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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users  —  Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed  —  The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter planning first ever major marketing campaign, which will aim to better explain the purpose and benefits of the service  —  Twitter Said to Plan Marketing Campaign, New Live Events Feature  —  Twitter Inc. is working on a marketing campaign to better explain how to use its services, people with knowledge of the effort said.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery  —  Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device's debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple's considerations for the 2016 release of a second-generation model.
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Nokia to design and license smartphones in 2016 when Microsoft agreement permits it  —  Nokia CEO says to get back into phones: Manager Magazin  —  Nokia, once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, plans to start designing and licensing handsets again once an agreement …
Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:
Ellen Pao Officially Found Liable For Roughly $276,000 In Court Fees From Kleiner Perkins  —  Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit CEO to pay more than a quarter …
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Toshiba's Windows 10 laptops all have a built-in Cortana key  —  Toshiba just unveiled its back-to-school laptop lineup, and while mainstream notebooks are normally a bit of a snooze, there's at least one detail that makes these worth a second look.  Everything in the line …
New York Times:
Fitbit shares soar in trading debut, close up 48.4% or $9.68, at $29.68  —  Fitbit Shares Surge 48 Percent in Market Debut  —  Shares of Fitbit soared in their trading debut on Thursday, even after the company priced its initial public offering above an already heightened range.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EFF's 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon  —  Digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fifth annual Who has your back? report into online service providers' transparency and privacy practices when it comes to government requests for accessing user data.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google quietly acquired “app streaming” startup Agawi last fall that lets users access apps without downloading them first  —  Google Confirms Acquisition Of Agawi, A Specialist In Streaming Native Mobile Apps  —  Native apps have overtaken the web as the main place …
Julia Love / Reuters:
Slice Intelligence research says 2.79M Apple Watches sold to date; IHS estimates $49 band costs Apple $2  —  Exclusive: Apple mines big profits from Watch band  —  Nearly 20 percent of Apple Watch buyers are not only shelling out hundreds of dollars for the timepiece but are springing for a spare band too …
Dean Hudson / SoundCloud Developers:
SoundCloud will limit API play requests to 15K for each 24 hours, effective July 1  —  Introducing Rate Limits  —  At SoundCloud, we're building an ecosystem where creativity thrives.  Developers are an important part of that ecosystem.  We're continually inspired by how you use …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
SoftBank Lands $236M From Alibaba And Foxconn To Bring Its Pepper Robot To The World  —  Remember Pepper, the intelligent robot that SoftBank unveiled last year?  Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Alibaba and manufacturer Foxconn …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Google and Storyful are launching YouTube Newswire, a feed of verified user-generated videos  —  Storyful and Google News Lab today are launching YouTube Newswire, a dedicated YouTube channel meant to serve as a resource for journalists looking for user-generated videos from around the world …

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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Filing: Comcast's offer to merge NBCUniversal with WBD valued Comcast's media and theme-park assets at about $81B; Comcast's overall valuation is about $111B

John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

Laura Cress / BBC:
Netflix wins rights to a FIFA soccer simulation game, developed by Delphi Interactive and set for release ahead of the 2026 World Cup, for free to Netflix users

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