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August 15, 2013, 4:30 PM
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app  —  Microsoft's recently released YouTube application for Windows Phone is being blocked by Google.  In a statement issued to The Verge, Google confirms that the application has been blocked for violating the terms of use.
AllThingsD:
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter Flexes Its Location Muscle, Tests Out Highlights Of Live Events Happening Near You  —  Yesterday we reported how Twitter was testing out a new Trending box for TV programs to run at the top of your timeline; today we've spotted a test for yet another new feature: alerts for live events that are happening right near you.
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 …
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.
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: @nytimesbits and @jhong
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.
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 …
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Dell reports decent Q2 earnings as company future still looks uncertain  —  Summary: Could this be the last time that Dell reports quarterly earnings as a public company?  The shareholders are still out on that one.  —  Amid its ongoing self-identity crisis, Dell turned …
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.
More: Ars Technica.  Tweets: @dinabass
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.

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