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August 12, 2014, 3:29 PM

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Christina Farr / Reuters:

Apple in talks with Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Allscripts about its HealthKit service — Exclusive: Apple prepares Healthkit rollout amid tangled regulatory web — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has been discussing how its “HealthKit” service will work with health providers …

More: SiliconBeat, iMore, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, USA Today, PadGadget, Tech Times, Pocketnow, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Forbes, SlashGear, InvestorPlace, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, Mashable, iPhone, CNET, opptrends, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, ZDNet, BGR, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, iLounge and App Advice. Tweets: @rock_health

Bloomberg:

Apple suppliers begin production of new iPads, 9.7-inch to feature anti-reflective coating — Apple's Suppliers Said to Begin Production of New IPad Tablets — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s suppliers have started manufacturing new iPads, according to people with knowledge of the matter …

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple's Diversity Report: 70 percent Male, 55 percent White in U.S. — Apple is the latest company to release a report on the diversity of its workforce, saying Tuesday that its numbers represent a work in progress to the diversity it hopes to achieve over time. — Currently seven in 10 of its workers globally are male.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Acquires ‘Pandora For Places’ App Zofari — Another acquisition for Yahoo, this one focused on improving the company's local search capabilities: it has bought Zofari, a local recommendation app that uses machine learning, natural language processing and third-party data from sources …

More: Zofari, CNET, VentureBeat, The Next Web and opptrends

Tweets: @jyarow and @hunterwalk

Steven Levy / Wired:

Ex-Siri engineers promise consumer-friendly digital assistant “Viv” that can teach itself — Forget Siri: This Radical New AI Teaches Itself and Reads Your Mind — Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California, offices are decorated with tsotchkes bearing …

More: AppleInsider, CITEworld, Engadget, iMore, BGR, MacRumors, The Verge, The Next Web, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMagazin, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, SlashGear and MacDailyNews. Thanks:@johnrobertreed

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Xbox One to offer TV streaming on SmartGlass, video playback via USB and DLNA network streaming — Just before its Gamescom presentation kicked off, Microsoft announced some hefty updates for its Xbox One video game console affecting some of the core apps, SmartGlass and live TV.

More: Xbox Wire, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, The Verge, Gizmodo, Inquirer, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Consumerist, WinBeta, Softpedia News, Gigaom and Windows Phone Central

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft will offer a $499 Call of Duty Xbox One bundle with 1TB of storage, but no Kinect

More: Engadget, CNET, IGN, Softpedia News, Engadget, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, gameinformer.com, WinBeta, Geek.com and The Next Web

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

iOS drops to 67% enterprise share in Q2 2014, Android grows to 32%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1% — Apple's iOS still rules the enterprise space, even after having fallen 5 percentage points to 67 percent of total device activations in Q2 2014. Android device activations increased …

More: Good Technology, GeekWire, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google and ZDNet

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

OnePlus asks women to participate in degrading contest to get a smartphone — The startup OnePlus recently launched its first smartphone, the One, and to deal with production issues it's been letting people buy them by invitation-only, slowly offering them to more people as more are produced.

More: OnePlus, TechCrunch, BGR, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Android Central, SlashGear, Phandroid, Droid Life and Android Authority

Tweets: @kevin_church, @andrewcrow, @cyanogeninc, @mkbhd, @dcseifert, @morganwano, @roflkops, @epro and @reybango

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Twitter admits that as many as 23 million of its active users are automated — This piece has been updated to clarify the kinds of accounts in question. — Twitter raised eyebrows last month when it suggested that many of its active users aren't actually human. Now we know how many.

More: Gigaom, CNET, Guardian, Tech Times, Daily Dot, InvestorPlace, Yahoo Tech, Neowin, International Business Times, Daily Mail, Tech2, WebProNews, Engadget and Re/code

Tweets: @peterwsinger and @amir

Erica Fink / CNNMoney.com:

Lyft says 177 Uber employees have ordered and cancelled 5,560 Lyft rides since last October — Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides — Uber is using a pattern of aggressive and questionable tactics in its effort to control the car-on-demand market, according to rivals.

