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August 8, 2014, 7:45 PM

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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Google is testing “Listen Now” ads with Spotify, Rhapsody, and Apple's Beats Music — Google Tests New Music Ads — Google is testing “Listen Now” ads with Spotify, Rhapsody and Apple 's Beats Music, the latest in a string of new ad formats that can simplify purchases for consumers.

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac and WebProNews. Tweets: @rolfewinkler

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Apple will announce a wrist wearable in September — The Verge: 'This Is How You'll Charge a Moto 360 Smartwatch' — It looks like Motorola's designers tried to draw as much attention as they could to the 360's stupid flat-tire display shape. — The only way this could get funnier …

More: MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and Business Insider

Tweets: @parrots, @markgurman and @mikeisaac

Mark Ames / PandoDaily:

Judge rejects $324M settlement in anti-poaching class action suit against Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe; says it should have been at least $380M — BREAKING: Judge strikes down Techtopus wage theft settlement — The judge overseeing the landmark Silicon Valley wage theft antitrust lawsuit …

More: MacRumors, Reuters, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, Gigaom, ZDNet, The Register, Fortune, Computerworld, Re/code, Mercury News, AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, TUAW and Electronista. Tweets: @markamesexiled

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook unveils Autoscale, its load-balancing system that achieves an average power saving of 10-15% — Facebook today revealed details about Autoscale, a system for power-efficient load balancing that has been rolled out to production clusters in its data centers.

More: Facebook Code, Gigaom, ZDNet and Data Center Knowledge

Re/code:

China's Alibaba Is Not Investing in Snapchat — Alibaba's interest in Snapchat has disappeared. — While there have been persistent reports, including one in Forbes today, that the Chinese e-commerce giant was going to make a big investment in the popular Los Angeles-area ephemeral messaging company …

More: VentureBeat and Forbes

Reuters:

Exclusive: Tango secondary financing values company at around $1.5 billion — (Reuters) - Tango, the mobile messaging company, is arranging a financing transaction that would value its business at around $1.5 billion, roughly one-third more than the valuation it received just five months ago …

More: VentureBeat, bizjournals, iPhone in Canada Blog and VatorNews. Tweets: @lexnfx

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Meta Watch's Meta M1 premium smartwatch is now available for preorder starting at $249 — Meta Watch's ‘premium’ smartwatch is now available for pre-order — The Meta M1 can be had in a variety of colors and band options — Smartwatches are everywhere this year, but with few exceptions …

More: Engadget, BGR, meta.watch, Fast Company, PhoneDog.com, App Advice, Connectedly, SlashGear and GSMArena Blog

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Google Tests Way to Track Consumers From Mobile Browsers to the Apps They Use — For Advertisers, One Mobile User Has Previously Often Looked Like Two — Ebook — Advertising Age Essentials — Google has come up with a way to overcome the ad-targeting gap between mobile web visitors …

More: Marketing Land, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google and Business Insider. Tweets: @percolate

Reuters:

China refutes claim of government ban on Apple purchases — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) products such as laptops and tablets are not banned from Chinese government procurement lists, according to the country's chief procurement center, refuting a report claiming Apple was blacklisted on national security concerns.

More: The Register, Cult of Mac, Neowin, PadGadget, MacRumors, ITProPortal, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, iMore and 9to5Mac

Vanessa Mock / Wall Street Journal:

EU is asking companies to provide evidence by Sept. 12 that Google imposed app bundling, exclusivity requirements on Android device makers, carriers — Google's Tough European Summer: Android and Online Search Probes — Google Inc. isn't having a good summer.

More: Gigaom, CNET and Quartz. Tweets: @wsjd

Medium:

Anonymous email service Leak banned from using MailChimp and SendGrid APIs for not complying with “opt-in” policies, suspends service — Why we are forced to suspend Leak... for a while. — As you may know if you have read this post, Laurent and I launched Leak 11 days ago …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Business Insider, The Next Web and SlashGear

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Windows Phone Store hits more than 300,000 apps — And Microsoft expects the number to get much larger with the arrival of “universal” Windows apps. — Microsoft's Windows Phone Store has reached a new milestone with more than 300,000 apps on its virtual shelves.

More: Windows Phone Central, The Next Web, PC Magazine, PC World, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Neowin, PC World, Geeky Gadgets, DailyTech, ITProPortal, NDTV Gadgets, BetaNews, GeekWire, Digital Trends and WinBeta

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