2 of 2013.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, internetretailer.com, GeekWire, MacRumors, Business Insider, Re/code, Fortune, Netflix, Tech Trader Daily, WebProNews, The Verge and The Next Web

Tweets: @stevekovach, @tcarmody, @tcarmody and @jandawson

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Launches Save, A Read-It-Later List For Links, Places, And Media Pages — Two years after acqhiring read-it-later startup Spool, Facebook today launched a basic Pocket competitor called Save. It's a feature for iOS, Android, and web that lets you store links from News Feed …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8 beta 4 includes new Tips app with quick feature tutorials (Gallery) — iOS 8 beta 4 brings a new app to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch called Tips. The application, as the name implies, provides quick tips and tutorials about iOS features. The app will be updated on a regular basis with new ways to use iOS device features.

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, Mashable, ZDNet, Softpedia News and MacNN. Tweets: @theromit

Danilo Masoni / Reuters:

Italy gives Google 18 months to change data use practices — (Reuters) - Italy's data protection regulator has given Google 18 months to change the way it treats and stores user data, bringing to an end an investigation that is part of a European drive to reform the internet giant's privacy practices.

More: 9to5Google, Engadget, TIME and Wall Street Journal

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook's $2 Billion Acquisition Of Oculus Closes, Now Official — Facebook now owns Oculus. The $2 billion acquisition deal of the virtual reality pioneer announced in March has been approved by regulators and today become official. The FCC's anti-trust team greenlighted the deal in April.

More: VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, Wall Street Journal, AllFacebook and Electronista

Kana Inagaki / Wall Street Journal:

$700 Sony Walkman with 128GB of storage for “high-resolution audio” finds niche in Japan — Sony's Walkman Makes Comeback — New $700 Device Is Aimed at Upscale Users — TOKYO—Thirty five years after its debut, Sony Corp.'s Walkman is enjoying a little comeback.

More: PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Canadianreviewer.com, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal and Wall Street Journal

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Leaked ‘Windows 9’ screenshots offer a closer look at the new Start Menu — An early look at Microsoft's next version of Windows — Microsoft provided an early look at its new Start Menu for a future version of Windows earlier this year, but freshly leaked screenshots are offering …

More: Myce.com, The Digital Reader, TechSpot, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Windows Phone Central, Neowin, Windows Phone Central, Ubergizmo and WinBeta

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

In China, more people now access the internet from a mobile device than a PC — China has been going through an explosive internet adoption period, with mobile playing a key role in getting people online. — And now, the latest report published by state-affiliated research organization …

More: Reuters, Computerworld, GadgeTell and The Register. Tweets: @jonrussell

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:

NBA star Carmelo Anthony launches venture capital firm called M7 Tech Partners — Knicks Star Carmelo Anthony Launches Venture Firm — After scoring a new contract worth over $122 million with the N.Y. Knicks, NBA star Carmelo Anthony is looking to take a different kind of shot — starting a venture capital firm.

More: Entrepreneur, VentureBeat and CNET

Tweets: @brooke, @mikeeisenberg, @julesmaltz and @hunterwalk

Greg Brockman / Stripe Blog:

Stripe CTO explains how a Bitcoin-based global payments network could improve the existing financial system — Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective — Many people have remarked that Bitcoin resembles the internet in the early 90s: we haven't yet built the Googles that will make it accessible …

More: TechCrunch and CoinDesk. Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @polemitis and @levie

Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:

Time Warner Cable promises one-gigabit Internet for L.A. in 2016 — Time Warner Cable says it can greatly increase its Internet speeds in Los Angeles, in response to the city's effort to match major metropolitan areas where the technology has already raced ahead.

More: DSLreports, Ars Technica, BGR, Time Warner Cable and FierceCable

Brandon Chester / AnandTech:

Samsung Begins Tizen Rollout for Original Galaxy Gear in the US — Samsung's original Galaxy Gear was one of the first in an initial wave of Android smartwatches. It ran Android at a time where a smartwatch was not a form factor that Google had anticipated for their operating system.

More: Samsung Mobile US Press, Android Central, Digital Trends, SamMobile, Droid Life, CNET and Ubergizmo

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Aereo had 77,596 subscribers across 10 cities at the end of 2013 — Here's How Many Subscribers Aereo Had Last Year — Aereo generated lots of attention from the media world in the run-up to its Supreme Court case this spring. — Consumers may have been less interested …

More: MoffettNathanson LLC. Tweets: @sdkstl. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Verizon Offers Customers Rewards in Return for Ad Targeting Data — New research shows that consumers will set aside nervousness about being tracked if they get something out of it, like coupons or special offers. At least one company, Verizon Wireless, is doing exactly that.

More: Verizon Wireless Promotions, TechHive, Gigaom, ABC News, BGR, Fast Company, Consumerist, AndroidGuys, PC Magazine, CNET and FierceWireless

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