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July 30, 2013, 3:10 PM

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Zach Epstein / BGR:
From kindling to inferno: Full specs for next-gen Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets  —  Amazon to combine powerhouse specs and affordable prices in bid to scorch the competition  —  Amazon's first-generation Kindle Fire was absolutely not an iPad killer, and that's exactly why it was so successful.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Instagram deleting and blocking photos uploaded from third-party Windows Phone app (update)  —  While Vine, Flipboard, and Path have all promised Windows Phone 8 support, one particular app is still missing: Instagram.  Nokia has tried to pressure Facebook into building an Instagram Windows Phone app …
Brian Klug / AnandTech:
Android 4.3 Update Brings TRIM to All Nexus Devices  —  One of the common complaints late in the life of the original Nexus 7 was slow storage I/O performance, leading to an inconsistent user experience.  After a fresh flash, the Nexus 7 was speedy and performant, but after months …
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Announces New Mobile Game Publishing Effort  —  A few weeks ago, we reported that Facebook was experimenting with becoming a mobile games publisher by offering distribution to studios in exchange for a cut of revenue.  —  Today, Facebook is formally announcing that effort …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Mozilla CEO Kovacs to Head Security Software Firm AVG Technologies  —  Gary Kovacs, who recently stepped down as the top exec at Mozilla Corporation, has been named CEO of AVG Technologies.  —  Kovacs said he wanted to join the publicly held Internet and mobile security software company …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Vimeo and Redbox Instant are coming to Chromecast.  Next up: Plex and HBO Go?  —  Chromecast, the streaming video adapter introduced by Google last week, is quickly gaining support from a number of media platforms.  Case in point: Vimeo told us it wants to support Chromecast …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Netflix's Personalized User Profiles Begin Showing Up on Apple TV  —  According to multiple Twitter reports and a tipster who contacted MacRumors, individual Netflix profiles are now showing up on the Apple TV.  The personalized profile feature, which is expected to be launched in August …
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
SmugMug Revamps Its Site, in a Challenge to Flickr  —  In May, Yahoo riled up photography lovers everywhere by revamping its popular Flickr photo-sharing site.  The new Flickr offers everyone 1 terabyte of free storage.  That's a lot.  It's enough to back up and display 600,000 photos at full resolution.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Bitly Hires Former AOL And Outside.In Exec Mark Josephson As Its New CEO  —  Bitly is announcing that Mark Josephson (pictured), who was most recently senior vice president of Patch Labs at AOL, has joined the link-shortening and tracking company as its new CEO.
Fred Wilson / A VC:
Mentor/Investor Whiplash  —  I've been doing a tour of the summer accelerator programs and a question I get a lot is about the feedback the teams get from the investors and mentors they meet with.  They ask me how much should they react to the feedback they are getting advising them to do things differently …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Bradley Manning trial verdict: Acquitted of aiding the enemy, convicted on lesser charges  —  FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge Tuesday acquitted Pfc. Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy — the most serious charge the Army intelligence analyst faced for leaking hundreds of thousands …
Reuters:
HTC sees Q3 revenue sliding as much as 30 pct, missing forecasts  —  (Reuters) - Taiwan's HTC Corp expects revenue to fall as much as 30 percent in the third quarter compared to the previous three months, far below analysts' forecasts.  —  A delayed launch for the much-hyped HTC One this year …
Yuliya Chernova / Venture Capital Dispatch:
RelayRides to Provide Peer-to-Peer Car Rentals at San Francisco Airport  —  Flyers who don't want to pay $18 per day for long-term parking at the San Francisco International Airport will have an option, starting in August, to park their cars for free, courtesy of startup RelayRides Inc.
Klint Finley / Wired:
When Lousy Code Strikes, Google Dispatches Its Elite ‘Gopher Team’  —  Brad Fitzpatrick was using the most routine bit of Google software you can imagine when the damn thing stalled.  The download was 99 percent done and just stopped.  Download stalls happen every day, but Fitzpatrick took it personally.
More: Business InsiderTweets: @laurencetratt
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Rover.com fetches $3.5M, signs exclusive partnership deal with Petco for its Airbnb for dogs service  —  Rover.com announced today that it closed $3.5 million in additional funds from a group of investors led by pet speciality retailer Petco.  In addition to the new capital, the “Airbnb for dogs” …
More: PandoDaily and GeekWire
Tom Warren / The Verge:
SkyDrive updated with animated GIF, high DPI, and new sharing support  —  Microsoft is rolling out a number of changes to its SkyDrive cloud-based storage service this week.  While the service has long supported high resolution imagery, including RAW files, SkyDrive will now measure the DPI scale …
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Feds will declassify Yahoo PRISM decision by September  —  The Justice Department says it will declassify a 2008 decision in which the country's secret spy court rebuffed Yahoo's attempt to challenge a controversial surveillance program.  —  In a rare public filing with the Foreign Intelligence …

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