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June 10, 2014, 1:25 PM

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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Honeywell takes on Nest with $279 Lyric smart thermostat, available in Lowe's stores by August — The heat is on: Honeywell is finally ready to challenge the Nest thermostat — The Lyric thermostat builds on Nest's iconic design — The idea of a connected home …

More: TechHive, Technologizer, PandoDaily, VatorNews, The Next Web, PR Newswire, 9to5Mac, Engadget, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, iMore, Gigaom, Electronista, Phandroid, BGR, TIME, SlashGear and SlashGear

Tweets: @ryan and @ryan

Ann-Christine Diaz / AdAge:

Apple is urgently building an internal ad agency of 1000 people, poaching industry executives, pitting internal creative against external agencies — For Apple, Marketing Is a Whole New Game — Here's What the Company's Doing to Regain Its Edge — By Ann-Christine Diaz, Maureen Morrison.

More: VentureBeat, Re/code, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacRumors, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, iLounge and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @fromedome. See also Mediagazer

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Vita TV becomes PlayStation TV in the US, Europe and Canada for $99 this fall — The Vita TV is coming to America! It's just going to get a bit of an identity change first. Now the micro-console will be called PlayStation TV for North American and European audiences.

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Sony formally announces PlayStation original sci-fi series ‘Powers’

More: The Next Web and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Dave Tach / Polygon:

PlayStation Now open beta hits PS4 July 31 in the U.S. and Canada

More: The Next Web, Joystiq, Neowin, GameSpot, TechRadar.com, IGN, Geek.com, CNET News, VG247, Eurogamer.net, TIME, VentureBeat, Engadget and Kotaku

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Second China army unit linked to hacking attacks in international space and satellite industry — 2nd China Army Unit Implicated in Online Spying — SAN FRANCISCO — The email attachment looked like a brochure for a yoga studio in Toulouse, France, the center of the European aerospace industry.

More: The Register, The Verge, CrowdStrike, Inquirer, GadgeTell, Fortune, Ars Technica, InfoWorld, Softpedia News, Washington Post, TheAustralian, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Forbes. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon Adds Audible Integration To iOS And Android Kindle Apps For Easy Listening — Sometimes you want to read, and sometimes you want to listen - and you might get through more books if you can switch easily between the two options. Amazon recognizes this, and has used its Audible acquisition …

More: Amazon.com, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, MacRumors, Computerworld, Gigaom, The Verge, Engadget, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, ZDNet and iMore

Nellie Bowles / Re/code:

The Sprawling, Booming LA Tech Scene Is Having a Moment … From Santa Monica's manicured pool houses to the new downtown e-commerce warehouses, from a bland glass office park in Irvine to a grand old frat house in West Adams, Los Angeles tech is having a moment. — So why are there still so many surfboards?

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @garbnzgh, @karaswisher, @dawnc331, @johnpaczkowski, @kenli729, @mat, @pkafka, @stevecheney and @kashhill

Tami Abdollah / Associated Press:

Donald Sterling no longer favors selling LA Clippers to Steve Ballmer, will sue NBA — Donald Sterling says no deal; suit is on — LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for Donald Sterling says the Los Angeles Clippers owner has pulled his support from a deal to sell the team …

More: Gigaom, CNET News, The Verge, GadgeTell and WinBeta

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook accidentally launches, then pulls Snapchat competitor Slingshot — After recently killing off Poke, its first Snapchat competitor, Facebook is back with a second shot at ephemeral messaging. The new app, called Slingshot, lets you quickly send photos and videos to friends inside a minimal messaging interface.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

About.me Raises $11M To Rival Facebook For Simple Online Identity — About.me, the second-time around startup that lets you create a simple page about yourself online that others can use to find out a bit more about you, is today announcing another round funding, its second since getting spun …

More: Re/code, StrictlyVC, VentureBeat, Feld Thoughts and PE Hub Blog. Thanks:@drew

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Pinterest Hires Long-Time Apple Execs to Lead Engineering and Product Design — You might think that with its $5 billion valuation, Pinterest would have its senior management largely set. Not so. — Michael Lopp — The company today announced two big hires: First, Michael Lopp …

More: TechCrunch

Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:

SocialBakers acquires EdgeRank Checker, moving into deep Facebook analytics — How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? 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 $200!

More: AllFacebook, The Next Web, Analytics, TechCrunch, ventureburn, Webrazzi and Pulse 2.0. Tweets: @earlybirdvc

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Japanese carrier Docomo wants to move your phone's SIM card into a wearable — The Portable SIM, as Japan's Docomo is calling it, will combine your tiny mobile card with Bluetooth and NFC to make a standalone authentication device, allowing users to ‘wave’ the portable over tablets and smartphones …

More: Tech in Asia, NTT DOCOMO, INC., The Next Web, The Verge, Android Authority, Geek.com, Gizmodo and Softpedia News

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

H-P To Challenge IBM In Supercomputing With Apollo — Hewlett-Packard is taking on International Business Machines in high-end supercomputers, the latest sign that H-P is doubling down on technology hardware while IBM pulls back from the market. — On Monday, H-P announced …

More: ZDNet, Bloomberg, bizjournals, The Register, Techvibes Global News and Inquirer

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

Cisco report says video to make up 84% of all US internet traffic by 2018, up from current 78% — Cat Videos, Binge TV Watching Will Account for 84 Percent of Internet Traffic, Cisco Says — Internet traffic will likely more than double in five years, and much of it will be used for online video …

More: ZDNet, Cisco, Reuters, bizjournals, Gigaom and FierceCable. Thanks:@srikardr. See also Mediagazer

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