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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to deliver Windows ‘Threshold’ tech preview around late September — Summary: Microsoft is aiming to make available a technology preview of Windows Threshold around late September or early October. — Microsoft is aiming to deliver a “technology preview” of its Windows “Threshold” …

More: Computerworld, Engadget, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, The Verge, Digital Trends, CIO.com, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta, Mashable, Gizmodo, LiveSide.net, Neowin, BGR, Business Insider, LAPTOP Mag, The Tech Report, Electronista and Ars Technica. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Kevin Rose Steps Into Part-Time Role At Google Ventures To Build A New Startup Called North — Serial entrepreneur, investor, and overall Internet good guy Kevin Rose is stepping down from his role of general partner at Google Ventures. The Digg and Revision3 founder will be moving into a part …

More: Re/code, VentureBeat, The Next Web, bizjournals, Valleywag and Business Insider

Tweets: @qthrul, @dondodge, @alexalbrecht, @evelynrusli, @jason, @kevinrose, @davemcclure, @summertomato and @pinboard

Thanks:@kylebrussell

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Wayfair, the Online Furniture Seller, Files for IPO — Wayfair, the online home goods company that built its business for nearly a decade with no outside funding, is planning to go public, according to paperwork filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

More: PandoDaily, internetretailer.com, Fortune and VentureBeat. Tweets: @delrey

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Google buys city guides app Jetpac, support to end on September 15 — Google has acquired the team behind Jetpac, an iPhone app for crowdsourcing city guides from public Instagram photos. — The app will be pulled from the App Store in coming days, and support for the service will be discontinued on September 15.

More: Jetpac, Gigaom, 9to5Google and Tnooz

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Profile of Gavin Andresen, who succeeded Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin Core's chief developer — Meet Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin — In March, a bewildered retired man faced journalists yelling questions about virtual currency outside his suburban home in Temple City, California.

More: Gigaom. Thanks:@srikardr

Laura Stampler / TIME:

Facebook: 1.2M unique ALS Ice Bucket Challenge videos posted, and 15M people discussed it — This Is How Many Ice Bucket Challenge Videos People Have Posted on Facebook — Hint: It's more than a million. — If you thought that the only thing on your Facebook Newsfeed right now was videos …

More: Business Insider, Inside Facebook, Mashable, Cult of Mac, Phandroid, WebProNews, ALS Association and The Verge

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple adds key Vice Presidents, more diversity to executive leadership page — Apple today has expanded its Executive Leadership Team to include notable Apple Vice Presidents. The team shown on Apple's official PR Bios website now includes Vice President of Special Projects Paul Deneve …

More: Mercury News, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Daring Fireball, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, iMore, App Advice, MacNN and iLounge. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@allegrotechie

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

FAA rules pilots without commercial licenses can't use startups like AirPooler to share rides — FAA Bans Planesharing Startups — There will be no “ZimRide for airplanes”, according to an FAA ruling released today that prohibits private pilots from publicly offering seats on their planes …

More: PC Magazine, TechHive, Electronista, VentureBeat, Engadget and BetaBoston

Tweets: @qthrul, @fredericl and @_alexlawrence

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Biggest cable TV providers sold more broadband than video subscriptions last quarter — The Cable Guys Have Become the Internet Guys — The cable TV business hit an important milestone last month: It turned into the Internet business. — Last quarter, for the first time ever …

More: Los Angeles Times, DSLreports, ReadWrite, Quartz, Consumerist, Wired, Gigaom, The Verge and VentureBeat. Tweets: @b_fung

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

IBM, Lenovo server deal gets final clearance from US regulators — Summary: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the $2.3 billion sale of IBM's x86 server business to Chinese PC maker Lenovo. — IBM received good news from the Committee on Foreign Investment …

More: Re/code, Computerworld, Reuters, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

DataRobot, Run by World's Top Data Scientists, Raises $21M Series A … Even before launching its full-scale service that cranks out algorithms for use by data scientists, DataRobot Inc. has nabbed a $21 million Series A round at a $60 million pre-money valuation, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.

More: VentureBeat, Luminal, BetaBoston, Talkin' Cloud and TechCrunch

Casey Newton / The Verge:

SmartThings' acquisition by Samsung: “all about scale”, but will remain independent — Why did SmartThings sell to Samsung? — Making every home a smart home — It was just two years ago that home-automation company SmartThings began life as a Kickstarter project.

More: TechCrunch, IEEE Spectrum Recent …, Pocket-lint, Droid Life and Re/code

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