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July 25, 2012, 12:25 PM

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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review — Apple's traditional desktop computing business has suffered many indignities over the past decade. Once Apple's flagship product line, the Mac first found itself playing second fiddle to the iPod—a mere music player—in the early 2000s.

More: CNET, PC World, Marco.org, Macworld, 9to5Mac, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Mashable!, TUAW, MacStories and VentureBeat

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

OS X Mountain Lion: Quick, Familiar, Cheap, And Drenched In iOS Goodness — Trying to write a review of OS X Mountain Lion is tricky. First of all, I had already written a review back in February, when Apple legitimately surprised the world with the revelation that the ninth iteration of OS X was just about ready to go.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Mountain Lion — It seems like another era, but back in the '00s, major new-cat-name updates of Mac OS X were a big deal. They were packed with major new features, new built-in apps, significant performance improvements, and often sported refreshed system-wide UI appearances …

More: SplatF

Donald Melanson / Engadget:

Apple updates iWork suite with support for Mountain Lion, Retina MacBook Pro — Looking for something else to download once you're finished with all 4.34GB of Mountain Lion? Then you'll be glad to know that Apple has now also updated its full iWork suite of applications for the occasion.

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Gizmodo, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear and 9to5Mac

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Safari 6 with unified search field, offline Reading List released for OS X Lion, Aperture, iPhoto, iMovie updated — In addition to being included with OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has rolled out its updated version of the Safari web browser - Safari 6 - to OS X Lion users.

More: MacRumors, The Verge, Engadget, AppleInsider, Macworld, New York Times, The Verge, Ubergizmo, CNET and iClarified

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Launches OS X Mountain Lion via Mac App Store for $19.99

More: Los Angeles Times, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, Help Net Security, MacRumors, Ars Technica, CNET, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, The Verge, BGR, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, The Next Web, SlashGear, Apple, Redmond Pie and ZDNet

John Letzing / Digits:

Google Says Patents, Tech Were Less than Half Motorola's Price — Google put a finer point on the value it placed on Motorola Mobility's intellectual property when it agreed to buy the mobile-phone maker, saying in a regulatory filing Tuesday that $5.5 billion of the $12.4 billion price tag …

More: CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Engadget, Droid Life, FierceWireless, Pulse2 Technology …, Techie Buzz, The Next Web and SlashGear

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Google Gets Scientific, Adds A Voice-Enabled 34-Button Calculator To Desktop And Mobile Search — Oh Google. Sometimes you're so awesome. — Google search has long featured a built-in calculator function but a recent update added a fully functional 34-button scientific calculator.

More: CNET, 9to5Google, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, The Verge and Gizmodo

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Is Twitter a Media or Technology Company? — If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, then it's a duck — right? — One question many seem to be wondering about Twitter: is this duck a media or technology company? — In a meeting at The New York Times offices in New York …

More: GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

Twitter Is Working on a Way to Retrieve Your Old Tweets

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Tweets: @anildash and @gartenberg

Lisa Richwine / Reuters:

HBO nixes idea of Netflix partnership — (Reuters) - Consumers who dream of watching HBO hits like “The Sopranos” or “Game of Thrones” by streaming to TVs using their Netflix accounts shouldn't hold their breath. — Netflix Inc CEO Reed Hastings raised the tantalizing possibility on Tuesday …

More: PC Magazine, VentureBeat, paidContent, Pulse2 Technology …, GadgeTell, Betabeat, The Verge and AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's tepid Q3 results: What the analysts are saying — Stronger than expected iPad sales failed to offset disappointing iPhone numbers — FORTUNE — “It's a testimony to just how remarkable Apple's last few years have been,” wrote Daring Fireball's John Gruber, putting a positive spin on Apple's …

More: Daring Fireball

Apple:

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

Electronista:

Good Technology: iPad, iPhone dominating enterprise markets — Good Technology has released its analysis of mobile device activations among enterprise customers over the second quarter of 2012. The data collected shows Android smartphone usage doubling, with Apple's iOS continuing to lead, with the iPhone 4S at the head of the pack.

More: ZDNet and AppleInsider

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

NEA Has Closed On $2.6 Billion For Its 14th Fund, Perhaps The Biggest In VC History — New Enterprise Associates, the global venture capital firm with headquarters in Silicon Valley, confirmed today that it has raised $2.6 billion for NEA 14, its fourteenth venture capital fund.

