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August 28, 2013, 5:20 PM

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Exclusive: Google+ Hangouts goes HD as it switches from H.264 to VP8. Next up, WebRTC. — Noticed any differences when using Google's Hangouts video chat lately? If you did, then you may be one of the lucky users who has already received an upgrade to 720p HD video.

More: Vic Gundotra, The Verge, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Ars Technica, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, Pocket-lint, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Android Community, SlashGear, Google Plus Daily and Gizmodo

Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Plan First Tokyo Retail Store Since 2005 — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to open a store in Tokyo's upscale Omotesando shopping district as early as March, according to a person familiar with the plans. — Construction is scheduled to be completed by February, the person said …

More: AllThingsD, ifoAppleStore, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, Gotta Be Mobile, CNNMoney.com, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, iMore, MacNN, Electronista, MacRumors, PhoneArena, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace, pocketnow.com and Yahoo! News

Tweets: @markgurman and @yahootech

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Debunk: September iPads, gold iPhone scratch tests, Apple products in Iran, more — This morning, news is circulating regarding claims of a September iPad launch, gold iPhone 5S scratch tests, Apple products being allowed to be imported into Iran, and Apple potentially disrupting the way that mobile carriers work.

More: The Loop, Digits, ™Watch, AppleInsider, Wired.co.uk, iMore, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @markgurman

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

HTC Develops China-Focused Mobile Operating System — Taiwanese Handset Maker Works With China in Bid to Revive Sales — TAIPEI—HTC Corp. is developing a mobile software system specifically for Chinese consumers, people familiar with the project say, as part of a big China bet …

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Does HTC's own mobile OS for China make sense? It depends

More: Android Beat

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nintendo dropping Wii U price to $299.99 ahead of Xbox One and PlayStation 4 launch — The Wii U hasn't been selling quite as well as Nintendo might like, and September 20th it's giving the new console a $50 price cut that'll bring it down to $299.99. Earlier this month …

More: Business Wire, Examiner, ParisLemon, Kotaku, Ars Technica, CNET, BGR, IntoMobile, Digits, TechCrunch, Engadget, AllThingsD, IGN, Giant Bomb, Eurogamer.net, Polygon and Brier Dudley's blog

Michael McWhertor / Polygon:

Nintendo 2DS coming this Oct. for $129.99, plays 3DS games in 2D — Nintendo is releasing a new version of its Nintendo 3DS hardware that's playable only in 2D. It's called the Nintendo 2DS and will be available in North America on Oct. 12 for $129.99. — Nintendo 2DS plays the entire library …

More: GamesIndustry International, ParisLemon, Kotaku, New York Times, Engadget, USgamer.net, Gotta Be Mobile and Joystiq

Tweets: @aegies, @jeffgerstmann, @jasonschreier, @josh and @crecenteb

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim, A Company That Does Mobile Media And Data Compression — Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer graphics while minimizing memory requirements …

More: rapidus.se, AllThingsD, Digits, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, Business Insider, AppleInsider, PadGadget, Macgasm, BGR India, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Engadget, ValueWalk, App Advice, GigaOM, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, iMore, SlashGear, I4U News, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks and Electronista. Tweets: @markgurman

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr — Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products. — After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.

More: The Trendrr Blog, Marketing Land, Digits, ZDNet, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Lost Remote

Tweets: @twittermedia, @pkafka and @vindugoel

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eMarketer:

Facebook Sees Big Gains in Global Mobile Ad Market Share — Google to take home half of $16.65 billion worldwide mobile ad market — Facebook's continued emphasis on mobile monetization, along with its users' ongoing shift toward mobile devices, is resulting in dramatic gains in mobile ad market share …

More: Digits, Mobile Marketing Watch, AdExchanger, SiliconBeat, Mashable, GigaOM, AllThingsD, AllTwitter, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Insider and bizjournals. Tweets: @ericfranchi

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Unity Game Engine To Get Official 2D Game Support And A Built-In Ad Solution — Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, run anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. — At the company's UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things …

