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July 17, 2014, 6:00 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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Tweets: @danieleran, @tomwarren, @dinabass, @mattrosoff, @dinabass, @scottthurm, @saschasegan, @counternotions and @aralalobo

Thanks:@fxshaw

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Microsoft to Shutter Xbox Entertainment Studios (Updated) — Microsoft will shut down the Xbox Entertainment Studios, ending an ambitious foray into original video programming. — The Santa Monica studio will be shuttered as Microsoft focuses on strengthening its core videogame business.

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: Ars Technica, Fortune, Computerworld, Softpedia News, 9to5Google and CITEworld

Tweets: @dinabass, @tomwarren and @jcenters

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: bgr.in, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Ubergizmo, IntoMobile, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, WinBeta, Neowin and WMPoweruser

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft cuts to affect nearly all groups; OS Group restructuring to become more startup-like — Beyond 12,500 former Nokia employees, who else is Microsoft laying off? — Summary: The former Nokia employees who joined Microsoft in April are bearing the brunt of Microsoft's just-announced layoffs.

More: New York Times, Business Insider, Windows Phone Central and Xconomy

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft cuts will also hit ‘shadow workforce,’ going beyond announced layoffs

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @toddbishop. Thanks:@johnhcook

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Nokia X Android Devices To Run Windows Phone

Google:

Google Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2014 Results and Management Change — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2014. — “Google had a great quarter with revenue up 22% year on year, at $16.0 billion”, said Patrick Pichette, CFO of Google.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Nikesh Arora, Google's Top Business Executive, Is Out — Google's Q2 earnings report was overshadowed by news about the top of the company's org chart: Nikesh Arora, the company's longtime sales boss, is out, and headed to a top job at tech conglomerate SoftBank.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @pkafka and @pkafka

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Google's Q2 Revenue Of $15.96B Beats, But Its Non-GAAP EPS Of $6.08 Disappoints

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook starts testing Buy button on News Feed ads and Page posts, not charging the select participating US businesses for now — Facebook Tests Buy Button To Let You Purchase Stuff Without Leaving Facebook — Facebook is try out letting you pay for ecommerce purchases from other businesses without leaving its site or app.

More: Facebook, The Verge, LOCAL ONLINER, Computerworld, The Technology Chronicles, AllFacebook, VentureBeat, USA Today, The Next Web, Globe and Mail, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land, Inside Facebook, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Mashable, Tech Times, Consumerist, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, WebProNews and Forbes

Tweets: @anthonyha and @sarahfrier

Thanks:@anthonyha

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Facebook launches Mentions iPhone app, intended for use by public figures with verified Pages — You Can't Use Facebook's New iPhone App — Unless You're Famous — Stars aren't just like us. They need a special app to post on Facebook. — That's the thinking behind Mentions …

More: Facebook, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, Tech Times, ABC News, Marketing Pilgrim, AppleInsider, AllFacebook, TechHive, Inside Facebook, MacRumors, Gizmodo, iMore, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com and Business Insider

Tweets: @mathewi and @pkafka

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

No signal? GoTenna has a messaging gadget that will work in the middle of nowhere — For all of our dependency on mobile phones, there are still quite a few places in this world you can't get a wireless signal, from mountaintops to national parks to rural highways and even the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, CNET, Crowdfund Insider, VentureBeat, TechHive, Thisisgoingtobebig.com, TUAW, Also, Engadget, Yahoo Tech and Pocketnow

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, VatorNews, Techdirt, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Variety, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Engadget, Fortune, Electronista and PandoDaily. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter Acquires CardSpring To Power In-Tweet Commerce And Offers — Twitter just announced it's acquired CardSpring to enable “in-the-moment commerce experiences.” CardSpring is an application platform that lets developers build card-linked offers electronic coupons, loyalty cards …

More: The Twitter Blog, CardSpring, ZDNet, Business Insider and The Next Web

Apple:

Longtime Apple board member Bill Campbell retires after 17 years; BlackRock director Sue Wagner to replace him — Sue Wagner Joins Apple's Board of Directors — Apple® today announced that Susan L. Wagner, founding partner and director of BlackRock, has been elected to Apple's board of directors.

More: 9to5Mac, Fortune, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Verge, ZDNet, iMore and Tech Trader Daily

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: Mashable, WebProNews, Gigaom, CNET, 9to5Google and theWHIR.com

John Ribeiro / PC World:

Bing follows Google in offering Europeans the ‘right to be forgotten’

More: The Next Web, Search Engine Watch, Washington Post, The Verge, Computerworld, BBC, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land and Beyond Search

HP:

HP announces board changes: CEO Meg Whitman is Chairman, Pat Russo now lead independent director — HP Announces Changes to Its Board of Directors — Meg Whitman appointed chairman of the board; Pat Russo appointed lead independent director; Klaus Kleinfeld, chief executive officer and chairman of Alcoa, joins board

More: TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and Fortune. Tweets: @ahess247

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

AMD slightly misses second-quarter earnings targets as PC market chugs along — Advanced Micro Devices slightly missed earnings targets for the second quarter as the PC market revenues slowed. — AMD is the No. 2 provider of processors for PCs, and its results relay how well the computer market is doing.

More: Tech Trader Daily, PC World, The Register, ZDNet and vbprofiles.com

Michael Riley / Businessweek:

Russian hackers planted malware on poorly-defended NASDAQ servers in 2010, possibly to clone the exchange's technology — How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq — In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.

More: The Register, CNNMoney.com, Communications …, Ars Technica, MacDailyNews and The Verge

Tweets: @csoghoian, @jimaley, @dannyyadron, @kevinroose, @bw, @mims and @tomgara

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Google planning to support Android Wear custom watch faces with new API — When Android Wear first launched, it was unclear whether Google was going to be offering official support for third-party watch faces. This uncertainty definitely didn't stop developers from just going ahead and making some …

More: Wayne Piekarski, CITEworld, VentureBeat, Gigaom, TechHive, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, TechCrunch and Phandroid

Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk:

With BitLicenses, NY becomes the first state to propose rules for virtual currency business — New York Reveals BitLicense Framework for Bitcoin Businesses — The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has released its long-anticipated list of proposed rules and regulations …

More: Department of Financial …, The Verge, Business Insider, Fortune, Consumerist and Re/code. Thanks:@gcaffyn

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