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Digits:

Google Has Shown Another Living Room Device — Google's home-entertainment experiments extend beyond the gadget the company announced Wednesday, which turns TV sets into an extra screen for watching Web videos and other content. — The Internet giant in January used the Consumer Electronics Show …

More: AppleInsider, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidHeadlines.com, Engadget, Android Beat, 9to5Google, Electronista, Pocket-lint and Polygon. Tweets: @amir

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google reportedly demoed Android set-top box with camera and motion sensor in January — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that back in January, Google privately demonstrated a prototype set-top box at the Consumer Electronics Show. The box reportedly worked more like an Apple TV or a Roku …

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: GigaOM, Electronista, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Softpedia News 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: TUAW. Tweets: @trentonthetman, @intstuff, @zpower and @brian_riggs

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Jeff Bezos Doesn't Care What You Think About Amazon's Quarterly Earnings — If you are watching Amazon's quarterly earnings today, probing the numbers for signs of the online giant's continued vigor, feel free. But honestly, Jeff Bezos doesn't care what you think.

More: Business Insider, Beyond Search and GeekWire

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Q2 Disappoints, Sales Up 22 Percent To $15.7B, Net Loss Of $7M

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

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

More: Business Insider

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

IDC: Apple, Samsung lose smartphone market share as Lenovo and others see greater growth — Apple and Samsung have both reported their financials for Q2 2013 so, as is customary, analyst firms are now putting out their estimates for the quarter. IDC is out of the blocks …

More: IDC, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Unwired View, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, iMore, SlashGear, MacRumors, The Verge, memeburn and Android Beat

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Samsung Accounted for a Third of Smartphone Sales Last Quarter, While Apple's Share Fell

More: BGR, GigaOM, Crave, Digits, Wireless Device Strategies and CNET

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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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 …

More: Help Net Security, HotHardware.com News, I4U News, The Daily Caller, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, SlashGear, NPR, Ubergizmo, Hit & Run and Techdirt

Tweets: @declanm, @csoghoian, @ncweaver, @stshank and @declanm

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Sky's Now TV box is a £9.99 Roku clone that streams iPlayer and more — BSkyB started investing in Roku last year and it's leveraged that involvement to develop this new Now TV set-top box. Going on sale today for just £9.99 (including shipping), it brings a rebranded Roku 2 XS …

More: NOW TV Community, GigaOM, AllThingsD, iMore, The Verge and Gearburn. See also Mediagazer

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Android 4.3 code reveals granular app controls and 4K support are coming soon — As developers get their hands on the latest version of Google's operating system, Android 4.3, we're discovering some hidden features of the platform that hint at what's to come. Android Police reports on one such gem, “App Ops.”

More: Android Police, Engadget, Android Police, 9to5Google, The Register, Gizmodo, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, Engadget, Softpedia News, Android Beat, AndroidHeadlines.com and 9to5Google

Steven Musil / CNET:

Samsung posts record $8.5B profit as mobile business shrinks — Operating profit jumps 47 percent over a year ago, but profit from the South Korean electronics giant's mobile division declined 3.5 percent from the previous quarter. — Samsung lauded sales of its Galaxy S4 in the second quarter.

More: Guardian, Bloomberg, Inquirer, InfoWorld, New York Times, The Next Web, Digits, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Reuters, Yonhap News Agency and Electronista

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: Business Insider, GlobeNewswire, The Register, Business Insider, SocialTimes, San Francisco Chronicle, Bloomberg, The Verge, Ars Technica, Reuters, Inside Social Games, GeekWire, ReadWrite, VatorNews, Joystiq, GigaOM, Quartz, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Digits and The Next Web

Tweets: @om and @carnage4life

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Zynga slightly beats Wall Street expectations for Q2, but stock falls after-hours

More: Polygon, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Reuters and AllThingsD

Sean O'Neill / Tnooz:

Expedia admits that TripAdvisor and Booking.com are hurting it hard — CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was somewhat on the defensive today in answering investor questions on a call for second quarter 2013 for Expedia, the world's largest online travel agency. — The company saw a broad negative impact …

More: Skift and Reuters

John Cook / GeekWire:

Shares of Expedia tumble 25 percent after online travel giant hits Q2 ‘headwinds’

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

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart selling the new Nexus 7 four days early — Having already launched its pre-orders ahead of the official Nexus 7 announcement, Best Buy is keeping up the habit of preempting Google by making the new Android slate available early.

More: Engadget, GigaOM, CNET, Gizmodo, SlashGear and Mashable

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: Business Insider and Fortune. Tweets: @awallenstein, @lilmssociable, @mattrosoff, @mathewi, @bill_mcintosh and @dangillmor. Thanks:@mhelft. See also Mediagazer

Jason Verge / Data Center Knowledge:

SolidFire Raises $31 Million, Says Its SSD is Now Cheaper Than Disk — SolidFire is on, er, fire this month. It had a major customer win with Colt and now it tops the month off announcing that it has raised an additional $31 million in funding. The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge …

More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, InfoStor, bizjournals, Xconomy, PandoDaily and GigaOM

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Nielsen: Online display ads grew 26.3% in Q1 2013, but TV ads still dominate — Mad Men TV advertising guru Harry Crane — Good news for advertisers and services that rely on display advertising technology: Display advertising on the web grew by about 26.3 percent for the first quarter of 2013 …

More: Nielsen, Marketing Pilgrim, Marketing Land, AdExchanger and GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

Matt Brian / The Verge:

3D printing at home could have health risks, says study — While industrial 3D printers often use ventilation shafts and filters to evacuate airborne particles, commercially available printers are often set up in environments with little or no thought about the emissions they might be kicking out.

More: VentureBeat, The Raw Story, memeburn, TechCrunch, Mashable, Phys.org, GigaOM, SlashGear and TechSpot. Tweets: @ctrlzee

Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:

The Most Powerful DJ App For Everyone Arrives With djay 2 [Review] — djay 2 by Algoriddim Category: Music Works With: iPhone, iPad Price: $1.99 (iPhone), $9.99 (iPad) DJing used to be something only the pros did. Hardware was (and still can be) incredibly expensive, and the barrier to entry was set high.

More: App Advice, Design & Trend, PC Magazine, AppleInsider and Evolver.fm

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 and TechCrunch

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