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August 15, 2014, 9:50 PM

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to deliver Windows ‘Threshold’ tech preview around late September — Summary: Microsoft is aiming to make available a technology preview of Windows Threshold around late September or early October. — Microsoft is aiming to deliver a “technology preview” of its Windows “Threshold” …

More: Computerworld, The Verge, Digital Trends, CIO.com, WinBeta, Mashable, Softpedia News, LiveSide.net, Neowin, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Business Insider, BGR, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central, The Tech Report, Electronista, LAPTOP Mag, Ars Technica and Engadget. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Kevin Rose Steps Into Part-Time Role At Google Ventures To Build A New Startup Called North — Serial entrepreneur, investor, and overall Internet good guy Kevin Rose is stepping down from his role of general partner at Google Ventures. The Digg and Revision3 founder will be moving into a part …

More: Re/code, VentureBeat, The Next Web, bizjournals, Business Insider and Valleywag

Tweets: @evelynrusli, @jason, @qthrul, @dondodge, @alexalbrecht, @kevinrose, @davemcclure, @summertomato and @pinboard

Thanks:@kylebrussell

Barton Gellman / Washington Post:

Spyware tools allow buyers to slip malicious code into YouTube videos, Microsoft pages — CloudShield Technologies, a California defense contractor, dispatched a senior engineer to Munich in the early fall of 2009. His instructions were unusually opaque. — As he boarded the flight …

More: The Intercept, The Citizen Lab, The Verge and Gizmodo

Tweets: @youranonnews, @dangillmor, @evacide, @dangoodin001, @ciphersuite, @csoghoian, @ashk4n, @csoghoian and @kaepora

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple adds key Vice Presidents, more diversity to executive leadership page — Apple today has expanded its Executive Leadership Team to include notable Apple Vice Presidents. The team shown on Apple's official PR Bios website now includes Vice President of Special Projects Paul Deneve …

More: ReadWrite, MacRumors, Mercury News, Daring Fireball, Daring Fireball, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, iMore, App Advice, MacNN and iLounge. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@allegrotechie

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Google buys city guides app Jetpac, support to end on September 15 — Google has acquired the team behind Jetpac, an iPhone app for crowdsourcing city guides from public Instagram photos. — The app will be pulled from the App Store in coming days, and support for the service will be discontinued on September 15.

More: Jetpac, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Engadget, Reuters, VentureBeat, 9to5Google and Tnooz

Laura Stampler / TIME:

Facebook: 1.2M unique ALS Ice Bucket Challenge videos posted, and 15M people discussed it — This Is How Many Ice Bucket Challenge Videos People Have Posted on Facebook — Hint: It's more than a million. — If you thought that the only thing on your Facebook Newsfeed right now was videos …

More: Business Insider, SlashGear, Inside Facebook, Mashable, Cult of Mac, Phandroid, WebProNews, The Verge and ALS Association

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Profile of Gavin Andresen, who succeeded Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin Core's chief developer — Meet Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin — In March, a bewildered retired man faced journalists yelling questions about virtual currency outside his suburban home in Temple City, California.

More: Gigaom. Tweets: @techreview. Thanks:@srikardr

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Wayfair, the Online Furniture Seller, Files for IPO — Wayfair, the online home goods company that built its business for nearly a decade with no outside funding, is planning to go public, according to paperwork filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

More: PandoDaily, VentureBeat and internetretailer.com. Tweets: @delrey

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Biggest cable TV providers sold more broadband than video subscriptions last quarter — The Cable Guys Have Become the Internet Guys — The cable TV business hit an important milestone last month: It turned into the Internet business. — Last quarter, for the first time ever …

More: Wired, Los Angeles Times, Quartz, DSLreports, ReadWrite, Consumerist, The Verge, VentureBeat and Gigaom. Tweets: @b_fung

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

IBM, Lenovo server deal gets final clearance from US regulators — Summary: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the $2.3 billion sale of IBM's x86 server business to Chinese PC maker Lenovo. — IBM received good news from the Committee on Foreign Investment …

More: The Register, Re/code, Computerworld, Reuters, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

FAA rules pilots without commercial licenses can't use startups like AirPooler to share rides — FAA Bans Planesharing Startups — There will be no “ZimRide for airplanes”, according to an FAA ruling released today that prohibits private pilots from publicly offering seats on their planes …

More: TechHive, PC Magazine, Electronista, VentureBeat, Engadget and BetaBoston

Tweets: @qthrul, @fredericl and @_alexlawrence

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

DataRobot, Run by World's Top Data Scientists, Raises $21M Series A … Even before launching its full-scale service that cranks out algorithms for use by data scientists, DataRobot Inc. has nabbed a $21 million Series A round at a $60 million pre-money valuation, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.

More: Luminal, BetaBoston, Talkin' Cloud, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Richard Harper / Inside Microsoft Research:

Microsoft says WindUp, their Snapchat-like app, is for noncommercial, research purposes only — WindUp: Researching Patterns of Content Creation and Exchange — Given erroneous press reports about our research, as the lead for a Microsoft Research project called WindUp, I want to clarify our project's objectives.

More: Forbes, Engadget, Neowin, SlashGear and WMPoweruser

Tweets: @tomwarren and @msftnews

Christopher White / Neowin:

Microsoft builds a Snapchat competitor called WindUp

More: TruTower, PC Tech Magazine, CIO.com, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Forbes, Digital Trends, ITProPortal, TechOne3, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, The Next Web, SlashGear, WinBeta, WebProNews and Windows Phone Central. Tweets: @joshconstine

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