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July 27, 2014, 4:15 PM

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Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing — AWS doesn't have the public cloud to itself anymore. It faces two gigantic competitors trying to poach reference customers and growing adoption of hybrid cloud. — For many years Amazon Web Services was the only public cloud in town.

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

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Michael Crider / Android Police:

Leaked Photos Of A Motorola Pre-Production Device: This May Be The Moto X+1 — We've been hearing rumors and seeing at least some evidence of a new Motorola flagship for the past few months. The Moto X was released in August of last year, which makes it just about time for a refresh in the current yearly phone cycle.

Kevin Bullis / MIT Technology Review:

Researchers demo cheaper resistive random access memory fabrication, raising prospect of terabyte chips for smartphones — Super-Dense Computer Memory — Researchers have discovered a new way to make chips that could pack terabytes into smartphones. — A novel type of computer memory could …

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Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

Marc Andreessen takes to Twitter to quote bad predictions about Facebook through the years — Marc Andreessen takes a walk down memory lane with Facebook doubters — Marc Andreessen has been a Facebook investor from very early on. Andreesson, who has been given to launching …

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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

YC-Backed Kamcord Launches An App For Watching Mobile Game Replays — As reports of Google's interest in buying Twitch continue unabated, it's clear there's an enormous market for video of gameplay. A few players stepped up a couple years ago to tackle the same concept for mobile gaming.

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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

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