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Sundar Pichai / The Official Google Blog:
From TVs to tablets: Everything you love, across all your screens  —  When I was growing up, my family had a single screen we huddled around every day: the television set in the living room.  Nowadays, we “huddle” around multiple screens—laptops, smartphones and tablets …
Ben Gilbert / Engadget:
Google introduces Chromecast, a $35 HDMI streaming solution for televisions (video)  —  Google's Chromecast is Mountain View's next foray into the television market: a $35 HDMI dongle that mirrors content watched nearby on a tablet, smartphone or computer.  Hrm, that sounds familiar.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Launches Google Cast SDK For iOS, Android and Chrome, Lets Developers Stream Their Apps To Chromecast  —  Google launched its $35 Chromecast device today that allows users to stream their Chrome tabs and videos to their TVs from virtually every popular platform.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Android 4.3 announced, rolling out to Nexus devices today  —  Google's famously breakneck Android update pace may have slowed in recent times, but that's what makes point upgrades like today's newly revealed Android 4.3 all the more interesting.  Shipping with the new Nexus 7 and retaining …
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Google announces thinner, lighter Nexus 7 with higher-res screen, arrives July 30th for $230  —  When we reviewed the Nexus 7 last summer, we said it was the best tablet $200 could buy.  A year later, that still might be true if it wasn't for the fact that there's a new Nexus 7 in town.
Jeff Elder / The Technology Chronicles:
Twitter fakes real users' tweets to promote ad platform  —  What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers' mouths to promote its new ad platform?  —  Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider release of an integration the company is doing with TV commercials.
Dan Frommer / TechCrunch:
Apple's Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall.  What Will Get It Started Again?  —  Apple's stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech.  Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growth rate continued to accelerate, far surpassing its competitors.
Chitika Online Advertising Network:
June Tablet Update: iPad Usage Share Surpasses 84%  —  Since Chitika Insights' last study on the tablet market, Apple iPad users' share of U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic has increased by nearly two percentage points, from 82.4% in May 2013, to 84.3% in June 2013 - now the iPad's highest share since the beginning of 2013.
CNET:
Michael Dell ups buyout offer; shareholder vote pushed off to Aug. 2  —  Dell announced today that its founder Michael Dell, along with partner Silver Lake, will pay $13.75 per share to bring the company private.  —  Dell founder Michael Dell, along with his partner, investment firm Silver Lake …
Ron Amadeo / Android Police:
[APK Teardown] Google Play Music v5.1 - Beam Music To Devices With Chromecasting, And A Hack For SD Card Support!  (A Download Link, Too)  —  Google jumped the gun just a little bit and shipped tomorrow's version of Google Music today, which means we've got about 12 hours to spoil …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Nvidia Brings Kepler To Mobile, Offers Same Graphics Power As iPad 4 With One-Third The Battery Drain  —  At the SIGGRAPH conference going on this week, Nvidia has made a potentially huge announcement regarding the future of mobile gaming: the company is bringing its Kepler graphics architecture …
Joanna Stern / ABC News:
Facebook to Let You Say Why You Hide News Feed Posts  —  It's not exactly a dislike button, but Facebook soon plans to roll out ways to better understand why you don't like something in your News Feed.  —  Currently, when you hide something in your News Feed, Facebook begins feeding …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter  —  There are certain words Google doesn't want its users to see without explicitly searching for them.  —  Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orientation and you'll notice that Google holds …
Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Symantec spots two Android apps using ‘master key’ vulnerability  —  Hackers are now using a critical vulnerability in Android to modify legitimate smartphone applications, putting users at risk of being spied on.  —  Security vendor Symantec wrote on Tuesday that it found two applications …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
BlackBerry's upcoming A10 flagship leaks in photos and video  —  BlackBerry is reported to be working on a bigger and faster flagship smartphone called the A10, and a new series of leaked photos have provided one of our best looks yet at the upcoming device.
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys  —  Whether the FBI or NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying.  —  Large Internet companies have resisted …
More: Gizmodo and ReadWrite.  Tweets: @csoghoian and @csoghoian
Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat:
EA made more money on Apple's App Store than through Origin  —  Updated at 2:40 p.m. — corrected inaccurate comparison to platforms.  —  The mobile-based future is here, and publisher Electronic Arts is reaping the rewards.  EA reported today that it made more money through Apple's App Store than any other retail distributor.

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