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August 18, 2014, 11:25 PM

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Amir Efrati / The Information:

Google is working to overhaul Web services so it can legally offer them to kids; new features include dashboard for parents, child-safe YouTube, more — Google Seeks New Customers: Kids — Google has been working to overhaul its Web services so it can legally allow children to use them …

More: Mashable, Gigaom, Neowin, The Verge, Pocket-lint, CNET, Android Authority, AndroidHeadlines.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, 9to5Google, Electronista, EdSurge and The Hill. Tweets: @theinformation

Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Google Moves to Target Kids Under 13 — Google plans to offer accounts to children under 13 years old for the first time, a move that will take the world's largest Internet search provider into a controversial and operationally complex new market. — Accounts on Google services such as Gmail …

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Google to launch “YouTube Music Key” a $10/month, ad-free subscription service with offline support — Exclusive: This Is YouTube Music Key, Google's Upcoming Subscription Service With Offline Support, Background Audio, No Ads, Free Play Music Key — Google has big plans for both YouTube and Google Play Music.

More: CNET, Daily Mail, VentureBeat, TechHive, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, The Next Web, Phandroid, Droid Life, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com and Android Central

Aliya Sternstein / Nextgov:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it was targeted and hacked by suspected foreign powers — Exclusive: Nuke Regulator Hacked by Suspected Foreign Powers — Nuclear Regulatory Commission computers within the past three years were successfully hacked by foreigners twice …

More: CNET, SlashGear, Daily Dot, Engadget and The Verge. Tweets: @markrussinovich

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Hello, HP Stream 14: A $199 Windows laptop aimed squarely at the Chromebook market — Microsoft isn't taking the low-cost Chromebook threat lightly. Instead it's working with partners to create $199 to $249 Windows laptops and it has enlisted HP's help with the HP Stream 14.

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Nextdoor now adopted by one in four neighborhoods in the US — The anti-Facebook: one in four American neighborhoods are now using this private social network — Neighborhood gossip and community policing thrive on Nextdoor — It was early in the morning when the flooding hit The Knolls …

Tweets: @joshelman, @amcafee, @jessgitner, @brandee, @greylockvc and @nextdoor

Todd Wasserman / Mashable:

Tumblr Partner Will Now Scan Photos for Clues About Brand Affiliation — Every day, users post about 130 million photos on Tumblr. Starting this week, the Yahoo-owned media brand will start to parse all those images for clues to users' brand affiliations.

More: Marketing Land, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, Entrepreneur, The Drum, Adrants, Business Insider, SlashGear and Pocket-lint

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

The team behind webOS TV jumps to Pebble to design the next generation of smartwatches — Pebble is dead-serious about competing in the face of Android Wear and whatever Apple is presumably working on. To that end, the company has just announced that it has hired Itai Vonshak as head …

More: Gigaom, Connectedly, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget and bizjournals

Gabe Nelson / Automotive News:

U.S. details plans for car-to-car safety communications — SAN FRANCISCO — After more than a decade of research into car-to-car communications, U.S. auto safety regulators took a step forward today by unveiling their plan for requiring cars to have wireless gear that will enable them to warn drivers of danger.

More: National Highway Traffic …, PC World, TechHive, PC Magazine, The Next Digit, Multichannel News, Re/code, The Hill, KTIC Radio West Point, NE and ValueWalk

Alastair Sharp / Reuters:

BlackBerry creates new unit for potential high-growth assets like QNX, Project Ion, cryptographic applications, 44K strong patent portfolio, more — BlackBerry creates new unit for potential high-growth assets — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said on Monday it has created a new unit to house …

More: BlackBerry Press Room, CNET, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Ubergizmo, Huffington Post Canada, InfotechLead.com, TheStreet.com, MobileSyrup.com and ZDNet

Eli Hodapp / Touch Arcade:

Exclusive Hands On With ‘Flappy Bird’ Creator Dong Nguyen's Next Game: ‘Swing Copters’ — Looking back on the Flappy Bird phenomenon, and the onslaught of games developer Dong Nguyen inspired with his brutally difficult single-tap gameplay, it's clear what made it so hard to put down.

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Owners take Vevo off the sales block after seeing growth — Vevo is off the block. The owners of the popular music and video streamer have ended the sales process after deciding that the five-year-old property is poised for continued rapid growth, several sources told The Post on Monday.

More: Re/code and Bloomberg

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Algorithmia Raises $2.4M To Connect Academia And App Developers — While communities built around GitHub and Stack Overflow have developers working together more than they ever have before, one group's work is typically seen by too few, considering the impact it could have: researchers in academia …

More: VentureBeat, socalTECH.com, GeekWire and BroadwayWorld.com

David Gelles / New York Times:

Tech M&A deals increasingly conducted by corporate development teams with less input from investment banks — In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Test — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When deciding whether Google should spend millions or even billions of dollars in acquiring a new company …

More: TechCrunch, Quartz and Business Insider

Tweets: @owlese, @reformedbroker, @erigonatti, @sobendito, @epicureandeal, @jeffrey_cane and @nytimesbusiness

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

GuardiCore Raises $11 Million to Build Advanced Data Center Honeypots — Israeli cybersecurity startup GuardiCore, announced on Monday that it has closed an $11 million round of funding led by Battery Ventures. — While few details are provided on the company's web site …

More: VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Network World and Pulse 2.0. Thanks:@wiredmike

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Coinbase Acquires Blockchain Explorer Blockr.io — A small consolidation wave in the Bitcoin space continues as bigger, better-funded companies scoop up teams of talented designers and engineers. — Coinbase, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed Bitcoin wallet and merchant processing company …

More: The Coinbase Blog, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, Union Square Ventures, NEWSBTC and Gigaom

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