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August 14, 2014, 6:40 PM

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Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

Apple considering sapphire glass screens for more expensive models of new iPhones this fall, producing sapphire displays for smartwatch — Apple Considers Using Harder Material in Pricier Models — Apple Inc. created the blueprint for a smartphone when it covered the touch screen of its first iPhone in glass, instead of plastic.

More: Digital Trends, iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacRumors and The Verge

Elise Hu / NPR:

Comments sent to FCC were overwhelmingly pro net neutrality, most opposing came from templates — A Fascinating Look Inside Those 1.1 Million Open-Internet Comments — When the Federal Communications Commission asked for public comments about the issue of keeping the Internet free and open, the response was huge.

More: New York Times, SiliconBeat, Boing Boing, TechPresident and The Hill

Tweets: @digiphile, @rmack and @dangillmor

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:

PGP, which hasn't fundamentally evolved since the 1990s, needs to die — What's the matter with PGP? — Last Thursday, Yahoo announced their plans to support end-to-end encryption using a fork of Google's end-to-end email extension. This is a Big Deal.

More: The Register. Tweets: @anonyops, @glynmoody, @jrmchale, @evacide and @alex

Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:

Square Just Released A Blog Post Listing The Top 10 Negative Myths About It — Square just published a defensive blog post about the Top 10 negative myths about its service. — The post comes only a few days after Amazon launched a new product that puts it in direct competition with Square …

More: Square, TechCrunch and Valleywag

Tweets: @evelynrusli, @johnpaczkowski, @tim, @danprimack, @mikeisaac and @caseynewton

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Ask.com Buys Ask.fm, an Anonymous Q.&A. Start-Up — Ask, and ye shall receive. — Ask.com, the Oakland, Calif.-based company owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, announced on Thursday it had acquired Ask.fm, a highly popular question-and-answer website. — The move signals Ask.com's first significant push into social networking.

More: PandoDaily, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Electronista and ABC News. Tweets: @blathnaidhealy

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

IAC Agrees To Work With Regulators On Cyberbullying Protections Following Ask.fm Deal

More: New York State Attorney …, PC Magazine, Engadget, BBC and Eric T. Schneiderman

Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Twitter vows to “improve our policies” after Robin Williams' daughter is bullied off the network — Twitter has promised to improve and expand its policies after Robin Williams' daughter is bullied off of the social network. Internet trolls bullied Robin Williams' daughter off of Twitter …

More: Engadget, USA Today, Gigaom, PC Magazine, StrictlyVC, The Wrap, SiliconBeat, CNN, stratechery, WebProNews, CNET, Yahoo Tech, The Verge, Daily Mail, Tech Times, and FierceEnterpriseCommunications …

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Spring, David Tisch's Latest Venture, Is Instagram For Shopping — For the past year, investor and serial entrepreneur David Tisch has been working with his brother Alan to build an enjoyable way to shop on mobile. Today, that fruits of that labor springs onto the scene.

More: The Verge, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Re/code, CNET, New York Times, Business Insider, davidtisch.com, Fortune, VentureBeat, David Tisch, New York Magazine and Laughing Squid

Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal:

Tech executives Zuckerberg, Nadella, Costolo, Schiller, and others take “ice bucket challenge” to raise ALS awareness — Ice Bucket Challenge: Zuckerberg, Nadella and More — The “ice bucket challenge,” a campaign to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

More: Facebook, ALS Association, The Verge, Valleywag, BGR, TechCrunch, USA TODAY, CNET, GeekWire, Softpedia News, TmoNews, Entrepreneur, TUAW, AppleInsider, PadGadget, Mashable, TIME, CNN, iMore, memeburn, AllFacebook and Tech Times

Tweets: @pschiller, @dickc and @satyanadella

BBC:

Berlin bans Uber app citing passenger safety — The mobile taxi app Uber has been banned in Berlin by the city's State Department of Civil and Regulatory Affairs. — In a statement, the authority said it had banned the app on passenger safety grounds and threatened the firm with a 25,000 euro …

