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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service for $9.99/month — Amazon is testing an ebook and audiobook subscription service called “Kindle Unlimited” that offers “unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks on any device for just $9.99 a month.”

Reuters:

Apple agrees conditionally to a $450M settlement in e-book price-fixing case; $400M could go to consumers — Apple agrees to conditional $450 million e-books antitrust accord — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has agreed to pay $450 million to resolve U.S. state and consumer claims …

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

In IBM and Apple's wake, what will team Android do? — Summary: The biggest challenge for team Android is that Google and Samsung, two partners with enterprise ambitions, will have to herd cats to reach corporations to counter Apple and IBM. — Google, Samsung and team Android may have to form …

More: Computerworld, MacDailyNews and dailywireless.org

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

BlackBerry Shares Drop More Than 10% In Trading In Wake Of Apple/IBM Deal

More: ABC News and Reuters

Asymco:

A historical look at how Apple's independence and IBM's business model agility led to a strategic partnership

More: Wall Street Journal and 9to5Mac

New York Times:

Time Warner rejected $80B takeover bid by Murdoch's 21st Century Fox last month, no longer in discussions — Rupert Murdoch Said to Have Made Offer for Time Warner — Twenty-First Century Fox, the media empire run by Rupert Murdoch, made an $80 billion takeover bid in recent weeks …

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Airbnb unveils its new identity, launches redesigned mobile app and website — Airbnb unveiled a complete brand and product redesign today at an exclusive event for top hosts and guests. — Airbnb calls its new logo a “multi-state moving identity,” and a “3D modular symbol” that's …

More: The Airbnb Blog, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Valleywag, Subtraction.com + Feed, Core77, BuzzFeed, Fast Company, Business Insider, The Next Web, The Technology Chronicles, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The Verge and DesignStudio

Tweets: @emilydreyfuss, @samfbiddle, @mattnavarrauk, @alexia, @timsteno, @tim, @johnpaczkowski, @jank0, @paulg and @paulg

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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Netflix to FCC: reclassify Comcast and Verizon so they can't choke the internet — Netflix came out swinging in its submission to the FCC over proposed internet “fast lanes,” arguing Wednesday that this would be a bad idea and that the agency should instead focus on forcing broadband providers …

More: Netflix US & Canada Blog, Techdirt, FierceOnlineVideo News, The Verge and The Slanted. See also Mediagazer

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Comcast loves the FCC's net neutrality rules, wants limits on “fast lanes”

More: Comcast, DSLreports, DSLreports, GamePolitics blogs and ZDNet. Tweets: @acedtect

Mark Harris / Guardian:

FBI warns driverless cars could be used as ‘lethal weapons’ — Internal report sees benefits for road safety, but warns that autonomy will create greater potential for criminal ‘multitasking’ — The FBI believes that the driverless car is a “game changing” vehicle could revolutionise high …

More: ReadWrite, VentureBeat, Gigaom, BGR, PandoDaily, Geek.com, Ubergizmo, The Daily Caller, bizjournals, Connectedly, Yahoo Tech, The Verge, ZDNet, CNET, Engadget, 9to5Google and ITProPortal. Tweets: @kashhill

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Visa Launches Checkout, Another Play for Digital Payments — Visa wants you to know it gets that the future is about more than just plastic. — The company on Tuesday took the wraps off Visa Checkout, its latest effort to make itself relevant in a world of digital payments.

More: Fortune, TechCrunch, Engadget, Computerworld, VentureBeat and ZDNet

Jason Snell / Macworld:

Review: Overcast, Marco Arment's new podcast app with Smart Speed and Voice Boost features — Review: Overcast is a winning podcast app — AT A GLANCE — On Wednesday, Marco Arment released the podcast-playing app Overcast, his anticipated major return to the iOS App Store after selling …

More: Marco.org, MacStories, The Next Web, Laughing Squid, Softpedia News, Lifehacker, App Advice, iMore and 9to5Mac

Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk:

Google Search Integrates Bitcoin Price Calculator — Internet search giant Google has updated its search engine to automatically display bitcoin prices when users enter certain queries. — The news comes roughly one month after Google Finance partnered with Coinbase to launch …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, Google Operating System, CNN, TechSpot, Electronista, CNET, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Inquirer and Mashable

Rachel King / ZDNet:

eBay's Q2 earnings beat estimates despite analyst fears over security breach — Summary: However, eBay followed up with softer sales and earnings guidance ranges for the current quarter. — A major cyber attack on eBay back in May was widely expected by analysts to play …

More: TechCrunch, Business Wire, Associated Press, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Re/code, WebProNews, internetretailer.com and Bloomberg

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Starts Selling Its Aerial Imagery To Maps For Business Users — Google Maps for Business is a service for enterprises and government organizations that need to visualize their assets on a map. Today, the company has announced that customers can now purchase Google's aerial imagery directly …

More: Google Enterprise Blog, ZDNet, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Next Web and WebProNews

David Pierce / The Verge:

Jawbone's new Up app makes healthy eating a whole lot easier — Jawbone finally gets food tracking right — Jawbone's Up bracelet has become perhaps the industry's most versatile fitness tracker, thanks to powerful sleep and activity monitoring. For its next act, Jawbone is turning …

More: The Jawbone Blog, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Re/code, VentureBeat, SlashGear and CNET

Se Young Lee / Reuters:

iPhone 5s was bestselling smartphone in May at 7M units, beating 5M for 2-month-old Galaxy S5 — Samsung battles on two fronts as Apple readies iPhone 6 — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is losing smartphone ground not only to cheaper Chinese rivals but also at the high end …

More: Counterpoint Technology …, BGR, The Loop, TechCrunch, eWeek, Business Insider, iMore, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, PC Magazine, The Economic Times, dailywireless.org, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, Android Authority, ITProPortal and SamMobile. Tweets: @benbajarin

Amir Efrati / The Information:

Google plans to spend several hundred million dollars marketing Android One phones in India — Google Plans India Ad Blitz in Smartphone Bid — Google is planning a major spending effort on marketing its new Android One phones in India, in an ambitious play into a challenging but potentially huge market for smartphones.

More: App Annie Blog, The Economic Times, Gigaom, Times of India, 9to5Google, TechCrunch and Android Central. Tweets: @amir

Peter Eavis / New York Times:

Funding Circle, a Peer-to-Peer Lender, Raises $65 Million — Silicon Valley has been working on new ways to bolster the flow of capital to small businesses, one of the nation's main engines of economic growth. Those efforts took another step forward on Wednesday, when Funding Circle …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reuters, Quartz, Financial Times and NY Daily News

Liam Tung / ZDNet:

One in five ex-Nokia workers in Finland could be axed as Microsoft prepares layoffs — Summary: Speculation mounts in Finland about heavy cuts for Microsoft's Nokia employees. — The job cuts Microsoft is expected to announce this week could fall hard on Nokia's home country …

More: Reuters, VentureBeat, LiveSide.net, Tech Times, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta and TechCrunch

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Blogger Fined By French Court Because Negative Restaurant Review Was Too Prominent In Google — A French court has ordered a blogger to pay a substantial fine and change the title of a restaurant review because the review was too prominent in search results and harmed business at the restaurant.

More: BBC, National Review, Eater National, Techdirt and CraveOnline. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:

Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? — The combination of access and toughness has made her a preeminent arbiter of status. — The technology journalist Kara Swisher likes to call herself Sherlock Homo, but on a spring evening in Austin …

Tweets: @nancook, @mathewi, @kevinroose, @benjwallace, @waltmossberg, @sfiegerman, @alexia and @jason_pontin

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