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Tom Bell / The Portland Press Herald:

Scrap the mystery: High-tech vision for Google barge crumbles in a heap — The barge has been sold and the four-story structure will be dismantled, along with Portland's hope for a new claim to fame. — Google's barge, with a four-story structure that raised curiosity from the time it arrived …

More: 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Engadget, ZDNet, Gizmodo and The Next Web

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Security researchers say USB security is fundamentally broken; hard-to-detect malware in the firmware can take over Macs/PCs, no easy fix — Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken — Computer users pass around USB sticks like silicon business cards.

More: Security Research Labs, ExtremeTech, Ars Technica, Gigaom, BGR, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, AppleInsider, Tech Times, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Slate, CrackBerry.com, ITworld.com, PC Magazine, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat and Help Net Security. Tweets: @pmarca. Thanks:@wiredmike

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Apple's CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place — Since last year, Apple's been hard at work building out their own CDN and now those efforts are paying off. Recently, Apple's CDN has gone live in the U.S. and Europe and the company is now delivering some of their own content, directly to consumers.

More: BGR, Gigaom, Light Reading, MacRumors, The Verge, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Engadget, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Electronista, AppleInsider, iMore and iLounge. Tweets: @chrismessina. Thanks:@danrayburn

eBay Inc.:

eBay employee demographics: globally, 42% female; in US, 61% white, 24% Asian, 7% black, 5% Hispanic — Building A Stronger, Better, More Diverse eBay — Commerce is global, and so is eBay Inc. Every day, our eBay and PayPal platforms serve tens of millions of merchants and consumers in virtually every country in the world.

More: The Verge, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET, Re/code, Bloomberg, Business Insider and USA Today. Tweets: @wadhwa

Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters:

Amazon quickens push into tough local services market — (Reuters) - Seattle audio and video technician Todd Mueller showed up last year for what might have been a routine job except for one thing: Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) was taking notes. As he mounted a flat-screen TV on the wall …

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Wunderlist becomes a platform, aiming to be “the home of all the world's lists” — Wunderlist 3 is a faster, slicker, more collaboration-friendly iteration of the popular productivity app. But it's also the first step in a strategic shift for Berlin's 6Wunderkinder. — Wunderlist 3 is out.

More: Wunderlist, Tech.eu, TechCrunch, VentureVillage, Electronista, Silicon Allee News, Engadget, App Advice, iMore, TUAW, Lifehacker and The Next Web

Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba Invests $120M in Mobile Gaming Co. Kabam at Valuation More Than $1 Billion … Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is backing another California startup, announcing a $120 million strategic investment in gaming company Kabam Inc. and a partnership to publish and distribute its free-to-play mobile games.

More: VentureBeat, Gigaom, Kabam, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, Business Insider, Reuters and Re/code. Tweets: @howardlindzon

Brett Douville / Happion Labs GameDevBlog:

Launching an indie game on Xbox One cost one developer $5K, $4K in required Microsoft insurance and rating fees — Making A Shoestring Budget Game For The Xbox One — Just last month Happion Labs launched Sixty Second Shooter Prime for the Xbox One through their ID@Xbox program.

More: Eurogamer.net, VideoGamer.com, destructoid, Kotaku, Joystiq, Tech Times and Engadget

Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:

Poorly Managed HealthCare.gov Construction Cost $840 Million, Watchdog Finds — Government Accountability Office Says Risks Remain Without Improved Oversight at Health Agency — The federal agency in charge of building the HealthCare.gov insurance website suffered from poor management …

More: U.S. Government …, NBC News, CBS News, Townhall.com, TIME, CNBC, Kaiser Health News, Washington Times, Politico, The Hill, Washington Post, USA Today, Andreessen Horowitz, The Boston Globe, FierceGovernmentIT, Federal Computer Week, Mashable, VentureBeat and Nextgov

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Google Details Problems With Handling Right to Be Forgotten Requests — LONDON - Google says complying with Europe's so-called right to be forgotten ruling is getting complicated. — In a lengthy response to questions from the region's data regulators, the search giant …

More: Agence France-Presse, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Softpedia News, PC World, VentureBeat, PC Magazine and The Verge

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Stores to finally begin iPhone 5s display replacements on August 4th — Apple will finally begin offering iPhone 5s screen replacements in its official U.S. and Canada retail stores in the coming days, according to several sources. Apple Store Genius Bars are said to have begun taking delivery …

More: Ubergizmo, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, InvestorPlace, IntoMobile and Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@apollozac

Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:

NY judge, ruling against Microsoft, says US warrant can access email stored in Ireland — NEW YORK — A judge has ruled against Microsoft Corp., saying U.S. law enforcement can force the company to turn over emails it stores in Ireland. — Loretta Preska, a federal judge in New York …

More: Reuters, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Techdirt, TechCrunch, GeekWire, CNET, ZDNet, Bloomberg, The Register, RT, New York Times, MarketWatch and Gigaom

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Timeful, The Khosla And Kleiner Backed Time Management App, Launches On iOS — For months now, there's been a stealthy buzz around a startup called Timeful. Attracting a nearly $7 million pre-launch Series A round from the likes of Khosla Ventures, Data Collective, and Kleiner Perkins certainly seemed …

More: Re/code, The Next Web, TUAW, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Fortune, Inside Mobile Apps, BGR and PC Magazine

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Microsoft releases Office for iPad update with PDF exporting, presenter view, third party fonts, more — Earlier this week Microsoft introduced an updated version of its OneNote app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and today new versions of its Office for iPad suite have been released.

More: Office Blogs, AppleTell, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Engadget, VentureBeat, PadGadget, MacNN, WinBeta, GeekWire, The Next Web, iMore and MacRumors

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Wikipedia goes fully native on iOS and now lets you edit articles too — As one of the biggest brands on the Web, Wikipedia needs little introduction. — The world's biggest online encyclopedia is available across a multitude of platforms, including desktop and mobile.

More: Wikimedia blog, CNET, iMore, Softpedia News, Fast Company, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and Engadget

Brad Molen / Engadget:

With Qi wireless charging, you'll soon be able to charge your device from a short distance — It's becoming more and more common to find mobile devices with wireless charging capability, either as a built-in feature or integrated into third-party cases. Progress has been somewhat hampered …

More: The Register, Pocketnow and Ars Technica

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Slingshot introduces ‘reactions-to-reactions’, for photo, video, or text replies to reactions — Facebook Slingshot's First Update Makes It Conversational With Reactions To Reactions — Facebook's standalone photosharing app Slingshot is sidestepping its core …

More: Slingshot Blog, Engadget, AllFacebook, Daily Dot, Betabeat, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Mashable, CNET, iClarified, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and Inside Facebook

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Beats The Street In Q2 On Sales Of $534M, EPS Of $0.51 — With social networks Facebook and Twitter handily beating analyst estimates for Q2 earnings, LinkedIn today reported its Q2 results and showed that rising tides are lifting its boat, too. Revenue for the second quarter …

More: LinkedIn, Business Insider, ReadWrite, ZDNet, VatorNews, AdExchanger, Fortune, WebProNews, CNET, Bloomberg, Tech Trader Daily and USA Today

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