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August 8, 2013, 1:10 PM

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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, Mashable, TechCrunch, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, ReelSEO Video Marketing, memeburn, App Advice, I4U News, Pulse 2.0 and Geek.com. See also Mediagazer

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, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Switch, Hillicon Valley, Mashable and Gawker

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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., Guardian, BGR, AppleInsider, Android Authority, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Android Beat, Fortune, Ubergizmo, MacNN, The Next Web and Marketing Land

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, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, WebProNews, Kotaku, gameinformer.com, 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, AllThingsD, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Next Web, Forbes and Quartz

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 …

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Felix Salmon:

Jeff Bezos and his journalists

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

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, Associated Press, SlashGear, Reuters, GigaOM, Macworld, TUAW, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, AppleInsider, Associated Press and MacRumors. Tweets: @counternotions. See also Mediagazer

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, GigaOM, DSLreports, CNET and Softpedia News. Tweets: @sandonet

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

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, GigaOM, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified and iLounge

Steve Dent / Engadget:

T-Mobile gains 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013, ups revenue 20 percent to $6.3 billion — It looks like T-Mobile was onto something with its UnCarrier remake, as the US wireless outfit picked up 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013 and saw a major boost in revenue.

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

Tweets: @inafried, @inafried and @gaborfari

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: SiliconBeat and on the build

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: PandoDaily, TechCrunch, MacRumors and Mashable

Tom Vanderbilt / Wired:

The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next — If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool Lalo Schifrin soundtrack).

More: SocialTimes, WebProNews, Gizmodo, Betabeat and GigaOM

Tweets: @tomvanderbilt, @elanazak, @dan_shure, @stephenfollows, @marginalutility and @greglinden

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: Help Net Security, OStatic blogs, InvestorPlace, iDownloadBlog.com, CBS News, Wired, Security Watch and Mashable. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Moore's Law could stay on track with extreme UV progress — Long-awaited improvements in photolithography could pave the way for the continued shrinking and scaling of microprocessors into the second half of this decade and beyond. — Moore's Law—which says that transistor densities double every 18 …

More: Gizmodo and HotHardware.com News

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

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Growing 35% Monthly, Instacart Introduces “Express,” Its Amazon Prime Equivalent For Grocery Delivery — Today Instacart, a popular Bay Area grocery delivery service, released its “Express” service option to the general public. Express, which is akin to Amazon's Prime, charges a flat yearly fee of $99 …

More: Digits, Wall St. Cheat Sheet and GeekWire

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

On the Edge of failure: Ubuntu smartphone looks unlikely to reach crowdfunding goal — The Edge, a smartphone that runs a mobile edition of the popular desktop OS Ubuntu, will only get made if would-be users pledge $32 million via the crowdfunding site Indiegogo.

More: TechCrunch, GeekWire, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, OSDir.com, The Next Web, The Next Web, Geek.com, OMG!, PhoneArena, GigaOM, Bloomberg, Inquirer, Softpedia News and Daring Fireball

Tweets: @afrihost and @zacharye

Steven Russolillo / MoneyBeat:

Groupon's $300 Million Buyback Plan a Vote of Confidence … Shares of Groupon Inc. are getting a boost after second-quarter results showed sales rose, a permanent CEO was named and a new buyback plan was announced. — The buyback, in particular, is getting a warm reception on Wall Street.

More: Digits and Wall Street Journal

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Groupon Names Eric Lefkofsky Permanent CEO;Q2 Revenue Beats Street

More: Tech Trader Daily, Groupon, Inc., The Register, CNNMoney.com, Chicago Tribune, Quartz, Reuters, Business Insider, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Forbes, TechCrunch and Digits. See also Mediagazer

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