More: Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Forbes, AllThingsD and CNET

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Foursquare Launches Promoted Updates, Its Newest Effort To Generate Revenue — Today Foursquare is launching its version of search ads, Promoted Updates. — Promoted Updates operate like Google's promoted listings or Twitter's promoted tweets. They are pay-per-action ad placements …

More: The Next Web, Betabeat, CNET, Forbes, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Fast Company, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, The Verge, GigaOM, AdAge and AllThingsD. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Chris Dixon:

BuzzFeed's strategy — BuzzFeed's CEO, Jonah Peretti, recently sent out an email to employees and investors summarizing the company's strategy and progress. I really liked his email so I asked Jonah if I could blog it and he gave me permission. This isn't just the usual cheerleading email …

More: Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

EU regulators seek global concessions from Google — (Reuters) - EU regulators are seeking concessions from Google that can be applied worldwide to resolve concerns about its business practices, the EU's antitrust chief said on Wednesday, raising the stakes in forthcoming settlement talks.

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

DC police chief announces shockingly reasonable cell camera policy — We've written a number of stories about police officers interfering with citizens who are trying to record the actions of police in public places. In some cases, cops have arrested citizens for making recordings in public.

More: Techdirt, The BLT, The Verge, Washington Post, Pulse2 Technology …, Reason, Forbes and DCist

Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

GoodData brings in $25M to supply Big Data analytics — GoodData racked up $25 million in a third round of funding for its big data analytics service. — GoodData offers operational dashboards, metrics and performance reports, data storage, analytics, and collaboration tools in a single platform.

More: AllThingsD, TechCrunch and PandoDaily

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Q2: Revenues Down To $531M, Lowest Decline In 7 Years; Traffic, Ad Reveues Up — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) continues to stem its declines, although it is still declining. In Q2 results reported just now, the company noted revenues of $531 million. That's a two percent decline …

More: Business Insider, Inquirer, Tech Trader Daily, paidContent, CNET, AOL, VentureBeat, paidContent, Business Insider, The Next Web, AllThingsD, WebProNews and Pulse2 Technology …

Alex Dobie / Android Central:

Samsung kills local search on international Galaxy S3 in ‘stability’ update — There's a new over-the-air update rolling out for the international Samsung Galaxy S III (aka Galaxy S3 GT-i9300) this evening. The OTA message identifies it as a “stability update,” but what it also does is remove local …

More: PC World, BBC, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, PhoneArena and Pocketnow

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) MDP benchmarks blow away the competition (update: video) — As mentioned earlier, we've just gotten our hands on Qualcomm's latest development platform to see how its first quad core chipset fares. And boy, that APQ8064 really doesn't disappoint …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, ExtremeTech, AnandTech, IntoMobile, Android and Me, PC Magazine, WebProNews, My Nokia Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Android Community, Android Community, Android News, Rumours … and Pocketnow

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Facebook Opens First International Engineering Office In London — Facebook announced today that they have opened a London engineering office, adding to their Menlo Park, New York and Seattle engineering offices. The company has 22 open positions at the new office.

More: CNET, ZDNet, Telegraph, Pulse2 Technology … and Facebook

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

Square Expects New Financing and a Loftier Value — For all of Square's challenges, raising money has not been one. — Square, the mobile payments start-up best known for its pint-size credit card reader, is close to raising roughly $200 million, which would give the company an implied valuation …

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, Business Insider, Business Insider, Street Fight, VatorNews, SlashGear, Mobile Entertainment, Hillicon Valley and Pulse2 Technology …

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple's Wild New Patent Covers TV & Advanced 5D Technology — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-five newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. This particular report covers a single, wild and crazy patent that touches on advancing television …

More: Mobile Magazine, Gizmodo and CNET

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Pebble smartwatch to miss original September shipping estimate — The folks behind the Pebble smartwatch have been providing detailed, regular updates on their progress on Kickstarter every few weeks. The latest reveals that the color option which will be available to backers who joined …

More: Gotta Be Mobile, Liliputing, IntoMobile, GadgeTell, Softpedia News and PhoneArena

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Open-source Meteor takes a huge $11.2M first round; will Andreessen Horowitz get the cash back? — Meteor Development Group is building a technology platform to make building client-side web apps super easy and super fast. To that end, the seven-person team has just taken an $11.2 million round …

More: The Next Web, GigaOM, PandoDaily, BetaKit, VatorNews, AllThingsD and TechCrunch

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