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Rahul Sood / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Announcing Microsoft Ventures for startups to build, innovate and grow — The following is a post from Rahul Sood, general manager of Microsoft Startups. — Entrepreneurship is an increasingly global phenomenon. We know that the barriers to turn an idea into a business have never been lower.

More: GeekWire, Digits, AllThingsD, CNET, GigaOM, Xconomy, Fast Company, Bloomberg, StreetInsider.com and Tech Cocktail. Tweets: @ckindel

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Microsoft brings BizSpark, Bing Fund, and its accelerators under one roof

More: The Verge

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.

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

As sales plunge, Barnes & Noble says it will stop making Nook tablets; e-readers live on

More: The Next Web, Betabeat and PhoneArena. See also Mediagazer

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Exclusive: Samsung in talks to settle EU antitrust case -sources — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is in early talks with the EU regulator to settle charges that its use of injunctions against arch rival Apple breached antitrust rules, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

More: AllThingsD, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Inquirer, PadGadget, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, BGR, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors and CNET

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: Digital Trends, CNET, The Register, Ars Technica, BetaNews, ExtremeTech, Geek.com and InfoWorld

Brian Frank / Southern California Public Radio:

LA sides with taxi companies, sends cease-and-desist letters to 3 ride-sharing startups (poll) — Disruption may be the name of the game for tech startups, but it also guarantees there will be pushback from the disrupted. Three companies that aim to change the way we think about taxis …

More: PandoDaily, AllThingsD, The Informer, The Verge, socalTECH.com, Daily Breeze, Los Angeles Times, CBS Los Angeles, socalTECH.com and Boing Boing

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

New Google report shows malware by country: highest rates in India, Central Europe — Google's Transparency Report is a document that shines light on threats to the internet, including copyright takedowns and government surveillance requests. On Tuesday, the search giant announced a new section …

More: CNET, PC World, Google Operating System, Hillicon Valley, Marketing Land, Ars Technica, Krebs on Security, NYT Bits, Mashable and The Verge

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft to launch web-based version of Xbox Music next week — When we first heard Microsoft's plans for Xbox Music, there was a mention of web, iOS, and Android versions. Next week the software maker will launch a web version of Xbox Music so that subscribers can access the service across various platforms from a browser.

More: CNET, TechHive, Gizmodo and Pocket-lint

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

From The Team Behind Branch, Potluck Is A New Link-Sharing Service For The Internet's “Lurkers” Who Don't Tweet Or Blog — The team behind the social conversation platform Branch is today launching a new venture with Potluck, a service which seems almost the complete inverse …

More: Medium, The Verge, GigaOM, BestTechie, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Business Insider, Laughing Squid, PandoDaily, Mashable, CNET and TechWhack

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

A Year After Microsoft Bought It, Yammer Nears 8M Users, Deeper MSFT Integration... And Klout — One year to the day after Microsoft announced that it would acquire enterprise social networking tool Yammer for $1.2 billion, the pair are today publishing some updated usage numbers and news …

More: TechNet Blogs, Yammer Blog, The Microsoft Office Blog, The Register, The Official Klout Blog, CNET, VatorNews, Mashable, AllThingsD, MSDN Blogs, Neowin, PC Magazine, ZDNet and PandoDaily

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: 9to5Mac, CNET, GigaOM, SiliconBeat, AppleInsider, Examiner, Gotta Be Mobile, The Atlantic Wire, Business Insider and PetaPixel

Jason Goldberg / betashop:

What It's Really Like To Work @Fab — Readers of this blog know that we pride ourselves on our transparency here at Fab. — To that end, I wanted to take a moment to clear up some misconceptions about how we work at Fab. — A Bloomberg article yesterday put forth some blatant misrepresentations about Fab.

More: Valleywag

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, iMore, TechHive, AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, FierceWireless, Electronista, The Next Web, dailywireless.org, ZDNet, Engadget, CNET and Ubergizmo. See also Mediagazer

Don Clark / Digits:

Oracle Forges Cloud Deal With Salesforce.com — Salesforce.com and Oracle on Tuesday unveiled a nine-year technology alliance under which the two companies will align their cloud operations. — Salesforce.com, known for offering sales and marketing software through an online service …

More: Oracle, Reuters, ZDNet, AllThingsD, GigaOM and Inquirer

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

AT&T CEO compares Facebook's HTC First to Apple's failed ROKR experiment — AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega has told CNET that the carrier has sold all of its HTC First Facebook phones. While he declined to say exactly how many phones AT&T has sold, our sources revealed the phone was …

More: CNET, MacRumors, Pocketnow, BGR and 9to5Google

Tweets: @joshconstine and @mikeisaac

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Mozilla launches Firefox 22 with 3D gaming, video calls and file sharing to court developers — Mozilla has released a new version of its Firefox Web browser today that offers support for 3D gaming, video calls, and file sharing. With these integrations, developers will be better able …

More: The Mozilla Blog, Computerworld, Mozilla Hacks, PC Magazine, ExtremeTech, TechCrunch, Joystiq, The H Open Source, Ubergizmo, Engadget, WebProNews and Lifehacker

Bloomberg:

Samsung Beats Apple in Japanese Patent Suit on Syncing — Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost its appeal in a Japan lawsuit claiming that Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) infringed a patent for synchronizing music and video data on its Galaxy smartphones and tablets with servers.

More: CNET, Phones Review, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

FTC Updates Search Engine Ad Disclosure Guildelines After “Decline In Compliance” — In 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission issued landmark guidelines to search engines, to ensure they were make a clear distinction between their paid and unpaid listings. Now, the FTC has updated those guidelines …

More: Federal Trade Commission, CNET, Digits, 9to5Google, Mobile Marketing Watch, The Verge, ZDNet, The Hill and WebProNews

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: Co.Design, Business Insider and Guardian

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Biba Comes Out Of Stealth With $15M In Funding For Mobile-First, Password-Free Conferencing And Messaging Service — The smartphone is changing how people work but so far the applications for web conferencing have not taken much of a mobile-first approach. Biba, a new company coming out of stealth …

More: VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Digits, ReadWrite, VatorNews and ZDNet

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

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, The Next Web, GigaOM, AllThingsD, The Verge, Pocketnow, Quartz, VentureBeat, Gearburn, Pocketables and Pocket-lint

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