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Vindu Goel / NYT Bits:

YouTube's Founders Challenge Vine and Instagram with New Video App — After months of teasing, the wait is over: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who brought us the video-sharing site YouTube, are taking the wraps off their newest project, a video creation app called MixBit.

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Scoop: This is Mixbit, the new video site of YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley — Mixbit, the new video website from AVOS Systems, the company co-founded by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, is about to launch any moment now. — The AVOS team has already started …

More: MixBit Blog, CNN, Mashable, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, POPSUGAR, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, memeburn, App Advice, I4U News, Pulse 2.0, Geek.com and ReelSEO Video Marketing. See also Mediagazer

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile CEO Says More Apple Products Coming — T-Mobile CEO John Legere says that it is the company's message, not the arrival of the iPhone, that is behind a recent surge in new customers. — In an interview after the company's second-quarter earnings announcement …

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

T-Mobile downplays iPhone's role in record customer gains

More: TechSpot and AndroidGuys

Steve Dent / Engadget:

T-Mobile gains 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013, ups revenue 20 percent to $6.3 billion

More: GeekWire, eWeek, App Advice, Business Wire, BGR, GigaOM, Digits, GigaOM, New York Times, AllThingsD, CNET, Ars Technica, Reuters, WebProNews, AppleInsider, I4U News, 9to5Mac, Yahoo! News, AndroidHeadlines.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, DailyFinance.com, MacRumors, GeekWire, The Verge, ZDNet and Electronista

Tweets: @inafried, @inafried and @gaborfari

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

N.S.A. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.S. — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance, according to intelligence officials.

More: Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Ars Technica, The Verge, TechCrunch, RT, Techdirt, SocialTimes, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Switch

Tweets: @mattbuchanan, @mattbuchanan, @froomkin, @palafo, @glynmoody, @charlie_savage, @trevortimm, @nathanlfuller, @razhael, @aclu, @jesselynradack, @ggreenwald, @punditreview, @nytimes and @kgosztola

Horace Dediu / asymco:

Signs of US Android net user decline — ComScore's latest survey for US smartphone users showed that Android had 52% share of about 142 million users. That amounts to 73.84 million Android devices in use. — ComScore's previous such survey showed that Android had 52.4% of about 141 million users.

More: comScore, Inc., Internet2Go, Quartz, Guardian, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Android Beat, Ubergizmo, Android Authority, BGR, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Business Wire, MacNN and The Next Web

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft unboxes Xbox One, reveals final design and a bundled headset — Microsoft's next Xbox console won't go on sale until November, but that isn't stopping the company from unboxing it a little early. In a new video featuring one of the first Xbox One production units …

More: Xbox Wire, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Guardian, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Business Insider, CNET, WebProNews, Engadget, Kotaku, gameinformer.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Polygon, VG247, All Games Beta and Gematsu

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Backed With $6M, Max Levchin's Glow App For Tracking Female Fertility Debuts On The App Store — Glow, the fertility tracking iOS app co-founded by Max Levchin, is making its debut in the app store today. The app was first introduced earlier this summer by Levchin to a surprised audience …

More: GigaOM, New York Times, AllThingsD, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Next Web and Forbes

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

With KeyMe, an iPhone Pic Now Means You Can Always Print More House Keys Later — A little bit of prepping in advance could save a lot of headache next time you lock yourself out, lose your keys, or need to let a friend into your place when you're not there.

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, MacRumors and Mashable

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Aereo will go live in Miami, Houston, and Dallas this September — Aereo continues to push forward its aggressive 2013 expansion plan — the company has just announced that the streaming TV service will be live in Miami, Houston, and Dallas in September. Miami is up first and will be active …

More: The Next Web, Engadget, PC World, dailywireless.org, CNET, GigaOM, DSLreports and Softpedia News. Tweets: @sandonet

James Temple / The Technology Chronicles:

NSA spying may cost cloud companies $35 billion — The recent revelations that the National Security Agency is closely tracking the electronic footprints of foreign citizens could cost U.S. cloud computing companies as much as $35 billion over the next three years and put the nation's leadership position in the industry at stake.

