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June 28, 2013, 6:35 PM

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Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

A Week After Instagram's Video Launch, Vine Sharing Tanks On Twitter — It's now been a full week since Instagram added video recording to its popular camera app, and it's already had a dramatic impact on its main competitor: — Vine sharing on Twitter has tanked.

Bloomberg:

Shutterstock Creates First Silicon Alley Billionaire — Jonathan Oringer, the founder of Shutterstock Inc., became a billionaire today as shares of the world's largest stock photo and video marketplace reached a record high. — Oringer, 39, owns about 55 percent of Shutterstock …

More: SocialTimes, VentureBeat and Business Insider. Thanks:@sarahfrier

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

BlackBerry PlayBook will not be upgraded to BlackBerry 10 — Reneging on a promise it made back in January, BlackBerry has just announced that it will not, in fact, be upgrading its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to its latest mobile OS, BlackBerry 10. CEO Thorsten Heins revealed the sour news …

More: CrackBerry.com, Engadget, Macgasm, WebProNews, SlashGear, CNET, ZDNet, Yahoo! News, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, BGR, Digits, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends and TechHive. Tweets: @trixxy

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

BlackBerry ships 6.8 million smartphones but loses $84 million in Q1 2014

More: Market Wire, Reuters, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Next Web, The Verge, NYT Bits, Telegraph, AllThingsD, Guardian, USA Today, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, PC World, VentureBeat, iPhone, ZDNet, ReadWrite, CrackBerry.com, SlashGear, Canada Real Time, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Computerworld, GigaOM, SlashGear, Inquirer, Electronista, ZDNet, The Next Web and WebProNews

Tweets: @zacharye, @benedictevans and @theromit

Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

Research In Motion's Stock Falls 27% on After Troubling BlackBerry Numbers

More: CNNMoney.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Digits, Mashable and Mashable

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo To Sunset AltaVista, Axis, RSS Alerts, and Nine Other Products, Some As Soon As Today — Yahoo under Marissa Mayer is taking a page from her old employer, Google, and sunsetting 12 products, with some starting as soon as today. Included are AltaVista and other search products …

More: Yahoo!, Search Engine Land, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, AllThingsD, SocialTimes and Engadget. Tweets: @mikeisaac. See also Mediagazer

Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg:

Google Sues IRS for $83.5 Million Tax Refund — Google Inc. (GOOG), owner of the most popular Internet search engine, sued the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for an $83.5 million refund, claiming it was improperly denied a deduction for a 2004 stock transaction with America Online Inc.

More: CNET, The Register, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, Softpedia News and AllThingsD. Tweets: @r

Xbox Wire:

Xbox Announces Landmark Deal with Time Warner Cable to Bring More Live TV to Xbox 360 — In a landmark deal announcement for Xbox 360 and Time Warner Cable customers, we're excited to share a new partnership that will deliver up to 300 of the most popular live TV channels to Xbox 360 for Xbox Live Gold members.

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Netflix Max hands-on: Jellyvision's take on your movie queue — Being a Netflix subscriber is almost like being cursed — sure, you have access to untold troves of streaming TV shows and films, but how do you choose what to watch? The burden of choice weighs heavily on the indecisive Netflix user …

More: Netflix US & Canada Blog, TechHive, Polygon, Gizmodo, SlashGear, The Next Web, CNET, Betabeat, NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat and PC Magazine

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

New data: Samsung gaining ground on Apple in smartphone market share — As the smartphone wars rage on, the industry's two major hardware players continue to gain market share in the U.S., according to new numbers from comScore. — Samsung and Apple are the only major OEMs whose market share grew …

More: comScore, Inc., CNET, AllThingsD, BGR, AppleInsider, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified and iPhone in Canada Blog

Julia Halperin / The Art Newspaper:

Amazon to launch virtual art gallery — The retail giant's new art site would resemble Amazon Wine, which launched last fall — AMAZON.com is expected to launch an online art gallery later this year. The online retailer of books, electronics and apparel aims to offer over 1,000 art objects …

More: CNET, GeekWire and Wall Street Journal

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google adds native Microsoft Word and Excel file editing to latest Chrome OS build — Google has added native Microsoft Office file editing to the dev channel for Chrome OS. The addition means Chrome OS users on the latest build of the company's browser-based operating system can now experiment …

