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Richard Florida / Wall Street Journal:
Why High-Tech Companies Are Moving to the City  —  Goodbye, office parks.  Drawn by amenities and talent, tech firms are opting for cities  —  For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley …
More: Slashdot.  Tweets: @jhagel and @fredericl.  Thanks:@saokar
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
AlleyCorp Seeds a Blossoming Internet Hub in New York  —  Kevin Ryan reclines in a designer chair in his Park Avenue office, wearing a Luciano Barbera suit and a vintage Rolex watch.  A picture of Mr. Ryan with President Obama is on the wall and an ornate Oscar de la Renta gown hangs from the door.
Tweets: @darlin and @ryanchris
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows Phone 8 backup includes SMS sync to Hotmail and Outlook.com  —  We got an early glimpse at some planned Windows Phone 8 backup options in July when an SDK for the new mobile operating system leaked.  Until now, we haven't known exactly how the options — like SMS, photo, and settings backup — will work.
New York Times:
New iPhone Announcement Has Apple Rivals Jostling for Spotlight  —  Back when Apple was an underdog, it had an easier time shrouding its product announcements in mystery and perhaps catching its competitors off guard.  But now tech companies are watching every one of Apple's moves — and scrambling to get out in front of them.
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Google reportedly preparing to release a 3G Nexus 7 within 6 weeks  —  Fresh from opening its popular Nexus 7 tablet up to a bunch of new international markets, Google is said to be just six weeks away from launching a 3G-compatible version of its tablet device, according to Paul O'Brien at MoDaCo.
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea Reassesses Its Great Imitator  —  SEOUL, South Korea — When a jury in San Jose, Calif., ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $1.05 billion in damages for violating Apple's patents for the iPhone and iPad, it did more than decide who had infringed upon whose intellectual property.
More: Guardian
Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
Threat to BSkyB as Freesat partners with Netflix  —  Freesat, the satellite television joint-venture owned by the BBC and ITV, is to launch a major new assault on the pay-TV market by partnering with rival Netflix.  —  Freesat's new set-top box will allow viewers to watch shows like Doctor …
Jamie Doward / Guardian:
How online reviews are crucial to a restaurant's takings  —  US economists find that when a restaurant rating improved by just half a star it was very much more likely to be full at peak dining times  —  It is something every restaurateur and hotel owner knows: good reviews boost takings while terrible ones can close you down.
David Carr / New York Times:
Reddit Thrives Under Hands-Off Policy of Advance Publications  —  There are many ways to measure the traction of a social media platform: time spent, page views or unique users.  But it might be useful to add one more metric: if the leader of the free world stops by to answer questions from your users, you're probably doing O.K.
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Twitter's Chief Lawyer as Defender of Free Speech  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea.  He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his company.  —  That conviction explains why he spends …
More: GigaOM.  Tweets: @ggreenwald and @hunterwalk
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
The first dedicated App.net client for iOS hits the App Store  —  The milestones in the quickly developing story of App.net keep coming.  Today has seen the first dedicated client for iOS hit Apple's App Store.  —  AppNet Rhino is a collaboration between two Croatian companies - Planet 1107 …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Oops: After Seizing & Censoring Rojadirecta For 18 Months, Feds Give Up & Drop Case  —  Looks like we've got something of a repeat of the Dajaz1 insanity, in which the US government seized and censored a website for over a year before giving up and handing the domain back — though this time it's with Rojadirecta.

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
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