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Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:
Senior Apple Maps app and Mapkit engineer Chris Blumenberg leaves for Uber  —  Apple Maps Engineer Moving to Uber  —  Uber has poached Chris Blumenberg, a senior engineering manager who worked on Apple Maps, according to three people familiar with the move.
Se Young Lee / Reuters:
Samsung estimates a ~24% YOY decline in profits, missing market expectations; reports slowing smartphone, tablet sales  —  Smartphones weigh on Samsung Electronics as guidance disappoints  —  (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Tuesday issued unexpectedly weak quarterly earnings guidance …
Horace Dediu / asymco.com:
As US smartphone penetration crosses 70%, trends suggest iPhone will fare well among late adopters  —  Late late majority  —  Seven years after the iPhone was launched, 70% of the US population is using smartphones.  Smartphones existed before the iPhone so the category is older …
More: 9to5Mac
Liam Tung / ZDNet:
BlackBerry reveals why the Passport is hip to be square: It's all about the spreadsheets  —  Summary: BlackBerry's Passport has inspired a lot of head-scratching, but the company reckons it does have a good reason for going out on a square limb.  —  Liam Tung
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple bolsters iOS 8 Health app with on-device steps, distance tracking & caffeine monitoring  —  Apple has made significant enhancements to its upcoming Health application for iOS 8 in the latest beta of the new iPhone operating system.  Most notably, the Health application can now utilize …
Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:
Popcorn Time's “Netflix for Torrents” Is Coming to Chromecast  —  Popcorn Time is a miracle: It lets you stream torrents of movies and TV shows as though they were on Netflix or Hulu.  Is it illegal?  Probably!  But it's also awesome, hard to trace, and soon, it'll work with your Chromecast.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Lyft Expands Its Car Hailing Service to New York  —  A pink mustache grows in Brooklyn.  Hundreds of them.  —  The colorful facial hair is not the latest Williamsburg trend.  It is the logo of Lyft, the car-summoning start-up, which plans to introduce its service in New York on Friday evening.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Facebook likely better than the FBI at facial recognition due to its larger photo database  —  Why Facebook is beating the FBI at facial recognition  —  If you're worried about Big Brother and computerized facial recognition, this summer has given you plenty of reason to be scared.
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Scoop: Sprint tests out family data plan, other discounted offers  —  The wireless carrier is testing a cheaper version of plans offered by AT&T and Verizon Wireless, underscoring the notion that it's moving away from being simply the “unlimited data” carrier.  —  Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at a company event in June.
More: DSLreports, TechHive and Light Reading.  Tweets: @johnlegere.  Thanks:@jeskillings
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:
Cloudian Raises $29 Million Because Not Everything Needs To Live In “The Cloud”  —  As the cloud storage provider Box continues to slouch toward its public offering (staggering under the weight of new invested capital), a number of startups continue to raise cash on the premise that sometimes sensitive data needs to remain grounded.
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Uber agrees to new national policy that will limit surge pricing during emergencies  —  The taxi app falls in line with state laws that consider dynamic pricing during storms to be illegal price gouging  —  Uber is well known for using a dynamic model it calls surge pricing that adjusts the cost of a fare based on supply and demand.

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info

Rolling Stone:
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