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July 24, 2013, 1:30 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 …
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.
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.
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.
Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:
Textbooks coming to the Google Play Store  —  One of the things revealed at Google's breakfast event this morning is that textbooks are coming to the Book section of the Google Play store.  —  Android users will be able to rent or purchase textbooks from all five of the major academic publishing houses.
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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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
The White House Blasts The ‘Amash Amendment’ That Would Hamper The NSA's Surveillance Powers  —  In a terse statement late Tuesday evening, the White House blasted the so-called “Amash Amendment” that would limit the National Security Agency's ability to collect data on personal phone communications …
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 …
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 …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Loses Appeal Asking for Injunction Against Dish's ‘Hopper’ Ad-Skipper  —  An appeals court refuses to overturn a judge's decision over a technology that broadcasters argue will irreparably harm the television industry.  —  On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Fox's appeal …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
iHeartRadio adds on-demand talk programming, lets listeners participate via Spreaker  —  Clear Channel-owned online radio platform iHeartRadio isn't just about music anymore: The radio platform added talk radio content from ABC News, American Public Media, TMZ, the Wall Street Journal and others.

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