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August 22, 2013, 3:15 PM

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Apple, closer to its vision for a TV set, wants ESPN, HBO, Viacom, and others to come along — Years of halting negotiating with cable companies haven't gotten Apple much closer to its grand vision for television. But a newer strategy of talking directly to content providers seems more promising.

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Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping:

steven @ a16z — As a reader of this blog, you probably notice the two big themes of learning (by shipping): (1) learning about new technologies, new ways to do things, and new products and (2) improving how products are made from an engineering and management perspective.

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Former Windows Head Sinofsky Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Board Partner — Steven Sinofsky, the high-profile Microsoft exec who most recently led its flagship Windows efforts, will be joining Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner. — The tech exec — who has been an entrepreneur in residence …

More: The Verge, GigaOM and PE Hub Blog

Reuters:

Insight: At Apple, Tim Cook leads a quiet cultural revolution — (Reuters) - Shortly after signing on as chief operating officer at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg was looking to connect with people in a similar role - No. 2 to a brilliant and passionate young founder. She called Tim Cook.

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Facebook's Login feature opens up to all, requiring apps to ask for permission to post to Timelines — Facebook certainly has grown offer one of the most widely used login connections in the world. Through the feature formerly known as Facebook Connect, the social networking company …

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Om Malik / GigaOM:

With Facebook's new Login, Facebook Platform is all about mobile now

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Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Ubuntu Edge: founder says failure isn't the end of the dream — Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth tells Guardian: US carriers and Asian handset manufacturers are interested in building phones with Ubuntu Mobile to capture 25% of smartphone buyers — The Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding project …

More: CNNMoney.com, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, The Next Web, VentureBeat, jonobacon@home, Electronista, FierceMobileContent News, Inc.com, Android Community, TechnoBuffalo, Lastest ITProPortal news, TechCrunch, Mashable and FierceWireless. Thanks:@charlesarthur

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Ubuntu Edge smartphone misses its crowdfunding goal by over $19 million

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Windows 8: Lenovo brings back Start menu, sidesteps Windows Store with Pokki — Lenovo, which recently took the title of world's largest PC maker, is going around Microsoft to restore something much closer to the traditional Start Menu in its Windows 8 machines, in addition to letting users sidestep …

More: The Next Web, Pokki Blog, BetaNews, TechCrunch, CITEworld, PC World, BGR and socalTECH.com. Thanks:@johnhcook

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Botched Find my iPhone update only allows developers to log in — The Find my iPhone iOS app has been updated with a new iOS 7-style icon while the rest of the UI remains the same. This icon is the same as the one found on the updated beta.icloud.com website:

More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Verge, AppleInsider, Engadget and iClarified. Tweets: @iphone_news

Matt Hunter / CNBC:

Nasdaq to resume trading at 3:25 after more than two-hour shutdown — Traders waited nervously Thursday for the Nasdaq to begin trading after a two and a half hour shutdown. The exchange said full trading would resume at 3:25. — “When everyone comes back online at the same time that's …

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Microsoft:

Windows Phone, Latin America's second most widely used mobile platform — In one year, the operating system went from fourth to second place with good growth figures, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. — This press release has been edited post publication to provide clarity on time frames.

More: TechCrunch, BetaNews, The Windows Blog, TechSpot, WPDang, Ubergizmo, TechNet Blogs, WMPoweruser, WinBeta, IntoMobile, Windows Phone Central and InfoWorld

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

MakerBot's $1,400 Digitizer Now Available To Pre-Order, Will Ship By Mid-October — The folks at MakerBot have been teasing their Digitizer desktop 3D scanner since this past March, but now they're just about ready push it out the door. For $1,400, you too can scan all the little knick-knacks …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Engadget, TechHive, Gizmodo, GigaOM and The Windows Blog. Thanks:@drizzled

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Google Now updated with car rentals, concert tickets and more — Traffic and weather updates are great, but Google Now never shines better than when you're on vacation. To that end, Mountain View has taught the feature a few new tricks, equipping it with cards for keeping track car rental and concert ticket.

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

‘Kamcord’ iOS gameplay recording platform adds new user community, hits 1B videos, & picks up $1M in funding — Kamcord, the Y Combinator-backed startup offering a free SDK that makes it easy for iOS devs to offer in-game recording functionality to their users, is today announcing …

More: MacRumors, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and Tech in Asia

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Crowdtilt Launches Crowdhoster To Let Anyone Create And Customize Their Own Campaigns — Thanks to the JOBS Act and the rise of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the parade of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding has gone mainstream. However, according to the minds behind Crowdtilt …

More: VentureBeat, Y Combinator Posthaven, AllThingsD, bizjournals and Inc.com. Tweets: @photomatt

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Flying high: Delta equips 19,000 flight attendants with Windows Phones — Still not seeing too many people using Windows Phone? You will if you take a flight on Delta: The airline announced on Thursday that all 19,000 of the company's flight attendants will have a Windows Phone on board.

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Delta Air Lines Newsroom, Nokia Conversations, ZDNet, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, WindowsITPro, IntoMobile, GeekWire, TechSpot, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com and The Windows Blog

Cade Metz / Wired:

Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage — Alex Polvi is living the great Silicon Valley archetype. Together with some old school friends, he's piecing together a tech revolution from inside a two-car Palo Alto garage. — He's like Dave Packard or Steve Jobs or Sergey Brin — at least up to a point.

More: Engadget, Guardian, memeburn, OStatic blogs and Y Combinator Posthaven

Tweets: @exiledsurfer, @wiredinsider and @kulor

C. Custer / Tech in Asia:

‘Xiaomi is now worth $10 billion,’ confirms CEO Lei Jun after new funding round — Titans of industry: Kingsoft, YY, and Xiaomi execs apparently celebrating the finalized deal. — Last June, Chinese mobile startup Xiaomi had netted an additional $216 million in series C funding that gave …

More: The Next Web. Thanks:@chinageeks

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Makes Ads Prettier With Shutterstock Partnership To Offer Free Stock Images In Ad Creator — When ads look bad, Facebook, users, and advertisers all lose. So Facebook today announced a partnership to bake Shutterstock into its ad creator, allowing marketers to select from millions of free stock images for their ads.

More: Inside Facebook, The Next Web, Mashable and 9to5Mac

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Fan fave Nginx web server goes commercial — The Nginx web server, which has been adopted by a growing cadre of web sites in its open-source form, is now going commercial with a new NGINX Plus release. — The commercial version wraps new features including advanced monitoring …

More: ReadWrite, ITworld.com and Web Host Industry Review. Thanks:@kevinl

Nick Summers / Businessweek:

Steve Case's Second Life as D.C.'s Favorite Businessman — It helps that he's an hour late and his audience has spent the time getting into a keg of Shiner Bock, but when Steve Case walks into the Austin (Tex.) offices of the startup he's just invested $40 million in, he gets a deafening welcome.

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