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July 5, 2013, 4:35 PM

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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Samsung Electronics' second quarter misses forecast as smartphone worries deepen — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd missed already modest expectations for its quarterly earnings guidance on Friday, deepening worries that its smartphone business may have peaked, as growth in sales …

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung's record $8.3 billion profit isn't enough for worried investors — Samsung today released guidance for its latest financial quarter, and to the average eye they're very positive. The company's early figures reveal an operating profit of 9.5 trillion won (around $8.3 billion) from 57 trillion won ($49.9 billion) revenue.

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Charles Arthur / Guardian:

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Softbank buyout of Sprint, Sprint buyout of ClearWire both approved by FCC — As previously rumored, the FCC has officially approved Softbank's purchase of Sprint and, furthermore, Sprint's purchase of the rest of ClearWire. Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and commissioner Ajit Pai …

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Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Glass Boutique app store, MP3 player, Lock-screen & more revealed — Google's recent XE7 update for its Glass Explorer Edition already shows signs of an unactivated locking system for the wearable, as well as a “Boutique” app store and media player. The official changes in XE7 include a web browser …

More: Engadget, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, AndroidHeadlines.com, TechCrunch, AndroidOS.in, Android Beat, SelfScreens and Softpedia News. Thanks:@c_davies

Andrew Webster / The Verge:

BBC to end 3D TV experiment with ‘Doctor Who’ special later this year — For the past two years the BBC has been experimenting with 3D television, but the technology hasn't quite caught on the way the corporation would've hoped. Because of this, 3D programming will be put on hiatus at the end of this year …

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David Meyer / GigaOM:

European PRISM anger gains momentum with fresh cloud warnings and data threats — There's no stopping the slew of PRISM reactions coming out of Europe, and they're getting more serious by the day. Yesterday we had the first senior European politician suggesting citizens shun U.S. web services …

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Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

EU votes to support suspending U.S. data sharing agreements, including passenger flight data

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Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint:

Google sends invites to 11 July press event - subtly hints at Moto X unveiling in ad? — Google has invited 50 journalists to a small press event from 10 July to 11 July, where Motorola could unveil the Moto X smartphone, according to Leo Laporte. Laporte, a tech reporter …

Eric Mack / CNET:

Moto X not on agenda for upcoming Google event, says source

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Cody Toombs / Android Police:

Falcon Pro Updates To v2.0.4 Outside Of The Play Store, Now Supports A Way To Blatantly Skirt Twitter's Token Limit — Falcon Pro users have had a front-row seat to quite a bit of drama over the last few months. The events started when the app struck its 100,000 user token limit …

More: Joaquim Verges, ZDNet, The Verge, Techie Buzz and Android Beat

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

HTC profit down 83 percent from last year despite flagship launch — HTC has just announced its unaudited results for the second quarter 2013, and they're not pretty. Despite launching a much-lauded flagship smartphone, the HTC one, the company made just NT$1.25 billion (roughly $41 million) …

More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, GigaOM, MobileSyrup.com, AndroidHeadlines.com, Business Insider, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Yahoo! News, SlashGear, Engadget, Android Beat and Computerworld

Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:

Michael Dell, Silver Lake Said to Rule Out Raising Offer — Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management LLC won't sweeten their $24.4 billion offer to take Dell Inc. (DELL) private, people with direct knowledge of the situation said. — Dell and Silver Lake are ruling out an increase …

More: ZDNet and DealBook

Andrew Leonard / Salon:

AdBlock Plus lets some advertisers pay to play — The hugely popular browser extension charges a fee from big advertisers such as Google to let some ads go through — If you use AdBlock Plus to keep your Web browsing experiencing free of annoying clutter, this is the kind of tweet that might grab your attention:

Tweets: @labnol

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Amazon and Barnes & Noble slash prices on tablets in Europe — Consumers in Europe are getting better deals on tablets this week, as both Amazon and Barnes & Noble dropped prices on their devices. — Barnes & Noble, which sells Nook products only in the U.K. and not the rest of Europe …

More: The Next Web, The Digital Reader, AndroidOS.in, Android Authority, SlashGear, Barnes & Noble, Inc. and GSMArena Blog

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