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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 …

More: The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @risatrix, @dbfarber, @om, @melissapierce, @jasonhirschhorn, @davemcclure, @stevekovach and @katie_roof. See also Mediagazer

Om Malik / GigaOM:

No Henry, you need to get real about Yahoo. Here are the facts — For past year or so, there has been a bit of a lovefest around Yahoo, the rapidly aging former web star that has lost the attention and preeminence it enjoyed in the 1990s and early 2000s. The showers of praise …

Tweets: @gigaom, @hblodget, @shaig, @ianbetteridge, @bonanos and @emilychangtv

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.

More: Forbes, I4U News, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Skift, Ubergizmo, GigaOM, jessica lessin, Valleywag, ExtremeTech, BGR, SlashGear, Engadget, bizjournals, 9to5Google, The Verge, Business Insider and ReadWrite

Tweets: @privacychoice, @alexia_tsotsis, @counternotions, @amir, @markmilian, @popmechauto, @dannysullivan, @amir, @amir and @jessicalessin

iFixit:

Motorola Moto X Teardown — What does $12.5 billion dollars buy you nowadays? In Google's case, it buys Motorola, Inc. and all of its designs and patents. Is it what we would have spent the money on? Probably not, but the result of the acquisition is Motorola's first smartphone …

More: VentureBeat, Android Community, CNET, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, Engadget and Ars Technica

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Moto X on other carriers and developer editions rolling out “in days”

More: IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, eWeek, The Verge, PC Advisor, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Droid Life, Electronista, pocketnow.com and Engadget. Thanks:@kevinctofel

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.

More: Anil Dash, Businessweek, GigaOM and The Atlantic Wire. Tweets: @osulop

Jennifer Granick / Forbes:

My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander — On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman and I had called the NSA's activities “criminal” …

More: The Switch and emptywheel. Tweets: @pirateorg, @vikram_nz, @davemcclure, @attackerman and @binarybits. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: IQ Engines, The Next Web, I4U News and Softpedia News

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram's First Acquisition Is Video Sharing App Luma — Instagram has just made its first acquisition, buying both the team and technology of Y Combinator company Luma (formerly known as Midnox). Luma created a video-capture, stabilization and sharing app, which will be shut down soon.

More: Luma, CNET, Engadget, AllThingsD, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Softpedia News, T3 News, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com

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.

More: TechSpot, GigaOM, I4U News, Softpedia News, The Verge, CITEworld, Business Insider, Digits, TechnoBuffalo, Windows Phone Central, eWeek, Tech Trader Daily, WinBeta, GeekWire, VentureBeat and InfoWorld

Tweets: @jessicalessin, @mattrosoff, @edbott, @maryjofoley and @markgurman

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

The Rise and Fall of Windows Mobile, Under Ballmer

More: AllThingsD and Digits

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Beyond Ballmer: who will be Microsoft's next CEO?

More: Data Center Knowledge, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Gizmodo, ZDNet, AllThingsD and LiveSide.net

Simon Bisson / CITEworld:

Ballmer is leaving at the right time as the whole IT landscape shifts

More: iClarified. Thanks:@sbisson

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 …

More: CNET and Business Insider

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 …

Tweets: @monkbent and @christytanner

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google updates Play policies to ban apps and ads modifying devices, require games use its in-app billing service — Google today sent an email to third-party Android developers regarding a significant change to its Google Play Developer Program Policies. The changes affect both apps and the advertising practices that many apps use.

More: Google Operating System, T3 News, Android Beat, PC Advisor and Engadget. Tweets: @vijayshekhar. Thanks:@epro

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