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July 18, 2013, 4:13 PM

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Apple's Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders — When Apple wanted to revolutionize cellphones, it held hands with AT&T. The partners fought endlessly, but the public loved the finished product: the iPhone. — Now, as Apple tries to reimagine television …

More: Business Insider, BGR, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, 9to5Mac, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider and TUAW. See also Mediagazer

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: AllThingsD, AppleInsider, InfoWorld, n4bb.com, GeekWire, iPhone and My Nokia Blog

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Nokia chose Windows Phone because it feared Samsung would ‘come to dominate Android’

More: Internet2Go, Macgasm, MobileBurn.com and Yahoo! News. Tweets: @whatthebit

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

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

More: Nokia, TechCrunch, The Verge, Computerworld, Pocket-lint, Reuters, CNET, BBC, BGR, The Verge, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, WMPoweruser, Yahoo! News, Unwired View, Electronista, The Next Web, Guardian, ZDNet, CNET, GigaOM, LAPTOP Magazine 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: The Verge, GigaOM, iMore, MacRumors, Softpedia News, SelfScreens, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, Business Insider and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

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 …

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 …

More: Verizon Wireless, CNET, TechHive, Examiner, Wall Street Journal, Digits, BGR, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Mobile Magazine, Engadget, GigaOM, SlashGear and 9to5Mac

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Verizon's Edge phone upgrade plan is the same bad ripoff as AT&T Next

More: MacRumors and CNET

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

VLC for iOS returns by July 19, re-written from the ground up and fully open-sourced — VideoLAN revealed some very exciting news today: VLC for iOS will be back in Apple's App Store by tomorrow (July 19). The company tells TNW the app will be available for free worldwide, requires iOS 5.1 or later …

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, MacStories, AmongTech, Macgasm, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, iClarified and MacNN

Google:

Google Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2013 Results — Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. “Google had a great quarter with over $14 billion in revenue - up 19% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “The shift from one screen to multiple screens …

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Google Misses Estimates In Q2 With $14.1B In Revenue, Net Income Of $3.2B, And EPS Of $9.56

More: 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge and The Next Web

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

The New York Times Will Release A Gesture-Controlled News App For Leap Motion — The New York Times says it plans to release a Top News app for Leap Motion, the soon-to-be-released controller that will allow users to interact with their computers through gestures — in fact …

More: Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge and CNET. 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, The Verge, AndroidHeadlines.com, Business Insider, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and MobileSyrup.com

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.

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: dailywireless.org

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: ITworld.com, GSMArena Blog, ZDNet and Inquirer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Content Delivery Network EdgeCast Raises $54 Million From Performance Equity Management — Los Angeles-based content delivery network EdgeCast Networks is looking to expand its sales and engineering teams, and it's raised a fresh round of $54 million in new financing to help it do so.

More: GigaOM and Venture Capital Dispatch

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.”

More: The Atlantic Wire and Forbes

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, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Digits, AllThingsD, Computerworld, MacRumors, ZDNet, VentureBeat, TUAW, BGR, New York Times, Electronista, iPhone, WebProNews, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, Engadget and Bloomberg

Tweets: @benedictevans and @benedictevans

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:

Verizon's Q2 iPhone activations grow 44 percent to hit 3.9M, beating estimates of 3.5M

More: Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, CNET and PhoneArena

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: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, CNET, ZDNet and The Verge

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Dell postpones vote. What now?

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple, Samsung's latest phones face antitheft stress test — Apple and Samsung's latest phones and their antitheft technology are being tested by state and federal governments on Thursday. — Apple and Samsung's latest smartphones will face the scrutiny of state and federal prosecutors …

More: ag.ny.gov, TechHive, 9to5Google and 9to5Mac

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, TechHive, Mobile Marketing Watch, Inside Facebook, Guardian, CNET, ZDNet, Digits, VatorNews, AllThingsD, AllFacebook and Softpedia News. Thanks:@chrisvelazco

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: AllThingsD and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

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