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August 1, 2013, 3:20 PM

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jessica lessin:

Exclusive: Apple Recently Acquired Low-Energy Chipmaker Passif — As the smartphone wars heat up, Apple has acquired a key technology in the arms race. — The company in recent months purchased Silicon Valley-based wireless chip developer, Passif Semiconductor, according to people briefed on the deal.

More: AllThingsD, MacRumors, Gizmodo, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, ZDNet, GigaOM, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge and App Advice

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Apple's Next iPad Mini Will Likely Have ‘Retina’ Display From Samsung — TAIPEI—Apple Inc.'s suppliers are gearing up for mass production of a new iPad mini in the fourth quarter that will likely feature a high-resolution screen from Samsung, people familiar with the matter say …

John Reid / BlackBerryOS.com:

BBM For Android/iOS Betas Rolling Out In The Beta Zone — It seems that BlackBerry are moving forward with the cross-platform version of BBM as we have learned that there are a small number of users that are getting the chance to test out the Android, and iOS versions of BBM.

More: BGR, MacRumors, The Next Web, CrackBerry.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, AndroidOS.in, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Android Beat, iDownloadBlog.com and BGR India

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google extends Windows Phone calendar and contacts syncing until December 31st — Google has granted new Windows Phone users another extension to access its Sync service until December 31st. The company had originally planned to drop support for the Exchange ActiveSync protocol on January 30th …

More: Engadget, Softpedia News, ZDNet, TechHive, Ubergizmo, WMPoweruser, The Next Web, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Windows Phone Central, MobileBurn.com, GigaOM, 9to5Google and Electronista

Steven Levy / Wired:

The Inside Story of the Moto X: The Reason Google Bought Motorola — THE PHONE THAT REVEALS WHY GOOGLE BOUGHT MOTOROLA — lmost exactly two years ago, Google announced its purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. It was the company's biggest deal ever, far exceeding previous big buys …

More: AllThingsD

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

A Quick Look at the Moto X - Motorola's New Flagship

More: New York Times and Engadget

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Moto X finally official: Motorola X8, 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED, custom finishes, assembled in the USA from $199

More: The Next Web, CNET, GigaOM, ABC News, TechCrunch, Business Insider and The Verge. Tweets: @benedictevans

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo? — Marissa Mayer is sitting in URLs, the Yahoo! (YHOO) cafeteria, making the case for the future of a company that almost everyone in Silicon Valley views as doomed. Employees swarm around her, assembling rows of chairs for the afternoon's FYI …

More: The Verge and The Atlantic Wire. Tweets: @coreybr0wn and @sheelahk. See also Mediagazer

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Apple fixing bug that allows fake charging stations to hack iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's next software update for its iPhones and iPads will fix a security flaw that allows hackers to engage in spying and cyber crimes when the victim connects the device to a fake charging station, the company said on Wednesday.

Guardian:

Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ — • Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden — • GCHQ expected to ‘pull its weight’ for Americans — • Weaker regulation of British spies ‘a selling point’ for NSA

More: Ars Technica. Tweets: @csoghoian and @bbw1984

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix individual profile rollout brings up to five unique experiences per account — Netflix is finally ready to deliver individual profiles for its streaming service, meant to satisfy households with shared accounts by providing everyone their own settings, viewing history and (where available) queue.

More: Netflix US & Canada Blog, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Inquirer, VatorNews, TechHive, Gizmodo, GeekWire, The Next Web, GigaOM, App Advice, Financial Post, CNET, Associated Press, Android Community and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Experiments With Its Own Take On Pinterest Called “Amazon Collections” — Amazon has quietly launched its own direct challenger to Pinterest with the debut of a feature called “Amazon Collections.” It's a more attractive, image-heavy website where consumers can save …

More: Engadget, The Verge and Gizmodo. Thanks:@anthonyha

Joanna Stern / ABC News:

Pinterest Now Sends Alerts When Price Drops on Pinned Items — Instead of viewing Pinterest as a site to collect more stuff you want but just can't afford, you might start to think of it as a place to help you save money. Starting today, the social network is adding a new feature that alerts users when prices on pinned items drop.

