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June 2, 2014, 12:15 PM

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Samsung Tomorrow:

Samsung Launches Industry's First Tizen Smartphone - the Samsung Z — Samsung Z offers a unique user experience with advanced web performance and usability — Samsung Electronics today introduced the Samsung Z, the first commercially available smartphone powered by the Tizen platform.

Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung tries to lessen Android reliance with first Tizen phone, coming first to Russia in Q3 — Samsung will start selling a smartphone running on Tizen in the third quarter — Samsung Electronics said Monday that it would start selling a smartphone running on a homegrown operating system called Tizen …

More: CNET News, Bloomberg, Samsung Tomorrow, Engadget and The Next Web. Tweets: @wsjd

Wall Street Journal:

Google plans to spend over $1B to deploy low altitude satellites for internet access in remote areas — Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access — Company Projects Spending More Than $1 Billion to Connect Unwired Reaches of the Globe — Google Inc. plans to spend …

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

No Microsoft Start Menu for Windows 8 until 2015: Sources — Summary: It's looking like Microsoft's new ‘mini’ Start Menu for Windows 8.x won't be part of Windows 8.1 Update 2 as rumored. Instead, it's sounding like a 2015 deliverable now. — Microsoft won't be delivering a new Start Menu …

More: BGR, CNET News, The Register, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, WinBeta, Gizmodo, Windows Phone Central and Neowin

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

John Legere: How The T-Mobile CEO Is Poised To Make Millions After Bringing The Company Back From The Dead — A few weeks ago, there was a boozy party on the rooftop of the Empire Hotel, which overlooks Lincoln Center on the west side of Manhattan. — Waitresses in heels, tights, and short dresses served plates of sliders to guests.

Tweets: @stevekovach and @stevekovach

Tomio Geron / Exitround:

Report on tech M&A: raising more capital does not necessarily result in a larger exit price — The Exit Curve: Exitround's Report On Tech M&A — Raising as much capital as possible is often seen as a badge of honor in Silicon Valley. And there are many great reasons for startups to raise as much capital as possible.

Thanks:@jacob

Richard Lai / Engadget:

ASUS Transformer Book V is a Windows hybrid laptop with a detachable Android phone — Wow, just wow. ASUS has just announced the Transformer Book V, a Windows 2-in-1 laptop with a detachable Android phone. No, this isn't the Windows Phone-powered PadFone that we've been waiting for, but the package is still pretty mind-blowing.

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Rumor: Google Exploring ‘KITT’ For Eyes-Free Functionality In The Car, Always-On Listening — A while ago, we posted about information we'd received indicating that sometime soon, Google's search functionality (and other actions) would be expanding beyond the Search app …

More: Search Engine Land, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Greenbot and Engadget

Carmel DeAmicis / PandoDaily:

SV Angel invested in TapTalk after finding it on Product Hunt, a daily product leaderboard — Well, that's a first. SV Angel closes seed deal sourced through Product Hunt — Product Hunt is fast-becoming a HackerNews for product geeks. And now, in what we're pretty sure is a first …

Dave Lee / BBC:

International authorities seize control of Gameover Zeus botnet command servers, urge affected users to take action before botnet is reestablished — ‘Two weeks’ to block cyber-attack as criminal network seized — Servers around the world were seized - but criminals will soon adapt, the NCA warns

More: The Next Web, US-CERT, Inquirer, Guardian, Help Net Security, Krebs on Security, New York Times, Techworld.com, Channel 4 and V3.co.uk

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

RSS client Reeder 2 for Mac now available on the Mac App Store — After a brief public beta period, the popular RSS client Reeder is out with the first update to its Mac software since Google Reader broke support Reeder last year. — The new version supports a number of RSS services …

More: iMore, Cult of Mac, MacNN, MacRumors, App Advice, iClarified, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, iDownloadBlog.com and MacStories

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