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July 7, 2014, 2:30 PM

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Oculus Debuts Oculus Connect Developer Conference, Acquires RakNet And Open Sources Its Tech — Oculus made a couple of announcements today, including the acquisition of middleware game-network technology provider RakNet, which powers cross-platform voice chat, SQL logging …

More: Oculus VR, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, USA Today, Fortune, CNET, Engadget, Re/code, Tech Times, TechSpot, Electronista and SlashGear

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Google sets aside as much as $500M to expand Shopping Express nationwide, fend off Amazon — Inside Google's Big Plan to Race Amazon to Your Door — Google is the undisputed king of search in all but one lucrative and vital category: Product searches. — Over the past decade …

More: Fortune, ScreenwerkScreenwerk, Marketing Land, Daring Fireball, Forbes, Beyond Search, Droid Life, USA Today, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, Android Police, NBC Bay Area and WebProNews

Tweets: @delrey, @stilenius and @stevesilberman

Thanks:@delrey

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Gartner: Device Shipments Break 2.4B Units In 2014, Tablets To Overtake PC Sales In 2015 — The gradual decline of the PC industry, spurred on by the rapid rise of mobile computing, continues apace. Today the analysts at Gartner have published their latest forecasts for global PC, tablet …

More: Gartner, PC World, eWeek, GeekWire, The Next Web, Telegraph, Gigaom, The Drum, ZDNet, Softpedia News, AndroidHeadlines.com, GSMArena Blog and dailywireless.org. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

How malicious community edits on Google Maps can destroy a business — How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will — Rene Bertagna blames Google for the death of his restaurant, Serbian Crown. Courtesy Rene Bertagna — Washington DC-area residents with a hankering …

More: Business Insider

Dennis Schaal / Skift:

Expedia Acquires Australia's Wotif Group for $703 Million — The merger and acquisition binge in online travel just kicked up a notch as Expedia Inc. agreed to acquire Australia's Wotif Group for $703 million, or $3.30 per share. — With brands in the Asia-Pacific region that include Wotif.com …

More: GeekWire, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Age, Wall Street Journal and Sydney Morning Herald. Tweets: @skift

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

How Twitch's Founders Turned an Aimless Reality Show Into a Video Juggernaut — Broadcasting yourself playing videogames online may not sound like a billion dollar business. But that's just a matter of who you ask. — Twitch, the three-year-old video site is raising eyebrows across …

More: Justin Kan

Benedict Evans:

Android L and iOS 8 mark the first true mobile platform philosophy divergence since the iPhone — The next phase of smartphones — It's now 7 years since the iPhone reset the phone business, and indeed the entire computing and internet businesses. But it was pretty clear …

More: Ars Technica and Monday Note. Tweets: @stevesi

Jerry Neumann / Reaction Wheel:

To succeed at investing when you're not a YC or Sequoia, focus on a single sector — Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing — I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke — I have decided to angel invest. Any advice? — I spent some time decades ago in the horse-racing world …

Tweets: @bgadoci, @howardlindzon, @davemcclure, @daniellemorrill, @patio11 and @mdudas

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

LG's G3 and G Watch are coming to AT&T on July 11th — Sprint and T-Mobile may have been the first big US carriers to announce launch plans for LG's G3 smartphone, but they won't be the first to actually carry it. AT&T has revealed that both the G3 and the Android Wear-based G Watch …

More: AT&T, Gigaom, Android Central, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, DailyTech, Phones Review, Pocketnow, Phandroid, Ubergizmo and Droid Life

Wall Street Journal:

Box raises $150M more from TPG and Coatue Management at $2.4B valuation, expects IPO after labor day — Web-Storage Startup Box Raises $150 Million as It Awaits IPO — Box Inc. has bought itself some breathing room as it waits for a more suitable time to hold an initial public offering.

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

ReservationHop is just the latest startup idea to exploit financial opportunity without thinking about ethics — It's getting harder to tell what's a real Silicon Valley startup and what's a parody — Maybe it's the foolish amounts of venture capital swirling around Silicon Valley …

More: InfoWorld. Tweets: @mathewi, @jayrosen_nyu, @evanselinger and @mikalfm

Hal Hodson / New Scientist:

Hong Kong subway AI manages 10K workers doing 2600 weekly engineering tasks across the system — The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engineers — An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems - and does it more efficiently than any human could

More: Gizmodo. Tweets: @barticz

Gary Wong / Skype Blogs:

Skype 5.2 for iPhone: Voice Messaging Support and Profiles Are Back! — We have been reading and listening to your feedback ever since we launched the new remastered Skype for iPhone and have been hard at work incorporating your suggestions. With Skype 5.1 for iPhone we included the ability …

More: iMore, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, GSMArena Blog, iPhone Hacks, WinBeta and App Advice

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