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July 13, 2016, 12:05 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google acquires Kifi, a sharing and recommendation app, team to join Spaces, app will be shut down over next few weeks  —  Google has made another small acquisition to help it continue building out its latest efforts in social apps.  The search and Android giant has hired the team behind Kifi …
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Sen. Franken writes to Niantic about Pokémon Go privacy policy scope, 3rd-party sharing, whether some practices could be opt-in, collection of child data, more  —  Always with his finger on the pulse, Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) today sent an official letter to Niantic asking …
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Krystina Gustafson / CNBC:
Amazon's sales rise 60% YoY worldwide, 50% in the US, on Prime Day, making it the biggest sales day ever  —  So much for concerns that the second Prime Day event didn't live up to Amazon's expectations.  —  The online retailer said Wednesday that the self-created holiday was its biggest sales day ever …
Nathan Donato-Weinstein / Silicon Valley Business …:
Google, LinkedIn announce real-estate swap giving Google LinkedIn's Mountain View headquarters and LinkedIn several buildings to consolidate staff in Sunnyvale  —  Putting aside years of fierce competition for scarce real estate in Mountain View, Google Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. have struck a …
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Gartner and IDC numbers show PC shipments grew year-over-year in the US in Q2 2016 but declined worldwide  —  It's not all doom and gloom in the PC world... for once.  Both Gartner and IDC estimate that PC shipments actually grew in the US for the first time in over a year …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Recent events show how Facebook and Twitter serve complementary roles during breaking news, strengthening each other  —  For years, Facebook and Twitter have been at odds over news.  But if we've learned anything in the past week it might be that it's not clear that either service has to lose for the other to win.
TechCrunch:
Codecademy raises $30M Series C, led by Naspers, to aid company's global expansion and brings total funds raised to date to $42.5M  —  Jul 12, 2016, 3:41 amJul 12, 2016, 9:35 am  —  Codecademy, an online coding school with 16 million registered users, has built out its footprint without charging its students a penny to use it.
Oculus:
Oculus says it's finished shipping pre-orders and delivery time is now 2-4 business days, announces Oculus Connect 3 dev. conference for Oct. 5-7 in San Jose  —  Save the date for Oculus Connect 3, coming to San Jose, California, October 5-7!  —  This year's Connect will be our largest …
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Twitter signs deal with Bloomberg to livestream three of its daily shows, will share revenue on ads sold alongside videos  —  Twitter has been ramping up its commitment to streaming live video fairly rapidly over the past week or so, rolling out an experiment from the Wimbledon tennis tournament followed …
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Unity Technologies, which makes the game engine behind Pokémon Go and others, raises $181M at a $1.5B valuation  —  Most game players have never heard of Unity Technologies, but its software was used in the creation of a large number of the world's top mobile games, including the current hit Pokémon Go.

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