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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 and Venture Capital Dispatch. Tweets: @jhong and @chrisyeh

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: AllThingsD, Search Engine Land, Associated Press, Associated Press, RT, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg

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

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.

The Daily Beast:

The Secret FISA Court Must Go — We are assured the secret FISA court is keeping a close eye on government surveillance, but the truth of what it has done and justified is terrifying. Law professors Christopher Sprigman and Jennifer Granick argue that the court must go.

More: GigaOM and Guardian. Tweets: @mikescarcella

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars — High court imposes injunction on Flavio Garcia, who has cracked security system of cars including Porsches and Bentleys — A British-based computer scientist has been banned from publishing an academic paper revealing …

More: The Verge, Boing Boing and Telegraph

New York Times:

Advertising Giants Announce $35.1 Billion Merger — Two leading advertising companies, Omnicom Group and Publicis Groupe, announced a merger on Sunday that would create the world's biggest family of agenices, with a stock market value of $35.1 billion and 130,000 employees.

More: GigaOM, Bloomberg, Digiday, Associated Press, Reuters, Quartz, Mashable and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

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: The Verge, Engadget and Ausdroid

Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed:

How Many Retweets Is San Francisco's Tax Break Worth? — When “giving back” means encouraging people to use your product, everybody wins. — A blackboard in Twitter's cafeteria where Twitter employees are asked to share ideas on how the company can “better serve the community.”

More: Valleywag

Amy O'Leary / New York Times:

In the Beginning Was the Word; Now the Word Is on an App — EDMOND, Okla. — More than 500 years after Gutenberg, the Bible is having its i-moment. — For millions of readers around the world, a wildly successful free Bible app, YouVersion, is changing how, where and when they read the Bible.

More: NYT Bits and GigaOM. Tweets: @bydanielvictor and @davemorin

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Nexus 7 (2013) - Mini Review — At an event in San Francisco, Google announced an updated version of the popular Nexus 7 tablet which first appeared at last year's Google I/O. The big new features update the Nexus 7 platform with inclusion of a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) SoC …

More: Forbes, Associated Press, The Verge and 9to5Google

Tweets: @512px and @piercedavid

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies — The reach of NSA's PRISM program has spooked some overseas companies from using US cloud providers. — The revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) broad monitoring of traffic and access to the data …

More: Electronista, GigaOM and ZDNet

Reuters:

Insight: How Samsung is beating Apple in China — (Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that “over the arc of time” China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which has been around far longer …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Mercury News, New York Times, internetretailer.com, InvestorPlace, BGR and Tech Trader Daily

Ryan Knutson / Digits:

Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits

More: Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNET, StreetInsider.com, The Register, dailywireless.org and BGR

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