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July 11, 2013, 10:55 AM

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Ryan Tate / Wired:

The Rise of Julie Larson-Green, the Heir Apparent at Microsoft — It remains to be seen whether the Microsoft reorganization announced by CEO Steve Ballmer this morning can rejuvenate the once-mighty software company. But one thing is crystal clear: The reshuffling marks another huge win …

More: AllThingsD and LAPTOP Magazine

Microsoft:

One Microsoft: Company realigns to enable innovation at greater speed, efficiency — Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding changes in the senior leadership team at the company. — From: Steveb — To: All Employees

Microsoft:

Transforming Our Company — As the times change, so must our company. — In the 37 years that Microsoft has been helping to improve people's lives by helping them to realize their own potential with technology, we have seen exactly the kind of transformation we had hoped for when we set …

More: GeekWire, Business Insider and Digits. Tweets: @edbott

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Here's Microsoft's New Strategy Essay and Reorg Announcement (Memos) — Microsoft announced a major reorg today, so here's the strategy document and email to employees from CEO Steve Ballmer, in their entirety:

More: Gizmodo, ZDNet, BGR and Yahoo! News

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft 3.0: A meaner, leaner devices and services machine? — Summary: Microsoft officials announced its latest expected cross-company reorg designed to better deliver on its new devices and services charter. Here's who ended up where. — On July 11, Microsoft officials announced details …

More: Softpedia News

Tom Warren / The Verge:

This is Nokia's Lumia 1020, a 41-megapixel Windows Phone camera — Nokia is holding a press event in New York on Thursday to “reinvent zoom,” but here's the star of the show: the Lumia 1020. The Verge understands that Nokia will unveil its Lumia 1020 Windows Phone complete with a 41-megapixel camera and PureView branding.

More: UnleashThePhones, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CNET, My Nokia Blog, Engadget, AllThingsD, Windows Phone Central, Gearburn, SlashGear, Electronista, LiveSide.net, Pocketnow, WMPoweruser, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, WMPoweruser and Softpedia News

Tweets: @vizileaks and @vizileaks

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 1020 confirmed on AT&T YouTube channel (video) — We imagine the poor soul that flipped the switch a bit too early on Nokia's latest flagship will be in the unemployment queue come 9AM. AT&T just posted the Lumia 1020 on its YouTube channel, complete with a very basic walkthrough of the interface and hardware design.

More: GigaOM, Examiner, ReadWrite, The Next Web, BGR, Business Insider, SlashGear, IntoMobile, PhoneArena and Windows Phone Central

The Verge:

Live from Nokia's ‘zoom reinvented’ event

More: BGR, TechCrunch, Engadget, AnandTech and CNET

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google to Spend Up to $500 Million Marketing ‘Moto X’ Phone — All Four Major US Wireless Carriers Expected to Sell Device This Fall — As Motorola Mobility prepares to unveil its first flagship smartphone since being acquired by Google Inc. last year, new details are emerging …

More: Examiner, TechEye, 9to5Google, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, MobileBurn.com, CNET, Android Authority, WebProNews, Android Beat, Gizmodo, Android Community, PhoneArena, The Verge, Digits and IntoMobile

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's quarter of lowered expectations: Fiscal Q3 2013 — Wall Street is looking for Apple to report zero revenue growth. — FORTUNE — On April 24, the day after Apple (AAPL) reported its earnings for fiscal Q2, Cowan and Company's Matthew Hoffman published a revised forecast for the following quarter.

More: ReadWrite, Computerworld, MacDailyNews, BGR, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

IFTTT comes to iPhone with a crisp app featuring native Photos, Reminders and Contacts channels — The digital glue service IFTTT is finally launching an iPhone app and it brings with it a set of new channels specific to Apple's platform and a lovely mobile platform for both building and using its automated actions.

More: IFTTT, iMore, GigaOM, Guardian, Mashable, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Lifehacker, TUAW, iPhone, MacNN, Ubergizmo, The Verge, SlashGear, AllThingsD, GigaOM, MacStories, Engadget, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks and Gizmodo

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Meet Lumi, the no-effort content discovery engine from the founders of Last.fm — What do you do when you've built a product up from nothing to the point of being acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars by a massive American corporation? You take some time off.

More: CNET, Guardian, Telegraph, TechCrunch, GigaOM and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference — Since its founding in 1992, Defcon has been a venue where anarchists, geeks, and employees of three-letter federal agencies became unlikely comrades under a live-and-let-live credo that placed the love of computer tinkering above almost everything else.

More: DEF CON® Hacking Conference, Reuters, Krebs on Security, CNET, Inquirer, Overhack, ZDNet, SiliconBeat and SlashGear

Adam Tanner / Forbes:

Data Brokers Are Now Selling Your Car's Location For $10 Online — The Berkeley Marina, a stretch of park and an enclosed yacht harbor, juts into the San Francisco Bay. Visitors regularly drive there to admire the dramatic view that includes Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge.

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon an Advantage — Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs.

More: Reuters, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Kindle Review, Forbes, paidContent and paidContent. See also Mediagazer

Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:

Exclusive: Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA Prism requests — SUNNYVALE — In a rare legal move, Yahoo (YHOO) is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role in persuading tech companies to cooperate …

More: The Register, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Guardian, Mashable, CNET and The Next Web. Thanks:@mercbizbreak

Richard Chirgwin / The Register:

HP admits to backdoors in storage products — Usernames and passwords in the wild, factory resets possible — Hewlett-Packard has agreed that there is an undocumented administrative account in its StoreVirtual products, and is promising a patch by 17 July.

More: ZDNet

Jo Best / ZDNet:

European ISPs hit with antitrust raids — Summary: The European Commission's antitrust watchdogs have raided the offices of a number of European “internet connectivity providers”. — Jo Best — The European Commission has carried out a series of raids on ISPs over possible antitrust breaches.

More: GigaOM, Inquirer, PC World and Reuters

Dara Kerr / CNET:

LG unveils world's thinnest HD LCD smartphone panel — Measuring 5.2 inches long and only 2.2 mm thick, new display panels being developed by LG could prompt the move toward slimmer and lighter mobile devices. — LG Display is working on what it says is the world's slimmest smartphone panel.

More: LG Display Newsroom, Inquirer, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, SlashGear, techeblog.com, Gearburn and Electronista

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

PC Shipments Drop 11% in Q2, Say Gartner, IDC; Longest-Ever Period of Decline — Gartner this afternoon reports that worldwide personal computer shipments totaled 76 million in Q2, according to its preliminary estimate, an 11% drop from 85.32 million in the year-earlier period …

More: IDC, Ars Technica, Guardian, Gartner, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, BGR, The Next Web, Fortune, BBC, InfoWorld, AllThingsD, CNET, Inquirer, EE Times, Mercury News, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, NYT Bits, Electronista, GeekWire, CNET, CNET, Associated Press, Reuters, CITEworld, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Business Insider, ZDNet and Wall Street Journal

Casey Newton / The Verge:

How Apple changed the world again: the App Store turns five — Apple's mobile software marketplace kickstarted the post-PC era — so why was Steve Jobs so against it? — Five years ago today, the App Store opened for business. On its first day, the store offered 500 applications …

More: BBC, PandoDaily, Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, Washington Post, SplatF, BGR, CITEworld, BetaNews, MacStories, Mashable, Wired, Geek.com, iMore, Datamation.com, ReadWrite and PhoneArena

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