More: Oh, How Pinteresting!, The Next Web, Marketing Land, ZDNet, internetretailer.com, WebProNews, Engadget and TechCrunch

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

HootSuite Raises $165M Series B Round From Insight, Accel And OMERS To Go Large On Enterprise Social Media Monitoring — It was a little over a year ago when we reported that Vancouver-based HootSuite, the platform that lets enterprises manage social media accounts, was raising a $50 million round at a $500 million valuation.

More: GigaOM, CNET, The Next Web, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and We Are Social. Tweets: @spencerchen. Thanks:@fredericl

John McDermott / AdAge:

Foursquare Selling Its Location Data Through Ad Targeting Firm Turn — Check-in Data Being Used to Contextualize Ads on Facebook — As part of its efforts to generate new sources of revenue, Foursquare is working with ad-tech company Turn to allow advertisers to use its treasure-trove …

More: Foursquare Blog, Business Insider, Marketing Land and AdExchanger

Tweets: @bryanjones, @jstylman and @mcdermott

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Hulu Plans to Hook Subscription Service Into Google Chromecast — Online TV joint venture says it is ‘actively working’ with Google to add Hulu Plus access to $35 streaming adapter — Google's cheap Chromecast Internet TV adapter already lets users stream free Hulu content to their televisions …

More: Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times, IntoMobile, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear, Mashable, WebProNews, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Senators Caution White House Over ITC's Looming iPhone Ban — On Aug. 5 — Monday of next week — an International Trade Commission import ban on older iPhones and iPads found to infringe one of Samsung's standards-essential patents will go into effect — unless the White House overturns it.

More: Fortune, I4U News, Electronista and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Bloomberg:

Apple Against Samsung Over Phones Turns on Who Copied Who

More: MacDailyNews

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Albumatic takes another whack at getting photo-sharing right, announces $4.2 million Series A — Albumatic launched back in February as a way for friends all attending the same event to share photos with each other when they're together and taking photos. Seems simple enough, right?

More: TechCrunch and AllThingsD

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

AT&T unseats Verizon in the J.D. Power rankings for the 1st time — Verizon Wireless may be losing some of its edge when it comes to subscriber goodwill. Verizon has long dominated J.D. Power's customer care rankings for mobile carriers, but on Thursday the global rankings company crowned …

More: J.D. Power, Examiner, Computerworld, AT&T, ZDNet, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com and AndroidGuys

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Paid Between $35M and $40M for Lexity E-Commerce App Platform — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo forked over between $35 million and $40 million in cash to buy Lexity, the e-commerce app platform startup. (The companies had declined to outline terms of the deal, so I decided I would.)

Matt Brian / The Verge:

Dialogue controls your smartphone from your Mac, lets you make and record phone calls — As Apple continues to refine its mobile and desktop operating systems, the company has slowly integrated messaging and other mobile-centric features into Mac OS. With an Apple ID, Mac and iOS owners …

More: I4U News, TUAW, Lifehacker, TechSpot, MacStories and The Industry. Tweets: @backlon

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Cloud Analytics Player Tidemark Lands $13 Million Round Led by Tenaya Capital — It seems that I tend to check in on Tidemark, the cloud-based company that specializes in business intelligence and analytics, about once every 11 months, and every time I do, there's always something new going on.

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, BetaNews, TechCrunch and GigaOM

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

HP launches Android-based SlateBook ‘PC’ — HP's Android ‘PC’ has arrived. It packs Nvidia's latest Tegra 4 processor and can be used as either a tablet or a laptop. … HP SlateBook x2. HP is branding the SlateBook as an Android ‘PC.’ — (Credit: Hewlett-Packard)

More: Examiner, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, PhoneArena, GadgeTell, AndroidGuys and Android Community

Anton Shilov / X-bit labs:

USB 3.1 10Gb/s Specifications Gets Published, Available for Developers — SuperSpeed USB 10Gb/s - Ready for Development — The USB 3.0 Promoter Group on Wednesday announced the completion of the USB 3.1 specification which adds enhancements to enable SuperSpeed USB to operate at up to 10Gb/s.

More: 9to5Mac, ZDNet, AllThingsD, PC World, Gizmodo, Engadget, TUAW, Inquirer and The Register

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