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Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:

Farewell ‘Pure’ Exact Match, AdWords Will Soon Require All Campaigns To Use Close Variants — Today Google has announced that in late September, AdWords advertisers will no longer have the ability to de-select close variants. All campaigns will now include these variants, something that advertisers could previously opt out of.

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UK Premier League warns about posting goal videos, says it's developing tech to find violators — Premier League warns about posting goal videos online — The Premier League has told Newsbeat they're going to clamp down on fans posting unofficial videos of goals online.

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Germany recorded John Kerry, Hillary Clinton phone calls ‘by accident’ — Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor, Hilary Clinton, were both caught up in German spy efforts, says a new report. According to German weekly Der Spiegel, the country's foreign intelligence agency …

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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Explainer: How Google's New SSL / HTTPS Ranking Factor Works — Last Thursday, Google launched a new ranking signal to give HTTPS sites a ranking boost, a small ranking boost, to encourage webmasters to migrate their sites from HTTP to HTTPS. — In our story from Thursday …

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

BBM for Windows Phone comes out of beta — BlackBerry today released BBM for Windows Phone, finally removing the beta tag. You can download the app now directly from the Windows Phone Store. — The company explains that the version 1.01 release fixes a number of bugs and makes performance improvements …

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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.

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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.

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