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July 21, 2015, 10:20 AM

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Giuseppe Macri / InsideSources:

Group of big Silicon Valley firms, including Facebook, Google, Dell, HP, and eBay, filed amicus brief siding with Samsung in Apple patent case — Silicon Valley's Biggest Companies Take Samsung's Side in Apple Patent Fight — A group of Silicon Valley's biggest companies including Facebook …

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

The open web can't flourish if vendors don't work towards closing the rendering performance gap between desktop and mobile web browsers — The mobile web sucks — I hate browsing the web on my phone. — I do it all the time, of course — we all do. Just looking at the stats for The Verge …

More: Guardian. Tweets: @dsilverman, @dangillmor, @mjasay, @joshuatopolsky, @nxthompson, @benthompson, @s_m_i, @lock and @waltmossberg

AnandTech:

Apple Watch review: best wearable ever, but hard to recommend this first generation version — The Apple Watch Review — Prior to the launch of the Apple Watch, there had been rumors that Apple would make a watch for quite some time. In a broader sense, the wearables industry has become …

More: The Overspill and WatchAware

Bloomberg Business:

Toshiba Executives Resign Over $1.2 Billion Accounting Scandal … Toshiba Corp. President Hisao Tanaka and two other executives quit to take responsibility for a $1.2 billion accounting scandal that caused the company to restate earnings for more than six years.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, TechEye, CNNMoney, BBC, Computerworld, The Next Web, Guardian, Gizmodo, Engadget, Windows Central, Pocket-lint, Bloomberg View, Business Insider, TIME, ZDNet, Seeking Alpha and Wall Street Journal

Karissa Bell / Mashable:

Twitter just removed your homepage wallpaper, and people are furious — If Twitter.com is looking a little different right now, it's not just you. — The company has removed wallpapers from users' home and notifications timelines on Twitter.com Monday, Twitter confirmed Monday.

More: Engadget, Wired, Telegraph, CNET, VentureBeat, TIME, The Next Web, Guardian, GitHub, TechCrunch, BetaNews, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, bgr.in, Pocket-lint and SlashGear

Mark Bergen / Re/code:

Profile of Omid Kordestani, Google's chief business officer, who has the absolute trust of Larry Page — ‘The Soul of Google’: What the Return of Omid Kordestani Says About the Mountain View Monolith — It is no exaggeration to say that Omid Kordestani may be the most likable person in Silicon Valley.

More: Beyond Search. Tweets: @mdudas and @stevenlevy

Wall Street Journal:

Qualcomm to Conduct Strategic Review, May Consider Breakup — Chip maker may also look at returning more cash to shareholders after activist investor presses for change — Qualcomm Inc. is expected to conduct a sweeping strategic review that will look at the possibility of a breakup …

More: Tech Trader Daily, The Register, Fortune, Android Authority and Seeking Alpha

Reuters:

Qualcomm reportedly prepares to announce layoffs of thousands of employees, over 10% of its 30K-strong workforce, during earnings report on Wednesday

More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, Tech Trader Daily, Inquirer, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, Neowin, PE Hub Blog and socalTECH.com

Wall Street Journal:

Apple hires former Fiat Chrysler SVP Doug Betts who led global quality — Apple Hires Auto Industry Manufacturing Veteran — Hiring of Doug Betts may be signal that efforts to develop electric car may be gaining ground — Apple Inc. has hired one of the auto industry's veteran manufacturing executives …

Christopher Heine / Adweek:

GoPro introduces stock video licensing service, starting with 600 videos priced at $1K each and up — Brands Are About to Find Out How Powerful GoPro Videos Can Be — Spellbinding scenes captured by adventure seekers and even wildlife made GoPro the hottest video camera around.

More: GoPro, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Tubefilter, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Engadget and Pocket-lint. See also Mediagazer

David Pierce / Wired:

Inside Spotify's Hunt for the Perfect Playlist — What kind of music do you listen to? Your answer is probably something like, “Oh, a little bit of everything.” Or maybe, “Anything but country and metal.” (And polka. Everybody hates polka.) The honest truth is, you probably don't know.

More: Spotify Press, everwas, Music Ally and RAIN News

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Analysts expect iPhone sales to propel Apple's Q3 results with 49-50M shipped, company to post earnings of $1.80/share on $49.26B revenue — Strong iPhone Sales Expected to Propel Apple's Results, Anticipation Surrounds the Watch — As Apple prepares to release its June quarter results …

More: Fortune, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, Tech Trader Daily, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Associated Press, FierceMobileIT News, Benzinga, CNBC, Forbes, MacDailyNews, International Business Times, The Mac Observer and CNET

Anthony Clark / Local News from The Gainesville Sun:

Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, 28, found dead at home; no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs found — Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home — Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, a pioneer in Gainesville's student startup movement, was found dead in his bed Sunday …

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube stars post only one-fifth of their videos on Facebook, which lacks an established ad revenue sharing model — YouTube Stars Keep Facebook at Arm's Length For Now — Nearly a year ago, Facebook started reaching out to YouTube stars and multichannel networks, encouraging …

More: Tubefilter. Tweets: @wsjcmo and @rajhathi

CNN:

Drones interfere with wildfire-fighting efforts in Los Angeles — California wildfires 11 photos — Smoke from a wildfire rises above Interstate 15 on the Cajon Pass, on July 15 near San Bernardino. — Hide Caption 7 of 11 — The scorched remains of a truck destroyed by the North Fire …

More: Tech Times

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Prismatic pivots from offering consumer-facing news aggregation to B2B services for publishers, developers, and hedge funds — Prismatic Pivots To B2B, Packaging Its Content Interest Graph Into APIs For Different Verticals — The market for news reading apps got a little more crowded earlier …

Tweets: @rafat. See also Mediagazer

Dennis Fisher / Threatpost:

Google Calls Proposed U.S. Wassenaar Rules ‘Not Feasible’ — As the clock winds down on the comment period for the United States government's proposed implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement export controls for intrusion software, Google officials say that the rules would have a “significant negative impact” on security research.

More: Help Net Security, Google Online Security Blog, The Register, AndroidHeadlines.com and The Verge

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