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July 17, 2013, 9:40 PM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Others Call for More NSA Transparency — Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will tomorrow demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts.

More: 9to5Mac, CNET, MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, SocialTimes, bizjournals, Gizmodo and iClarified. See also Mediagazer

Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:

The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed — As an aside during testimony on Capitol Hill today, a National Security Agency representative rather casually indicated that the government looks at data from a universe of far, far more people than previously indicated.

More: Guardian, The Verge, GigaOM, Politico, USA Today, The Verge and Washington Post

Tweets: @tonyromm, @qthrul, @normative and @ggreenwald

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Brad Molen / Engadget:

New Nexus 7 coming to retail outlets next week, according to documents (update: pricing and pics) — It appears that the rumored sequel to the Nexus 7 is close at hand, according to internal documents sent to us by an anonymous tipster. Apparently, the new device will be sold in stores alongside …

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands — Encryption is being tested to armor user files stored on Google Drive, sources say, a move that could curb surveillance attempts by the U.S. and other governments. — Google has begun to experiment …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechSpot, Android Authority, 9to5Google, RT, ReadWrite and VentureBeat

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Tumblr Is Pushing Porn Into an Internet Sex Ghetto — Since Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer began circling around Tumblr's billion dollar GIF vortex, we wondered what it'd do with the nasty stuff: the dog sex, the rape porn. Or even the more mild takes on f**king. Now we're starting to see: porn gets put where no one can find it.

More: Colbert Nation, The Verge, The Atlantic Wire, AllThingsD, Business Insider, TechCrunch and Mashable

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

6,000 mobile developers: Android most popular, iOS most profitable, Windows Phone most ‘next’ — The biggest mobile developer study in history with 6,000 respondents from 115 countries says that while iOS developers make an average of $5,200 per month in app revenue and Android developers pull in $4,700 …

More: CNET, GeekWire, ZDNet, Developer Economics, WMPoweruser, Mobile Marketing Watch, everythingiCafe, PC World and AndroidHeadlines.com

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Chrome for iOS adds improved Google apps integration, ‘experimental’ data compression — Google has just released a fairly significant update for Chrome on iOS. Now available in the App Store, the latest version introduces some anticipated features like fullscreen browsing on iPad and access …

More: CNET, CITEworld, Google Chrome Blog, PC World, The Next Web, Macworld and iMore

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Driven By Marketplace And PayPal Growth, eBay's Q2 Revenue Up 14 Percent To $3.9B — As expected, eBay reported decent financial results in Q2 2013 today. Revenue was up 14% to $3.9 billion, compared to the same period of 2012. The company reported second quarter net income on a GAAP basis …

More: Business Wire, eWeek, The Register, Business Insider, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Digits, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, internetretailer.com and CNBC

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Revenue Falls, But Yahoo Shares Jump 7% To Reach A Five-Year High — Shortly after the stock market opened, Yahoo shares (NASDAQ:YHOO) have jumped to 28.91, representing a 7.55 percent increase over yesterday's closing price of 26.88. More importantly, it represents a five-year high for the Silicon Valley veteran.

More: Reuters

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

After a lackluster quarter, Yahoo acquires AdMovate to boost its mobile ad team

More: Yahoo!, Marketing Land, ZDNet, AdExchanger, Computerworld, AllThingsD, IntoMobile, Search Engine Watch, Pulse 2.0, WebProNews, Mashable, Forbes, TechSpot, SocialTimes and VentureBeat. Tweets: @evelynrusli

Amir Efrati / Digits:

How Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Plans to Tackle Video

More: SiliconANGLE and eWeek

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Smart ‘creative tech’ marketplace Grand St. opens up to all — Grand St. has put up the “open for business” sign. — The online marketplace for buying “creative technology” products has taken down its invite-only wall so anyone on the web can check out and buy their products.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Y Combinator Posthaven, Betabeat and Gizmodo

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Intel Misses In Q2 2013, Reports EPS Of $0.39 And Revenue Of $12.8 Billion — Intel reported its fiscal Q2 2013 earnings a few moments ago, and they just fell short of analyst predictions. The legendary chipmaker reported earnings of $0.39 per share and $12.8 billion in revenue …

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Wants to Sell More iPhones Through Its Own Stores — But Can It? — Apple sells a lot of iPhones through its retail stores — but not nearly as many as it would like. Indeed, at a recent gathering of Apple Store leaders, CEO Tim Cook said he was dismayed that only 20 percent …

More: AppleInsider, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone

Mary Iqbal / CircleID:

First Four Registry Agreements Signed for New TLDs — The first four new Top Level Domains (TLDs) have signed contracts with ICANN, known as Registry Agreements, to allow the applicants to operate new TLDs on the Internet. This is a historic event and marks the first of many new Registry Agreements …

More: Marketing Pilgrim

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google Glass Had a Vulnerability for Being Taken Over Via QR Code, But It Has Been Fixed — A Google Glass security vulnerability that allowed an outsider to take control of the wearable computing device via QR code has been fixed. — Basically, since Glass allows users to connect to Wi-Fi …

More: The Official Lookout Blog, Security Watch, Digits, SlashGear, Forbes, Co.Labs, Silicon Valley Watcher, The Register, Betabeat, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, ZDNet, The Verge, CNET and Telegraph

TechCrunch:

Withings Raises $30 Million From Bpifrance And Others To Fuel International Growth — Health gadget company Withings will announce in a few minutes a new funding round from Bpifrance, Idinvest Partners, 360 Capital Partners and existing investor Ventech. Out of the $30 million …

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, AllThingsD and Business Insider. Thanks:@romaindillet

Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd:

Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World — “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” — Freewill, Rush — If you happen to be a sports fan (I am), one of the coolest features to emerge in our lifetime is the ability to program your DVR remotely.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @stevesi

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Tumblr iPhone app fixed after plaintext password goof spotted — Tumblr has been forced to rush out a patched version of its iPhone and iPad apps, and has advised all users to change their password, after researchers discovered the apps had been transmitting login credentials in plain text.

More: The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Betabeat, New Yorker, BuzzFeed, Security Watch, ReadWrite, Malwarebytes Unpacked, Naked Security, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo and The Register

Tweets: @isaach, @mattbuchanan, @tcarmody and @panzer

Horace Dediu / asymco:

“Everybody has got a smartphone” — ... says UBS analyst John Hodulik, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal. — No they haven't. — According to the latest comScore survey data, 98 million Americans above the age of 13 don't use a smartphone as their primary phone. That's 41% of US mobile phone users.

More: BGR and CNET

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Smartphone Upgrades Slow as ‘Wow’ Factor Fades

More: GigaOM, blog.chron.com, SiliconANGLE, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Yahoo! News, DSLreports, AllThingsD and App Advice

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

iPad publisher Inkling nabs $16M and partners with Pearson and Elsevier — Interactive iOS publishing platform Inkling has closed a $16 million series C funding round and established strategic partnerships with educational publishers Pearson and Elsevier, the company plans to announce Wednesday.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

Universities Face a Rising Barrage of Cyberattacks — America's research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with millions of hacking attempts weekly.

More: ReadWrite, GigaOM and Techonomy

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