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August 21, 2014, 1:10 AM

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Verizon Says It Has No Plans for Another App Store — Verizon threw cold water Wednesday on a report that it was in talks to set up another app store. — The Information reported that Verizon was talking with would-be partners about a marketplace designed to rival the Google Play storefront.

More: Ubergizmo, ReadWrite, Droid Life, Gigaom and 9to5Google

Tweets: @amir, @amir, @amir, @amir, @amir, @amir, @amir, @amir, @amir, @karlbode and @ldignan

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Verizon to launch its own app store to compete with Google Play, claims report

More: The Register, AdExchanger, FierceWireless, Light Reading, Liliputing, The Information, Android Authority, Pocketnow, DSLreports, SlashGear, Phandroid, Android Central, CITEworld, BGR, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista and TechHive. Tweets: @nateingraham

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another — There are two disciplines in which Silicon Valley entrepreneurs excel above almost everyone else. The first is making exorbitant amounts of money. The second is pretending they don't care about that money.

More: The Huffington Post, Reno Gazette-Journal, KTVN-TV, SFWeekly and sfbg.com

Tweets: @pinboard, @ssstrom, @mattrosoff, @galenmoore, @nitashatiku, @nerdgirl, @vaurorapub, @evelynrusli, @jadmouawad, @jyarow and @ceciliakang

Thanks:@nethistorypod

Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg:

UPS Store Computer Breach Put Customer Data at Risk — United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) said a breach of computer systems at UPS Store retail outlets may have exposed customers' personal and payment data at some locations this year. — Malware was found at 51 locations in 24 states …

More: New York Times, UPS, ZDNet, Computerworld, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Ars Technica, SC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CBS New York and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Tweets: @dangillmor

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Google Asked to Remove 1 Million Pirate Links Per Day — In the hope of steering prospective customers away from pirate sites, copyright holders are overloading Google with DMCA takedown notices. — These requests have increased dramatically since Google began making the data public.

More: 9to5Google and Engadget

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

VMware buys CloudVolumes for real-time desktop app delivery — Summary: Buying the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company enables VMware to build real-time application delivery across all three of its technology focus areas. — Virtualization powerhouse VMware announced that it has acquired CloudVolumes …

More: Office of the CTO, VMware End-User Computing Blog, The Register, PC World, eWeek, Gigaom, Virtualization Review and Data Center Knowledge

AppleInsider:

Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac launches with OS X 10.10 Yosemite support, speed boosts, more — Parallels on Wednesday announced the release of Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac with built-in support for Apple's upcoming OS X 10.10 Yosemite, faster Windows app performance, better battery life and immediate availability for existing users.

More: Business Wire, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, Macworld, The Mac Observer, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, AppleTell, Ubergizmo, iClarified, App Advice, PCR: Stream, MacRumors and Mashable

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Hands-on with the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook: the same Samsung hardware with deep Nook integration — Hands-on with the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook — The Nook tablets were seriously under appreciated. And while Samsung certainly makes some nice devices, there's something a little sad about seeing …

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Electronista and App Advice

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Samsung's first Nook tablet arrives at Barnes & Noble today for $179

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Security researcher claims over 30% of all mobile spam messages are sent through iMessage — Apple's iMessage Is Being Taken Over by Spammers — Apple's iMessage system is a great way to send texts from phone-to-phone without the paying fees to your mobile carrier.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com and MacDailyNews

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Uber Opens Its API With 11 Launch Partners, Including OpenTable, TripAdvisor, and United Airlines — We told you it was coming, and here it is: Last week, my colleague Josh Constine reported that Uber was preparing to release an API that would enable its on-demand ride-hailing service to be integrated into a number of third party apps.

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Uber Blog, Tnooz, Entrepreneur, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, The Daily Dot, iPhone in Canada Blog, AndroidHeadlines.com, GeekWire, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, TechHive, iMore, MacNN, WebProNews, TIME and socalTECH.com

Tweets: @sama, @joshelman and @brit

Thanks:@anthonyha

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Service Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $100M Round Led By Google Capital — Thumbtack, a company that connects customers with local service providers, just announced that it has raised $100 million in new funding. — The round was led by Google Capital (the search giant's later-stage investment fund) …

More: New York Times, PR Newswire, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, Forbes, VentureBeat, WebProNews and silicontap.com

TrustedSec:

Hackers used Heartbleed vulnerability to exploit 4.5M patient records at Community Health Systems — CHS Hacked via Heartbleed Vulnerability — As many of you may have already been aware, a breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) affecting an estimated 4.5 million patients was recently revealed.

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Twitter details its anti-spam system BotMaker, claims it's reduced spam by 40% — Twitter details its anti-spam system, BotMaker — Twitter has developed a system called BotMaker to deal with its spam problem. Essentially, BotMaker scans messages before they're posted, after they're posted …

More: The Twitter Blog, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Engadget and The Next Web

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Chain raises $9.5 million to build Bitcoin development platform — Chain today is launching as a startup that hopes to become the definitive development platform for Bitcoin, whether the ultimate application relates to financial services or to some other sort of decentralized service.

More: New York Times, CoinDesk, Re/code, NEWSBTC and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @rre

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