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July 8, 2012, 4:30 PM

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Bloomberg:
Samsung Said To Plan Windows RT Tablet For October Introduction  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the largest phone maker, will release a tablet that features Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows RT software when the operating system debuts, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft to launch Bing Fund angel investment incubator  —  Summary: Microsoft is poised to launch a new startup/accelerator incubation effort designed to bring innovation to the company's Online Services Division.  —  Follow @maryjofoley  —  For the past few weeks …
More: Neowin
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Netflix on last week's AWS outage: “We're still bullish on the cloud”  —  As you probably already know, some of your favorite Internet services were unavailable for the better part of a day due to a massive Amazon cloud outage caused by a single point of failure due to a storm in Virginia.
Joel Schectman / The CIO Report:
NBC, Google, Stage ‘War Games’ To Prepare for Olympic Disruptions  —  NBC and Google are conducting “war games” in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online streaming of the Summer Olympics Games in London, which start this month.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Groupon Crashes To A New Low...  Remember when Groupon went public at $20 a share?  —  That was a long, long time ago.  —  (Well, actually, it was about 8 months ago).  —  In any event, now you can pick some up for less than $8.50 a share.  —  The company is valued at about $5 billion now, which seems pretty fair.
Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
It Never Gets Better  —  Why you should never buy a mediocre piece of technology expecting that it'll be more amazing tomorrow than it is today.  —  Source: dahlstroms  —  There's an update waiting for you.  For your apps, for your computer and phone and tablet and the box attached to your TV.
More: Webomatica

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