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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Acquires Local Data Outfit Locationary  —  Last September Grant Ritchie, CEO of crowdsourced location data company Locationary, penned an article for TechCrunch describing five challenges Apple faces as it builds out its new mapping service.  Ten months later he's become part of the effort to overcome them.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
With Its Acquisition Of Locationary, Apple Zeros In On Maps, Big Data And Competing With Google  —  After breaking up with Google and forging its own way forward with its mapping service on iOS, Apple is now taking another step on that path: today it emerged that the company has bought Locationary …
Google:
Google Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2013 Results  —  Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013.  “Google had a great quarter with over $14 billion in revenue - up 19% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.  “The shift from one screen to multiple screens …
Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat:
Google fired 5,383 Motorola employees in Q2  —  Google is an ad company, pure and simple.  In the company's Q2 2013 financial results, it said 93% of their revenues came from little blue links for little blue pills from Canada.  Nearly every other thing they do is either losing them money or doesn't generate any money at all.
More: Business Insider and Forbes.  Tweets: @carnage4life
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google Results Show Struggle With Mobile  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Halfway through a year in which Google's stock price had climbed 27 percent, its financial report Thursday indicated to investors that its performance had not matched their expectations.  —  Google reported second-quarter results …
Microsoft:
Microsoft reports fourth-quarter and full-year results  —  REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced quarterly revenue of $19.90 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013.  Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $6.07 billion, $4.97 billion, and $0.59 per share.
Businessweek:
Apple's TV Deals, Like the Time Warner Cable Pact, Fail Its Ambitions  —  Apple (AAPL) has had grand dreams for its Apple TV, a Web-connected streaming receiver that first shipped six years ago.  Customer dissatisfaction with rising cable costs offered the iPod and iPhone maker a chance …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data  —  Staking out new ground in the noisy debate about technology and privacy in law enforcement, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the police will now have to get a search warrant before obtaining tracking information from cellphone providers.
More: Reuters
Rene Ritchie / iMore:
Would you pay again for iOS 7 versions of your favorite apps?  —  iOS 7 is coming, and with it an all-new design language.  Apps will have to update to reflect that change, or risk looking old and outdated, and lose their place to newer, hotter updates and upstarts.
Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times:
VoIP phone hackers pose public safety threat  —  Hospitals, 911 call centers and other public safety agencies can be shut down by hackers using denial-of-service attacks.  —  Officials worry that hackers could knock out crucial infrastructure such as hospitals and 911 call centers.
Eric Pfanner / NYT Bits:
Amazon Rejected as Domain Name After South American Objections  —  A group of Latin American countries appears to have succeeded in an effort to block Amazon, the online retailer, from using. amazon as a new suffix for Internet addresses.  —  A committee of the Internet Corporation …

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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico ask a federal judge for a preliminary injunction to keep their White House access restored after a temporary order expires October 8

John Koblin / New York Times:
Paramount streaming chief Cindy Holland is leaving the company; she joined Skydance as an adviser and became Paramount's direct-to-consumer chief last year

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Disney initiates a third round of layoffs under Josh D'Amaro, sources say impacting a couple hundred staff, largely in HR and tech, smaller than prior rounds

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