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July 11, 2014, 8:25 PM

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Rap Genius rebrands as “Genius”, raises $40M led by Dan Gilbert, and makes annotations embeddable — The Inside Story Of How Rap Genius Fired A Cofounder — And Just Raised $40 Million (Annotated!) — On May 23 of this year, things were finally coming together for Rap Genius.

More: Ben's blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, VentureBeat, Fortune, The Next Web, TheDomains.com, Mashable and Valleywag

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @dmccabe, @nichcarlson, @nichcarlson, @stevekovach and @nitashatiku

Thanks:@mattlynley

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Lyft reverses under legal pressure, cancels Friday night New York launch — Attorney General insists NY Supreme Court issued injunction—but Lyft denies it. — Facing the weight of the New York Attorney General, Lyft now says it will delay its planned launch in the Big Apple on Friday evening.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, The Technology Chronicles, Betabeat, ag.ny.gov, Lyft Blog, BuzzFeed, SlashGear, Forbes and Turnstyle. Tweets: @buzzfeedben

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

China's state broadcaster calls iPhone's location tracking a “national security concern” — China's Newest Foe: iPhone — State-run China Central Television has labeled Apple's iPhone location-tracking feature a “national security concern,” in the latest backlash against U.S. technology companies.

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

SoundCloud in licensing talks with major labels, may give each revenue split and a 3-5% stake at $500-600M valuation — SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd. …

More: TorrentFreak, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Plagiarism Today, RAIN News, Digital Music News, Mashable, Gigaom and Engadget

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

FCC Approves Controversial $2 Billion School Wi-Fi Plan — Schools will soon be able to apply for grants from a $2 billion fund to help pay for Wi-Fi networks in schools under a plan approved Friday by federal regulators. — The Federal Communications Commission voted to set aside funds …

More: The Verge, The Register, Engadget, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Gigaom, Turnstyle, Broadcasting & Cable, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Washington Post, Electronista and United States Senator …. Tweets: @officeofedtech

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Acquires Video Streaming Platform RayV — Following rumors of talks going as far back as May, we'd been hearing whispers all morning that Yahoo had finally acquired the video broadcasting platform RayV. — Sure enough, it's just been made official.

More: Yahoo, The Next Web, PC World, Multichannel News, Gigaom, CNET, Re/code, Fox Business, Mashable and WebProNews

Patrick May / Mercury News:

Yahoo sued for sexual harrassment, complaint alleges female exec coerced engineer into sex — Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment — A high-level female Yahoo executive helping to lead the company's mobile-content efforts was named Friday in a state lawsuit filed by a woman working under …

More: VentureBeat and Valleywag. Tweets: @fmanjoo and @sdkstl

David Drummond / Guardian:

Google's top lawyer describes challenges in implementing EU's Right To Be Forgotten, urges public debate — We need to talk about the right to be forgotten — After the European court ruling, we at Google want to encourage debate on where the public interest lies in restricting web searches

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Google Maps for iOS adds mapped search results and Gmail appointments, more — Google today updated its Maps application for iPhone and iPad to version 3.2 introducing new features and improvements. — The latest version of Google Maps now supports viewing search results with descriptions directly on the map view.

More: Engadget, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, MacRumors, iClarified and The Next Web

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Twitter's analytics dashboard now includes detailed data on all tweets, not just ads — Twitter today announced a new tweet activity analytics dashboard for advertisers, Twitter card publishers and verified users that shows them detailed data on how their organic tweets are doing.

More: The Twitter Blog, The Twitter Blog, Marketing Land, AdAge, Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, Mashable and WebProNews

Tweets: @parislemon and @peteskomoroch

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