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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, ZDNet, Gigaom and Data Center Knowledge

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: MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, VentureBeat, PadGadget, 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, Quartz and SiliconBeat

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: VatorNews. Tweets: @lexnfx

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

Exclusive: Twitter-Mining News App SmartNews Raises $36 Million from Atomico and Gree — Japanese newsreading app SmartNews has raised $36 million in new funding, in a round led by growth-stage investment firm Atomico and mobile-social gaming company Gree. — The app is available on both iOS …

More: Gigaom, VentureBeat and Tech in Asia

Mat Honan / Wired:

Stewart Butterfield set out to build a game and failed; instead, he created Flickr and Slack — The Most Fascinating Profile You'll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup — Stewart is hungry. He's munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table …

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Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Twitter has quietly removed Bing translation from its mobile apps and web platform — A useful translation feature (albeit poorly executed at times) appears to have disappeared from Twitter's platform, less than two months after the company quietly rolled it out.

More: CNET, The Digital Reader, Softpedia News, WebProNews, Neowin and ReadWrite

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Public Wi-Fi users in Russia will have to log on with ID, reports say — Russia's clampdown on internet freedom continues, this time with a measure designed to counter “those interested in destabilization.” However, there is some confusion over the details.

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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, GeekWire, PC World, Ubergizmo, DailyTech, NDTV Gadgets, Geeky Gadgets, Neowin, BetaNews, Digital Trends, ITProPortal, WinBeta and WMPoweruser

The Coinbase Blog:

Wikimedia Foundation Receives More Than $140,000 in Bitcoin Donations in First Week — Since it was founded in 2001, Wikipedia has provided tremendous value to the world by making it easy and free for anyone with an Internet connection to consume information.

More: SlashGear, CoinDesk, WebProNews and TechCrunch

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

David Pierce / The Verge:

The NFL Now app is a treasure trove of video for football fans — A few weeks before the 2014 season starts, the NFL has launched a new video network called NFL Now. First announced in January, it's made to bring the huge troves of football video into one place: highlights, interviews …

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, CNET, Android Police, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and Consumerist. Thanks:@d_ghiglieri

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook bans incentivizing users to Like Pages, gives developers until November 5 to update apps — In addition to releasing Graph API version 2.1 today, Facebook also announced two important changes to its Platform Policies under games and proper use. Developers have 90 days (until November 5, 2014) to comply with the new rules.

More: Inquirer, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Electronista, Facebook Developers and WebProNews. Tweets: @247ls. Thanks:@epro

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