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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 …
Kyle Russell / Business Insider:
Check Out What Data Motorola Has Been Collecting About Some Of Its Users  —  Motorola is collecting email addresses, usernames, passwords, GPS coordinates from pictures taken, and more from at least on of its smartphone models, according to an analysis by engineering expert Ben Lincoln.
More: Beneath the Waves.  Tweets: @dujkan
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:
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
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 and Crave.  Tweets: @benedictevans
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.
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 …
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.”
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 …
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Softbank Bid for Sprint Said to Win Majority FCC Support  —  SoftBank Corp. (9984)'s $21.6 billion bid for mobile carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) won the support it needs from the last U.S. regulatory body reviewing the transaction, said people familiar with the matter.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
.NYC: New York will be ‘first city in the country’ with its own top-level domain  —  If you run a New York City-based business or happen to live in one of the five boroughs, you'll soon be able to secure your own domain ending in .nyc.  The news was just announced via Mayor Bloomberg's …

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

K.J. Yossman / Variety:
ITV reports H1 2026 revenue up 2% YoY to £1.9B, ITV Studios revenue up 2% to £912M, and ad revenue up 3% to £850M, with digital ad revenue up 13%

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