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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: The Verge, MacRumors, 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: New York Times, Reuters, MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Mercury News, Fortune, The Register, Computerworld, The Verge, Network World, AppleInsider, Re/code, 9to5Mac, MacNN, iLounge, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac and App Advice

Tweets: @glennf and @markamesexiled

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

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: Bloomberg, VentureBeat and Forbes

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

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

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

Reuters:

FCC rejects Verizon's “all the kids do it” argument, asks all carriers to explain their data throttling policies — After Verizon, U.S. FCC quizzing other carriers on data management — (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. communications regulator on Friday said he is asking …

More: The Hill, Digital Trends, MacRumors, CNET, Washington Post, The Verge, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, PhoneNews.com, Droid Life, Broadcasting & Cable, Consumerist, MintPress News and cir.ca

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

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, Business Insider, The Next Web, 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, Computerworld, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, Neowin, ZDNet, PC World, Geeky Gadgets, DailyTech, NDTV Gadgets, GeekWire, ITProPortal, BetaNews, Digital Trends and WinBeta

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