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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 …
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 …
Leo Kelion / BBC:
Skype confirms 3D video calls are under development  —  Skype said that limitations with current 3D technologies had stopped it launching the feature  —  Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls.  —  The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype's tenth anniversary.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Sharpens Its Flickr iOS App With Enhanced Filters, More Camera Tools; Makes Pro Tools Free  —  Yahoo has just released a significant new update for its Flickr photo app for iOS, a further sign of how it wants to be not just where you go to store and view pictures, but where you create them as well.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Twitter's new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO  —  No one in Silicon Valley has any doubt that San Francisco-based Twitter is on a road to a public offering.  Given its current valuation — estimated at around or over $10 billion — and the amount of money it has raised …
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Push to the Cloud Adds to Server-Market Woes  —  To understand the challenges facing makers of server systems, look to health-care staffing firm Schumacher Group.  —  The Lafayette, La., company, has been shifting a growing proportion of its computing chores to computers operated …
Tweets: @shiraovide
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
Here's how one hacker is waging war on the Syrian government  —  As President Obama weighed U.S. air strikes in Syria this week, a lone American hacker was waging his own attack on the Syrian government.  He works a white-collar job in the United States by day, while at night he's …
More: The Verge and Washington Post.  Tweets: @binarybits
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Facebook spam: a $200m business in links alone  —  Italian researchers uncover price lists for posting third-party links to Facebook fan pages - and calculate that they earn substantial amounts for most popular ones  —  Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people …
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 …
App Annie Blog:
App Annie Index: Apps - Messenger Apps Go To Battle For The World's Messages  —  The Competition for The Top Messenger App is Heating Up  —  The App Annie Apps Index brings you the top-performing publishers and apps outside of games across both the iOS App Store and Google Play.
Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:
Facebook forced to clarify how it's using your data for ads  —  In proposed terms of service, the social network illustrates how member data is used as a part of Sponsored Stories — because a court ordered it do so.  —  Facebook is making changes to the two key documents that govern …
Wall Street Journal:
Sales of BlackBerry's Q10 Keyboard Phone Fall Flat  —  Carrier Executives and Retailers Report Dismal Sales and Returns  —  When BlackBerry Ltd. Chief Executive Thorsten Heins was asked why he decided to start selling the company's new keyboard-equipped smartphone months after a new touch-screen device …
Jonathan Marino / TheStreet.com:
Twitter Sets Up Revenue Streams Prior to IPO #ftw  —  NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Twitter is trying to assure that it doesn't repeat the mistakes of rival social media company Facebook (FB), which took 15 months to catch up to what proved to be an overinflated float price.
Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo:
Quantum Cryptography Could Make Your Phone Uncrackable Someday  —  As the world of cybersecurity becomes increasingly volatile, more advanced solutions to problems like encryption couldn't come soon enough.  This is why everybody's excited about a team of British physicists' testing a method …
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.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU telecoms chief drops plan to slash wholesale roaming prices  —  (Reuters) - EU telecoms chief Neelie Kroes has scrapped a draft proposal to cut wholesale roaming fees by as much as 90 percent, a European Commission document seen by Reuters showed, following criticism from major telecom companies.

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