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July 8, 2015, 11:15 AM
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Microsoft:
Microsoft announces 7,800 job cuts mostly in phone business, writes off $7.6B from Nokia deal  —  Microsoft Announces Restructuring of Phone Hardware Business  —  REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to restructure the company's phone hardware business to better focus and align resources.
Microsoft:
Satya Nadella email to employees on sharpening business focus  —  Over the past few weeks, I've shared with you our mission, strategy, structure and culture.  Today, I want to discuss our plans to focus our talent and investments in areas where we have differentiation and potential for growth …
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal:
Project Fi Review: Google Masters Wi-Fi Calling, but Needs Better Phones  —  Can the search giant change the wireless business like it's changed high-speed Internet?  —  For millions of us, Google is the backbone of our digital lives.  So it's a little incongruous that to get to its many services …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Court rejects Intellectual Ventures appeal in Capital One case, citing ‘unpatentable abstract ideas’ … The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled against Intellectual Ventures in a dispute with Capital One Financial, finding that two of the company's patents were based on …
Lauren Hockenson / The Next Web:
Google Maps iOS update now lets you share locations on Facebook and Messenger  —  Owners of iOS devices, rejoice: Sharing pins with your friends will now get a little easier.  An update from Google Maps now allows you to share your location to more apps, including Facebook and its spun-off communications app Messenger.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Confluent Closes $24M Series B Round For Its Apache Kafka-Based Stream Data Platform  —  The open source Kafka real-time stream data service was incubated at LinkedIn over five years ago.  Since then, Kafka has become an Apache open-source project and the original developers left LinkedIn …
C. Custer / Tech in Asia:
How China's stock market drop affects tech companies  —  Unless you've been living under a rock recently, you're probably aware that all is not well in China's stock markets.  After hitting an all-time high in mid June, China's markets have dropped by nearly a quarter, shedding in excess of US$3 trillion …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

More News

Lance Whitney / CNET:
Google starts testing self-driving cars in Austin in first expansion outside California
Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch:
Facebook Announces Fifth Data Center, Located In Fort Worth, Texas
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Netflix announces schedule for seven original feature films, the first to debut Oct. 16
Aaron Zamost / Backchannel:
Square's head of communications describes the cyclical nature of media coverage of tech companies

Earlier Picks

Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Facebook tests floating videos, so you can scroll and watch at the same time
William Turton / The Daily Dot:
17-year-old Lizard Squad hacker convicted in Finnish court of 50,700 charges related to computer crimes, receives two-year suspended prison sentence
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Showtime launches $10.99/month standalone streaming service for the web, Apple TV, iOS, Roku, and Playstation Vue
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
13 top cryptographers issue report opposing US, British proposals for circumventing encryption, say plans would put the world's digital communications at risk
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