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Marguerite Reardon / CNET:
T-Mobile downplays iPhone's role in record customer gains  —  T-Mobile sold 900,000 iPhones in the second quarter, but execs say its new service and upgrade plans get more of the credit for scoring record high subscriber growth and retention rates.  —  T-Mobile CEO John Legere unveiled plans to carry the iPhone in April.
Steve Dent / Engadget:
T-Mobile gains 1.1 million customers in Q2 2013, ups revenue 20 percent to $6.3 billion
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down  —  Remember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and security for users than popular web-based free services like Gmail?
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.
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.
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
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google Maps for Android and iOS now shows ‘relevant’ ads at the bottom of the screen after you perform a search  —  Google today introduced what it calls “relevant ads” in the newly updated Google Maps app for Android and iOS.  These advertisements now appear at the bottom of the screen after you perform a search.
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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