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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Says SVP Bob Mansfield “No Longer” on Executive Team, But Gives No Explanation as to Why … Early Sunday afternoon, Bob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president of technologies, disappeared from the company's Web site, his biography removed from its executive profiles page without explanation.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Reuters, GigaOM, CNET, iMore.com, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Forbes, Digits, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Engadget, Business Insider, The Verge, iClarified and MacDailyNews

Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman, @iansherr, @sarahfrier and @markgurman

Poornima Gupta / @poornimagupta:

Apple says Bob Mansfield is no longer on Apple's exec team but will remain at Apple working on special projects reporting to Cook. $AAPL

More: TechCrunch

CJ Heres / GTV Hacker:

Chromecast: Exploiting the Newest Device By Google. — On Wednesday, July 24th Google launched the Chromecast. As soon as the source code hit we began our audit. Within a short period of time we had multiple items to look at for when our devices arrived.

More: Engadget, AppleInsider, BetaNews, The Verge, Ausdroid, PhoneArena and Electronista

Tweets: @stevecheney, @travisgoodspeed and @smileykeith

Jon Callaghan / True Ventures:

The Hardware Revolution is Upon Us and Why it Matters — Almost exactly six years ago, Apple launched the first iPhone. It was a small device that many dismissed as a toy. In reality Steve put a supercomputer in our pocket — we just didn't know it. And like super computers before …

Tweets: @tcarmody, @nabeel, @tonysphere, @cdixon and @om

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History — A revolution began here. And this is what is left over. — The precise center of Silicon Valley when it was the most important manufacturing region on Earth is now home to Super Space Self Storage. — I was able to map this location thanks …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @davewiner

Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times:

Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear? — On an overcast day in early May, I traveled to suburban Philadelphia to visit the family of Sunil Tripathi, the deceased 22-year-old Brown University student who, for about four hours on the morning of April 19, was mistakenly identified …

More: The Atlantic Wire, Gawker, Business Insider and Slate

Tweets: @nytmag, @roysekoff and @digiphile

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video — Lee Hutchinson has a problem. My fellow Ars writer is a man who loves to watch YouTube videos—mostly space rocket launches and gun demonstrations, I assume—but he never knows when his home Internet service will let him do so.

Tweets: @internetthought

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon announces 5,000 new fulfillment jobs in advance of Obama visit — Inside an Amazon fulfillment center. — Amazon.com, which has already more than tripled its workforce over the past three years, says it will add another 5,000 full-time jobs at its U.S. distribution facilities …

More: The Next Web, Digits, Amazon.com, AllThingsD, NYT Bits, Bloomberg and Reuters

Businessweek:

Venture Firm Greylock Partners Outshines Silicon Valley Rivals — A group of 40 investors, executives, and entrepreneurs gathered at the Carneros Inn resort in Napa Valley, Calif., in June for a two-day conference on initial public offerings. LinkedIn (LNKD) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Weiner …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @ronp, @georgezachary, @chrisyeh and @jhong

New York Times:

Merger Is Set To Create World's No. 1 Ad Company — After decades of buying up boutique firms, the advertising conglomerates Omnicom Group and Publicis Groupe finally set their sights on one another. — The two announced a merger on Sunday that would create the world's biggest family of agencies …

More: Bloomberg, GigaOM, Digiday, ZDNet, Forrester Blogs, Quartz, Silicon Valley Watcher, Associated Press, Mashable, Reuters and TechCrunch. Tweets: @waxpancake. See also Mediagazer

Susan Berfield / Businessweek:

The End: Barnes & Noble in Silicon Valley — As the chief executive of Barnes & Noble (BKS) from 2010 to 2013, William Lynch might have had one of the most difficult jobs in the retail business. He made it harder still by running a large chain of bookstores as though it were a tech startup.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @levie

Yulia Ponomareva / Russia Beyond The Headlines:

Yandex co-founder Ilya Segalovich dies at 48 in London — Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, was disconnected from life support on July 27. … Arkady Volozh, the other founder of Yandex, announced the sad news on the official company blog on July 28.

More: BBC, Associated Press, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Search Engine Land, Associated Press, RT, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Angels Get Carry For Helping A Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates — AngelList is testing out a new service that lets angel investors syndicate deals with each other, a feature that could allow startups to raise venture-sized rounds of money with relative ease.

Tweets: @naval

Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t:

Hey Look, Software Just Ate VC!

Tweets: @danprimack, @naval, @naval, @nchirls and @jordancooper

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