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July 10, 2015, 7:50 AM

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Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs:
Office 2016 for Mac exits preview and is now available for Office 365 subscribers, to be released as a one-time purchase this September  —  Office 2016 for Mac is here!  —  Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.
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 …
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 …
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 Aims to Pip Apple to the Post With Earlier Launch  —  Samsung brings forward its Galaxy Note launch to August to gain some ground against rival Apple
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 …
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
More Hacking Team details emerge from breach: Mexico and Italy top client list, product demo for Bangladeshi death squad, attempts to break UK market, more  —  Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More  —  Late Sunday, hackers dumped online …
TechCrunch:
iOS 9 And OS X El Capitan Are Now Available To All As Public Betas  —  As announced at WWDC last month, Apple is making a beta of its newly updated mobile operating system, iOS 9, available to the general public for testing starting today, alongside the beta version of OS X El Capitan, its updated desktop OS.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Introduces “Amazon Fling,” A Developer Toolkit For Sending Media From Mobile Apps To Fire TV  —  Amid a slew of developer-focused announcements from Amazon today focused on things like using AWS for app testing, and the arrival of a new API Gateway service, for example, the company also introduced the new “Amazon Fling” service.

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