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July 11, 2013, 6:15 PM

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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.  — Today, we are announcing a far-reaching realignment …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Guardian:
Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages  —  • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism  —  • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch  —  • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 1020: a 41-megapixel Windows Phone available on July 26th for $299.99 at AT&T  —  After weeks of leaks, Nokia is making its Lumia 1020 handset official on Thursday.  The Finnish smartphone maker has just unveiled its latest flagship Windows Phone on stage at an event in New York.
David Kravets / Wired:
RIAA Wants Infamous File-Sharer to Campaign Against Piracy  —  Did you hear the one about the world's most infamous music file-sharer being asked to publicly extol the virtues of the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy platform?  —  The RIAA is suggesting Jammie Thomas-Rasset do just that.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Verizon joins Ubuntu's potential smartphone launch partners  —  Verizon will help “shape” Ubuntu phone OS, possibly sell the phones.  Verizon Wireless today joined Canonical's “Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group (CAG),” meaning the company is exploring smartphones based on Ubuntu.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
YouWeb Founder Peter Relan Debuts New Company Building Studio And Accelerator, 9+; Raises $2M In Funding  —  As we reported a couple of weeks ago, serial entrepreneur Peter Relan is sunsetting his gaming and mobile focused incubator YouWeb, which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint and others.
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.
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.

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