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July 26, 2014, 1:15 AM

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TechCrunch:

Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon — TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho …

More: Booklamp, Re/code, AppleInsider, CNET, iMore, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacNN and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine and @jyarow

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Verizon will start restricting LTE speeds for its heaviest unlimited-plan customers — Verizon's 4G networks soon will start favoring customers who pay for mobile data by the gigabyte over customers who draw deeply from Verizon's unlimited plans. — Verizon Wireless has been trying to coax …

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

House votes to allow cellphone ‘unlocking’ — The House on Friday passed legislation allowing people to “unlock” their cellphones and switch from one carrier to another, sending the bill to the president's desk. — The bill won unanimous support in the lower chamber and has been widely backed …

More: Patrick Leahy, The Verge, VentureBeat, The White House, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Gizmodo, Computerworld, ReadWrite, Network World, iMore, Gigaom, SiliconBeat, 9to5Google, Washington Post, eWeek, New York Times and Slate

Tweets: @senjohnthune, @dangillmor and @monkbent

Lyft Blog:

Lyft launches in NYC, drivers need taxi commission licenses; company “will pause operations” in Buffalo and Rochester by August 1 — Lyft Launches in NYC — Tonight, after making positive progress with local and state leaders, Lyft will launch in all five boroughs of New York City.

More: The Next Web, ag.ny.gov, TechCrunch, The Register, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, CBS New York, Eric T. Schneiderman, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, PC Magazine, Skift, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Capital New York, The Verge, Fortune, TechHive, TIME and WebProNews

Tweets: @lyft and @mdudas

Andrew Chung / Reuters:

Bose sues Beats over headphone noise-cancellation patents — (Reuters) - High-end sound system and headphone maker Bose Corp is going after the newer kid on the block, Beats Electronics, with a lawsuit accusing Beats of infringing several patents related to noise-cancellation technology.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Vevo, the Giant Music Video Site, Tries to Fix Itself Before It Sells Itself — Music videos are huge on the Web, and Vevo is huge in music videos. It generates six billion views a month, and is crucial to both the music industry and YouTube. — Now Vevo's owners want to find a new investor …

Tweets: @pkafka and @pkafka

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Fixed Raises $1.2 Million For A Mobile App That Fights Your Parking Tickets For You — Fixed, the clever mobile application that helps you fight your parking tickets just by snapping a photo of the ticket with your mobile phone, has now closed on $1.2 million in seed funding.

More: PE Hub Blog, StrictlyVC, Business Insider and silicontap.com

Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Judge Denise Cote concerned about e-book settlement because Apple's liability could fall from $450M to $70M if her ruling is reversed on a minor issue — U.S. judge says she is troubled by Apple $450 million e-books deal — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday expressed concern …

More: Fortune, bizjournals, International Business Times, ValueWalk, PC Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iClarified, CNET, The Register, AppleInsider and SiliconBeat. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Homejoy expands beyond cleaning, offering a beta test group plumbing, landscaping, painting and other home services — Homejoy Expands Beyond Cleaning With Beta Test Of Home Services — When Homejoy raised its $38 million round of funding last December, the company did so with a plan …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Translate Adds Crowdsourcing Features To Improve Its Translations — Over the years, Google Translate has gotten significantly better at giving its users (relatively) legible translations fo most commonly used languages. It's still far off from being perfect, though …

More: Inside Search, 9to5Google, The Next Web, SlashGear and WebProNews

Bloomberg:

IBM Said to Reject Globalfoundries Offer for Chip Unit — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)'s talks to sell its money-losing chip-manufacturing operations to Globalfoundries Inc. have ended after the two companies failed to agree on terms, according to people familiar with the process.

More: The Register and VentureBeat

RT:

Russian Interior Ministry offers $111k to crack TOR network — Russia's Interior Ministry is offering $111k for a technological solution that would allow police officers to identify internet surfers who are using the TOR anonymizer network, which has been rapidly growing in popularity inside the country.

More: Guardian, Global Voices Advocacy, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Electronista, The Register, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Deep Dot Web and The Moscow Times

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