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July 8, 2014, 4:27 AM

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Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung Sees Phone Rebound After Earnings Miss Estimates — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted second-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as the world's biggest smartphone maker loses market share to Apple Inc. (AAPL) and less expensive devices from Chinese manufacturers.

More: Re/code, CNET, ABC News, Reuters, PC World, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @bloombergnews, @mattrosoff, @satariano and @counternotions

Wall Street Journal:

Box raises $150M more from TPG and Coatue Management at $2.4B valuation, expects IPO after labor day — Web-Storage Startup Box Raises $150 Million as It Awaits IPO — Box Inc. has bought itself some breathing room as it waits for a more suitable time to hold an initial public offering.

More: Business Wire, ZDNet, PandoDaily, Re/code, CITEworld Matt Rosoff, CNET, VatorNews, New York Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, GeekWire and Gigaom

Tweets: @dmac1 and @mattlynley

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Box's updated S1 shows Q1 sales up 94% and losses up just 11% year-on-year — Pace Quickens Toward Box's IPO as Q2 Sales Nearly Double — Cloud storage and collaboration firm Box nearly doubled in size and revenue in the last quarter, but it did so as losses deepened, albeit at a slower rate than in earlier periods.

More: eWeek, Quartz, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat and bizjournals. Tweets: @ahess247. Thanks:@ahess247

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Keith Rabois' Homebuying Startup OpenDoor Raises $9.95M From Everyone — Well. — It seems like a lot of Valley investors want to see the process of buying homes become a lot more efficient. — After Khosla Ventures VC and former Square COO Keith Rabois teased that he was working …

More: VentureBeat, bizjournals and Re/code

Tweets: @howardlindzon and @mike_greenfield

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, A Next-Generation Email Platform — Founded by Dropbox and MIT alums, a new startup called Inbox is launching out of stealth today, hoping to power the next generation of email applications. Similar to the newly launched Gmail API, Inbox offers a more modern …

More: Business Insider, Electronista, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Tweets: @jmspool, @steveklabnik, @justin and @ccgus

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Twitter Replaces Media Chief Chloe Sladden with Katie Stanton (Exclusive) — Less than a month after the departure of Twitter Media chief Chloe Sladden, the social media giant has found her replacement. — Katie Stanton, previously vice president of international market development …

Tweets: @awallenstein and @chloes. See also Mediagazer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple bolsters iOS 8 Health app with on-device steps counting & caffeine tracking — Apple has made significant enhancements to its upcoming Health application for iOS 8 in the latest beta of the new iPhone operating system. Most notably, the Health application can now utilize …

More: BGR, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Gigaom, MacNN and App Advice. Tweets: @tim. Thanks:@mikebeas

Philip Guo / Communications of the ACM:

Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities … At the time of writing (July 2014), Python is currently the most popular language for teaching introductory computer science courses at top-ranked U.S. departments. — Specifically, eight …

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Nearly undetectable ATM skimmers threaten regions like the US that haven't adopted more secure “chip & PIN” tech — The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers — Like most electronic gadgets these days, ATM skimmers are getting smaller and thinner, with extended battery life.

More: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Engadget, The Verge and Business Insider. Tweets: @ec

Angelica Mari / ZDNet:

20 armed, disguised men steal $36M worth of Samsung products from Brazil factory; nobody hurt — Samsung suffers massive robbery in Brazil — Summary: Approximately $36m worth of products have been stolen from a São Paulo factory — In an operation that resembled the 1978 Lufthansa heist …

More: Reuters, Engadget, AndroidHeadlines.com, Electronista, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Bloomberg and SamMobile

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iPhone 6 Front Panel Subjected to Scratch Test, Significant Bending — Earlier today, we shared a video of what appeared to be the front panel of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 subjected to a limited bending stress test, but YouTube user Marques Brownlee has now acquired the same front panel and subjected …

More: The Tech Block, YouTube, MacRumors, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Daring Fireball and Tapscape

Tweets: @lukew and @thetechblock

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

New Zealand ISP allows its customers to subscribe to the U.S. version of Netflix — Slingshot, a local internet provider in New Zealand, wants to give its subscribers a little extra perk: The ISP just added a new “global mode” to its internet plans that allows its customers to access video services …

More: The Next Web, Computerworld, DSLreports, Computerworld News …, Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand Herald, TVNZ, CNET and New Zealand Herald. See also Mediagazer

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Isis mobile wallet will rebrand to avoid sharing name with violent militant group — Isis is facing an identity crisis. The company behind the mobile wallet app has announced it will rebrand to avoid sharing its name with the extremist militant group ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

More: Isis News, ABC News, ZDNet, Gigaom, Fortune, PhoneNews.com, The Register, CIO.com, CNNMoney.com, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, Electronista, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Android Central, CNET, Engadget and Gizmodo

Tweets: @harrymccracken, @caseynewton, @profjeffjarvis and @startupljackson

Stan Higgins / CoinDesk:

Next Bitcoin Core Version to Include ‘Smarter’ Transaction Fees — Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen has outlined the details of new floating transaction fees to be included in the code of the next Bitcoin Core release. — In a new post on the official Bitcoin Foundation blog …

More: Bitcoin Foundation and NEWSBTC

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

How John Arrillaga Sr. turned orchards into office parks for Silicon Valley's tech giants — The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley — How John Arrillaga Sr. transformed California fruit orchards into high-priced office space for the likes of Google, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco.

More: Valleywag and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @stephaniemehta. Thanks:@jpmanga

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Waze trades aggregate anonymous user data to local governments for sensor and camera data; Moovit and Strava make similar deals — Why Google's Waze Is Helping Local Governments Track Users — In Rio de Janeiro most eyes are on the final, nail-biting matches of the World Cup.

More: The Daily Caller and dailywireless.org. Tweets: @dwr, @wadhwa, @om and @ourielohayon. Thanks:@parmy

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Samsung, Intel, Dell team up on standards for connected gadgets — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, Intel Corp and Dell have joined to establish standard ways for household gadgets like thermostats and light bulbs to talk to each other, at odds with a framework backed by Qualcomm, LG Electronics and other companies.

More: New York Times, Gigaom, ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget, PC World, CNET, VentureBeat, Re/code, Bloomberg and FierceWireless

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

How malicious community edits on Google Maps can destroy a business — How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will — Rene Bertagna blames Google for the death of his restaurant, Serbian Crown. Courtesy Rene Bertagna — Washington DC-area residents with a hankering …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @dangillmor

Joe Rossignol / 9to5Google:

YouTube approaches 300M viewing hrs per day, fell short of estimates w/ $3.5B revenue in 2013 — YouTube has established itself as a mainstream platform for streaming video content online, but its ambitious goal of reaching 1 billion “watch time” hours per day through 2016 is reportedly lagging behind expectations.

More: The Information, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, Mashable and Gigaom. Thanks:@rsgnl

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