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• Twitter mulling big changes to how you view tweets

  Desperate times call for desperate measures. For Twitter, that could mean a new approach to the way it displays tweets.

• Twitter surprises with a sales gain, but user growth lags

  Twitter reported a higher than expected increase in revenue on Tuesday, suggesting progress in the company's efforts to grow its ad sales.

• Facebook opens Internet.org to more mobile operators

  Facebook is inviting additional mobile operators to take part in Internet.org, its project to bring Internet access to poorly connected parts of the world.

• Google to decouple Google+ from some of its sites

  Google is severing the ties between its social network and other of its services, so that users will not need to log in to other sites like YouTube using a Google+ account.

• Facebook prevails in shareholder lawsuit over IPO

  An appeals court has ruled that shareholders cannot sue Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg in a case that accused the company of withholding key financial information from the public until after its IPO.

• Downloading your LinkedIn contacts can now take all weekend

  LinkedIn users now have to wait up to three days if they want a list of their contacts on the service.

• YouTube cofounder endorses paid version

  As Google prepares to launch a subscription version of YouTube, the move has been endorsed by at least one interested party: YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley.

• New York City eases limits on Uber's growth

  The mayor of New York City has reached an agreement with Uber, dropping plans for a strict cap on its growth that would have limited the number of cars available in the city.

• Twitter will reconvene Flight for mobile developers

  Last year, Twitter sought to broaden the reach of its software by giving outside developers new tools at its first Flight conference. This year the company will try again, as the pressure on it to grow its user base has only increased.

• New York judge rules against Facebook in search warrant case

  A New York judge ruled Tuesday that Facebook has no legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of search warrants served on its users, highlighting the limits to online companies' abilities to protect user privacy.

• Google grabs Pixate to improve its apps, and others

  Google has acquired Pixate, whose app-prototyping service could help Google make better apps of its own.

• Google to begin closing Google+ Photos on Aug. 1

  The end is near for Google+ Photos, the photo sharing service that's part of the company's social network.

• Massachusetts examining how Uber, Lyft cater to the disabled

  The Massachusetts attorney general's office has launched an examination into how Uber and Lyft cater to people with disabilities, potentially creating more regulatory problems for the ride-hailing companies.

• Homejoy's loss could be Google's gain

  Homejoy, the at-home cleaning service that's one of a new breed of startups serving as a broker of on-demand services, is shutting down, as companies in that category face legal challenges aimed at forcing them to classify freelancers as employees.

• Reddit to crack down on objectionable content

  Reddit, the self-appointed "front page of the Internet" and one of the Web's most popular sites, is planning to crack down on objectionable content -- at least in public areas of the site.