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July 17, 2014, 1:25 PM

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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.

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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 …

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Tweets: @jcenters, @dinabass, @tomwarren and @inafried

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft is killing off Nokia's feature phones in favor of Windows Phone — Nokia might have been famous for its feature phones, but Microsoft is planning to wind that business down over the course of the next 18 months. In an internal memo sent to Microsoft employees, Jo Harlow …

More: ZDNet, LiveSide.net, bgr.in, TechCrunch, Gigaom, WMPoweruser and Neowin

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Nokia X Android Devices To Run Windows Phone — Last month Nokia, you know, Microsoft's mobile division, launched the Nokia X2, a low-cost Android handset. Yes, Android. This was the second device in the product line and a curious one at that. Because Android.

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.

More: Ars Technica and The Verge. Tweets: @dannyyadron, @kevinroose, @tomgara, @mims, @csoghoian, @jimaley, @20committee and @bw

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Facebook rolling out Mentions iPhone app for verified public figures — Facebook is releasing a new app today called Mentions, an app exclusively for public figures with verified pages that previous reports noted the company was experimenting with. — According to Facebook …

More: Facebook, Re/code, AppleInsider, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, MacRumors, Business Insider, iMore, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Verge, TechHive, SlashGear and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @pkafka

John Ribeiro / PC World:

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. — The company has asked European residents …

Wall Street Journal:

EU Regulators Invite Google, Microsoft to Discuss ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ — Ruling Has Become Latest Battleground Over Freedom of Speech and the Right to Online Privacy — European Union privacy watchdogs plan to raise concerns about the implementation by Google Inc. of the bloc's new …

More: Gigaom, 9to5Google, CNET and theWHIR.com

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Flayvr pivots to MyRoll, an intelligent mobile gallery app that displays all your best photos — We last caught up with Flayvr way back in May last year, just as the startup finally shook off its iOS-only roots with an Android incarnation. — The idea behind Flayvr has always been simple …

More: TechHive, Gigaom and BroadwayWorld.com. Thanks:@tallkp

CNBC:

US Copyright Office says Aereo not a cable company under terms of Copyright Act — US copyright officials have told Aereo that they do not consider it a “cable company” under the terms of copyright law, according to a letter obtained by CNBC. Aereo, which lost a key Supreme Court ruling …

More: CNET, Los Angeles Times, PandoDaily, Ars Technica, Variety and Fortune. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford's SherpaVentures Closes $150 Million For Its First Fund — SherpaVentures, the venture firm founded by former Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and former Goldman Sachs banker Scott Stanford, is finally ready to be less vague about what it's doing.

More: Forbes, VentureBeat, Businessweek, PandoDaily, New York Times and PE Hub Blog

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Xbox One sales double, one month after $100 price cut — Offering up a cheaper Xbox One is helping Microsoft sell quite a bit more consoles. The company announced today that since it began selling a $399 version of the Xbox One without the Kinect sensor on June 9 — a $100 price cut …

More: Xbox Wire, Re/code, BetaNews, PC World, Re/code, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Guardian, Inquirer, CNET, Neowin, Forbes, destructoid, Turnstyle, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta and GamesIndustry International

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, Marketing Land, PC Gamer, Softpedia News, Guardian, Kotaku, Pocket Gamer.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, CraveOnline and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

New iTunes Pass credit refill service now available in United States (update: Australia, too) — Yesterday Apple rolled out its new iTunes Pass service to Japan, allowing users to use a Passbook card to add credit to an iTunes account from an Apple Retail Store. Starting today, the offer is also available in the United States.

More: iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacRumors. Tweets: @applespotlight

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