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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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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.

More: Microsoft Corporation, The Verge, Re/code, Digital Trends, Gigaom, GeekWire, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget, Pocketnow, Neowin and Windows Phone Central

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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: The Verge. Tweets: @csoghoian, @jimaley, @20committee and @bw

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.

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.

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Disrupt Finalist Boomerang Commerce Raises $8.5M Series A Round For Its Price Optimization Service — Boomerang Commerce, one of our six finalists at the latest Disrupt in New York, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million Series A round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group and Trinity Ventures.

More: Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, PandoDaily and PE Hub Blog

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. Tweets: @bschwartz

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, Washington Post, The Verge, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, DSLreports, NationalJournal.com, Techdirt and The Slanted. See also Mediagazer

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

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

More: DSLreports and ZDNet

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

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 …

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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: TechCrunch, Forbes, GadgeTell, ITProPortal, Tech Times, Re/code, Will Knight, New Scientist, TIME, Geek.com, USA Today, BetaBoston, CNET, BBC, The Verge, The Register, International Business Times and Business Insider. Tweets: @petitegeek

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

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

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: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Reuters, Quartz, VentureBeat, Financial Times and NY Daily News

Mark Harris / Guardian:

FBI warns driverless cars could be used as ‘lethal weapons’ — Internal report sees benefits for road safety, but warns that autonomy will create greater potential for criminal ‘multitasking’ — The FBI believes that the driverless car is a “game changing” vehicle could revolutionise high …

More: BBC, PC World, Techdirt, Business Insider, SlashGear, TechSpot, ReadWrite, Gigaom, PandoDaily, Geek.com, BGR, 9to5Google and Ubergizmo

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

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