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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

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Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:

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Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Verizon will start restricting LTE speeds for its heaviest unlimited-plan customers — Verizon's 4G networks soon will start favoring customers who pay for mobile data by the gigabyte over customers who draw deeply from Verizon's unlimited plans. — Verizon Wireless has been trying to coax …

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Paige Thelen / Lyft Blog:

Lyft to launch 7pm tonight in NYC, drivers will need taxi commission licenses, company “will pause operations” in Buffalo and Rochester by August 1st — Lyft Launches in NYC — Tonight, after making positive progress with local and state leaders, Lyft will launch in all five boroughs of New York City.

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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Google has granted over 50% of “Right to be Forgotten” requests, over 100,000 links from 91,000 people — Google Grants Majority of ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Requests — Statistics Come as 91,000 People Request Removal of Some Search Results for Their Names

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

House votes to allow cellphone ‘unlocking’ — The House on Friday passed legislation allowing people to “unlock” their cellphones and switch from one carrier to another, sending the bill to the president's desk. — The bill won unanimous support in the lower chamber and has been widely backed …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Patrick Leahy, Engadget, 9to5Google, Washington Post, CIO.com and Network World. Tweets: @senjohnthune

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Fire smartphone now available at AT&T — Amazon's Fire Phone Hits Stores, Minus the Fanfare — Amazon on Friday is embarking on its grandest attempt yet to keep customers buying more from its namesake site. — The company will begin selling its new Fire smartphone at AT&T stores without …

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Tweets: @wsj, @techcrunch and @wsjd

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft delivers OneNote for Amazon Fire Phone, Kindle Fire tablets

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RT:

Russian Interior Ministry offers $111k to crack TOR network — Russia's Interior Ministry is offering $111k for a technological solution that would allow police officers to identify internet surfers who are using the TOR anonymizer network, which has been rapidly growing in popularity inside the country.

More: Global Voices, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Electronista, The Register, Pocket-lint, Deep Dot Web, Softpedia News and The Moscow Times

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Fixed Raises $1.2 Million For A Mobile App That Fights Your Parking Tickets For You — Fixed, the clever mobile application that helps you fight your parking tickets just by snapping a photo of the ticket with your mobile phone, has now closed on $1.2 million in seed funding.

More: PE Hub Blog, Business Insider, Y Combinator Posthaven and silicontap.com

Bloomberg:

IBM Said to Reject Globalfoundries Offer for Chip Unit — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)'s talks to sell its money-losing chip-manufacturing operations to Globalfoundries Inc. have ended after the two companies failed to agree on terms, according to people familiar with the process.

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Homejoy expands beyond cleaning, starts offering plumbing, handyman, landscaping, painting and other home services as beta to some customers — Homejoy Expands Beyond Cleaning With Beta Test Of Home Services — When Homejoy raised its $38 million round of funding last December …

Stephan Doerner / Wall Street Journal:

Germany's Rocket Internet looking to raise up to $4.7B in IPO on Frankfurt Stock Exchange — Germany's Rocket Internet Eyes Possible Frankfurt IPO — Company Looking to Raise Up to $4.71 Billion, People Familiar With Matter Say — BERLIN—Rocket Internet AG, a German company …

Tweets: @pmarca, @mparekh and @jonrussell

Reuters:

China Telecom to sell Microsoft's Xbox One from September — (Reuters) - China Telecom Corp Ltd will sell Microsoft Corp's Xbox One gaming console in China from September through an exclusive contract, the country's third-largest telecommunications company said on Friday.

More: VentureBeat, TechSpot, Windows Phone Central, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, Neowin, Wall Street Journal, CNET, The Next Web and Xinhua

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

SEC Drops Probe Into Facebook for Pre-IPO Disclosures — Facebook on Thursday said the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its probe into the company over disclosures about advertising revenue ahead of its May 2012 initial public offering. — The SEC had been investigating whether …

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