More: 9to5Google, Engadget, Google Operating System, SlashGear, Geek.com and Softpedia News. Thanks:@alex

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Android 4.3 Available To Test For Adventurous Galaxy S4 Owners — Google's worst-kept secret is the upcoming Android 4.3 update for devices powered by its mobile OS (though a lot more secrets have come to light recently), and we're starting to see that update make its way to the handsets of owners who aren't afraid to experiment.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google+ Turns 2, Rolls Out Redesigned Follow Buttons And Badges, Introduces Badges For Communities — Google+ turned two today. To celebrate, Google's social network didn't just dress up Mr. Jingles, but it also launched a redesign of its Google+ plugins for websites, including its Follow …

More: The Verge, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, The Next Web and WebProNews

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Music App Songza Goes Ad-Free With A New Paid Service, “Club Songza” For $0.99 Per Week — Songza, the music-streaming and recommendation service that has picked up some 4.8 million monthly active users with its free, ad-based service, is turning on a feature now that it hopes will convert …

More: VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Macgasm and Evolver.fm

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Facebook to review which Pages and Groups can show ads after complaints about inappropriate content — Facebook has revamped the way its advertising system works in response to concerns from major brands who were concerned about where their ads were showing up.

More: Facebook Newsroom, Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, GigaOM, Reuters, Business Insider, TechHive, AllFacebook, TechCrunch and Digits

Eric Johnson / AllThingsD:

BlueStacks Announces Second Android Gaming Console, Free Forever (With a Software Subscription) — Its first Android gaming console is still only available for preorders, but BlueStacks said today that it's planning to roll out a second device, the hardware component of which will be permanently free.

More: Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Yahoo! News, Joystiq, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Electronista, Mashable, VentureBeat and Polygon

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google+ Photos gets an option to move images between albums, new Download button, and faster uploading — Google+ turns two today and Google has already redesigned its buttons and badges, but that's not all. The service is also getting some new features specifically centered on photos.

More: 9to5Google and TechCrunch

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla Opens Its Firefox Social API To Developers — With the release of the first public beta of Firefox 23, Mozilla didn't just introduce a new logo and kill the <blink> element, it also opened up its Social API for developers. This feature allows them to create new ways for users …

More: ProgrammableWeb, blog.seanmartell.com, internetnews.com, Mozilla Security Blog and The H Open Source. Thanks:@teawithcarl

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Skype built into final Windows 8.1 version, Microsoft drops existing Messaging app — Microsoft is making use of its Skype acquisition for Windows 8.1, opting to bundle it into a final version of the OS. Existing preview versions of Windows 8.1 do not include the traditional built-in Messaging app.

More: LiveSide.net, eWeek, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, Crave, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, Softpedia News, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile and BestTechie

Donna Tam / CNET:

Yahoo integrates Flickr with e-mail, adds new search alerts — The company adds Flickr access within Yahoo Mail and automated alerts for Yahoo search images or video results. — Continuing to spruce up its offerings, Yahoo on Friday added Flickr integration into its e-mail service …

More: Yahoo!, Yahoo! Search, Engadget, Search Engine Land, WebProNews and The Next Web

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Intel's new CEO focused on mobile chips, cautious on TV — (Reuters) - Intel Corp's new CEO said on Friday he would speed up the rollout of chips for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices as consumers move away from personal computers. — Brian Krzanich, an Intel manufacturing guru …

More: Engadget and AllThingsD

Shara Tibken / CNET:

T-Mobile forks over $308M for U.S. Cellular spectrum — The deal will boost the carrier's 4G LTE footprint in areas such as St. Louis, New Orleans, and Nashville, Tenn. — T-Mobile's flagship store in midtown Manhattan. — T-Mobile customers in places like St. Louis and New Orleans are about to get a boost in coverage.

More: The Next Web, NYT Bits, TechHive, Electronista, Associated Press, GeekWire, IntoMobile, Reuters and Engadget

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire — According to Wikipedia, the Tampa International Airport is a public airport six miles west of downtown Tampa, in Hillsborough County, Florida. It's also where Jimmy Wales flies in and out of a couple times a month, in coach …

More: Business Insider

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