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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
BuzzFeed raises $50M from Andreessen Horowitz, valuing company at $850M; Chris Dixon to join board; most revenues come from creating ads for other brands  —  A Move to Go Beyond Lists for Content at BuzzFeed  —  Here are three completely crazy insights about BuzzFeed, the viral content start-up:
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Inside Apple University, the company's highly secretive internal training program  —  Inside Apple's Internal Training Program  —  Inside Apple's Internal Training Program  —  CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.
Susanne Ault / Variety:
Survey: YouTube Stars More Popular Than Mainstream Celebs Among U.S. Teens  —  U.S. teenagers are more enamored with YouTube stars than they are the biggest celebrities in film, TV and music.  —  That's the surprising result of a survey Variety commissioned in July that found the five …
Benedict Evans:
A mid-range iPhone wouldn't notably grow Apple's profits, but it could hurt US Android sales  —  Note on cheap iPhones  —  Ever since the iPhone launched, people have been pointing out that it is very expensive, relative to the rest of the market, and wondering when, and how, and if Apple might go cheaper.
Brad Molen / Engadget:
Inside gadget leak culture: noted leakers explain how rumors impact companies and consumers  —  Leaks, lies and the bottom line  —  “The iPhone 6 will be released globally on September 19th,” an email in my inbox reads.  I don't know who the tipster is, nor how they came across this nugget of information.
Tweets: @jonphillipssf
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Microsoft isn't out of the entry-level market yet, after announcing a $25 Nokia feature phone  —  Fresh from a change of direction which will mean an end to Nokia X, Asha and S60 devices, Microsoft has pulled a bit of a surprise with the announcement of a €19 ($25) device aimed squarely at first-time phone buyers across the world.
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic Online:
Chinese manufacturers use eBay search data to quickly export products that match US desires  —  Why Ebay Tells Manufacturers in China What You're Searching For  —  A look into the nostalgia machine powered by big data  —  In a recent conversation with some colleagues about cool—okay …
Tweets: @vikramkansara
Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed:
How Twitch co-founder and CEO Emmett Shear built a video game streaming site worth $1B  —  How A Site That Streams People Playing Video Games Became A Billion Dollar Business  —  Twitch CEO Emmett Shear wasn't born a leader, he became one almost by accident.  And he now runs one of the most valuable video properties on the web.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century  —For the longest time, Microsoft had something of a poor reputation as a software developer.  The issue wasn't so much the quality of the company's software but the way it was developed and delivered.
Tweets: @jwajsberg
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
PGP creator: telcos must stop cooperating with governments; special forces use Silent Circle  —  Father of PGP encryption: Telcos need to get out of bed with governments  —  Zimmermann's Silent Circle working with Dutch telco to deliver encrypted calls.  —  LAS VEGAS—Phil Zimmermann …
More: The Register and VentureBeat.  Tweets: @csoghoian and @virusbtn
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Online meal delivery firm foodpanda gets $60 million in financing  —  (Reuters) - Foodpanda, an online take-away food delivery company active in dozens of emerging markets, said it had raised $60 million in new financing from a group of investors including existing backer Rocket Internet AG.
Barb Darrow / Gigaom:
GE starts rolling out Pivotal's big data technology to its own customers  —  Last year, General Electric invested $105 million in Pivotal; Now it's starting to deploy Pivotal's big data analytics capabilities both in house and to buyers of its jet engines.  —  General Electric …

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