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July 10, 2015, 1:15 PM

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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Samsung brings launch of next Galaxy Note forward to mid-August to avoid clashing with iPhone launch in September  —  Samsung Seeks Slice of Apple's Pie With Early Smartphone Launch  —  Samsung brings forward its Galaxy Note release to August to gain some ground against rival Apple
New York Times:
Sources: Facebook seeking licensing deals to insert music videos in users' feeds, said to offer better revenue sharing than YouTube  —  Facebook Said to Seek Music Video Licensing Deals  —  Over the last few years, Facebook has slowly encroached on YouTube's territory as a go-to outlet for online video …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
OPM says sensitive information of 21.5M individuals was taken in another hack last year, separate from previously reported breach  —  Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals  —  WASHINGTON — The Office of Personnel Management revealed on Thursday that …
VentureBeat:
Facebook mobile ad policy change may force game publishers to hand over proprietary user data to Facebook, which it could then sell to competitors  —  Facebook's planned customer-data change called ‘land grab’ by publishers  —  EXCLUSIVE:  —  In a controversial and as yet secret move …
Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:
Dialed down: Spain's Geeksphone exits the smartphone business  —  Founded in 2009, Madrid, Spain-based Geeksphone is saying adiós to the smartphone business, after having developed six phones in less than six years.  It's not really a surprise, given that the small company …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Y Combinator-backed GitHub competitor GitLab raises $1.5M  —  GitLab, the startup behind the eponymous open-source Git repository management software for storing and collaborating on source code, announced today that it has raised a $1.5 million seed round.  —  In many ways, GitLab is similar …
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Gartner and IDC say global PC shipments fell 9.5% and 11.8% respectively YoY in Q2 2015, marking the sharpest decline in nearly two years  —  PC Sales Continue to Fall  —  Worldwide PC sales saw their sharpest decline in nearly two years in the second quarter of 2015 …

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