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” …

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 …

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.

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 …

Spyware tools allow buyers to slip malicious code into YouTube videos, Microsoft pages  —  CloudShield Technologies, a California defense contractor, dispatched a senior engineer to Munich in the early fall of 2009.  His instructions were unusually opaque.  —  As he boarded the flight …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Yahoo Acquires Ad Startup ClarityRay  —  Israel-based ad startup ClarityRay announced on its website that it has been acquired by Yahoo.  —  A Yahoo spokesperson sent me the following statement confirming the deal: … I first wrote about ClarityRay two years ago after it raised $500,000 in funding from its chairman Saar Wilf.