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August 15, 2013, 8:00 AM

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Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Lenovo posts Q1 earnings, reveals that its mobile sales have overtaken PCs — Don't look now, but Lenovo just became an industry bellwether. While reporting strong first quarter results that include a record $8.8 billion in revenue and $170 million in profit, the tech giant revealed …

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Juro Osawa / Digits:

Q&A: Lenovo CEO on Smartphones and BlackBerry — China's Lenovo Group Ltd. is outperforming its peers in the struggling personal-computer industry. The world's largest PC vendor said Thursday that it posted a 23% rise in net profit and a 9.7% rise in revenue in its fiscal first quarter through June, beating analysts' expectations.

More: The Next Web and memeburn. Tweets: @juroosawa

Chris Morris / GamesIndustry International:

Former Steam boss Jason Holtman lands at Microsoft — Valve veteran will be focused on “making Windows a great platform for gaming” — Jason Holtman, who spearheaded Valve's Steam business for eight years before leaving the company in February, has a new job.

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Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

iCloud.com beta updated with iOS 7 design — The beta.icloud.com website has been redesigned to match the design of iOS 7. Removing the linen and other Forstall-era design elements, this is the first display of Apple bringing iOS 7 design elements to the web.

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Dara Kerr / CNET:

Microsoft's ‘touch screen’ for any surface goes on sale — Prototype technology that turns any surface — a wall, table, or floor — into an interactive touch screen has been years in the making. Now, anyone can get their hands on the software. — Screengrab from Ubi's video …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, MSDN Blogs, Engadget and Wired

Alex Colon / GigaOM:

Samsung announces the Hennessy, a dual-screen, quad-core Android flip phone — When you think of smartphones, the image of a sleek, minimalist slab is probably what comes to mind. But how about a flip phone? Now there's a form factor you don't see everyday - at least, not on any phone that's powered by Google.

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Tweets: @inafried and @treestman

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Yes, Gmail users have an expectation of privacy — Sending email to Gmail users means you expect Google's servers will process it — Consumer groups are up in arms today over a motion Google made in June to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging that Gmail violates federal …

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Tweets: @reckless, @benadida, @mattwarman, @caseynewton, @notpatrick, @colvinius, @cschweitz, @jamesgecko, @claytonmorris and @cwarzel

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

eBay launches “My Gadgets”, an easy way to catalog, value and one day sell your gadgets — Today, online auction marketplace eBay launched a new product called “My Gadgets” that it says will let users catalog the tech devices they have and appraise them should they wish to sell any later.

More: BetaNews, Engadget, Gearburn and Gizmodo

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft's First Chip Brings Tank-Finding Design to Xbox — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), seeking to fend off competition for its Xbox game console by souping up the Kinect motion sensor, is tapping a new semiconductor developer: itself. — For the first time, the company will build its own processors based on an in-house design.

Alex Konrad / Forbes:

The Creepy Ad Firm That's Charging Top Brands For YouTube Ads That Aren't Supposed To Exist — YouTube viewers with a penchant for downloading what they watch have been unwittingly participating in a sketchy advertising cycle that shows them ads in places YouTube and Google never meant for an ad to exist.

More: spider.io, BBC, Business Insider, Financial Times, SlashGear, Marketing Land, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Softpedia News, ExchangeWire.com, Gizmodo, Wired.co.uk and AdExchanger

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Facebook's trillion-edge, Hadoop-based and open source graph-processing engine — People following the open source Giraph project likely know that Facebook was experimenting with it, and on Wednesday the company detailed just how heavily it's leaning on Giraph.

More: Facebook, ZDNet, The Register and PC World

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in $5,700 Bitcoin heist — Google developers have confirmed a cryptographic vulnerability in the Android operating system that researchers say could generate serious security glitches on hundreds of thousands of end user apps, many of them used to make Bitcoin transactions.

More: GigaOM, ZDNet, Android Developers Blog, Symantec, Softpedia News, PC Advisor and Computerworld

Tweets: @fraserspeirs and @mattetti

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Ad-Free Social Platform App.net Raises Another $2.5M From Andreessen Horowitz — App.net, the social platform created in response to the ad-driven consumer social networks (specifically Twitter), just announced that it has raised $2.5 million in new funding.

More: App.net, InfoQ and The Next Web. Tweets: @itod

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

BlackBerry Patent Portfolio Worth $2 Billion to $3 Billion — BlackBerry's continuing decline has left it with comparatively little to offer a potential acquirer. There's a crumbling smartphone business, a too-late-to-market operating system that has failed to capture the imagination …

More: ZDNet and BGR. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:

Roku Trumps Apple TV as Most-Used Streaming Media Player — The Roku is the most popular streaming video device in the U.S., trumping the Apple TV, according to new data from Parks Associates. — Of the 10,000 people polled by Parks, 37 percent of those with a streaming video media device used …

More: Parks Associates, AppleInsider, CNET, Fast Company, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceCable and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer

Klint Finley / Wired:

Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet — PORTLAND, OREGON — One guy is wearing his Google Glass. Another showed up in an HTML5 t-shirt. And then there's the dude who looks like the Mad Hatter, decked out in a top hat with an enormous white flower tucked into the brim.

Tweets: @jhong

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road — An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn't trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship …

More: GigaOM, Guardian, The Register and The Verge

Tweets: @kashhill, @4thanon, @ravenben and @jeffreyatucker

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

Cybercriminals use Google Cloud Messaging to control malware on Android devices — Cybercriminals are controlling malware on Android devices through a Google service that enables developers to send messages to their applications, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab.

More: Securelist / Blog, ZDNet and Help Net Security

Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:

Cisco to Cut 4,000 Jobs, Blames Weak Economic Recovery — Cisco Systems Inc. is once again tightening its belt, this time before bad news hits the bottom line. — The Silicon Valley network-equipment giant on Wednesday said it would cut 4,000 jobs, or 5% of its workforce …

More: Cisco, AllThingsD, Mercury News, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD, Reuters, Business Insider, PC World, Bloomberg, Digits, ZDNet and Reuters. Tweets: @wsj

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Adds Business Vendors For Its Surface Project In 18 Countries Across Two Continents — The Surface project is far from over. Today Microsoft announced that it is adding several international resellers and distributors of the Surface RT and Pro tablet hybrids.

More: Surface Blog, The Next Web, BetaNews, Softpedia News, Agence France Presse and Examiner

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