More: ITIF, Guardian, ZDNet, Federal Computer Week, PRWeb, Daily Dot and GigaOM. Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Rdio launches personalized radio stations to steal listeners away from Pandora — Choice is great - except when you have to choose. Subscription music service Rdio made it a bit easier for its users to just sit back and listen by launching personalized radio stations that deliver a never-ending stream of music Thursday.

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, Rdio Blog, BetaKit, TechCrunch, Guardian and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Chad Bray / Wall Street Journal:

Publishers Object to E-Book Plan for Apple — Provisions of Proposal Would Punish Them, They Said — Five major U.S. publishers objected to the Justice Department's proposal to limit Apple Inc.'s influence in the electronic-books market, saying it would effectively alter their existing settlements with the U.S. government.

More: The Switch, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Reuters, SlashGear, GigaOM, TUAW, ITworld.com, iLounge, Associated Press, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, AppleInsider and MacRumors. Tweets: @counternotions. See also Mediagazer

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Dear Jeff Bezos, Here's What I Saw as an Analog Nobody in the Mailroom of the Washington Post — While it might seem an awful cliche, the fact of the matter is — if you go back to a time long before the commercial Internet existed, and well before you became so rich that you have $250 million …

More: TechCrunch and Conversation Agent. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @jhaque_, @georgeprof, @stanine, @cdixon, @tcarmody and @joannastern. See also Mediagazer

Felix Salmon:

Jeff Bezos and his journalists

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @joeljohnson, @monkbent and @jamilsmith

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iTunes in the Cloud for Movies Goes Live in Japan and 7 New European Countries — Apple today added movie support to its iTunes in the Cloud service in Japan and seven additional European countries, enabling customers in those countries to re-download content previously purchased from the iTunes Store.

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, GigaOM, iClarified and iLounge

Jordan Novet / GigaOM:

IBM researchers get closer to brain-like computing — IBM researchers say they have whipped up a programming language, algorithms and applications to deploy on top of a computing system inspired by the human brain. — This is the latest progress IBM and collaborating groups …

More: The Verge, ZDNet, TechHive, The Register, Mashable, Aviva Hope Rutkin, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechHive and CNET

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

eBay's John Donahoe on E-Commerce and Mobile Payments' Future — What's the next set of goals, beyond returning to growth? — In the eyes of the consumer, e-commerce and retail are now one. It's just shopping, right? And that's why you see us taking steps to get more involved in the full commerce environment.

More: on the build and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @bradstone

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

GetTaxi Raises Another $12 Million, Launches G-Car Service To Take On Uber In New York City — GetTaxi is one of a growing number of companies focused on getting passengers from point A to point B, having already launched service in the more than 20 cities around the world.

More: PandoDaily, BetaKit, Venture Capital Dispatch and VentureBeat

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter Partners With Datalogix To Track When Tweets Lead To Offline Sales — What's the value of a retweet? Or a follower? Those questions get asked all the time in discussions about social media and advertising. Now Twitter is announcing a partnership with Datalogix …

More: Twitter Blog, ZDNet, GigaOM, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and ECPM BLOG

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

This Is What It Looks Like When Your Phone Tracks Your Every Move — Sure, we know we're being tracked, but now we know what it looks like. — More than ever before, we've become increasingly aware of our technology's ability to monitor our movements. For the most part …

More: Electronista, Los Angeles Times, iMore, 9to5Mac, BGR, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @reneritchie

Matt Brian / The Verge:

Google leaves your Chrome passwords unprotected to promote security — How would you feel if someone sat in front of your computer and was immediately able to access all of your Chrome passwords? That's a scenario that is dividing opinion after web designer Elliot Kember called Google's security practices …

More: Digital Trends, Help Net Security, iDownloadBlog.com, ThreatTrack Security …, Inquirer and CBS News

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