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July 11, 2013, 9:45 AM
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Here's Microsoft's New Strategy Essay and Reorg Announcement (Memos)  —  Microsoft announced a major reorg today, so here's the strategy document and email to employees from CEO Steve Ballmer, in their entirety:
More: Gizmodo, ZDNet and BGR
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft 3.0: A meaner, leaner devices and services machine?  —  Summary: Microsoft officials announced its latest expected cross-company reorg designed to better deliver on its new devices and services charter.  Here's who ended up where.  —  On July 11, Microsoft officials announced details …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
This is Nokia's Lumia 1020, a 41-megapixel Windows Phone camera  —  Nokia is holding a press event in New York on Thursday to “reinvent zoom,” but here's the star of the show: the Lumia 1020.  The Verge understands that Nokia will unveil its Lumia 1020 Windows Phone complete with a 41-megapixel camera and PureView branding.
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 1020 confirmed on AT&T YouTube channel (video)  —  We imagine the poor soul that flipped the switch a bit too early on Nokia's latest flagship will be in the unemployment queue come 9AM.  AT&T just posted the Lumia 1020 on its YouTube channel, complete with a very basic walkthrough of the interface and hardware design.
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Spend Up to $500 Million Marketing ‘Moto X’ Phone  —  All Four Major US Wireless Carriers Expected to Sell Device This Fall  —  As Motorola Mobility prepares to unveil its first flagship smartphone since being acquired by Google Inc. last year, new details are emerging …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon an Advantage  —  Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets.  In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer.  The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's quarter of lowered expectations: Fiscal Q3 2013  —  Wall Street is looking for Apple to report zero revenue growth.  —  FORTUNE — On April 24, the day after Apple (AAPL) reported its earnings for fiscal Q2, Cowan and Company's Matthew Hoffman published a revised forecast for the following quarter.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
IFTTT comes to iPhone with a crisp app featuring native Photos, Reminders and Contacts channels  —  The digital glue service IFTTT is finally launching an iPhone app and it brings with it a set of new channels specific to Apple's platform and a lovely mobile platform for both building and using its automated actions.
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
PC Shipments Drop 11% in Q2, Say Gartner, IDC; Longest-Ever Period of Decline  —  Gartner this afternoon reports that worldwide personal computer shipments totaled 76 million in Q2, according to its preliminary estimate, an 11% drop from 85.32 million in the year-earlier period …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's U.S. PC shipments decline more than overall market if you don't count iPads but do count Windows tablets
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference  —  Since its founding in 1992, Defcon has been a venue where anarchists, geeks, and employees of three-letter federal agencies became unlikely comrades under a live-and-let-live credo that placed the love of computer tinkering above almost everything else.
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Is T-Mobile's new Jump plan a good deal?  —  It depends  —  T-Mobile just unveiled its latest “uncarrier” moves at a press event in New York City, and the new Jump plan was undoubtedly its biggest announcement.  For $10 a month, customers can upgrade their phone twice every calendar year …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Interview: T-Mobile's John Legere on iPhone Sales, the Carrier's Bold Upgrade Program, and Continuing to Shake Things Up
Adam Tanner / Forbes:
Data Brokers Are Now Selling Your Car's Location For $10 Online  —  The Berkeley Marina, a stretch of park and an enclosed yacht harbor, juts into the San Francisco Bay.  Visitors regularly drive there to admire the dramatic view that includes Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR suspended Uri Berliner for five days without pay, starting on April 12, after he wrote an essay accusing NPR of losing the public's trust

Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Internal email: Participant Media, which backed films like Green Book and Spotlight, is shutting down; sources: almost all of its 100 employees will be let go

Richard Stengel / The Atlantic:
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