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July 17, 2014, 1:20 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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.

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