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August 21, 2014, 11:00 AM

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Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:

Product Hunt raises $1M seed funding, launches iOS app — Silicon Valley darling Product Hunt gets $1M, launches app for its tech-fanatic community — Two days ago, Product Hunt, one of the buzziest communities in recent times, graduated from the most highly-regarded accelerated program around, Y Combinator.

More: TechCrunch, Fortune, Re/code and The Next Web

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

The state of Android updates: Who's fast, who's slow, and why — Android 4.4, KitKat was released on October 31, 2013, or at least, that's what you can say about one device: the Nexus 5. For the rest of the ecosystem, the date you got KitKat—if you got KitKat—varied wildly depending on your device, OEM, and carrier.

More: 9to5Google, Guardian and BGR

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft set to unveil Windows 9 on September 30th — Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its press event for September 30th …

More: TechCrunch, Technology Personalized and Windows Phone Central

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

SoundCloud to incorporate ads, allow artists to collect royalties, prepares to introduce paid subscriptions — Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads — SoundCloud is the ubiquitous wild child of the digital music world. Without paying artists or record companies …

More: SoundCloud, VentureBeat, TechHive, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Financial Times, iMore, AVC, Engadget, TIME, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Verge, Gigaom and Webrazzi. Thanks:@kristinaweise. See also Mediagazer

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: 9to5Mac, blog.chron.com, iPhone, MacRumors, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista and MacDailyNews

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: Search Engine Land, Neowin, 9to5Google and Engadget

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Court orders Facebook to respond to EU privacy class action suit, as it attracts 60K users — European Facebook Class Action Suit Attracts 60K Users As It Passes First Court Hurdle — Some developments around the class action suit filed against Facebook in Europe earlier this month …

More: ZDNet and Gigaom

Nick Statt / CNET:

Minecraft players build working hard drives — Players of the pixelated building block game have taken its virtual simulation tools to an unprecedented level: building functioning hard drives that can read and write data. — A fully functioning 1KB hard drive built within the sandbox game Minecraft.

More: imgur, The Verge, Gearburn, Gamezone, SlashGear, TechSpot, VG247, Ubergizmo and Geek.com. Tweets: @bgurley

Nellie Bowles / Re/code:

Secret Users Have Started Hosting Secret Dinner Parties, and They Are Brutal — Secret dinner party, said the intriguing post on Secret, an anonymous sharing app. — Invitations were application only, the host wrote in the comments. As instructed, I used an anonymous account to submit my best secret to a Google doc.

More: Business Insider and Engadget. Tweets: @caseynewton, @nytimesbits, @dorseyshaw, @laurengoode, @nelliebowles, @evelynrusli, @mike_hogan, @pkafka, @sg and @riptari

Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:

Google Rolls Out App Promotion Ads On Search And YouTube — App install and app re-engagement ads are now available globally. — Last spring, Google took the first step in upping its offerings for app developers in introducing app install and app re-engagement ads.

More: Inside AdWords, USA Today, The Next Web, Search Engine Roundtable, WebProNews, MediaPost, All Content and 9to5Google

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, Reuters, Light Reading, Pocketnow, ReadWrite, Droid Life, SlashGear, Phandroid, BGR, CITEworld, The Information, Android Central, Electronista and Engadget

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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: Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, sfbg.com, The Huffington Post, Reno Gazette-Journal, KTVN-TV, SFWeekly, Fortune and everwas

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Thanks:@nethistorypod

Amit Sawhney / SlideShare Blog:

Slideshare rolling out some premium features like analytics and videos to all users for free, beginning September — Giving You More Reasons to Share on SlideShare — SlideShare community: We've heard you loud and clear! — Over the last few years, we've created and enhanced premium tools built …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web and WebProNews

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