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August 13, 2013, 7:45 PM
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Amid BlackBerry's sinking ship, here comes a new BB7 phone with ancient hardware
Vauhini Vara / New Yorker:
How BlackBerry Fell  —  Shares in the Canadian maker …
Steve Cheney:
On The Future of iOS and Android  —  We've entered the age of iOS and Android penetrating beyond mobile, and there's a lot happening with respect to how the entire ecosystem is developing.  Mobile advancements / investments are now driving the progression of all converged hardware / software.
Benedict Evans:
Defending iOS with cheap iPhones  —  Over the last 12 months, Google Android devices have outsold iOS by about 3 to 1.  There are now perhaps 775m-800m ‘official’ Android devices in use, versus perhaps 415m iOS devices.  This is without counting sales of the Amazon Kindle Fire or the (very) …
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Facebook Testing VIP App With Some Celebs  —  The VIP app, which sources say Facebook is currently testing with a small group of famous people, essentially lets celebs (or their handlers) easily monitor Facebook fan chatter about themselves from a mobile device.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Carl Icahn Makes a Large Investment in Apple  —  Shares of Apple are rising by more than four percent on word that Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor trying to take over Dell, has made a large investment in the company behind the iPhone and the Mac.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Starts Sharing Mobile User Counts For Each Country: 78% Of US Users Are Mobile  —  A new level of transparency from Facebook will help the world see whether its mobile growth is entirely propped up by international users that don't earn the company as much money.
More: AllFacebook.  Thanks:@joshconstine
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
Some 2013 Nexus 7 users report buggy multitouch, Google is investigating  —  A muddled sense of direction isn't the only problem affecting the new generation of Nexus 7 slates, it seems, as some users are also reporting issues with multitouch on the 1,920 x 1,200 display.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter Buys Open Source Training Company Marakana To Power New “Twitter University” For Engineers  —  Twitter today announced its latest acquisition, along with a move into offering richer resources to attract better engineering talent to the company.  It has bought Marakana …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
To Square Up To Foursquare, Yelp Now Lets Users Post Reviews Directly From Its Mobile App  —  It's been a long time coming, but user-generated local reviews site Yelp is finally getting with the program: today it is rolling out the ability for users to write reviews directly in its mobile app …

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From Mediagazer

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: in its next US TV deal, the NHL seeks a 50%-100% increase over its seven-year, $4.5B contract with ESPN and TNT; formal talks can begin on January 1

Bloomberg:
A look at Disney's AI push; sources: it is testing AI-powered suggestions and could add chats with characters on Disney+, and execs saw AI demos at Amazon MGM

Kali Bomeli / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at pre-election expansion of partisan websites disguised as local news in Ohio, promoted with Meta ads by groups with ties to Democrats and Republicans

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Chris Kanaracus / InfoWorld:
Larry Ellison: Some government surveillance is ‘essential’ to fight terror
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Earlier Picks

Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Norway blocks Apple map flights
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Three years in, Google has paid researchers over $2 million in security rewards and fixed more than 2,000 bugs
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