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July 27, 2014, 4:15 PM

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Alex Wawro / Gamasutra:
How Glu Mobile refit an earlier game to make chart-topping “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood”  —  Q&A: Keeping up with hit mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood  —  Reality TV star and actress Kim Kardashian has conquered everything from cable TV to bottled water with some stupendous branding tactics.
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
How later IPOs and other big trends are changing the structure of the VC industry  —  The Changing Structure of the VC Industry  —  There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry.  —  On the surface the narratives have been
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Behind “GoodGoogle”, a service for depleting your competitor's AdWord budget via click fraud  —  Service Drains Competitors' Online Ad Budget  —  The longer one lurks in the Internet underground, the more difficult it becomes to ignore the harsh reality that for nearly every …
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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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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Y Combinator lobbies for expanding O1A visas to founders accepted into incubators  —  With immigration reform off the agenda, some in tech turn to plan B  —  Maybe we can't reform the whole immigration system, but the startup world just wants this one thing.  REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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