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June 22, 2014, 7:25 PM

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Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Marissa Mayer tries to make Yahoo a “daily habit” with Tumblr-inspired digital magazines — Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too) — Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food's offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road …

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Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

HTC planning an 8.9" Tegra K1 tablet internally referred to as the Nexus 9 for Q4 2014 — This Is Volantis, HTC's Nine-Inch Nexus Tablet — With Android Silver rumors brewing, and LG's Ken Hong indicating that the manufacturer doesn't have a Nexus phone in the cards …

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Andy Baio / Medium:

How public profiles and friending could improve discovery in the App Store and help indie devs — Friending the App Store — How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here's one way to fix it. — I love indie games, and follow the indie game scene pretty closely.

Tweets: @waxpancake and @zephoria

Emily Badger / Washington Post:

Taxi medallions have been the best investment in America for years. Now Uber may be changing that. — CHICAGO — A taxicab is a car remade by government, modified dozens of ways by edicts within subsections of articles of the city's taxi code. — “Everywhere on this car has been regulated,” John Henry Assabill says.

More: Skift and VentureBeat. Tweets: @mheadd, @washingtonpost, @mattapuzzo, @stevesi, @mattyglesias and @codinghorror

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

The Feature Google Killed The + Command For — Direct Connect — Is Now Dead — Cast your mind back to November 2011, only a few months after the launch of Google+. That's when Google made one of its biggest Google+ification moves. It demoted a long-standing search feature involving …

More: Search Engine Watch

David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune:

Chicago installing sensors in light poles to observe air, weather, sound, and cell phone traffic — New sensors will scoop up ‘big data’ on Chicago … The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture …

More: Bloomberg View, GCN and Digital Trends

Robert Graham / Errata Security:

300k vulnerable to Heartbleed two months later — When the Heartbleed vulnerability was announced, we found 600k systems vulnerable. A month later, we found that half had been patched, and only 300k were vulnerable. Last night, now slightly over two months after Heartbleed, we scanned again …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo and Neowin

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Q&A With Facebook's Joey Flynn: The Lead Slingshot Designer Wants To Change How 90% Of Us Use Social Networks — Slingshot is the second mobile app to come out of Facebook's new startup-like department, Creative Labs. Like photo messaging tools TapTalk and Snapchat, Slingshot lets users send images …

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Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Snapchat says Stories are viewed 1 billion times per day, are more popular than Snaps — Surprise: Snapchat's most popular feature isn't snaps anymore — Stories are now bigger than your self-destructing snaps — So, Snapchat's just for sexting, right? Apparently not.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @joshelman and @caseynewton

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Twitch Hooks Into YouTube for Live Broadcast Alerts — Extended partnership comes as Google is engaged in acquisition talks with Internet videogame broadcaster — Internet videogame-broadcasting company Twitch extended its partnership with YouTube, under which the Google-owned site …

More: The Official Twitch Blog, The Next Web and Tubefilter

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

THE INSIDE STORY OF YO: How A ‘Stupid’ App Attracted Millions Of Dollars And Rocketed To The Top Of The App Store — Moshe Hogeg was getting tired of asking his employee, Or Arbel, for a favor. — Hogeg, the CEO and founder of Tel Aviv company Mobli, had requested a simple way to get in touch …

More: Valleywag, Robert Scoble, NevilleHobson.com, and VentureBeat

Tweets: @ksablan, @rrhoover, @ajs and @dangillmor

Bloomberg:

Former NSA director Keith Alexander now pitching banks $1M/month cybersecurity consulting — Ex-NSA Chief Pitches Banks Costly Advice on Cyber-Attacks — As the four-star general in charge of U.S. digital defenses, Keith Alexander warned repeatedly that the financial industry was among the likely targets of a major attack.

More: PandoDaily. Tweets: @csoghoian and @dangillmor

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