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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.

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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

More: Andreessen Horowitz and AVC. Tweets: @quinngarner, @fortunemagazine, @infoarbitrage, @mattermark, @hunterwalk and @shaig

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, Digital Trends, Re/code, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, The Digital Reader, GeekWire, Softpedia News, VatorNews, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, CNET, Gigaom, GSMArena Blog, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, The Next Web, iMore, App Advice, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Gizmodo UK

Tweets: @joshconstine, @jyarow and @joshconstine

Brendan Sasso / National Journal:

Cable Companies: Google Threatens Net Neutrality, Not Us — Internet service providers are urging the FCC to regulate popular websites. — The real threat to online freedom is from Internet giants like Google and Netflix, according to major cable companies.

More: Ars Technica, DSLreports, DSLreports, The PhoneBoy Blog, Gigaom and GamePolitics blogs

Tweets: @jeffjarvis and @happyinwater

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 …

Tweets: @pmarca, @spencerante and @davemcclure

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.

More: ReadWrite, The Register and DIGITS to DOLLARS

Tweets: @levie and @tomkrazit

Thanks:@reckel

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 …

More: Turnstyle and Gearburn

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

With photo-based key-copying services like KeyMe, simply allowing others to view your keys poses a security problem — The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor's Home — When I broke into my neighbor's home earlier this week, I didn't use any cat burglar skills. I don't know how to pick locks.

Tweets: @newsmary, @chartier, @lainnafader, @joemfbrown and @kashhill

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Premium not freemium: Fleksy follows in SwiftKey's footsteps with a new store for themes — Fleksy's regular Android updates continues today with the news that the smart keyboard app is getting a general design refresh alongside a brand new Fleksy Store for premium content.

More: 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Android Police, BGR, Digital Trends, Droid Life, Phandroid, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo and CNET

Anil Dash / Medium:

As messages intended for friends increasingly become media fodder, what does “public” mean? — What Is Public? — It's so simple, right? — Someone could make off with all your garbage that's put out on the street, and carefully record how many used condoms or pregnancy tests …

Tweets: @icann_atlarge, @beep, @cutting, @craigmod, @sarahkendzior and @anildash

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.

More: TechCrunch, Jezebel, Slate, E! Online, TIME, Bloomberg, Daily Dot, Washington Post, Forbes, PC Magazine, MarketWatch, Quora and Polygon

Megha Bahree / New York Times:

Indian startups like Autowale connect auto-rickshaw drivers with riders via SMS — Text and Ride in India — PUNE, India — When Praveen Narayan Dusane first started driving an auto-rickshaw in this crowded college town, he had to hustle for every rupee. He could wait hours at a rickshaw stand for passengers.

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