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July 17, 2014, 8:35 AM

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Satya Nadella / Microsoft Corporation:

Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees on integration of Nokia Devices and Services — Starting to Evolve Our Organization and Culture — Last week in my email to you I synthesized our strategic direction as a productivity and platform company. Having a clear focus is the start of the journey, not the end.

More: The Verge, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, New York Times, The Next Web, Tech.eu, BBC, Microsoft Corporation, Gigaom, BGR, Engadget, Neowin and USA Today

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Microsoft cutting up to 18,000 jobs by next year, 13000 starting now; a total of 12,500 from Nokia — Ax Falls at Microsoft as Company Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs — Microsoft on Thursday announced it plans to cut 18,000 jobs this year-its deepest-ever cuts-as the company looked …

More: GeekWire. Tweets: @inafried and @tomwarren

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service for $9.99/month — Amazon is testing an ebook and audiobook subscription service called “Kindle Unlimited” that offers “unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks on any device for just $9.99 a month.”

John Ribeiro / PC World:

Microsoft's Bing follows Google in offering Europeans the ‘right to be forgotten’ — Microsoft has started accepting requests from users in Europe who want to remove search links from Bing under a recent “right-to-be-forgotten” ruling by Europe's top court.

More: Search Engine Land, BBC, The Register, The Next Web, Engadget, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Inquirer, ZDNet, The Verge, Electronista, Bloomberg, Geeky Gadgets, Tech Times, Windows Phone Central, NBC News and USA Today

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Netflix to FCC: reclassify Comcast and Verizon so they can't choke the internet — Netflix came out swinging in its submission to the FCC over proposed internet “fast lanes,” arguing Wednesday that this would be a bad idea and that the agency should instead focus on forcing broadband providers …

More: Netflix US & Canada Blog, The Verge, Softpedia News, NationalJournal.com, Digital Trends, DSLreports, Techdirt, The Slanted and FierceOnlineVideo News. See also Mediagazer

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Comcast loves the FCC's net neutrality rules, wants limits on “fast lanes”

More: Comcast, DSLreports, ZDNet and GamePolitics blogs. Tweets: @acedtect

Simon Parkin / Eurogamer.net:

YouTubers are running advertorials, paid promotions, and product placement without disclosures — Blurred lines: Are YouTubers breaking the law? — From unmarked advertorial to paid social network promotion, Simon Parkin investigates the ethics and legality of YouTube.

More: Gamasutra, Guardian, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Pocket Gamer.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, CraveOnline and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

JFrog Raises $7M to Remake Software Development and Distribution — The way software is developed and distributed has changed dramatically because of the cloud—software updates are now pushed out automatically, mostly without our noticing—and that creates the need for new software distribution pipes.

More: PE Hub Blog and Gigaom

Cromwell Schubarth / bizjournals:

Valuations of Y Combinator companies have more than doubled to $30B over the past year — Y Combinator portfolio value more than doubles to $30B in past year — Call it another sign of a Silicon Valley bubble, or maybe it's proof that Y Combinator is backing some really promising startups.

More: Y Combinator Posthaven, tech.co, TechCrunch and Mattermark. Tweets: @svbizcrom

Reuters:

Apple agrees conditionally to a $450M settlement in e-book price-fixing case; $400M could go to consumers — Apple agrees to conditional $450 million e-books antitrust accord — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has agreed to pay $450 million to resolve U.S. state and consumer claims …

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Erico Guizzo / IEEE Spectrum:

MIT roboticist unveils Jibo, a social robot for the home, available for pre-order today for $499, ships 2015 holiday season — Cynthia Breazeal Unveils Jibo, a Social Robot for the Home — Cynthia Breazeal and Jibo. — Cynthia Breazeal, the famed roboticist at MIT's Media Lab and a pioneer …

More: New York Times, Tech Times, Will Knight, New Scientist, TIME, Geek.com, USA Today, BetaBoston, CNET, BBC, Re/code, The Verge, The Register, International Business Times, Business Insider, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Slate and SlashGear. Tweets: @petitegeek

Michael Riley / Businessweek:

How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq — In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert. The signal was coming from Nasdaq (NDAQ). It looked like malware had snuck into the company's central servers.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Starts Selling Its Aerial Imagery To Maps For Business Users — Google Maps for Business is a service for enterprises and government organizations that need to visualize their assets on a map. Today, the company has announced that customers can now purchase Google's aerial imagery directly …

More: Engadget, Google Enterprise Blog, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, ZDNet, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Next Web and WebProNews

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Visa Launches Checkout, Another Play for Digital Payments — Visa wants you to know it gets that the future is about more than just plastic. — The company on Tuesday took the wraps off Visa Checkout, its latest effort to make itself relevant in a world of digital payments.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, VentureBeat, Fortune and ZDNet

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Blogger Fined By French Court Because Negative Restaurant Review Was Too Prominent In Google — A French court has ordered a blogger to pay a substantial fine and change the title of a restaurant review because the review was too prominent in search results and harmed business at the restaurant.

More: BBC, National Review, Eater National, CraveOnline and Techdirt. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Bloomberg:

Apple Looks to Status-Hungry Vietnam for Growth: Southeast Asia — Bich Ngoc, who earns less than $60 a week and has a newborn son, cobbled together four months of savings to buy the latest iPhone so she could impress her colleagues who have older versions of the device.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow and iMore

Se Young Lee / Reuters:

iPhone 5s was bestselling smartphone in May at 7M units, beating 5M for 2-month-old Galaxy S5 — Samsung battles on two fronts as Apple readies iPhone 6 — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is losing smartphone ground not only to cheaper Chinese rivals but also at the high end …

More: Counterpoint Technology …, CNET, Forbes, eWeek, The Loop, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, dailywireless.org, BetaNews, Cult of Mac and Inquirer. Tweets: @benbajarin

Caleb Chen / CryptoCoinsNews:

Ghash.io commits to staying under 40% of the Bitcoin network hashrate; will create committee to try to solve the 51% issue — Ghash.io Offers More Empty Promises To Bitcoin Miners — Ghash.io is still currently the largest Bitcoin mining pool, based on data from the last 48 hours.

More: Ars Technica, CEX.IO Official Blog, CoinDesk and TechCrunch

Amir Efrati / The Information:

Google plans to spend several hundred million dollars marketing Android One phones in India — Google Plans India Ad Blitz in Smartphone Bid — Google is planning a major spending effort on marketing its new Android One phones in India, in an ambitious play into a challenging but potentially huge market for smartphones.

More: App Annie Blog, The Economic Times, MediaNama, Android Central, Gigaom, 9to5Google, TechCrunch and Times of India. Tweets: @amir

Peter Eavis / New York Times:

Funding Circle, a Peer-to-Peer Lender, Raises $65 Million — Silicon Valley has been working on new ways to bolster the flow of capital to small businesses, one of the nation's main engines of economic growth. Those efforts took another step forward on Wednesday, when Funding Circle …

More: TechCrunch, Reuters, Quartz, VentureBeat, Financial Times and NY Daily News

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Wallet gets gift cards, requesting money, sending it from your debit card for free, and Spanish support — Google today updated its Google Wallet app for Android and iOS with new features, including gift cards, requesting money, sending money, and Spanish support.

More: Google Commerce, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, Engadget, SlashGear, Electronista, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Android Police and 9to5Mac

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