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July 14, 2014, 5:10 PM

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Secret / Medium:
Secret raises $25M series B, launches ‘Collections’ feature and anonymous Facebook login  —  Onward  —  The next six months  —  Six months into growing and evolving Secret, our community has shown us how much demand there is for a social network centered around honest conversations.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Six-month-old Secret valued at more than $100M after latest funding round  —  Secret Reaches Beyond Tech Set, and Raises $25 Million  —  Secret, the app that lets people post messages anonymously, has been beloved by the tech insiders who use the service to gossip about their jobs and love lives.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans holiday assault on Chromebooks with $199 HP laptop, $249 laptops from Acer and Toshiba  —  Microsoft launches a price assault on Chromebooks  —  Microsoft is aiming straight for Google's Chromebooks this holiday season.  At the company's partner conference today …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple's 5.5-inch ‘iPhone 6’ faces production issues, launch may be pushed to 2015  —  Apple's rumored 5.5-inch “phablet” iPhone model is said to be facing issues with its new in-cell touchscreen panel, as well as color unevenness on the new “iPhone 6” metal casing …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Sources: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong would love to merge with Yahoo, but Marissa Mayer finds the idea backward-looking  —  Two Years and Still Stuck in a Revenue Rut, Will Yahoo's Mayer Bite the AOL Bullet?  —  Maybe AOL and Yahoo will merge.  Maybe not.  Maybe they should.  Maybe they shouldn't.
Liam Spradlin / Android Police:
Exclusive: Google Prepping Play Store Update That's One Step Closer To Material With Beautiful New Listing UI  —  When we first wrote about Quantum Paper (the internal name for the material in Material Design), we noted that Google was anticipating a series of updates to its own apps between …
New York Times:
eBay partners with Sotheby's to live stream the auction house's sales worldwide, giving eBay's 145M customers bidding access  —  A Warhol With Your Moose Head?  Sotheby's Teams With EBay  —  Convinced that consumers are finally ready to shop online for Picassos and choice Persian rugs …
Kevin Roose Follow / New York Magazine:
Does Anyone Outside Silicon Valley Even Want a Smartwatch?  —  Nearly every big tech company is betting on them in unison.  —  In the past week, I've been called “Inspector Gadget” twice, had a near-calamitous accident involving spray-on sunblock, and felt my arm vibrate so often I started treating it as a phantom limb.
More: BGRTweets: @mikeisaac and @karaswisher
Benj Edwards / The Atlantic Online:
How an enthusiast is trying to rebuild Prodigy, the online service that shut down in 1999  —  Rebuilding Prodigy, one screen at a time  —  Rebuilding Prodigy, one screen at a time  —  Michael Doino approached the late hours of October 1, 1999, with a lingering sense of dread.
More: blog.chron.comTweets: @benjedwards
Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:
Google Directors Wanted Page, Brin to Court Facebook Employees  —  Google considered having its cofounders personally recruit Facebook workers and instituted a policy to make counteroffers within an hour to workers offered jobs by Facebook, according to newly released documents …
More: Business InsiderTweets: @anildash

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