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August 1, 2014, 10:00 AM

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Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:

Vivendi Sells Its 13% Beats Stake to Apple for $404 Million — Vivendi SA (VIV) sold its stake in Beats Electronics LLC to Apple Inc. (AAPL) for $404 million as part of the iPhone maker's takeover of the headphone company. — The stake was about 13 percent, Paris-based Vivendi said today …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Vivendi and MacDailyNews

Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters:

Amazon tests offering local services like assembly, installation, and repair from Seattle to New York and LA — 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 …

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

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: Engadget, BGR, Betabeat, 9to5Google, Fox News, ZDNet, CNET, Softpedia News, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Business Insider and The Next Web. Tweets: @mims

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

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: BGR, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, InvestorPlace, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacNN. Thanks:@apollozac

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: Guardian, Marketing Pilgrim, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Agence France-Presse, CNET, PC World, VentureBeat, PC Magazine and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

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

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

RT:

Legislative restrictions on popular bloggers come into force in Russia — As of August 1 all blogs having 3,000 daily readers or more will have to follow many of the rules that exist in conventional mass media, such as tougher control on published information or the ban on use of explicit language.

More: Gigaom, The Next Web, BBC, Washington Post, theWHIR.com, Poynter, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, ITAR-TASS, rapsinews.com, Guardian, VPN Creative and The Moscow Times. Tweets: @emmamayalex

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, Wall Street Journal, Kabam, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, 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

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

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, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, 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, TechCrunch, iMore, Engadget, Fast Company, CNET, Softpedia News and 9to5Mac. See also Mediagazer

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, Gizmodo, Engadget, AllFacebook, SocialTimes, Betabeat, Daily Dot, AppleInsider, CNET, The Next Web, SlashGear, iClarified, 9to5Mac and Inside Facebook

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