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June 26, 2015, 5:35 PM

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Dominique Vidalon / Reuters:

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AppleCare+ for mobile devices now covers batteries retaining less than 80% capacity, up from 50% — AppleCare+ for iPhone, iPad, iPod and Apple Watch Now Covers Batteries That Retain Less Than 80% of Original Capacity — Apple has updated the terms of its AppleCare+ Protection Plan for iPhone …

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Meerkat launches new embeddable web player today, partners with Discovery to implement the player for Shark Week — Meerkat Outs An Embeddable Player, Hooks Discovery Channel's Shark Week — Livestreaming app Meerkat has launched an embeddable player so that content being broadcast …

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Satya Nadella lays out new Microsoft mission statement: “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more” — Exclusive: Satya Nadella reveals Microsoft's new mission statement, sees ‘tough choices’ ahead … Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Security Firm Sophos Raises $125M In UK IPO, Valuing It At $1.6B — As malicious hacks, data breaches and other forms of cyber crime continue to persist in our networked, Internet-connected world, Sophos, a maker of antivirus software, firewall hardware and other security products for networks …

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Pasha Nahass / Inside AdWords:

Google reduces accidental clicks on in-app interstitial and mobile image ads by redefining clickable areas, cites a 15% average conversion rate improvement — Better click quality on display ads improves the user and advertiser experience — Even as smartphone and tablet screen sizes get bigger …

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Samsung will stop disabling Windows Update on its hardware, to issue a patch in a few days — Samsung will patch its software to stop disabling Windows Update ‘within a few days’ — On Tuesday night, news broke that Samsung's SW Update software was disabling Windows Update on at least some computers.

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Benchmarks show iPhone performance drops by about 40% when iOS 9's Low Power mode is activated — Benchmarks Show iPhone Performance Difference When iOS 9's Low Power Mode is Activated — With iOS 9, Apple introduced a Low Power mode, designed to extend battery life when an iPhone's power is running low.

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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

Interconnection fees for companies like Netflix remain an issue in last-minute talks with regulators for AT&T-DirecTV deal — Why the government is about to approve the AT&T and DirecTV mega-deal - and the one thing that remains a big concern — A decision on AT&T's merger with DirecTV …

More: Wall Street Journal and Multichannel News. See also Mediagazer

Teresa Rivas / Tech Trader Daily:

EBay Board Approves PayPal Spinoff; Stock Distribution Set For July 17 — Shares of eBay (EBAY) are up 0.3% in after hours trading just minutes after the company said that its board of directors approved the completion of the PayPal spinoff. — According to the press release …

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