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June 25, 2013, 12:45 PM

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Barnes & Noble Reports $118.6M Loss On Revenue Of $1.3B In Q4, Plans To Open Nook Brand To Tablet OEMs — Barnes & Noble reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings this morning, and the financials make it clear that the company is still struggling to figure out how it fits into the larger digital reading ecosystem.

More: Barnes & Noble, Inc., BGR, AllThingsD, ZDNet, AppleInsider, GeekWire, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, Nieman Journalism Lab, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, memeburn, WebProNews and SlashGear. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Barnes & Noble says it will stop manufacturing Nook tablets in-house; e-readers live on — Investors were expecting a bad earnings report from Barnes & Noble on Tuesday and they got it. The company's revenues were down 7.4 percent compared to this time last year, to $1.3 billion …

More: Betabeat, The Next Web, TechCrunch, PhoneArena and CNET

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Exclusive: Samsung in talks to settle EU antitrust case - sources — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is in early talks with the EU antitrust regulator to settle charges that it abused its market position by barring Apple from using an essential mobile phone patent, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

More: Bloomberg, ZDNet, MacRumors, Computerworld, The Next Web, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, CNET, BGR, Electronista, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified and iLounge

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8.1 includes options to shut down from Start button and disable hot corners — Microsoft is just days away from releasing its Windows 8.1 preview, complete with the return of the Start button. The software maker has started to distribute final preview copies of Windows Server 2012 R2 …

More: BetaNews, InfoWorld, Geek.com and ExtremeTech

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Rahul's roost: Microsoft brings BizSpark, Bing Fund, and its accelerators under one roof — Today Microsoft's Rahul Sood announced the creation of Microsoft Ventures, the company's collected efforts to provide software discounts to growing companies, incubate startups, and directly fund firms that it believes in.

Rahul Sood / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Announcing Microsoft Ventures for startups to build, innovate and grow

More: StreetInsider.com

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Sprint shareholders approve SoftBank takeover — SoftBank's efforts to purchase Sprint got one step closer to completion on Tuesday, as Sprint's shareholders overwhelmingly approved the proposed purchase. Sprint says that about 98 percent of the votes cast at a special shareholders meeting were in favor of SoftBank's offer.

More: Sprint, ZDNet, CNET, The Next Web, Engadget, FierceWireless, Ubergizmo, dailywireless.org and Wall Street Journal

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iOS 7 Disables Screenshot Interruptions, Allows Users to Secretly Take Snapchat Screenshots — While we detailed a number of new features of iOS 7 beta 2 earlier today, a MacRumors reader sent us a tip on a small change that has gone unnoticed since the first beta was released on June 10.

More: Business Insider, The Next Web, Yahoo! News, PetaPixel, Gizmodo, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and Mashable

Tweets: @panzer and @samfbiddle

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

Instagram Video and the Death of Fantasy — Over the weekend, I went to a sunset picnic on a rooftop in Brooklyn. The evening couldn't have been more picturesque — a group of stylish women chatting and lounging on blankets, framed against a lavender and glittering cityscape.

More: Guardian, Business Insider, Co.Design and AllThingsD

Tweets: @joshm, @om, @oryankim and @pkafka

Mariella Moon / Engadget:

OUYA hits retailers for $100, promptly sells out at Amazon — OUYA has unlocked a major achievement today: the teensy crowdfunded gaming console is now available at retail, after a slight delay from the June 4th date it promised earlier. That's good news for everybody …

More: Digits, AllThingsD, CNET, TechSpot, Kickstarter, 9to5Google, Inquirer, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Electronista and SlashGear

Euan Rocha / Reuters:

BlackBerry launches service to manage Android, Apple devices — (Reuters) - BlackBerry launched a service on Tuesday allowing government agencies and corporate clients to secure and manage devices powered by Google Inc's Android platform and Apple Inc's iOS operating system.

More: BetaNews, AppleInsider, Electronista, PadGadget, CrackBerry.com, The Register, Engadget, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Macgasm, CNET and Phones Review

Timothy B. Lee / Wonkblog:

One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court — Forget patenting an invention. These days, companies patent conceptual categories for future inventions. — During the first dot-com boom, Amazon famously patented the concept of buying things online with one click.

More: SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica and VentureBeat. Tweets: @mdudas

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple investigating new MacBook Air WiFi issues, some customers receiving replacements — Over the past few days, a notable amount of users have complained about WiFi issues plaguing the new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air models released during the week of WWDC.

More: AnandTech, Macgasm, T3 News, iMore, Digital Trends, iClarified, CNET, Engadget, MacRumors and Insanely Great Mac

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Google Cloud Playground lets you dip your toes in the Cloud Platform waters — Google's Cloud Platform holds a certain amount of appeal for developers looking to quickly build robust web apps. Of course, getting started is a bit involved. You'll first need to download and install several tools and an SDK on your local machine.

More: Cloud Platform Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Softpedia News

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Microsoft licenses ‘Age of Empires’ for iOS and Android, but downplays further releases — Microsoft is bringing its games to iOS and Android, beginning with Age of Empires sometime in 2013, reports Japan's Nikkei business daily. The ports are coming courtesy of mobile developer KLab …

More: Reuters, Examiner, TechHive, Geek.com, App Advice, Ubergizmo, Gearburn, Kotaku, VG247, MacNN and AppleInsider

Malathi Nayak / Reuters:

Microsoft to bring Xbox and PC games to Apple, Android phones: report

More: Inquirer, TUAW and Engadget

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

How Sony's SmartWatch 2 Stacks Up To The Pebble And The MetaWatch Strata — Sony's first go at the smartwatch mostly went unnoticed - a lot of people, myself included, had to be reminded of its existence when the Pebble made big waves for its huge Kickstarter funding success.

More: Engadget, Sony Mobile, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, AllThingsD, The Verge, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Gearburn, Digits and Pocketables

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Sony Xperia Z Ultra official with 6.4-inch 1080p screen and 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800 chip, global launch in Q3 2013 — Sony's unveiled its latest addition to its Xperia Z series, a new smartphone that blurs the line between smartphone and tablet once more — the appropriately-named Xperia Z Ultra.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Sony's ‘Music Unlimited’ iOS app adds offline playback & high-quality 320kbps AAC streams — A nice update is landing any minute now for Sony's Music Unlimited iOS app, which is continuing to improve thanks to some nice improvements coming with PS4 and PlayStation Plus.

More: Sony Entertainment Network, PC Magazine, CNET, Engadget, InvestorPlace, I4U News, iDownloadBlog.com and Macgasm

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T hopes to bolster mobile life with new innovation centers — The company is opening one “foundry” in Atlanta near Georgia Tech and adding a second location to its Plano, Texas, facilities. — The site for AT&T's foundry in Atlanta. The facility is still under construction and isn't open yet.

More: Computerworld, Engadget and GigaOM

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Samsung denies ‘groundless’ rumor that it is shutting down its PC business — UPDATE: Samsung has denied a report that says it is shutting down its PC business and provided the following statement: The rumor that Samsung is withdrawing from the PC desktop business is groundless.

More: Engadget, SiliconANGLE, BGR, PC World, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear and Neowin. Thanks:@kaylenehong

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

New Google Groups now available to all with revamped management features, moderation tools, and mobile site — Google today announced it is retiring the previous release of Google Groups and launching a revamped version in its place, available immediately for all users.

More: Gmail Blog, CNET, Engadget, WebProNews, VentureBeat, 9to5Google and Softpedia News

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