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May 27, 2014, 9:25 PM

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LG:

LG announces the G3, its new flagship smartphone with a 5.5" 2560 x 1440 display that launches May 28 in South Korea, later in other countries — WITH NEW G3, LG AIMS TO REDEFINE CONCEPT OF SMART AND SIMPLE — LG Electronics (LG) today introduced to the world its eagerly anticipated G3 smartphone …

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

LG Officially Outs Its Leaky G3 Smartphone: Bigger Hardware, Flatter Software — LG has officially outed its new flagship smartphone, the G3, at events taking place in London, New York and San Francisco. — TechCrunch was in attendance at the London event, taking place in a rainy Battersea Park far from any working 3G.

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Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Yahoo Plots YouTube Rival for Summer Debut After Delay — Portal's Proposed Terms Have Received Pushback From YouTube Creators — Yahoo wants to rival YouTube for viral videos. — Creativity Reimagined — Is there room for another YouTube? — Yahoo is ramping up talks …

More: VentureBeat, CBS San Francisco, CNET News, Tubefilter, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo and Business Insider

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Valve: Steam Machines delayed until 2015 — Valve attached this controller sketch image to its announcement. Go ahead, pick it apart for clues about new hats coming to Team Fortress 2! — Valve Software — On Tuesday evening, Valve Software used a forum in the Steam games-store app …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Kotaku, Gamasutra and Polygon

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter and Omnicom Strike $230 Million Mobile Ad Deal — Omnicom Media Group announced a mobile-focused deal with Twitter on Tuesday, worth $230 million over the next two years. — The deal will integrate Omnicom's programmatic ad buying unit Accuen with Twitter's ad exchange MoPub …

More: VentureBeat, ClickZ, Electronista, Marketing Land, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, dailywireless.org and Re/code. See also Mediagazer

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook reduces volume of auto-posted stories from third-party apps in News Feed — Facebook gives up on automatically posting everything you do online — Mark Zuckerberg's quantified self dream is over — for now — Last week, Facebook made a small but very important change to Instagram.

More: Facebook Developers, Facebook, LIVEdigitally, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Gizmodo UK and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine

Bloomberg:

China Said to Push Banks to Remove IBM Servers for Security — The Chinese government is pushing domestic banks to remove high-end servers made by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and replace them with a local brand, according to people familiar with the matter …

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Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

Intuit dishes $360 million to acquire mobile bill pay firm Check — Summary: The Palo Alto, California-based company is best known for its mobile app that automates and consolidates the bill pay process for both consumers and small businesses. — Financial services giant Intuit …

More: Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, Washington Post, silicontap.com, TechCrunch, TheStreet.com and App Advice

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries — Lucrative Rebates Aimed at Top Tech Talent — Imagine you are launching or running a startup and there's a place where all of your developers—the biggest expense for most tech companies—cost one quarter what they do in Silicon Valley.

Gurdeep Pall / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Skype Translator, a real-time language translation tool, will begin rolling out later this year — Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations — The following post is from Gurdeep Pall, Corporate Vice President of Skype and Lync at Microsoft.

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, Re/code, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Engadget, Bloomberg, Mashable, Business Insider Australia, ZDNet and Android Central

Tweets: @dinabass and @ahess247

Mark Hearn / 9to5Google:

Google blocking extensions not listed in the Chrome Web Store for Windows users — Google announced today that it's now blocking local Chrome extensions to protect Windows users from malicious software. This means that only extensions coming from the Chrome Web Store can be installed on Chrome for Windows.

More: Google Chrome Blog, Chromium Blog, Engadget, The Register, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Central, Neowin, Phandroid, The Next Web and TechCrunch

eMarketer Newsroom:

Forecast: Twitter could reach 400M users in 2018, 40.1% in Asia-Pacific, 19% in North America — Emerging Markets Drive Twitter User Growth Worldwide — More than 40% of Twitter users worldwide will be in Asia-Pacific by 2018 — Twitter's user base will increase 24.4% in 2014 …

More: New York Times, Gigaom, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Fortune, Businessweek, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, AllTwitter, The Next Web, Forbes, Bloomberg and Bloomberg. See also Mediagazer

William Gruger / Billboard:

Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts Go Live — Today, Billboard and Twitter officially launch the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts. These new, interactive charts redefine how fans interact with, and influence, popular content by ranking the most popular songs being shared on Twitter in the U.S.

More: Mashable, TechSpot, Daily Dot, Digital Trends, AllTwitter, Engadget, Motherboard, Complex, Pocket-lint and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple to live stream ‘exciting’ WWDC keynote for everyone to watch — Apple has updated its website to announce that it will be live streaming next week's WWDC Keynote address for all to watch. As per usual, the event will be available on Macs running Safari 4 or later …

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Toshiba's back-to-school lineup has laptops, tablets, and everything in between — What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! — For most students, school isn't even over yet.

More: BetaNews, Engadget, Engadget, The Verge, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and LAPTOP Magazine

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Indie E-Book Printer Blurb Buys Graphicly; Will Shut Down Comic E-Publishing Platform — As the ongoing dispute between Amazon and Hachette sees the huge online retailer continue to block and/or delay sales of some of the publisher's books, two smaller startups in the industry are merging forces.

More: Business Wire, VentureBeat, Digital Media Wire, Medium, Good E-Reader, silicontap.com, Bleeding Cool Comic Book … and Techrockies.com. See also Mediagazer

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Hackers remotely lock some Apple devices in Australia using Find My iPhone, demand ransom — Australian Mac and iOS users find devices remotely locked, held for ransom (and how to keep yours safe) — The Sydney Morning Herald reports that several Australian Mac, iPhone …

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