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July 7, 2014, 4:10 PM

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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: ZDNet, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Gigaom, Re/code and New York Times

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Oculus Debuts Oculus Connect Developer Conference, Acquires RakNet And Open Sources Its Tech — Oculus made a couple of announcements today, including the acquisition of middleware game-network technology provider RakNet, which powers cross-platform voice chat, SQL logging …

More: Oculus VR, PC World, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Gigaom, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, USA Today, Fortune, Turnstyle, CNET, Re/code, Engadget and SlashGear

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: VentureBeat. Tweets: @ccgus

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, GeekWire, Engadget, iMore and Re/code

Tweets: @profjeffjarvis, @startupljackson and @caseynewton

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Google sets aside as much as $500M to expand Shopping Express nationwide, fend off Amazon — Inside Google's Big Plan to Race Amazon to Your Door — Google is the undisputed king of search in all but one lucrative and vital category: Product searches. — Over the past decade …

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Tweets: @delrey, @stilenius and @stevesilberman

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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

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Gartner: Device Shipments Break 2.4B Units In 2014, Tablets To Overtake PC Sales In 2015 — The gradual decline of the PC industry, spurred on by the rapid rise of mobile computing, continues apace. Today the analysts at Gartner have published their latest forecasts for global PC, tablet …

More: Gartner, PC World, eWeek, The Next Web, GeekWire, The Drum, ZDNet, Softpedia News, AndroidHeadlines.com, Gigaom, GSMArena Blog, Telegraph and dailywireless.org. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

LG's G3 and G Watch are coming to AT&T on July 11th — Sprint and T-Mobile may have been the first big US carriers to announce launch plans for LG's G3 smartphone, but they won't be the first to actually carry it. AT&T has revealed that both the G3 and the Android Wear-based G Watch …

More: AT&T, Gigaom, LAPTOP Magazine, Android Central, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, DailyTech, Phones Review, Pocketnow, Phandroid, Ubergizmo and Droid Life

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.

Thanks:@parmy

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, Engadget, The Verge and Business Insider

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

How Twitch's Founders Turned an Aimless Reality Show Into a Video Juggernaut — Broadcasting yourself playing videogames online may not sound like a billion dollar business. But that's just a matter of who you ask. — Twitch, the three-year-old video site is raising eyebrows across …

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