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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.

More: The Verge, Engadget, GigaOM, GigaOM, New York Times, AllThingsD, Computerworld, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, Macworld, Business Insider, The Loop, MacDailyNews, MacStories, TUAW, Current Editorials and Pocket-lint

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

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

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Launches OS X Mountain Lion via Mac App Store for $19.99 — In line with yesterday's brief announcement that OS X Mountain Lion would debut today, Apple has officially launched its next-generation Mac operating system to the public. OS X Mountain Lion [Mac App Store] …

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Donald Melanson / Engadget:

Apple updates iWork suite with support for Mountain Lion, Retina MacBook Pro

More: MacRumors

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Safari 6 with unified search field, offline Reading List released for OS X Lion, Aperture and iLife bug fixes

More: MacRumors, Engadget, AppleInsider and Macworld

Apple:

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — 17 Million iPads Sold — Board Declares Quarterly Dividend of $2.65 per Common Share — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 third quarter ended June 30, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35. billion …

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's tepid Q3 results: What the analysts are saying

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

Apple's Reality-Check Quarter In Charts

More: New York Times, Daring Fireball, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Mashable!

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: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, Engadget and SlashGear

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: Betabeat, The Verge, WebProNews and parislemon

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Hits Its Q2 Numbers, A Little Light on Subscribers

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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

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

Twitter Is Working on a Way to Retrieve Your Old Tweets — Trying to remember that pithy, brilliantly composed tweet about the latest Wes Anderson movie that you fired off a few months ago? You're out of luck: Twitter lets users access only the last few thousand tweets posted to the site.

More: Search Engine Land, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, AllTwitter, CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, VatorNews, TechnoBuffalo and TechCrunch

Tweets: @anildash, @gartenberg, @daltonc and @mathewi

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

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: Forbes, AllThingsD, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web and CNET

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, Street Fight, Hillicon Valley, Mobile Entertainment, VatorNews, SlashGear, Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider and The Technology Chronicles

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: The Verge, The BLT, Washington Post and DCist

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: CNET, VentureBeat, paidContent, Business Insider, The Next Web, AOL, AllThingsD, WebProNews and Poynter. See also Mediagazer

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: Telegraph, CNET, ZDNet, Facebook and WebProNews

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: IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, Computerworld, My Nokia Blog, CNET, Android Community, Android Community, PC Magazine, Android News, Rumours …, Pocketnow, Engadget and SlashGear

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: CNET, Wired, GamesIndustry International and Gizmodo

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: The Verge and Gizmodo

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, PandoDaily and TechCrunch

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Open Graph Leader Leaves: Director Of Product Management Carl Sjogreen Plots Next Adventure — Facebook's acq-hiring like crazy and retaining plenty of top talent, but today marks another post-IPO departure as Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen told friends that he's heading …

More: AllFacebook and Inside Facebook

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: BBC, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, Electronista, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo and Pocketnow

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

LinkedIn scores one-click integration with the new Microsoft Office — Last week, we told you about Microsoft's big Office 2013 announcement. Overall, the suite of apps look like an impressive upgrade, and the addition of social and collaboration features were all over the place.

More: Business Insider, Computer Business Review and LinkedIn Blog

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

ARM Q2 beats forecast on strong chip demand; good outlook ahead — Summary: British chip designer ARM continues to exceed expectations despite a clammy economic outlook and competition in the face of larger chip makers. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhittaker

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