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June 14, 2014, 12:50 PM

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Major iOS/OS X updates in the same year show Tim Cook is bringing operational efficiency home to Cupertino  —  Only Apple  —  1.  —  “Only Apple” has been Tim Cook's closing mantra for the last few Apple keynotes.  Here's what he said at the end of last week's WWDC keynote: … Is this true, though?
Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Twitter's mobile apps now let you embed tweets inside tweets  —  In what looks like an effort to clean up how tweets appear in your timeline, Twitter for iOS and Android both actually embed tweets that have been linked in a tweet.  —  To embed a tweet in a tweet, just drop the link of the update's URL in the tweet you're composing.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Netflix's website is suddenly sporting a fresh logo and brighter background  —  Netflix started tagging some of its trailers with a new logo around the start of May, and now it's part of changes on the streaming movie service's main website.  The redesigned logo has replaced its predecessor at the top left …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple and Samsung conserve resources, drop cross-appeal of ITC ruling on Apple's complaint  —  It would be an overstatement to call this a small-scale settlement and there are still no unmistakable signs of a thawing period between Apple and Samsung of the kind we saw last month when Apple …
More: Bloomberg
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Handicapping the Winners and Losers in the Twitter Shakeup  —  While companies are not games, it's not hard to want to handicap the winners and losers in any major management shift or executive shakeout.  —  So, let's dispense with the niceties and get down to the brass tacks of what happened …

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