More: 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, AllThingsD and Gamasutra. Tweets: @eeen. Thanks:@grg

Kris Graft / Gamasutra:

Facebook and Unity's joint-SDK aims for easy cross-platform deployment

More: Facebook Developer Blog, CNET, AllFacebook, The Next Web, Engadget, Market Wire, Gamasutra, Develop and GamesIndustry International

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Twitter rolling out new conversations UI for Web, iPhone and Android — Twitter has revamped the way it displays conversations on the Web, iPhone and Android by adding a vertical line to indicate the tweets are connected and displaying the first tweet in a discussion above the latest reply.

More: The Twitter Blog, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, The Verge, TechHive, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, PC World, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Engadget, AllThingsD, iPhone Hacks and WebProNews

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @panzer and @parislemon

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Grooveshark Signs With Sony, Steps Over that Wavy ‘Piracy’ Line — What's the difference between YouTube and Grooveshark? — That's not the start of some terrible geek in-joke but a question that Grooveshark founder Sam Tarantino has always been happy to answer, and for good reason.

More: The Verge and Softpedia News

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

The Time Warner Cable TV App For Xbox 360 Is Now Available, With Access To 300 Channels — The TWC TV app for Xbox Live, which was announced back in June, is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Microsoft's partnership with Time Warner Cable is a significant part …

More: Xbox Wire, Engadget, oxm.co.uk and VentureBeat. Tweets: @nctacable. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Time Warner Cable's new Xbox app won't count against data caps

More: Policy Blog and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple looking to turn the iPhone into an intelligent universal media, ‘smart home’ remote control — An Apple patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday describes a method in which a portable device, like the iPhone, can save, manage and recall entertainment and “smart home” system settings, called “scenes.”

More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, SlashGear, Evolver.fm and I4U News

Mark Hachman / TechHive:

Apple is the company most targeted by patent trolls — Apple, HP and Samsung have been attacked the most by so-called “patent trolls” within the last five years, a Silicon Valley lawyer said Tuesday. But recent legislative activity may be weakening their power.

More: Fortune, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Patently Apple, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Shopify Launches Point-Of-Sale System To Unify Online And Brick-And-Mortar Retail — Ottawa-based Shopify, the online storefront provider that helps around 65,000 retailers reach their customers on the web, including Tesla, Crossfit and others, today announced a new retail point-of-sale solution that uses iPads for its terminals.

More: Shopify, The Next Web, PadGadget, BetaKit, GigaOM and internetretailer.com

Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat:

Foursquare's impressive new Windows 8 app: Good for Foursquare, great for Microsoft — Foursquare's new Windows 8 app may not be the biggest deal for Foursquare, but it's huge for Microsoft. — With the app, which was officially announced in June, Foursquare takes some of the best parts about Windows 8 …

More: The Windows Blog, MSDN Blogs, Foursquare Blog, TechNet Blogs, Softpedia News, The Verge and TechCrunch

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Copy Protection for 3-D Printing Aims to Prevent a Piracy Plague — Streaming designs to 3-D printers like Netflix does movies could prevent unauthorized copying. — WHY IT MATTERS — The surge of companies springing up around 3-D printing could be slowed if digital designs are commonly copied without permission.

More: VentureBeat, InfoWorld, ExtremeTech and WebProNews. Tweets: @techreview

Simon Bisson / ZDNet:

What Microsoft and Google's YouTube row says about the future of web development — Summary: The Google/Microsoft YouTube dispute tells you more about the way software for the mobile internet is being developed that you might have thought. — When it comes to Google and Microsoft's dispute …

Tweets: @saschasegan and @theromit

John Cassidy / The New Yorker:

Steve Ballmer and the Art of Managing a Monopoly — Steve Ballmer hasn't been getting much love recently. On Friday, when he announced that he plans to retire as Microsoft's C.E.O. at some point within the next year, the firm's stock had its best day in years, rising seven per cent.

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