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August 28, 2013, 11:55 PM

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AllThingsD:

Android's Hugo Barra Departs Google for China's Xiaomi — One of Google's top Android executives is leaving the company. — Hugo Barra, whose official title is vice president of product management for Android, has been one of the more public faces of the mobile operating system …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, VentureBeat, Tech in Asia, The Verge, The Next Web, Los Angeles Times, TechHive, 9to5Google, Engadget, Forbes, BGR India, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, Droid Life, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, Pocket-lint and MobileSyrup.com

Tweets: @reneritchie, @monkbent, @mims, @tomwarren, @johnpaczkowski, @mdudas, @amir, @dcseifert and @panzer

Hugo Barra / Google+:

A new Android chapter — After nearly 5½ years at Google and almost 3 years as a member of the Android team — the most amazing group of people I've ever worked with in my life — I have decided to start a new career chapter. In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China …

More: Tech in Asia

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle

More: Mercury News. Tweets: @fromedome

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Reverses The Flow Of Its Timeline In Effort To Humanize It For Newbies — Twitter just flipped the format of its timeline with a new conversation view. The full timeline will still show in the traditional ‘newest stuff at the top’ view, but now there are linked conversations …

More: iMore. Tweets: @mattbuchanan and @mattbuchanan

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, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, PC World, iPhone Hacks, WebProNews, VentureBeat, Engadget, TUAW, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine and SlashGear

Tweets: @parislemon, @fmanjoo and @panzer

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Why Twitter's new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO

More: The Next Web and TechHive

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, NYT Bits, VatorNews, ITworld.com, Digits, TechCrunch, Lost Remote, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Engadget, ZDNet, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Los Angeles Times and Digital Media Wire

Tweets: @twittermedia, @vindugoel and @pkafka

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Tierney Sneed / US News:

The TV Revolution Will Be Tweeted

Tweets: @justineryst

David Beren / TmoNews:

T-Mobile Scheduling Employee Blackout Dates For September 20th-22nd? — I do love a good rumor and this one should make all you iPhone fans happy as I'm hearing whispers T-Mobile is planning blackout dates between September 20th and 22nd. Like all good rumors, we should take this with the standard …

More: Ars Technica, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, iMore, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint and Gotta Be Mobile

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki Have Split — Brin and Wojcicki on Gavin Newsom's interview show in 2012. — Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile couples, are living apart.

More: Mercury News, Businessweek, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, Valleywag, 9to5Google, Digits, Forbes, The Technology Chronicles, bizjournals, Valleywag, BGR India and Electronista

Tweets: @karaswisher, @panzer, @clairecm, @nickbilton, @jguynn, @mims, @jwherrman and @jessicakroy

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: AllThingsD, PC Magazine 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, ReadWrite, Develop, AllFacebook, The Next Web, Market Wire, Gamasutra and Engadget

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: Marketing Land, BGR, GigaOM, Business Insider, Inside Facebook, Digits, Mashable, AllThingsD, Mobile Marketing Watch, Forbes, AllTwitter, SiliconBeat, AdExchanger, VentureBeat, ZDNet, TechCrunch and bizjournals

Tweets: @emarketer and @l2_thinktank

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, ™Watch, Wired.co.uk, ValueWalk, iMore, AppleInsider, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @johnpaczkowski and @markgurman

Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Plan First Tokyo Retail Store Since 2005

More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, ifoAppleStore, PadGadget, iMore, CNNMoney.com, Ubergizmo, Benzinga, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, InvestorPlace, The Mac Observer, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, pocketnow.com, AllThingsD, TUAW, Yahoo! News and BGR. Tweets: @markgurman

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: ReadWrite, Motherboard, SlashGear, TechHive, VentureBeat, WebProNews and ExtremeTech. Tweets: @techreview

Wall Street Journal:

Verizon and Vodafone Rekindle Talks on $100 Billion-Plus Deal — With Rising Interest Rates and New Competition, the Companies Move Beyond Stalemate — Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC have rekindled talks about a buyout of the U.K. company's stake in their U.S. wireless joint venture …

More: Bloomberg, MoneyBeat, The Verge, PhoneArena and Corporate Intelligence

Tweets: @sharonterlep, @paulvieira, @dkberman and @qz

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents — A major new patent bill, passed in a 117-4 vote by New Zealand's Parliament after five years of debate, has banned software patents. — The relevant clause of the patent bill actually states that a computer program is “not an invention.”

More: ZDNet, FOSS Patents, The Register, Engadget, Network World, Inc.com, Scoop and qz.com

Tweets: @nzpaulm, @davewiner and @videolan

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, Kotaku, USgamer.net, New York Times, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile and Joystiq

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

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nintendo dropping Wii U price to $299.99 ahead of Xbox One and PlayStation 4 launch

More: Business Wire, Engadget, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Giant Bomb, IntoMobile, Yahoo! News, Examiner, Kotaku, CNET, ABC News, Brier Dudley's blog, Macgasm, IGN, Eurogamer.net, Polygon, Digits, Ars Technica and AllThingsD

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Instapaper gets complete redesign after Betaworks purchase, new mobile apps soon — Instapaper is in the midsts of an overhaul. After being purchased by Betaworks this past April, the first major changes to the read-it-later service since creator Marco Arment gave up control of the app are here.

More: betaworks and Instapaper

Sam Sacks / RT:

Obama's NSA review board proving the cynics right — Sam Sacks is a political commentator and journalist, the last five years spent covering politics in Washington, DC. — When the US Congress wants to pretend to solve a problem, they create a “Gang of Six” or a “Gang of Eight.”

More: TechCrunch and The Daily Caller

Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times:

New York Times outage traced to phishing email to Melbourne IT partner — Melbourne IT, an Australian firm that allows website owners to buy addresses such as latimes.com, said the downtime suffered by the New York Times website Tuesday began when hackers gained access to the user name …

More: Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, SiliconBeat, The Verge and The Atlantic Wire

Tweets: @nyteileen and @fmanjoo

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