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July 25, 2013, 10:25 AM

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Why Chromecast is such a big deal for Google, and a threat to Apple  —  Google officially launched its next big idea for the living room Wednesday, and the cast of people presenting the new product dubbed Chromecast at the company's breakfast event in San Francisco looked awfully familiar …
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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Facebook Beats as Mobile Revenue Jumps to 41 Percent of Ads Business  —  Facebook's numbers are in, and they look good across the board — especially in mobile.  —  The social giant posted its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday afternoon, reporting earnings per share of 13 cents on revenue of $1.81 billion.
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Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
Six years later, how Apple keeps the iPhone chugging along  —  Between March and June, Apple's iPad shipments dipped 14 percent.  The Mac is dropping along with the rest of the PC industry, and the iPod has declined so much it barely merits a mention from the company anymore.
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.
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Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
House Narrowly Rejects Effort To Halt NSA Program  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to continue the collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records in the fight against terrorism.  The House rejected a measure to end the program's authority.  The vote was 217-205 on Wednesday.
Randy Bias / Cloudscaling:
OpenStack's Future Depends on Embracing Amazon.  Now.  —  An Open Letter to the OpenStack Community:  —  Our Future Depends on Embracing Amazon  —  Dear Stackers,  —  For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack against incumbents …
Carl Franzen / The Verge:
Made in America 2.0: behind Google and Apple's sudden patriotism  —  Tech giants are making innovative electronics in the US again, but why?  —  The Moto X is on its way.  The long-anticipated Android phone — expected to be the first truly Google-influenced product from Motorola since Google acquired …
More: iPhone.  Tweets: @benpopper
Ben Gilbert / Engadget:
Xbox One retail consoles double as debug units, Microsoft to allow indie self-publishing  —  Microsoft's Xbox One is getting decidedly more indie-friendly with today's confirmation from Microsoft that its forthcoming game console will double as a developer debug unit.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Ilya Segalovich, Co-Founder And CTO Of Russian Search Giant Yandex, Passes Away From Cancer Complications  —  Very sad news this morning for Yandex — “the Google of Russia” — and for the country's wider technology community: Ilya Segalovich, Yandex's co-founder and CTO, has passed away from cancer complications.
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Chipotle Faked Its Twitter Hack  —  Chipotle appeared to be the latest brand to have its Twitter account hacked on Sunday when its main account, @ChipotleTweets, posted a series of confusing and seemingly random tweets over the course of an hour.  Now, the company has come forward and admitted …
Greg Bensinger / Digits:
Amazon Files Petition to Move Forward With CIA Contract  —  Amazon.com filed a complaint in federal court Wednesday seeking approval to move forward with a four-year, roughly $600 million cloud computing contract with the Central Intelligence Agency that was disputed by International Business Machines.

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