More: VentureBeat, New York Times, Guardian, Engadget, TechCrunch, Fortune, The Register, The Verge, Tech Times, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, Silicon Allee News, The Next Web, Gigaom, Mashable and SiliconBeat

Zach Honig / Engadget:

YouTube refreshes television app for set-top boxes, game consoles and smart TVs — If you use YouTube's app on your TV, get ready for a new UI (finally!). The app has a much cleaner look now, in line with Google's Material Design, and includes features that you're used to seeing on your computer …

More: YouTube Blog, TechHive, The Next Web, Electronista, The Verge, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Windows Phone Central and SlashGear

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Motorola plans Sept 4 event to debut Moto 360, Moto X, G sequels — The company is hosting an event in Chicago for the eagerly anticipated smartwatch, with an array of other products in tow. — Motorola Mobility's Moto 360 smartwatch will finally get its official launch.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Re/code, Wearable World News, Liliputing, TechCrunch, Ausdroid, Electronista, BGR and Gigaom

Florin T. / PhoneArena:

Meet the 6-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 — Samsung is getting ready to launch a successor to the Galaxy Mega 5.8 and Galaxy Mega 6.3 from last year: a new device that should be called Galaxy Mega 2. While we heard about it several times before, it's only now that we get to see what the handset looks like …

More: Tech Times, DailyTech and BGR

Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Q&A: Lenovo CEO on How It Plans to Grow With Smartphones — Last year, Lenovo Group became the world's largest personal-computer maker, overtaking Hewlett-Packard. Now, the Chinese company is trying to repeat the success with smartphones, competing head-on with Samsung Electronics in emerging markets.

More: Lenovo Newsroom, The Next Web, GadgeTell, FierceWireless and Business Insider

Tweets: @jyarow and @wsjd

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

After China smartphone success, Lenovo plans leap forward overseas

More: Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, TechSpot, Engadget, 9to5Google, BBC, RTTNews, Bloomberg, CNET and ZDNet

Missy Cummings / Wired:

FAA needs to speed up U.S. drone policy development and R&D strategy to compete globally — We Need to Reform Our Drone Policies (But This Isn't About Privacy) — Last week the United States launched airstrikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria using F-18 fighter jets and predator drones.

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Internet of Bling: Samsung Buys SmartThings for $200 Million — Samsung has bought SmartThings, the startup that makes smart-home controllers. While the companies did not disclose the price, sources said the Korean electronics giant paid about $200 million.

More: SmartThings, Gigaom and TechCrunch

Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:

Best Buy's smart home hub “Peq”: $9.99 a month for service, hardware bundles start at $120 — Meet Peq, The Next Smart Home Hub — As if we didn't have enough smart home hub entrants, Peq appears poised to launched. Pronounced “peek”, we believe this newcomer is Best Buy's answer …

More: Gigaom, Connectedly, SlashGear and TechHive

Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:

Humin, The App That Organizes Phone Contacts By How You Know Them, Is Now In The App Store — Humin, the app that aims to replace your iPhone contacts app is now in the App Store. Will.i.am, Richard Branson and Angry Birds creator Peter Vesterbacka were all part of the private beta launch a few months back.

More: New York Times, The Verge, VentureBeat, Business Insider, BetaBoston, Engadget and The Next Web

Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:

Retailer leaks Galaxy Note 4 specs: 4GB of RAM, Snapdragon 805, 4K video and more — While it won't be terribly long before Samsung lets us in on their little Samsung Galaxy Note 4 secret, we're eager to find out what's in store for their second half flagship ahead of its September 3rd revelation.

More: PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, Android Beat, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo UK, SlashGear and 9to5Google. Tweets: @dcseifert

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Yahoo relaunches its ecommerce platform as Yahoo Stores: SEO, themes, real-time analytics for Web and mobile — Yahoo today announced it has relaunched its ecommerce platform as Yahoo Stores, a “completely reimagined, next-generation version” with the same goal of helping anyone start, build and grow a successful business online.

More: Yahoo Small Business, Marketing Land, VatorNews, CNET, Marketing Pilgrim and internetretailer.com

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