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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 …

Terry Myerson / Windows Blog:

Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today — When we first unveiled Windows 10 in September, we outlined our plans for a new era of Windows. We wanted to create a Windows that empowered people and organizations to do great things. Our vision was one platform, one store …

More: VentureBeat, Microsoft News, eWeek, TechCrunch, NEWS.com.au and ITworld.com. Thanks:@brandonleblanc

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Windows 10: fine for laptops but not desktops, OS lacks functionality and apps, best to wait for more features and new machines, expected in fall — Review: Goodbye, Windows 8; hello, Windows 10 — Here's my 'non-reviewer's review' of Windows 10 after using it for a week.

More: Guardian, Mashable, Yahoo Tech, Delimiter, TechSpot, ITworld.com and gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @realdarrencohen

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed — Your very own personal assistant, a better browser... and something called the Start menu. — I'm more conflicted about Windows 10 than I have been about any previous version of Windows.

More: CNET, Computerworld, NEWS.com.au, Gizmodo, The Next Web and Business Insider

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: Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Verge, Social Media Today, Computerworld, PCWorld, CNET, Engadget, Marketing Land, ZDNet, GeekWire, VentureBeat and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @pkafka, @jyarow, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

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: The Register, CNET, Fortune, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha and ZDNet. See also Mediagazer

Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat:

Twitter's director of product management Todd Jackson departs for Dropbox, while head of growth Christian Oestlien moves to YouTube

More: Re/code, Forbes, New York Times, Yahoo! Finance and Business Insider

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Twitter reports better-than-expected Q2 revenue of $502M with just 316M MAUs, a number that includes “SMS Fast Followers”

More: Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, TechCrunch, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Wired, WebProNews and International Business Times

Tweets: @vivian, @mikeisaac and @sacca

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Ben Popper / The Verge:

Amazon unveils a proposal for drone-only airspace that would allow for high-speed delivery — Amazon provides new details on its plan for a drone superhighway in the sky — When I arrived in San Jose last night, the newspaper on the front desk at the hotel had this headline splashed across …

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Nokia's Ozo is a 360 degree VR camera for professionals with fast low-res rendering for rapid playback, price expected to be in the mid-five figures — Nokia reveals Ozo, a futuristic new camera for filming virtual reality — Microsoft bought Nokia's handset business in 2013, two big questions hovered above all.

More: Nokia, CNET, PCWorld, AppleInsider, Engadget, Re/code, VentureBeat, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo and SlashGear

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

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

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

More: Times of India, The Hindu, The Verge, Gizmodo, BGR 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, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Police and Gizmodo

Sean O'Neill / Tnooz:

Investors pour $16M into Tripping, a vacation rental search engine — Tripping.com has raised $16 million in Series B financing. The company also hit an inventory record of more than 5 million property listings. — Steadfast Venture Capital, an early-stage investment firm in New York City, led the round.

More: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Business Wire, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Crowdfund Insider and VentureBeat

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Coding bootcamps to graduate 16K students in 2015, up from 6,740 in 2014, almost one-third as many as all US Computer Science departments — As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change — SAN FRANCISCO — After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.

Tweets: @reformedbroker, @peteskomoroch, @tmcw, @amcafee, @puiwingtam and @maya_sen

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 …

More: Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, PCWorld, Microsoft News, Windows Central, TechEye, TheStreet.com and Seeking Alpha

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Citrix aims to simplify, unload GoTo business as CEO retires — Citrix's second quarter showed improvement, but the company is evaluating multiple alternatives as it reaches a deal with activist investor Elliott Management. — Citrix said it is reviewing plans for its GoTo family of products …

More: Tech Trader Daily, eWeek, Business Wire, New York Times, miamiherald, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, Fortune and rcpmag.com

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

Expensify launches venture arm for strategic investments in business travel, payments, and finance startups using part of their recently raised $17M — Expensify Launches Venture Arm With Part of $17M New Round — One company can't pursue all of the good ideas in its industry …

More: Business Wire, Payment Week, PYMNTS.com, PE Hub Blog and silicontap.com

Tweets: @mdudas, @startupljackson and @semil

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 …

Brian Crecente / Polygon:

Razer says it will pay what Ouya owes to indie devs — Razer will make good on more than $600,000 in funds potentially owed indie developers as part of Ouya's Free the Games initiative, the company's CEO tells Polygon. — Only about a quarter of the developers promised matching support …

More: Motherboard, Engadget, MacNN, Tech Times, Geek.com, Digital Trends, Android Police, Twinfinite, destructoid, The Verge, Ubergizmo, ExtremeTech, SiliconANGLE, Kotaku, razerzone.com, GamesIndustry.biz and TechCrunch

Tweets: @sanatanamishra and @lewiep

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