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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Acquires Local Data Outfit Locationary — Last September Grant Ritchie, CEO of crowdsourced location data company Locationary, penned an article for TechCrunch describing five challenges Apple faces as it builds out its new mapping service. Ten months later he's become part of the effort to overcome them.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

With Its Acquisition Of Locationary, Apple Zeros In On Maps, Big Data And Competing With Google — After breaking up with Google and forging its own way forward with its mapping service on iOS, Apple is now taking another step on that path: today it emerged that the company has bought Locationary …

More: ReadWrite and All Points Blog

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 …

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Google Results Show Struggle With Mobile — SAN FRANCISCO — Halfway through a year in which Google's stock price had climbed 27 percent, its financial report Thursday indicated to investors that its performance had not matched their expectations. — Google reported second-quarter results …

More: Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNNMoney.com, Reuters, Hillicon Valley, Search Engine Land, AdAge, USA Today, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, Electronista, Engadget, The Verge and WebProNews. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat:

Google fired 5,383 Motorola employees in Q2 — Google is an ad company, pure and simple. In the company's Q2 2013 financial results, it said 93% of their revenues came from little blue links for little blue pills from Canada. Nearly every other thing they do is either losing them money or doesn't generate any money at all.

Tweets: @carnage4life

Christopher Joye / Financial Review:

Huawei spies for China, says ex-CIA head — The former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, Michael Hayden, believes Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei Technologies is a significant security threat to Australia and the US …

More: Reuters, BBC, CNNMoney.com, The Register, The Next Web, Softpedia News, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Quartz and SlashGear

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Huawei lashes out against ‘racist’ treatment and ‘defamation’ by governments — Huawei is going on the aggressive against politicians and critics, claiming that they've subjected the company to racist treatment and slander because of its Chinese heritage. Both the United States …

More: 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Bloomberg, Electronista, Engadget, BBC and Reuters

Microsoft:

Microsoft reports fourth-quarter and full-year results — REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced quarterly revenue of $19.90 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $6.07 billion, $4.97 billion, and $0.59 per share.

Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:

Microsoft was wrong: Tablets are not PCs. So now what?

More: Engadget, BetaNews, Inquirer, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, Electronista, Softpedia News and Los Angeles Times. Thanks:@citeworld

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft's Xbox 360 holds onto its US console sales crown for 30 consecutive months, moving 140k units in June

More: TechNet Blogs, VentureBeat, CNET, Inquirer, Softpedia News and VG247

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft takes $900 million hit on weak Surface RT sales, misses earnings estimates

More: The New Radical, The Verge, InfoWorld, Computerworld, TechCrunch, GigaOM, AllThingsD and PhoneArena. Tweets: @parislemon

Businessweek:

Apple's TV Deals, Like the Time Warner Cable Pact, Fail Its Ambitions — Apple (AAPL) has had grand dreams for its Apple TV, a Web-connected streaming receiver that first shipped six years ago. Customer dissatisfaction with rising cable costs offered the iPod and iPhone maker a chance …

More: The Verge and iDownloadBlog.com

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Apple's Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, iPhone and New Yorker

Kate Zernike / New York Times:

New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data — Staking out new ground in the noisy debate about technology and privacy in law enforcement, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the police will now have to get a search warrant before obtaining tracking information from cellphone providers.

More: Reuters

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File — Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in my FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz. — Two weeks ago U.S. District Judge …

More: GigaOM, Mashable, Techdirt, Business Insider, Boing Boing, The Verge and Softpedia News

Tweets: @davemcclure, @jcstearns, @jayrosen_nyu and @dangillmor

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Emily Spaven / CoinDesk:

Bitcoin company acquisitions begin: Gambling site SatoshiDice sells for $11.5m (126,315 BTC) — Blockchain-based betting game SatoshiDice has been sold for 126,315 BTC, which at the time of writing was worth around $11.47 million. — SatoshiDice (S.DICE), which claims to be …

More: VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, I4U News and GigaOM

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix presses ahead with HTML5, as free software activists call for boycott — Netflix is pushing ahead with efforts to get rid of Microsoft's Silverlight plugin and play video straight in the browser instead. The company first introduced HTML5-based video streaming on Google's Chromebooks …

More: ITworld.com and Softpedia News. Tweets: @jmdugan and @geekbrit

Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:

Evernote for iPhone and iPad Get Shortcuts, Related Notes and Skitch Support — For the latest Evernote for iPhone and iPad update (5.4), we're adding features that will help you rediscover your notes, jump to the content that's important to you, easily annotate just about anything in your account, and learn helpful tips.

More: TechCrunch, iMore, BGR India, MacRumors, The Next Web, SlashGear, 9to5Mac and Engadget

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Evernote 5 beta launches on Windows, bringing the interface in line with the Mac app

More: Evernote Blog, CNET, Engadget and AppleInsider

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Would you pay again for iOS 7 versions of your favorite apps? — iOS 7 is coming, and with it an all-new design language. Apps will have to update to reflect that change, or risk looking old and outdated, and lose their place to newer, hotter updates and upstarts.

More: gedblog, TUAW and Daring Fireball

AppleInsider:

Best Buy shaves $200 off 13-inch MacBook Pros in Back-to-School promotion, $300 for students — Big box electronics retailer Best Buy on Thursday cut the price of select 13-inch MacBook Pro models for its Back-to-School promotion, offering a savings of $300 for students and $200 for regular customers during the ten-day sale.

More: AllThingsD, I4U News, Gizmodo, CNET, iClarified and MacRumors. Tweets: @inafried

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Gigya: Only 2 Percent Of Social Sharing Happens On Google+ — Despite a reportedly growing user base, Google+ isn't popular when it comes to sharing content on social networks. — A new report from Gigya says that only two percent of social sharing happened on Google+ in Q2 of this year (April-June 2013).

More: Gigya's Blog, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Inside Facebook, Marketing Land and SocialTimes

Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times:

VoIP phone hackers pose public safety threat — Hospitals, 911 call centers and other public safety agencies can be shut down by hackers using denial-of-service attacks. — Officials worry that hackers could knock out crucial infrastructure such as hospitals and 911 call centers.

Eric Pfanner / NYT Bits:

Amazon Rejected as Domain Name After South American Objections — A group of Latin American countries appears to have succeeded in an effort to block Amazon, the online retailer, from using. amazon as a new suffix for Internet addresses. — A committee of the Internet Corporation …

More: Marketing Land, Domain Name Wire, UPI and seattlepi.com

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