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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.
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 …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Isis mobile wallet will rebrand to avoid sharing name with violent militant group  —  Isis is facing an identity crisis.  The company behind the mobile wallet app has announced it will rebrand to avoid sharing its name with the extremist militant group ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, A Next-Generation Email Platform  —  Founded by Dropbox and MIT alums, a new startup called Inbox is launching out of stealth today, hoping to power the next generation of email applications.  Similar to the newly launched Gmail API, Inbox offers a more modern …
More: The Next Web and VentureBeat.  Tweets: @justin and @ccgus
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 …
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
Waze trades aggregate anonymous user data to local governments for sensor and camera data; Moovit and Strava make similar deals  —  Why Google's Waze Is Helping Local Governments Track Users  —  In Rio de Janeiro most eyes are on the final, nail-biting matches of the World Cup.
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 …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Twitter Replaces Media Chief Chloe Sladden with Katie Stanton (Exclusive)  —  Less than a month after the departure of Twitter Media chief Chloe Sladden, the social media giant has found her replacement.  —  Katie Stanton, previously vice president of international market development …
Joe Rossignol / 9to5Google:
YouTube approaches 300M viewing hrs per day, fell short of estimates w/ $3.5B revenue in 2013  —  YouTube has established itself as a mainstream platform for streaming video content online, but its ambitious goal of reaching 1 billion “watch time” hours per day through 2016 is reportedly lagging behind expectations.
Cody Toombs / Android Police:
Paid Apps Cannot Be Installed On Android Wear, Play Store Encryption Likely At Fault  —  Google's hot new item, Android Wear, is barely out of the box, but there's already a pretty big issue deserving of a place in our Bug Watch series.  The initial rush of native Android Wear apps is starting …
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 …

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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Tammy Parker / FierceWirelessTech:
Free Wi-Fi provider Gowex confirms faked results for four years, files for bankruptcy protection
Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
South Korea forces Apple and Google to revise app store terms for easier paid app refunds
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
You can pre-order Microsoft's Kinect for Windows now for $199 ahead of its July 15 launch

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Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Google sets aside as much as $500M to expand Shopping Express nationwide, fend off Amazon
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