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June 23, 2014, 7:05 AM

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Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Quirky unveils Wink app and $79 hardware hub to connect smart home devices, partners with Home Depot, expects 60 Wink-enabled products by July — Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company — The repurposed red brick warehouse in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is a bustling hub of modern industrial activity.

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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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Christopher Breen / Macworld:

A next-gen Apple TV, acting as a HomeKit hub, could let you control home devices on the road — Apple's HomeKit hub may already be in your house — At Apple's recent Worldwide Developers Conference, the company announced—among a great many other things—HomeKit, a suite of tools …

More: Gizmodo. Tweets: @gte, @greengart, @gte, @danfrakes, @monkbent and @laurengoode

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Uber blocking secondary stock sales, has recently offered early shareholders buybacks at a price pegged to sub-$4B valuation — Uber plays hardball with early shareholders — Uber is very valuable. But there's only one way to sell its stock. Two months ago, an early Uber employee thought …

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @sbyrnes, @rx, @eringriffith and @eringriffith

James Temple / Re/code:

Bill Maris, the Man Behind Google Ventures, Wants to Redefine Silicon Valley Economics — Bill Maris is unimpressed with the mechanics of Silicon Valley venture capital. — He sees a lot of short bets on incremental advances and copycat apps. He thinks partners get paid for putting money to work — not for making ambitious bets.

Wall Street Journal:

Andreessen Horowitz invests $90M in enterprise cybersecurity firm Tanium at $900M valuation — Andreessen Invests in Cybersecurity Firm — Tanium, Which Helps Pinpoint IT Threats, Gets $90 Million — Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is placing its second-biggest bet ever …

More: Andreessen Horowitz, TechCrunch, CNET and Re/code

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Eliana Dockterman / TIME:

Google launches Made With Code website in $50M effort to get girls interested in coding — Google Invests $50 Million to Close the Tech Gender Gap — Imagine If Half of All Tech Inventions and Startups Came From Women — ‘Entrepreneur’ Barbie Heads for Silicon Valley With Some Glam Accessories

More: The Official Google Blog, TechCrunch, Mashable, USA Today, CNET, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Engadget

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google Tracker, I/O edition—what Google is working on before the big show — With Google I/O coming up in just a few days, it's time for a second edition of The Google Tracker, what we hope will be a bi-yearly look at what's going on at Google HQ. Just like last time, we'll have a potent mix of news …

More: ZDNet, Wall Street Journal and CBS News

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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