More: Gigaom, BGR, Bloomberg, Washington Post, VatorNews, SiliconBeat, Ars Technica, The Verge, SlashGear, Consumerist, Fox News, Valleywag, Daily Dot, WebProNews, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Next Web, CNET and ITworld.com. Tweets: @dhh

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Square killed prototype credit card due to legal hurdles and fear it would alienate partners — Why Jack Dorsey Killed The Square Credit Card — Square, the payments startup from Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, has prototyped a Square credit card. The plastic card is all black …

More: Gigaom and The Verge. Tweets: @incanus77. Thanks:@davidlidsky

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Condé Nast's Lucky Magazine Merging With Online Retailer BeachMint — Move to Strengthen Shopping Title's Web Presence Amid Focus on Digital — Magazine publisher Condé Nast is merging its Lucky shopping magazine with an online retailer, strengthening the title's Web presence …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fashionista, AdAge, Capital New York, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, VatorNews and Gawker

Ian Sherr / CNET:

Activision to break with past, release Skylanders for consoles, tablets — For the first time, the game giant will launch a top-tier console title on a tablet at the same time it's coming out for the PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii. Skylanders toys will, of course, join the fray.

More: Guardian, Engadget, TechHive, iMore and The Verge

Dave Smith / Business Insider:

Meet Marques Brownlee, the 20-year-old tech reviewer with over 1.5M subscribers on YouTube — Meet ‘The Best Technology Reviewer On The Planet,’ Who Is Only 20 Years Old — Marques Brownlee is just 20 years old, but there's arguably no one better on the internet when it comes to explaining new technologies to the average consumer.

Ben Casselman / FiveThirtyEight:

Corporate America hasn't been disrupted: startup rate continues decline as failure rate grows — Corporate America Hasn't Been Disrupted — Talk to anyone in Silicon Valley these days, and it's hard to go more than two minutes without hearing about “disruption.” Uber is disrupting the taxi business.

More: Beyond Search. Tweets: @natesilver538 and @codinghorror

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

RelayRides Adds $10 Million From Trinity And Looks To Expand Peer-To-Peer Airport Rentals — When we last checked in with peer-to-peer car rental startup RelayRides about six weeks ago, it had raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Canaan Partners. Well, it wasn't quite finished raising money …

More: Skift and PE Hub Blog. Thanks:@stevendwebb

GSMArena.com:

Exclusive: 5-inch Moto G2 to ship on Sept 10 for €250 — The successor of Motorola Moto G, rumored as Moto G2 and Moto G+1, should be available for purchase on September 10. The information comes from a retailer, which got the info straight from a Motorola rep.

More: Android Community, AndroidGuys, GadgeTell, EyeOnMobility, Greenbot and BGR

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Twitter launches Promoted Video ads in beta, only charging advertisers when a user hits play — Twitter today introduced Promoted Video ads in beta. The company is offering advertisers a new Cost Per View (CPV) ad buying model which means they only get charged when a user starts playing the video in question.

More: The Twitter Blog, TechCrunch, PC World, VentureBeat, Re/code, Marketing Land, Wall Street Journal, iMore and Mashable

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Yo now lets you send links, “Yo” hashtags and set up IFTTT-style alerts with other services — Yo, a simple messaging app that sends nothing but the word “Yo,” just got a little more complicated. — In its first major update, the iOS app now gives you the option to show a photo and your full name.

More: Medium, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, The Verge, Daily Mail and TechCrunch. Tweets: @counternotions

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Gartner: Chromebook sales will grow 79% to 5.2 million units in 2014, but ‘will remain a niche market’ — Chromebooks are expected to reach 5.2 million units in 2014, a 79 percent increase from 2013, according to Gartner. While the growth is certainly notable, the overall figures aren't impressive just yet.

More: eWeek, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, EyeOnMobility, Tech Times, Guardian, 9to5Google, AndroidHeadlines.com, Business Insider and The Register. Tweets: @ampressman

USA Today:

Clippers sale to Steve Ballmer finalized, NBA says — The sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was completed Tuesday with an email from a California courtroom, one of Ballmer's attorneys told USA TODAY Sports. — The NBA Board of Governors had previously approved …

More: Ars Technica, GeekWire, ESPN, Washington Post, Associated Press, NPR and NBC News

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide — Sony is on a roll. During its press conference at Gamescom 2014, the company announced it has now sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide. — To be clear, this is the number of consoles that have been bought by consumers …

More: PlayStation.Blog, PlayStation.Blog and BetaNews. Tweets: @siracusa

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

With $12M in new cash, EverString wants businesses to boost sales with machine learning — The big data startup uses machine-learning algorithms to weed out the good leads from the bad leads in a company's marketing database. — EverString, a big data startup that helps companies identify …

More: VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog and Forbes

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