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July 3, 2015, 1:50 AM

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Biz Carson / Business Insider:
Reddit's popular ‘ask me anything’ feature is down after a key employee is gone  —  Reddit's popular Ask Me Anything (iAMA) feature is offline following a key employee's departure.  —  Subreddit moderators are revolting and setting their sections to private today after Reddit's director of talent …
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Yelp stock closes down about 10% amid reports it has stopped pursuing a sale of company  —  Yelp skids 10% amid sale halt reports  —  Yelp shares slipped on Thursday afternoon amid reports the company's sale process had stalled.  —  Following a trading halt around 12:50 p.m. ET …
Terry Myerson / Windows Blog:
Microsoft details Windows 10 rollout plan: Windows Insiders will be first, rest will be in phases  —  Windows 10: Preparing to Upgrade One Billion Devices  —  With around four weeks to go before Windows 10 becomes available, I thought it would be helpful to provide some context on how we will roll-out Windows 10 to the world.
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Apple's iOS 8.4 kneecaps Home Sharing, music streaming now limited to Apple TV  —  While Apple introduced an array of new music features with its latest iOS 8.4 update featuring Apple Music, it also quietly nerfed content serving functionality by apparently limiting Home Sharing …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Prince sends takedown requests to Spotify, Rdio, and Deezer  —  Prince Won't Stream 4 U (Unless You're On Tidal, Or Maybe Google Music)  —  Call it the Taylor effect: it looks like another high-profile musician is sharpening his arrows to take aim at how streaming music services pay artists.
John Callaham / Windows Central:
Microsoft confirms its new Edge browser won't support Silverlight  —  Microsoft has already announced that its new Microsoft Edge web browser in Windows 10 will not be using many of the features that were a part of its old Internet Explorer browsers.  That includes support for ActiveX-based plug-ins.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
You can now use any Android app on your Mac w/ BlueStacks App Player  —  BlueStacks, a free desktop Android emulator that lets users play any mobile game or app on the big screen with a mouse and keyboard, has mostly been limited to PC users until today.  But Mac users are about to get access …

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