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August 15, 2013, 11:40 AM

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Releases New App Store Review Guidelines with Updated Rules for Kids Apps, Gambling Apps — Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines, revising several sections and introducing a number of new rules based on various policies that have been enacted over the last six months.

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Facebook to Test Its Own PayPal Competitor in Bid to Simplify Mobile Purchases — Facebook plans to test a new payments product that would allow online shoppers to make purchases on mobile apps using their Facebook login information, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

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Tweets: @evelynrusli, @eghosao, @mikeisaac, @lenkendall and @delrey

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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 …

Juro Osawa / Digits:

Q&A: Lenovo CEO on Smartphones and BlackBerry

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Reuters:

New iPhone, 4G technology may mean Apple, China Mobile tie-up closer — (Reuters) - The stars may be aligning for a long-awaited deal between Apple Inc and China Mobile Ltd, the world's biggest mobile carrier, that could help the iPhone maker claw back lost ground in its most important growth market.

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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 …

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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.

More: Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @nytimesbits and @jhong

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.

More: The Verge, Wind8Apps, TechCrunch, WebProNews, I4U News, Mashable, PC Gamer, TechSpot, tbreak, Engadget, Joystiq, MTV Multiplayer, Electronista, Pocket-lint, VG247, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Digital Trends, PC World and GamePolitics blogs. Tweets: @gibiz

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Aereo CEO: Service will turn a profit before turning in 1M subscribers — The upstart online TV service will have a “fabulous” business at 1 million users and an “extremely fabulous” one at 5 million, but registrations need only be in the hundreds of thousands for it to be profitable, its CEO says.

More: VentureBeat and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Tastemade Raises Another $10 Million And Launches An iPhone App For Video Reviews Of Local Restaurants — In just 12 months since being founded, Los Angeles-based Tastemade has carved out a place for itself as the go-to place for high-quality videos about food on Facebook.

More: GigaOM, Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews, VentureBeat and AllThingsD

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Stripe comes to Europe, starting in the U.K. — but serious competition awaits — The payments company Stripe has officially moved beyond North America, taking itself out of beta in the U.K. on Thursday. The move means Stripe supports the British pound and the euro for the first time.

More: Stripe Blog, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Tnooz, Finextra Research news and Tech City News

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Devices Connect with Borrowed TV Signals, and Need No Power Source — Devices that can make wireless connections even without an onboard battery could spread computing power into everything you own. — WHY IT MATTERS — Being able to create sensors and other electronics …

More: TechEye and Wired.co.uk. Tweets: @davidbrin

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: Examiner, Android Developers Blog, The Switch, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, Symantec, Softpedia News, ZDNet and GigaOM

Tweets: @mattetti, @fraserspeirs and @kleinmatic

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: Business Insider, GigaOM, AppleInsider, I4U News, everythingiCafe, CNET, Fast Company, TUAW, MacRumors, Digital Media Wire, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceCable and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer

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.

Tweets: @dinabass

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, Business Insider, BBC, Business Insider, SlashGear, Financial Times, Marketing Land, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Softpedia News and ExchangeWire.com

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Worried about wildfires or floods? Trulia heat maps help find safest places to live — If you're looking to buy a home, you don't want that investment taken away from you by a natural disaster. While people who have lived in an area for a while often have a decent idea of the risks inherent …

More: The Next Web, AllThingsD and PandoDaily

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM Buys Israel/US Cybersecurity Specialist Trusteer For $800M-$1B — Another exit for an Israeli enterprise startup and a deeper move into Israel by one of the world's tech titans: IBM today announced the acquisition of Trusteer, a specialist in cybersecurity primarily for financial services.

More: PR Newswire, Ynetnews, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Network World, The Register, GigaOM, Xconomy, bizjournals, GeekTime and Softpedia News. Tweets: @techwriterjim

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.

More: Computerworld, CNET, IntoMobile, BGR, Engadget and SlashGear

Tweets: @inafried and @treestman

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, Business Insider, InfoQ, The Next Web and bizjournals. Tweets: @itod

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: Examiner, Engadget, BetaNews, Softpedia News, Gearburn and Gizmodo

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

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

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