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July 10, 2015, 5:35 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

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Pao Out as Reddit CEO; Co-Founder Huffman Takes Over — Ellen Pao is stepping down as Reddit CEO, a move that comes amid mounting pressure after a series of management mishaps that has angered its very vocal online community. Steve Huffman, Reddit co-founder and its original CEO, is taking over immediately.

More: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Bloomberg Business and VentureBeat

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @mathewi

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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: TIME, USA Today, Macworld, Fortune, SlashGear, Tech Times, TechWorm, Neowin, The Verge, MacNN, Business Insider, Billboard, CNET and hypebot. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness. See also Mediagazer

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:

Katherine Archuleta, director of Office of Personnel Management, resigns; Beth Colbert, OPM deputy director of management to serve as interim director — Katherine Archuleta, Director of Office of Personnel Management, Resigns — WASHINGTON — Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office …

More: Wired, Gizmodo, National Journal, Business Insider, Federal Computer Week, SC Magazine and Engadget

Tweets: @csoghoian and @pwnallthethings

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

Alexei Oreskovic / Business Insider:

Twitter's revenue boss, Adam Bain, is the board's top candidate for next CEO — Twitter's board is leaning toward picking an insider to be the company's next CEO, and the company's revenue boss, Adam Bain, is under more serious consideration than anyone on the very short list of outsiders …

More: New York Times, Bloomberg Business, StreetInsider.com, Bidness Etc, InvestCorrectly.com and TheStreet.com. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@mattrosoff

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to discontinue Photosynth and several MSN apps including MSN Health & Fitness and MSN Travel for iOS, Android, and Windows in the coming months — Microsoft to drop a number of its MSN-branded apps — Microsoft is dropping several of its MSN Apps for Windows …

More: VentureBeat, Ars Technica, CNET, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, Technology Personalized and Wpxbox. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Apple finally fixes shift: pressing shift in iOS 9 toggles the case of letters on the keyboard — Apple made a tiny change to the iPhone keyboard that everyone has been begging for — iOS 9, the upcoming operating system for iPhones and iPads, has a seemingly minor new addition to the on-screen keyboard …

More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, RCR Wireless News, Tech Times, International Business Times, TechWorm, Phones Review, TechnoDify, ABC News, Inquirer and Telegraph. Tweets: @lexnfx

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay founders and financier acquitted in Belgian criminal copyright case — Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Criminal Copyright Case — There can be little doubt that The Pirate Bay is the most infamous torrent site of all time. Its attitude towards copyright and related laws …

More: TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, TechWorm, ITProPortal, Plagiarism Today and Slashdot

VentureBeat:

Facebook mobile ad policy change may force game publishers to hand over proprietary user data to Facebook, which pubs fear could then be sold 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, Gamasutra and AdExchanger

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

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, Capital New York, Daring Fireball and Fortune

Tweets: @dylanbyers, @joepompeo, @benthompson, @elongreen, @mims and @johnpaczkowski

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