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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 …

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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

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: Paul Krugman, NYT Bits, CNET, Business Insider, ActiveWin.com, The Verge and CITEworld. Tweets: @claytonmorris

Guy English / kickingbear:

Ballmer's Straight Jacket — Steve Ballmer announced today that he will be stepping down as CEO of Microsoft within the next twelve months. This comes a little over a month since Microsoft announced a massive reorganization which was aimed at breaking down old fiefdoms and setting a new course.

More: Marco.org, Benedict Evans, PandoDaily, Microsoft News Tracker, iMore, on the build and Computerworld

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

The Rise and Fall of Windows Mobile, Under Ballmer

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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: @mathewi and @osulop

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, jessica lessin, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Skift, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, GigaOM, Valleywag, ExtremeTech, Yahoo! News, SlashGear, Engadget, bizjournals, 9to5Google, The Verge, Business Insider and ReadWrite

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

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 …

More: CNET

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

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: @davemcclure, @pirateorg, @vikram_nz, @attackerman and @binarybits. See also Mediagazer

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

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, AllThingsD, 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, VatorNews, Mashable, Engadget, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, The Next Web, AllThingsD, T3 News, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com

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