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July 24, 2013, 2:50 PM

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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 …

More: The Verge, AllThingsD, Wired, Marketing Land, Forbes, Washington Post, iClarified, POPSUGAR and Engadget

Tweets: @grg, @levie, @tcarmody, @tomwarren, @mattlynley, @amir_efrati, @pkafka, @joshuatopolsky and @ginatrapani

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.

More: Google Developers Blog and Engadget

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 …

More: AllThingsD, Android Developers Blog, Engadget, TechHive, The Next Web, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, AnandTech and Droid Life

Android Developers Blog:

Android 4.3 and Updated Developer Tools — Posted by Dave Burke, Engineering Director, Android Platform — Today in San Francisco we announced Android 4.3, a sweeter version of Jelly Bean that includes great new features for users and developers. Android 4.3 powers the new Nexus 7 tablet …

More: ReadWrite, MacRumors, Engadget, Android Community, Pocket-lint, Unwired View and AndroidGuys

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Google launches Android's answer to Apple's Game Center: The Google Play Games app — Following a slew of announcements, including a new Nexus 7, Google has announced the launch of Google Play Games, an app which highlights games and brings together your gamer friends.

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google and IntoMobile. Tweets: @googleplay

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google hits 70M tablet activations, 1M apps in the Play Store — Live from Google's Android and Chrome event this morning, Google's Sundar Pichai just provided an update on some of the company's stats for tablet activations and Google Play content downloads.

More: IntoMobile, Examiner, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Next Web, AllThingsD and Gotta Be Mobile

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

Textbooks coming to the Google Play Store — Textbooks are coming to the Book section of the Google Play store, Google announced at its breakfast event this morning. — Android users will be able to rent or purchase textbooks from all five of the major academic publishing houses.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, AndroidHeadlines.com, Android Central and Gotta Be Mobile

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Android 4.3 images for the Nexus 4, 7, 10, and Galaxy Nexus now available

More: The Verge, MobileSyrup.com and nextbigwhat.com

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.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Fox News, TechHive, Digits, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, TIME, dailywireless.org, Gotta Be Mobile and IntoMobile

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @dannysullivan, @googlenexus, @tapbot_paul and @reckless

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nexus 7 with LTE can work on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile

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.

More: Twitter Blog, VentureBeat, Daring Fireball, CNET, Marketing Land, The Verge, VatorNews, Guardian, Softpedia News, WebProNews and Business Insider. Tweets: @twitterads. Thanks:@techchronicle. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: Benedict Evans, iDownloadBlog.com, A VC, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, Technovia, Yahoo! News, Examiner, iPhone Hacks, iMore and Forbes

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

How Apple's profits stack up against Google and Microsoft

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.

More: Tech.pinions, Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, Daring Fireball, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News and PadGadget

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 …

More: Dell, Businessweek, TechCrunch, PC World, AllThingsD, Associated Press, InfoWorld, Inquirer, Reuters, MoneyBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Digits and Business Insider. Tweets: @danprimack

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 …

More: Droid Life, Android Authority, Geek.com, Engadget and AndroidHeadlines.com

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 1020 review — There was no shortage of stunned faces in the audience when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress 17 months ago. Who would have thought a Symbian-powered device would be a show-stealer — in 2012?

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, SuperSite for Windows, Mashable, ZDNet, WMPoweruser, Ars Technica, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Inquirer, LAPTOP Magazine, ReadWrite, eWeek and Gotta Be Mobile

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 …

More: GeekWire, CNET, TechSpot, AllFacebook and Marketing Land

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 …

More: Search Engine Land. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: Symantec, SecurityWeek, Examiner, CITEworld, BetaNews, Engadget, BBC, GigaOM, b0ing, Softpedia News and Lastest ITProPortal news

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.

More: CrackBerry.com, BGR, Engadget, VentureBeat, TechSpot and I4U News

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.

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Touch Arcade, App Advice, MacNN and EA.com

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

With Plans For The First ‘Programmatic Upfront’ Event, AOL Pushes For More Automated Ad Buying — Aol CEO Tim Armstrong has been evangelizing for programmatic advertising, where ads are purchased in an automated, data-driven way, usually through real-time bidding.

More: AdExchanger, AdExchanger, AllThingsD, GigaOM, AdAge, AOL Blog, Adweek and Deadline.com

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

NYT Reporter's Upcoming Twitter Book Hints at a Founding Tale of Palace Intrigue — Something Twittery this way comes. — The upcoming book detailing the backstory on Twitter, penned by New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton, was listed for preorder on Amazon this morning.

More: Business Insider, SocialTimes and Laughing Squid. Tweets: @mattlynley

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