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Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Google ends Chromecast-Netflix promotion ‘due to overwhelming demand’ — Citing overwhelming demand, Google on Thursday said it has ended a Netflix promotion tied to its new Chromecast TV dongle. — The promotion gave users, new and existing, three free months of Netflix's video streaming service …

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Chromecast vs. AirPlay: how do they compare? — Can Google finally take on one of Apple's best features? — Google's new Chromecast HDMI stick is a lot of things: it's a simple new way to bring internet video to your living room after the company stumbled with Google TV …

More: Evolver.fm and TUAW

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Keeping it simple: Chromecast, Google TV, and the zen of a $35 dongle — Google's latest foray into the living room may actually have a chance — Google's combined Chrome and Android event yesterday should have had a relatively small impact: the Nexus 7 was already widely leaked and Android 4.3 was a very minor update.

More: CNET, GigaOM, Geek Beat Technology News, Stuart Henshall and The Verge

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Bertel King, Jr / Android Police:

Chromecast Coming To Google TV And Existing Hardware, Two Products Will Coexist Going Forward

More: Engadget, TechHive, IntoMobile, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, 9to5Google and AndroidHeadlines.com. See also Mediagazer

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Q2 Disappoints, Sales Up 22 Percent To $15.7B, Net Loss Of $7M — Amazon just reported second-quarter earnings, with sales increasing 22 percent to $15.7 billion in the second quarter, compared with $12.83 billion in second quarter 2012. Net loss was $7 million in the second quarter …

More: VentureBeat, Amazon.com, New York Times, The Register, VatorNews, Digits, GeekWire, AllThingsD, CNET, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Valley Watcher, Quartz, WebProNews and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @amir and @jbrodkin

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon hits 97,000 employees, more than tripling in size in three years

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Jeff Bezos Doesn't Care What You Think About Amazon's Quarterly Earnings

More: GeekWire

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords — Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. — The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet …

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

No Dice: Zynga Decides to Abandon Real-Money Gaming Efforts in the U.S. — In its lackluster second-quarter report today, at the very bottom of its press release, Zynga made a very important strategic announcement, saying that it would not pursue real-money gaming in the U.S.

More: Zynga, ReadWrite, VatorNews, GigaOM, The Verge, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, Digits, The Next Web, Joystiq and Quartz

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple's iPhone Activation Servers Experiencing Extended Outage — While Apple is still working to bring its developer site back up a week after taken offline due to a security breach, the company appears to be experiencing another problem with its systems today, as a number of MacRumors …

More: iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Bitch, Business Insider, Electronista and iClarified

Wall Street Journal:

Apple's Secret Weapon: the iPhone 4 — Three-Year-Old Smartphone Propels Company's Sales in Price-Conscious Markets — Apple Inc. is known for drawing crowds with its latest and greatest technology. But one of its most potent weapons in some markets came out three years ago.

More: TUAW, TechCrunch, Yahoo! News, iPhone and MoneyBeat

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Six years later, how Apple keeps the iPhone chugging along

More: AppleInsider, I4U News and CE: The Magazine

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Verizon calls on President to veto coming iPhone ban — As an import ban on Apple products gets set to take effect two weeks from now, a Verizon executive is asking the White House to take the unusual step of intervening with the U.S. trade agency that imposed the ban.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider and iClarified

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

BlackBerry Lays Off 250 Employees From Its New Product Testing And R&D Department — Layoffs at Waterloo-based smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry cut deep last year, with around 5,000 employees being let go. Those cuts continue into 2013 as BlackBerry undergoes what CEO Thorsten Heins called a …

More: AllThingsD, ctvnews.ca, Reuters, MobileSyrup.com, Business Insider, Mobile Marketing Watch, T3 News, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Macgasm, The Next Web, PhoneArena, Light Reading, Electronista and Datamation.com

John Cook / GeekWire:

Shares of Expedia tumble 25 percent after online travel giant hits Q2 ‘headwinds’ — Shares of Expedia are getting trashed in after-hours trading, following the Bellevue company's latest earnings announcement which showed a 27 percent decline in adjusted net income.

More: Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, RTTNews and The Seattle Times. Thanks:@taylor_soper

Sean O'Neill / Tnooz:

Expedia admits that TripAdvisor and Booking.com are hurting it hard

More: Reuters and Skift

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Fast Car: Uber Funding Auction Could Reach a $3.5B Valuation — Uber, the ride-logistics startup, could be valued at up to $3.5 billion in a new funding round led by TPG Capital, said multiple sources close to the discussions, which are ongoing but advanced. We had first reported that Uber was seeking the round in June.

More: TechCrunch, Fortune, Business Insider, VatorNews and Skift

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Despite Gains, Facebook Is Currently Worth $24 Billion Less Than When It First Went Public — The market awarded Facebook a 25 percent share price spike today, following a strong earnings report that showed off the company's ability to retain mind share among youths, build its total global usership …

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Facebook Stock Opens Up 26% After Last Night's Big Earnings Beat

More: Digits and AllThingsD

Matt Siegel / New York Times:

WikiLeaks Founder Assange to Run for Australian Senate — SYDNEY, Australia — Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, formally inaugurated a new political party bearing the name of his antisecrecy organization on Thursday and declared his own unorthodox candidacy for a seat in the Australian Senate …

More: RT, Agence France Presse, Ars Technica, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Examiner, TechPresident, Mashable and Lawfare

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Citymaps, an ambitious Google Maps competitor with a social twist, launches on the iPhone — Taking on Google, Apple, or Nokia in the maps space as a small startup is a little crazy. But that isn't stopping Citymaps, a high-reaching service that has mapped every city in the U.S. and includes …

More: ScreenwerkScreenwerk, Betabeat, Gizmodo, MacRumors, New York Post, All Points Blog and GigaOM

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

BillGuard launches for iPhone to combat the ‘$14bn’ lost by credit card users to hidden-fees and errors — Launched in the US back in April 2010, BillGuard sells itself as the world's first ‘people-powered antivirus system for bills’. — In a nutshell, BillGuard's predictive algorithms alert users …

More: iMore, TechCrunch, Macworld and USA Today

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Laurene Powell Jobs backs ambitious media site — Ozy Media will create content for the so-called change generation. — FORTUNE — Laurene Powell Jobs, the intensely private widow of Steve Jobs, has teamed up with other Silicon Valley luminaries to back an ambitious new journalism site dubbed Ozy Media.

More: Fortune. Thanks:@mhelft. See also Mediagazer

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