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July 10, 2015, 11:30 AM

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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

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 …

More: Co.Design, GamePolitics blogs, AdExchanger and Gamasutra

Tweets: @vindugoel, @jordannovet, @jeffgrubb, @paulgreenberg, @mewoki and @kathyastromoff

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 …

More: The Verge, Fortune, MacNN, Billboard, Neowin, Business Insider, CNET, hypebot, Music Ally and The Verge. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: ZDNet, Engadget, TechCrunch and PhoneArena

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Bloomberg fires top digital editor Josh Topolsky — Joshua Topolsky, the top digital editor at Bloomberg, has been fired from the company due to Michael Bloomberg's frustration with the website, sources with knowledge of his departure told the On Media blog on Friday.

More: New York Times. Tweets: @elongreen, @mims, @joepompeo and @dylanbyers. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: TechCrunch, GitLab, Business Insider, tech.co, SiliconANGLE and VatorNews

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 …

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 …

More: Business Wire, Gartner, AppleInsider, TechEye, eWeek, Digital Trends, Business Insider, ZDNet, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Gigaom Research, blog.chron.com, Computerworld, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Bloomberg Business, Seeking Alpha and BetaNews

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Splunk acquires cybersecurity startup Caspida for $190M — Publicly traded log analytics company Splunk announced today that it has acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for a total of $190 million. — “Splunk customers now have out-of-the-box user behavioral analytics to help detect …

More: Splunk, ZDNet, TechCrunch, bizjournals, SiliconANGLE, NASDAQ.com, ARN and Seeking Alpha

Rhea Borja / Conversations:

Microsoft Lumia 735 now available in Verizon stores in US for $29.99 on two-year contract, and in the Microsoft store for $199 with no contract — The Microsoft Lumia 735 is available in the U.S. in Verizon Wireless retail stores and online — Starting today, Verizon Wireless will sell …

More: Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News, WinBeta and BetaNews

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 …

More: The Reykjavik Grapevine, Engadget, International Business Times, Forbes, Firedoglake and Ars Technica UK. Tweets: @ioerror

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