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July 8, 2012, 10:05 PM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Will Ship in Q3 With Improved Display — With sales of the first-generation Kindle Fire petering out, Amazon is gearing up to launch its successor, a tablet that seeks to improve on the original while retaining a similar form factor.

More: Engadget, msnbc.com, VentureBeat, The Verge, Mashable!, Gizmodo, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo and iDownloadBlog.com

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.

More: CNET, The Verge, Neowin, Shiny Objects and Los Angeles Times

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

Wireless Firms Are Flooded by Requests to Aid Surveillance — WASHINGTON — In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a daunting 1.3 million demands for subscriber data last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages …

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Apple Cracking Down On Sites Selling Access To iOS Betas — Last month, Andy Baio wrote a story for Wired detailing the world of selling access to Apple beta software to non-developers. Specifically, Baio's piece focused on sites that, for a price, allowed regular people to have their UDID …

More: MacRumors, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to launch Bing Fund angel investment incubator — For the past few weeks, there've been some tweets showing up in my timeline from something called the Bing Fund. ZDNet (and Techie-Buzz) blogger Manan Kakkar has noticed these, too. The tweets lead to a BingFund.com Web page that tease …

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat and Neowin

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Philip Rosedale: The Media Is Wrong, SecondLife Didn't Fail — Last night I spoke at an event put on by a site called IdeaMensch. They're doing a road trip, where the team is traveling city by city, holding events by and for entrepreneurs. I talked about why I started PandoDaily and some of my struggles along the way so far.

Tweets: @mathewi

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

RIM's BlackBerry App World Tops Three Billion Downloads — Some good news for Research In Motion amid the unceasing torrent of bad. BlackBerry App World, the company's answer to Apple's iTunes App Store and Google Play, has reached a milestone worth celebrating: It has served …

More: BlackBerry Developer Blog, CNET, The Verge, The Globe and Mail, PalmAddict, Neowin, Engadget, PhoneArena, digitaltrends.com, BerryReview.com and MobileSyrup.com

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

Dave McClure:

late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) — most of the time I think of myself as a failure. — when I'm optimistic, I think maybe I'm just a late bloomer. — I know a lot of folks won't understand this perspective, but when I was growing up I was always the smartest kid around. it was expected …

More: A VC. Tweets: @shak, @davidlee, @joshelman, @anildash, @hunterwalk and @infoarbitrage

Tris Reid-Smith / Gay Star News:

Google to launch global bid to ‘Legalize Love’ for gays — Global giant Google searches for a way to make the world a better place for lesbians, gays and bisexuals with new campaign — Google is launching a new campaign calling on countries to ‘Legalize Love’ - making it legal to be lesbian, gay or bisexual around the world.

More: dot429, Examiner, PC Magazine, LGBTQ Nation, instinctmagazine.com, The Huffington Post, CNNMoney.com, ThinkProgress, Business Insider and CNET. Thanks:@chrispirillo

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.

More: The Netflix Tech Blog, VentureBeat, Neowin, DevOpsANGLE and GigaOM. Thanks:@thatdrew

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.

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