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July 16, 2014, 5:55 AM

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Apple:

Apple and IBM partner to develop iOS enterprise apps and cloud services, tailor AppleCare for enterprise; IBM will sell iPhones and iPads to business clients — Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Mobility — Apple® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) …

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Apple and IBM Team Up to Push iOS in the Enterprise — Apple and IBM today announced a broad partnership to help companies deploy wireless devices and business-specific applications to run on them. — The combination brings together two historical competitors — who decades ago struggled …

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Google:

Google+ removes all name restrictions, apologizes for “unnecessarily difficult experiences” — When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped create a community made up of real people …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Samsung In Talks To Scoop Up SmartThings For Around $200 Million — Google has Nest, Apple has HomeKit and Samsung has...SmartThings, we're hearing. The deal was completed for around $200 million dollars, though it might have been less according to one source. — (Update: The deal is not done yet, says another.)

More: The Next Web, Geeky Gadgets, Connectedly, 9to5Google, Gigaom, SyrupCast and Engadget

Google:

Google appoints former Ford CEO Alan Mulally to its board of directors — Google Appoints Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - JULY 15, 2014 — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced it has appointed Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors.

More: 9to5Google, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Fortune, Associated Press, Gigaom, SiliconBeat, GeekWire, Business Insider and Jalopnik

Tweets: @bfeld and @theromit

eMarketer:

Microsoft to Surpass Yahoo in Global Digital Ad Market Share This Year — Google, Facebook continue on as the market's leaders — Yahoo's push to maintain its position as a top global ad seller will take another hit in 2014, according to new projections from eMarketer.

More: Business Insider, Reuters, SiliconBeat, Forbes, VentureBeat and Businessweek. Tweets: @emarketer

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Google reveals Project Zero, a security team to find and report serious flaws in any software — Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google's Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers — Hacking wunderkind George Hotz's latest gig: An intern on Google's elite hacking team. Tribune Review, Andrew Russell/AP

More: Guardian, Google Online Security Blog, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Tweets: @mattcutts. Thanks:@a_greenberg

Reto Meier / Android Developers Blog:

Google offers Udacity course in Android development; all course materials are free — Learn to Think Like an Android Developer — By Reto Meier, Head of Scalable Developer Advocacy — Today I'm proud to announce the latest resource for learning to develop Android apps: Developing Android Apps: Android Fundamentals.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Pocketnow, SlashGear, 9to5Google and Android Authority

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Oculus Spots People Selling Rift Pre-Orders, Cancels Their Shipments — The second version of the Oculus Rift VR headset is expected to start arriving this week, but actually getting your hands on one is going to be tough. Over 45,000 units had been pre-ordered as of the first of this month …

More: Develop Feed, Eurogamer.net, Arcade Sushi, TechSpot, TechRadar.com, CraveOnline, Tech Times and Joystiq

Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed:

Bloomberg $20K+/year terminals have a classifieds section called POSH — There's A Secret Craigslist Just For Rich People — The classifieds section of the Bloomberg terminal, which costs more than $20,000 a year, is called POSH. Aptly named. — The Bloomberg terminal …

More: The Verge, Tech Times, Gizmodo and The Daily Caller. Tweets: @mikepmoffatt

Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:

Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? — The combination of access and toughness has made her a preeminent arbiter of status. — The technology journalist Kara Swisher likes to call herself Sherlock Homo, but on a spring evening in Austin …

More: Valleywag, TechCrunch, and PandoDaily

Tweets: @kluo, @nytfridge, @nilofer and @mikeisaac

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Misses In Q2 With Revenue Of $1.04B, EPS Of $0.37 — Today after the bell, Yahoo reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue (excluding traffic acquisition costs, or TAC) of $1.04 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.37. Revenue including TAC was $1.08.

More: Yahoo, Re/code, ZDNet, Marketing Land, The Register, Forbes, Quartz, Guardian, Associated Press and WebProNews. Tweets: @dmac1

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Yahoo now required to sell just 140M Alibaba shares in IPO, down from 208M shares

More: Fortune, TechCrunch, Yahoo, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Sling's ‘M1’ streaming box brings built-in WiFi at a lower price — It's been nearly two years since Sling unveiled new placeshifting boxes, so it's high time the company brought its products into the year 2014. The firm just announced two refreshes, including the entry-level M1 …

More: Softpedia News, TechRadar.com, BGR, Gizmodo, Streaming Media, Multichannel News, FierceCable, Variety, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Technologizer, VentureBeat, The Verge and TechHive

Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal:

VentureBeat raises $2.6 million to launch ‘App Store’ for research — VentureBeat, the Silicon Valley technology news site, has raised $2.6 million to fund an “App Store"-style marketplace for industry research. — The San Francisco-based media company said it will launch VB Insight in three to five weeks.

More: Folio. Tweets: @amartinmedia, @pkafka, @rafat and @rafat

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John Cook / GeekWire:

Realogy buying ZipRealty for $166 million, a valuation that could give Redfin pause — Realogy Holdings, which operates brands such as Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA and Sotheby's International, is adding another one to its lineup. Madison, New Jersey-based Realogy today announced …

More: Bloomberg, RTTNews, bizjournals, Inman News and SiliconBeat

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft won't let you set Google as default search on some new Lumias — Microsoft has disabled an option to set Google as the default search engine on some of its latest Lumia Windows Phones. The option is currently supported on the majority of Nokia's Lumia devices …

More: CNET, Softpedia News, 9to5Google, MobileBurn.com, TechnoBuffalo, GeekWire, BGR, Computerworld, Electronista and Neowin

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Adobe Partners With Google To Release Open-Source Font For Chinese, Japanese And Korean Languages — Adobe and Google today announced the launch of a new open-source font for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) languages that covers 65,535 glyphs, making it one — if not the — largest font to cover these languages.

More: The Typekit Blog, Google Developers Blog, Macworld, CNET and The Next Web. Tweets: @triketora

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Tim Draper's Six Californias initiative heads for 2016 ballot; source says shady tactics used for signatures — Tech VC Says His Plan to Break California Apart Is Moving Forward — Tim Draper, legendary venture capitalist, has a plan to cement Silicon Valley's status as the most-hated locale in America: make it its own state.

More: TechCrunch, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Mercury News, bizjournals, Network World, LAist and ValueWalk

Tweets: @paleofuture and @om

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

Call to cancel Comcast service turns into absurd interrogation; Comcast calls representative's behavior “unacceptable” — Call to cancel Comcast service descends into desperate, hysterical fireworks — A Comcast customer service representative tried to retain a customer …

More: SoundCloud, Comcast, NPR, Laughing Squid, Motherboard, TechNewsWorld, PC Magazine and Business Insider

Tweets: @ryan, @darth, @fmanjoo, @harrymccracken, @caseyjohnston, @comcast, @pkafka, @mikeisaac, @om, @ryan and @ryan

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix already stopped mailing DVDs on Saturdays, but you probably didn't notice — The USPS may not have gone forward with its plans to kill Saturday mail delivery, but Netflix isn't waiting. A few customers have noticed it's no longer processing shipments on Saturdays, opting for a five day schedule instead.

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