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July 3, 2013, 9:00 AM

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Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Lockdown — Officially, Google killed Reader because “over the years usage has declined”.1 I believe that statement, especially if API clients weren't considered “usage”, but I don't belive that's the entire reason. — The most common assumption I've seen others cite is that …

Tweets: @panzer and @waxpancake

Alex Kantrowitz / Forbes:

Google Reader Founder: I Never Would Have Founded Reader Inside Today's Google — After watching Google disarm and then kill the product he launched nearly eight years ago, Google Reader founder Chris Wetherell said that if the idea came to him in today's Google, he would leave the company …

Official Google Reader Blog:

A final farewell — Thank you for stopping by. — Today, we powered down Google Reader. We understand you may not agree with this decision, but we hope you'll come to love these alternatives as much as you loved Reader. — Sincerely, — The Google Reader Team — Frequently-asked questions:

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Tweets: @tcarmody and @edbott

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google Alerts Drops RSS Delivery Option

More: ZDNet, Google Operating System, GigaOM and TechLifeWeb

John McDermott / AdAge:

Motorola Debuts its First Ad for Upcoming Moto X Smartphone — A Made-In-America Claim But No Images of the Phone — Motorola has set a patriotic tone for its Moto X smartphone campaign, the company's first since being acquired by Google last summer. — “What we are doing which is very different …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Moto X will not be a Droid on Verizon — The new flagship stands alone, but the Droid lives on — Motorola's forthcoming Moto X phone will not be a Droid device on Verizon, multiple sources tell The Verge. The change marks a sharp inflection point in the tight relationship between the two companies …

More: AndroidHeadlines.com, PhoneArena and IntoMobile

Kyle Russell / Business Insider:

Check Out What Data Motorola Has Been Collecting About Some Of Its Users

More: Beneath the Waves and SiliconANGLE

Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite:

Google Teases The Moto X, A Fully Customizable Smartphone From Motorola

More: Electronista, AllThingsD and Business Insider. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Near Time Warner Cable Deal for TV Programs — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is nearing a deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) to give subscribers of the cable television service access to channels via Apple TV, people with knowledge of the negotiations said.

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Apple reportedly hires Hulu exec to negotiate future media deals

More: Business Insider

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires former YSL CEO Paul Deneve to work on special projects under Tim Cook — Confirming a claim from earlier today, Bloomberg's Adam Satariano reports that Apple has confirmed the hire of former Yves Saint Laurent CEO Paul Deneve. According to Apple, Deneve will report to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

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Tweets: @satariano, @levie and @reneritchie

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Apple's decision to hire fashion exec for “special projects” could boost its wearable computing efforts

More: Vogue.com UK, iMore, GeekWire and iPhone Hacks

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Buys Qwiki for About $50 Million — As AllThingsD reported two weeks ago that it was likely to do, Yahoo said it has bought Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allows users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.

More: Yahoo!, Qwiki, DailyFinance.com, Digital Trends, VatorNews, BGR India, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, techshout.com, CNET, Engadget, App Advice, memeburn, BBC, Tnooz, Reuters, ITworld.com, IntoMobile, The Next Web, SlashGear, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, Inc.com, SocialTimes, Business Insider, GigaOM and Mashable. Tweets: @marshallk. See also Mediagazer

Michal Conger / Washington Examiner:

State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook ‘likes’ — State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook “likes,” prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was “buying fans” in social media, the agency's inspector general says.

More: Gizmodo, Foreign Policy, NationalJournal.com, Marketing Land, The Register and ZDNet

AppleInsider:

Apple now No. 1 in customer satisfaction on Samsung's home turf of South Korea — Apple's products are renowned around the world for quality, but now the company's iPhone has achieved yet another milestone: it has taken the top spot for customer satisfaction in South Korea the home country of Apple's chief rival, Samsung.

More: 9to5Mac, Electronista, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

EE DoubleSpeed LTE goes live July 4; 802.11ac router, Mobile Payments, more — UK 4G carrier EE has revealed its latest devices, including an 802.11ac router for EE's fiber, as well as detailing its shared 4G plans and double-speed roll-out. EE DoubleSpeed will go live on July 4th …

More: The Next Web, Engadget, Telegraph, Inquirer, Bloomberg and Crave. Tweets: @benedictevans

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft CEO Said to Give Bates Mergers Role in Revamp — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is considering a reorganization that would put Skype president Tony Bates in charge of acquisitions and relationships with software developers, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: CNET, LiveSide.net, gameinformer.com, VG247, Engadget, The Seattle Times and Polygon

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

14-inch Razer Blade gaming laptop review: smaller, faster, lighter — Most companies refresh their products on an annual basis, carefully timing development and release schedules to match consumer demand, product obsolescence and component upgrades. It's the norm, an expected pattern that most PC …

More: CNET, Gizmodo, AnandTech, The Verge, PC World, CNET, Wired, IGN and Kotaku

Casey Newton / The Verge:

YouTube renews Vevo deal, buys stake in company to keep music videos off Facebook — Google said today that it has renewed its agreement with Vevo, the music video distributor, keeping its popular programming on YouTube and preventing it from falling into the hands of its rivals.

More: Billboard, CNET, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Electronista, Financial Times, ReelSEO Video Marketing and VentureBeat

Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:

How Facebook's IPO Created the Best-Paid County In America … It's not very often that the actions of a single company register in national economic statistics, but Facebook Inc. 's 2012 initial public offering appears to have hit the mark. — The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics …

Tweets: @wsjcorpintel and @nytimesbits

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Microsoft: Xbox One won't hit Japan until 2014 — When Microsoft announced a November launch date for the Xbox One back at E3, the company pointedly did not include Japan in a list of 21 countries where the system would first be available. Now, a Microsoft employee has used an interview …

More: DualShockers, SlashGear, Engadget, Digital Trends and Softpedia News

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

How Facebook threatens HP, Cisco, and more with its “vanity free” servers — A test rack in Facebook's hardware electrical test lab filled with Facebook DIY hardware. — MENLO PARK, CA—Building 17 of Facebook's headquarters sits on what was once a Sun Microsystems campus known fondly as “Sun Quentin.”

Ben Horowitz / AllThingsD:

Shared Command … Zynga recently put a new management structure in place where Don Mattrick is the CEO and my friend Mark Pincus, the founder and former CEO, will be the chairman of the board and the chief product officer. — My friend Fred Wilson encourages entrepreneurs to consider …

More: Business Insider

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