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August 22, 2013, 8:15 PM

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jessica lessin:

Exclusive: Apple Buys (Another) Map App, Embark — Apple Inc. keeps snapping up mapping companies. — The latest: Embark Inc., a small Silicon Valley upstart that builds free transit apps to help smartphone users navigate public transportation. — We don't know how much Apple paid …

More: 9to5Mac, ReadWrite, ZDNet, PC Magazine, The Verge, GigaOM, The Next Web, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Digits, TechCrunch, Forbes, pocketnow.com, Business Insider, TUAW, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Macgasm, Gizmodo, App Advice and iLounge

Tweets: @mattrosoff and @markgurman

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Acquires Embark to Further Improve Mass Transit Navigation

More: Macworld, Engadget and SlashGear

Quartz:

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.

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.

More: Computerworld, GeekWire, PE Hub Blog, PC Magazine, VatorNews, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Digits and Business Insider

Tweets: @hunterwalk, @om, @danprimack, @benedictevans, @pkedrosky and @marypcbuk

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Former Windows Head Sinofsky Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Board Partner

More: New York Times, The Verge, PE Hub Blog and GigaOM

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Pandora Plans To Lift Its 40-Hour Free Mobile Listening Cap On Sept. 1 — During this afternoon's earnings call, Pandora executives said that they would lift for the 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening that was announced back in February. — This is actually the second time Pandora …

More: MacRumors, The Verge, Pandora, TechHive, ReadWrite, Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Next Web and iDownloadBlog.com

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Pandora Revenue Beats The Street, Grows 58% To $162M For Its Last Quarter Before iTunes Radio

More: The Verge, AllThingsD, Digits and Electronista. Tweets: @jonerlichman. See also Mediagazer

Kellex / Droid Life:

New Nexus 7 Receiving Update to JSS15Q, Should Address Multitouch Issues — The new Nexus 7 has had a couple of issues to deal with out of the gate that has most certainly frustrated early adopters. First it was a GPS issue, but more recently the focus has moved onto multi-touch issues with the device's display.

More: Consumer Reports Online, BGR, TechHive, The Verge, tech.uk.msn.com, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, Android Beat, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM and Electronista

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The Nexus 7 (2013) Review — Truth be told, Google has made (or at least directed the making of) some of the best tablets on the market today. The original Nexus 7 was groundbreaking in that it offered a totally usable platform, married to the latest version of Android, for $199.

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.

More: AppleInsider, Mashable, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, The Atlantic Wire, TUAW, Softpedia News, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, The Verge, iPhone and iClarified

Tweets: @markgurman, @tim and @pkedrosky

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 …

More: TechCrunch, Digits, VentureBeat and Electronista

Om Malik / GigaOM:

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

More: Facebook Newsroom, Facebook Developer Blog, Washington Post, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, TechHive, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat and The Verge

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: Pokki Blog, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Digital Trends, The Register, TechCrunch, Engadget, Examiner, BetaNews, Computerworld, CITEworld and PC World. Thanks:@johnhcook

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Uber Filing in Delaware Shows TPG Investment at $3.5 Billion Valuation; Google Ventures Also In — According to a Delaware filing by Uber Technologies, it has sold stock in the fast-growing privately held transportation service to private equity giant TPG. In addition, according to sources …

More: VentureBeat and Business Insider. Tweets: @mattrosoff, @mattrosoff, @mattrosoff, @rsarver and @nzkoz

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: VentureBeat, Business Insider and The Next Web. Thanks:@chinageeks

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.

More: Google+, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, IntoMobile, 9to5Google, Wired, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidGuys, Los Angeles Times, PC Advisor, Ubergizmo, Android Beat, The Verge and Android Community

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: Digital Trends, Computerworld, AllThingsD, TechHive, Ars Technica, NYT Bits, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, The Windows Blog, The Verge, ExtremeTech, WebProNews, POPSUGAR, Gizmodo, GigaOM and Electronista. Thanks:@drizzled

Rafat Ali / Skift:

Travelocity Gives In, Sites To Be Powered by Expedia — Travelocity, the online booking site owned by Sabre, has given in to the intense competition in the online booking sector, and gone with the least risky option short of actually selling itself off: it has done a deal with once-competitor Expedia …

More: ReadWrite, Tech Trader Daily, Skift, PR Newswire and Tnooz. Tweets: @skift

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 …

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

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

More: TechHive, Guardian, Ars Technica, Digits, ITworld.com, ZDNet, ReadWrite, WebProNews, Crave and Examiner

Matt Hunter / CNBC:

Nasdaq resumes trading after three-hour shutdown — Trading resumed on the Nasdaq exchange after a three-hour shutdown that halted trading in such high-profile companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. A problem affecting quote dissemination starting at 12:14:03 ET froze trading …

More: MoneyBeat, Wall Street Journal, DealBook, Computerworld, GigaOM, GeekWire, Network World, MarketWatch, CNBC, Business Insider, NBCNews, NPR, Engadget, The Verge, MacDailyNews, Deadline.com and Valleywag

Tweets: @pkedrosky, @cnbcworld, @cnbc and @jonerlichman

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, WindowsITPro, MSDN Blogs, PC World, SlashGear, CNET, MobileBurn.com, TechSpot, IntoMobile, GeekWire, LAPTOP Magazine and The Windows Blog

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