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July 28, 2015, 6:40 PM

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Sources say Twitter's list of outside CEO candidates is lacking, pointing to Dorsey or Bain, with Bain in lead because of Dorsey's Square commitment — Adam Bain Is Soooo Nice, Jack Dorsey's Hamlet Act and Other Things You Need to Know About the Twitter CEO Search

More: The Verge, CNET, PCWorld, Marketing Land, GeekWire, Engadget, ZDNet, VentureBeat and Seeking Alpha

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Twitter added just 2M MAUs in Q2, excluding “SMS Fast Followers” — Twitter Asks for More Time to Fix Things — and Freaks Out Wall Street — Twitter added just two million new core users last quarter, and while it also beat Wall Street revenue estimates, investors still aren't buying the Twitter story.

More: ABC News, The Register, Business Insider, CNET, ZDNet and Seeking Alpha. See also Mediagazer

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Twitter reports better-than-expected Q2 revenue of $502M with just 316M MAUs, a number that includes “SMS Fast Followers” — Twitter Pops 4% After Reporting Better-Than-Expected Q2 Revenue And Profit Along With Anemic User Growth — Update: Twitter shares fell to flat in after-hours trading …

More: Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, VatorNews, Tech Trader Daily, Wired and WebProNews

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Twitter IR:

Twitter Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results — SAN FRANCISCO, California - Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015. • Q2 revenue of $502 million, up 61% year-over-year, and above the previously forecast range of $470 million to $485 million.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @jguynn, @lexnfx, @vindugoel, @jguynn, @mikeisaac and @twitterir

Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat:

Twitter's director of product management Todd Jackson departs for Dropbox, while head of growth Christian Oestlien moves to YouTube — Twitter's heads of Growth, Product are gone — Just a few minutes into Twitter's quarterly earnings report, we've already seen two major departures.

More: Re/code, Business Insider, New York Times and ZDNet

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Motorola unveils $399 Motorola X Style with Universal LTE in US, $299 Moto X Play globally, and an upgraded, waterproof, and customizable $179 Moto G — Motorola doubles down on Moto X with Style, Play, updates Moto G — The Moto X Style will be known as the Pure Edition in the US, and will be sold directly to consumers.

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Moto X Style to be rebranded as Moto X Pure in the US, to be sold unlocked for $399 this fall

More: Phandroid

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Moto G hands-on: Motorola's most popular phone gets a premium upgrade

More: The Hindu, BGR, Gizmodo, Times of India, The Verge and Gotta Be Mobile

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Hands-on with Motorola's new Moto X Style: fast 21MP camera, sleek feel despite large 5.7-inch display

More: Tom's Guide, Engadget, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Police and Gizmodo

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 10 review: a great fix to the problems of Windows 8 with the new Start menu, Cortana, and more, but bugs linger and Edge browser lacks extensions — Windows 10 review — Looking back at Windows 8, it's easy to see where Microsoft went wrong. It was a giant bet on touch-based computing …

More: Ars Technica, ZDNet, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Re/code, Computerworld, Laptop Mag, Yahoo Tech, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Talking New Media, Microsoft News, TIME and TechEye

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Amazon Takes On Product Hunt, Shopify With Launchpad, An All-In-One Marketing And Sales Portal — Product Hunt has made a splash as a new place for startups to market new products, Shopify offers a way for them to easily start selling their products online, and Shyp takes the pain …

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Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune:

Intel and Micron unveil new storage chip called 3D Xpoint that's 1,000 times faster than flash memory, doesn't use transistors, and is already in production — Intel and Micron team up to launch a new class of computer memory — The decade-long partnership between Intel and Micron to build better NAND …

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Cam Bunton / 9to5Mac:

T-Mobile adds free Apple Music cellular streaming, offers free next-gen iPhone upgrades to iPhone 6 buyers — Summer for T-Mobile this year has meant announcing a series of promotions and plans dubbed #UncarrierAmped. Today, the company launched the latest, and last of these moves.

More: T-Mobile Newsroom, CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, The Daily Dot, MacRumors, TechCrunch, InvestorPlace, Consumerist, Macworld, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, GeekWire, iMore and iLounge. Tweets: @apollozac

Noah Kulwin / Re/code:

Two Weeks After Content Policy Update, Reddit's Head of Community, Jessica Moreno, Has Left the Company — Reddit's head of community, Jessica Moreno, has left the company. She is the fourth senior female employee to exit in less than a month. — Moreno and her husband …

More: The Daily Dot, SiliconBeat, TechSpot, Business Insider, bizjournals, CNET and Forbes

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @dannysullivan and @dhh

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Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

DHI Group plans to sell off Slashdot and Sourceforge — “The Company... has not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base.” — DHI Group—formerly known as Dice Holdings Incorporated prior to this April—announced plans this morning to sell the combination of Slashdot and SourceForge.

More: The Register, PR Newswire, Ars Technica UK, NASDAQ.com, StreetInsider.com and Adafruit Industries. Tweets: @ahess247

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Android users can now say ‘Ok Google’ to send messages via WhatsApp, WeChat, NextPlus, Telegram, and Viber — In April, Google launched custom voice actions on Android, allowing users to control select third-party apps simply by starting with the “Ok Google” command.

More: The Next Web, PCWorld, PhoneDog.com, Android Police, KRWG News22, SlashGear, The Verge, Droid Life, Android Authority, Rapid News Network, Android Beat and Android Central

Julia Fioretti / Reuters:

German regulator orders Facebook to allow pseudonyms — Facebook may not prevent its users from using fake names, a German privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, in the latest privacy setback for the U.S. company in Europe. — The Hamburg data protection authority, which is responsible …

More: BetaNews, Engadget, Tech Times and The Next Web

Mehedi Hassan / Microsoft News:

Microsoft Arrow Launcher for Android currently in private beta, APK leaks online — This is Microsoft's Arrow Launcher for Android (download APK) — Microsoft is currently working on a new Android app, and it's an Android launcher. The company's latest app is Arrow Launcher and it is currently …

More: Digital Trends, PCWorld, Android Beat, GeekWire, The Verge, Rapid News Network, Geek.com, TIME, Neowin, Pocketnow, Android Community and TechnoBuffalo. Thanks:@mehedih_

Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:

Yelp Drops 14% After Reporting A Profit Miss In Q2 On Stronger-Than-Expected Revenue Of $133.9M — Following the bell, Yelp reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $133.9 million, and a per-share loss of $0.02. The street had expected Yelp to generate a cent …

More: Yelp IR, VentureBeat, Marketing Land and Tech Trader Daily

Reuters:

Sources: education company Blackboard seeks $3B sale; Bank of America and Deutsche Bank hired to run auction — Exclusive: Education company Blackboard seeks $3 billion sale - sources — Blackboard Inc, a U.S. software company that provides learning tools for high school and university classrooms …

More: EdSurge

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Hands-on with OnePlus 2: Impressive specs for the price with thoughtful software additions, fingerprint unlock sensor works as advertised — The OnePlus 2 pushes the boundaries of how cheap a flagship phone can be — There are more options than ever for getting a good, cheap smartphone, and last year's OnePlus One was a standout.

More: TIME, Android Police, Re/code, TechNode, Android Beat, Pocketnow, Android Beat, Wired, Android Authority and 9to5Google

Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority:

OnePlus 2 announced: available Aug. 11, starts at $329 before taxes, with 5.5" 1080p display, Snapdragon 810, 13MP f/2.0 rear camera, USB-C, fingerprint sensor

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