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Phil Nickinson / Android Central:

Exclusive first look: Pics and video of the new Nexus 7 — The new Nexus 7 sports an updated look, adds a rear camera — Here we go, folks. The first probable pictures of what we believe is the long-awaited successor to the Nexus 7. We've had to do a little Photoshop surgery to protect the source …

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 …

More: Android Central, The Verge, CNET, Ubergizmo, techshout.com, Technology Personalized, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Phones Review, Unwired View, iPhone and PC Advisor

Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:

Verizon Edge Upgrade Plan Launches August 25th: How it Stacks Up — Verizon Wireless has officially jumped on the smartphone upgrade bandwagon, looking to battle AT&T Next and T-Mobile Jump with its own Edge plan. Available starting August 25th, Verizon Edge spreads the full retail cost …

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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Verizon adds 941,000 subscribers, activates 3.9 million iPhones during second quarter — Verizon has just released its financial report for the second quarter of this year, and unsurprisingly, it's another solid quarter for the largest carrier in the US. Verizon reports adding 941,000 …

More: Verizon, MacRumors, iMore, VentureBeat, Computerworld, DSLreports, Reuters, New York Times, Macgasm, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, ZDNet, WebProNews, Electronista, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Bloomberg, iPhone and Yahoo! News

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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Nokia now sells more Lumias than BlackBerry sells phones — With this quarter's mixed financial results, Nokia revealed that Lumia sales were up to a record high of 7.2 million. That means that the company sold more Windows Phones last quarter than BlackBerry sold phones.

More: AppleInsider, InfoWorld, GeekWire, Computerworld, n4bb.com, WebProNews, iPhone and My Nokia Blog

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Nokia reports smaller $150 million loss in Q2 2013, Lumia sales up to 7.4 million

More: TechCrunch, Computerworld, Nokia, CNET, The Verge, BGR, Pocket-lint, Reuters, PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, BBC, Guardian, VentureBeat, The Verge, TechCrunch, GigaOM, WMPoweruser, Unwired View, Electronista, The Next Web, ZDNet, CNET and SlashGear

Tweets: @verge, @benedictevans, @whatthebit and @verge

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iWatch's novelty emerges as Apple taps sensor and fitness experts — Apple's Tim Cook, Bob Mansfield, Kevin Lynch — Apple has begun assembling a team of hardware and software engineering, medical sensor, manufacturing, and fitness experts, indicating the company is moving forward …

More: iMore, MacRumors, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, SelfScreens, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

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.

James Risen / New York Times:

Bipartisan Backlash Grows Against Domestic Surveillance

More: Wikimedia blog and Washington Post

Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:

The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed

More: GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

Mat Smith / Engadget:

HTC One mini announced: Flagship looks, UltraPixel camera and 4.3-inch 720p display (hands-on) — Currently, the wireless industry's mantra is that good things come in large packages. But let's not just forget about the massive demographic of users that don't care about having the biggest phone on the planet.

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

HTC Announces One mini - 4.3 inch display, aluminum, and Snapdragon 400

More: PR Newswire, ZDNet, GigaOM, VentureBeat, The Verge, AndroidHeadlines.com, Business Insider, The Next Web, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, MobileSyrup.com, 9to5Google and SlashGear

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Android vs. iPhone: Why Apple still has the edge over Google's operating system — Android is a wonderful operating system. But most Android phones are crap. — Six years ago, Google launched an unconventional effort to gain a toehold in the growing smartphone business.

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Dell Buyout Vote Delayed — No vote, no deal. More delay. — Dell shareholders didn't vote today on a proposal to take the company private in a leveraged buyout. The meeting of shareholders at which the proposal was to be considered has been adjourned without the vote taking place …

More: CNET, ZDNet, The Verge, Bloomberg, Reuters and Forbes

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Dell postpones vote. What now?

Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:

The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping — The newest NSA leaks reveal that governments are probing “the Internet's backbone.” How does that work? — In the early 1970's, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the Kuril Islands off …

More: Schneier on Security

Mat Smith / Engadget:

New Office 365 subscriptions get 12 months of free Xbox Live Gold (but not in the US) — Sweetening the deal of its cloud-based Office 365 suite, Microsoft will start bundling a year of Xbox Live Gold with any purchases of Office 365 Home Premium or Office 365 University made before September 28.

More: Inquirer, ZDNet, The Next Web, SuperSite for Windows, TechSpot, Geek.com, The Verge, Macgasm, Redmond Pie, SlashGear and Polygon

Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget:

Samsung announces 3,000 MB/s enterprise SSD, shames competition — The ink has barely dried on Samsung's last SSD announcement and the South Korean manufacturer has already made it obsolete by orders of magnitude. This 2.5-inch enterprise-class SSD isn't for us regular Joes …

More: CNET, ZDNet, Inquirer, GSMArena Blog, ITworld.com and SlashGear

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Netflix gets its first Emmy nominations ever, for House of Cards and Arrested Development — Netflix hit a big milestone Thursday morning as its original drama House of Cards was nominated for nine Emmy awards and Arrested Development was nominated for three.

More: BuzzFeed, AllThingsD, CNET, SiliconBeat, VideoNuze Analysis, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Verge, Inquirer and TechHive. See also Mediagazer

Lindsay Gellman / Wall Street Journal:

Why Startups Are Sporting Increasingly Quirky Names — Lack of Short, Recognizable URLs Prompts Use of Misspellings, Word Mash-Ups — David Leiberman, left, and Sammy Rubin, co-founders of digital sing-along storybook business Mibblio. The name combines “music” and “biblio.”

Eric Johnson / AllThingsD:

Ouya Plans $1 Million Kickstarter Matching Campaign to Encourage Exclusive Titles — Starting next month, Ouya will match some of the Kickstarter funds raised by games for its Android-powered console. — The developer-aimed “Free the Games Fund” will dole out $1 million to eligible Ouya game projects …

More: Digits, TechHive, Engadget, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, Joystiq, Gamasutra, Polygon and GamesIndustry International

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Pandora for podcasts app Swell raises $5.4 million Series A round — One of my favorite apps that I've downloaded recently for consuming the news wasn't, in fact, an RSS reader or another Twitter client — it was Swell, which launched in June as a Pandora-like app for podcasts.

More: VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, AllThingsD and TechCrunch

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Acquires Assets Of UK Mobile Bug-Checking Software Developer Monoidics — Facebook has just agreed to acquire certain assets and hire some employees of UK software verification developer Monoidics. Pending closing conditions, Monoidics' engineers and tech staff will join Facebook's London office.

More: Facebook, Monoidics, CNET, Digits, VatorNews, ZDNet, AllFacebook, AllThingsD and Softpedia News. Thanks:@chrisvelazco

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Paid Apps On The Decline: 90% Of iOS Apps Are Free, Up From 80-84% During 2010-2012, Says Flurry — The trend toward more mobile applications going free continues, app analytics provider Flurry confirms this morning in a new report focused on app price changes over time.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, VentureBeat, GigaOM and PhoneArena

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Open-Xchange pulls in $20M to help ISPs and hosting providers battle Microsoft and Google — Telecoms companies and old-fashioned hosting providers are all about added value these days - the services they provide are highly commoditized, so they want to differentiate themselves through bolted …

More: TechCrunch and Computerworld

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