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August 24, 2013, 1:10 PM

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography  —  On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company.  —  He had just one meeting to go.  —  That meeting was a board meeting …
Amir Efrati / jessica lessin:
Exclusive: Google Designing Its Own Self-Driving Car, Considers ‘Robo Taxi’  —  Google Inc., which has been working on software to help major automakers build self-driving cars, also is quietly going around them by designing and developing a full-fledged self-driving car, according to people familiar with the matter.
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
What Is Medium?  —  The site from Twitter's co-founders is one year old, and still mysterious  —  Just about a year ago, a new website from two of the founders of Twitter launched.  It was called Medium.  The new site was invite-only, but outsiders could read from various collections.
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Acquires Image-Recognition Startup IQ Engines To Improve Flickr Photo Organization & Search  —  Oh, so you thought Yahoo's acquisition spree was over?  Not even close.  A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet another company …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's Ballmer: Why Microsoft doesn't want to be IBM (or Apple) and more  —  Summary: Microsoft's outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer talks about the CEO succession process, balancing hardware and software and why Microsoft won't ‘just’ be an IBM.  —  Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer is retiring within the next year.
Paul Krugman:
On The Symmetry Between Microsoft And Apple  —  I am not a tech industry maven, so I am busy coming up to speed on the implications of the Ballmer resignation.  And what I'm about to say may be obvious to many.  Still, I think it's worth saying: there is, once you look past the surface …
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Facebook isn't making you depressed, but the internet is  —  Status update: the link between Facebook and depression isn't so simple  —  Another day, another “Facebook makes you miserable” headline.  For the last few years, the social network, which now claims nearly 700 million daily users worldwide …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Netflix May Need to Accelerate Its Spending for Original Shows  —  Binge viewing of original series might end up accelerating expenditures  —  Binge-viewing may lead to binge-spending at Netflix, which could eventually see the impact in its stock price.  —  What went unmentioned among …

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