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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon offers some Hachette authors 100% of ebook sales while dispute is ongoing — Amazon Tries to Woo Authors in Hachette Dispute — Amazon, awash in negative publicity in its confrontation with Hachette over e-book terms, is seeking to break the standoff by appealing directly to the publisher's authors.

Faryaab S. / SamMobile:

Gear VR, Samsung's virtual reality headset, to launch at IFA 2014 early September — Exclusive: Samsung's virtual reality headset will be called Gear VR, launch at IFA 2014 — A month ago, Engadget exclusively reported on Samsung's upcoming VR device, which is being developed in collaboration with Facebook's Oculus Rift.

More: BGR, The Next Web, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Phandroid, The Daily Caller, Mashable, Android Police, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, Pocketnow, PhoneDog.com, TechnoBuffalo, Android Central and Droid Life

Horace Dediu / asymco.com:

As US smartphone penetration crosses 70%, trends suggest iPhone will fare well among late adopters — Late late majority — Seven years after the iPhone was launched, 70% of the US population is using smartphones. Smartphones existed before the iPhone so the category is older …

More: MacDailyNews and 9to5Mac

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Samsung's basic problem: no software-based differentiation, competing on price is not enough — Smartphone Truths and Samsung's Inevitable Decline — For me, anyway, the most surprising thing about Samsung's disappointing earnings was just how surprised many folks seemed to be.

More: Guardian and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @alanknottcraig

Se Young Lee / Reuters:

Samsung estimates a ~24.5% YOY decline in profits for Q2, missing market expectations; reports slowing smartphone, tablet sales

More: Samsung Investor Relations, New York Times, The Register, VentureBeat, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, CNET, Reuters, MobileBurn.com, Businessweek, AndroidGuys, Electronista, App Advice, TIME, Fortune, DisplayBlog, NBC Bay Area, ZDNet, Inquirer, ABC News, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, Quartz, SamMobile and Bloomberg

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

AppleInsider:

Apple's second secret eBay store launches with certified refurbished, unlocked GSM iPhone 5 models — For the second time in as many years, Apple appears to have teamed with eBay on a low-profile Factory Outlet store to market Apple Certified Refurbished products — such as iPhones and iPads …

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, BGR, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacNN

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Bye Google Maps: Apple brings its Maps to the web for Find my iPhone — Update: Apple appears to be testing or slowly rolling out the feature as some users report still seeing Google Maps. Apple Maps are live on the iCloud.com beta site and available for some users on the main iCloud.com site as well.

More: AppleInsider, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, VentureBeat, Computerworld, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, MacNN, App Advice and WebProNews

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Uber agrees to new national policy that will limit surge pricing during emergencies — The taxi app falls in line with state laws that consider dynamic pricing during storms to be illegal price gouging — Uber is well known for using a dynamic model it calls surge pricing that adjusts the cost of a fare based on supply and demand.

More: Uber Blog, A.G. Schneiderman, GeekWire, Ars Technica, CNET, TechHive, PC Magazine, Re/code, New York Times, PandoDaily, Reuters, TechCrunch, Valleywag, Bloomberg, Gigaom, Daily Dot, Mashable and ABC News

Tweets: @zpower and @thekenyeung

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Lyft will launch in NYC Jul 11, cars can be hailed initially from Brooklyn and Queens but not from Manhattan — Lyft Expands Its Car Hailing Service to New York — A pink mustache grows in Brooklyn. Hundreds of them. — The colorful facial hair is not the latest Williamsburg trend.

More: Lyft Blog, The Verge, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Valleywag, Mashable, The Next Web, Fortune and Electronista

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Russia accuses US of “kidnapping” after arrest of suspected credit card hacker Roman Seleznev — Feds Charge Carding Kingpin in Retail Hacks — The U.S. Justice Department on Monday announced the arrest of a Russian hacker accused of running a network of online crime shops …

More: Department of Homeland …, New York Times, ZDNet, Reuters, New York Times, Associated Press, ABC News, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Guardian and Gigaom

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft warns of pending support deadlines for Windows 7, Office 2010 SP1, Windows Server 2003, and more — Summary: Microsoft officials are beginning to sound the support warning bell for customers running a number of its popular products, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and more.

More: TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, BGR, WinBeta, Softpedia News, Neowin, Windows Phone Central and Business Insider

Stan Higgins / CoinDesk:

Mt. Gox CEO to Auction Bitcoins.com, Share Proceeds with Creditors — The domain name Bitcoins.com, owned by Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles, is set to be sold off through US-based auction house Heritage Auctions on 24th July. — The sale of the domain name is part of Heritage's 2014 Domain …

More: Gigaom, PC World, ha.com, Forbes, theWHIR.com, ValueWalk, TheDomains.com, NEWSBTC and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @kashhill

Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:

Senior Apple Maps app and Mapkit engineer Chris Blumenberg leaves for Uber — Apple Maps Engineer Moving to Uber — Uber has poached Chris Blumenberg, a senior engineering manager who worked on Apple Maps, according to three people familiar with the move.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, iMore, Business Insider, MacNN, TUAW and App Advice. Tweets: @joshconstine

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:

Cloudian Raises $24 Million Because Not Everything Needs To Live In “The Cloud” — As the cloud storage provider Box continues to slouch toward its public offering (staggering under the weight of new invested capital), a number of startups continue to raise cash on the premise that sometimes sensitive data needs to remain grounded.

More: eWeek, VentureBeat, pevc.dowjones.com, Tech in Asia, PE Hub Blog, Forbes and silicontap.com

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

The government has asked Verizon for customer data 149,000 times this year. And it's only July. — Verizon's just published its second-ever transparency report, showing that in the first six months of 2014, the company received nearly 149,000 requests for customer data from the government.

More: ZDNet, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Phys.org and Reuters

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Spark Labs raises $4.9M to make an OS for the internet of things — Spark Labs, the company that last year built a development board that lets people make connected devices that could connect to a cloud service, has raised $4.9 million to take its business to the next step.

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Wearable World News, PE Hub Blog, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Re/code

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Manything's iOS video monitoring app can now plug into Nest and Hue via IFTTT — The British startup Manything now has a channel on IFTTT — the first channel on the plug-web-services-together platform that's devoted to video surveillance. This means Manything users can connect the service …

More: The Next Web, CNET and iMore. Tweets: @thenextweb

Amir Mizroch / Wall Street Journal:

Catalonia Fines Airbnb, Threatens to Block Locals From Using Site — MADRID—Tapas, shopping, beaches, the famous Gaudi architecture: Catalonia, and in particular its capital Barcelona, has a lot to entice tourists with. But a chance to live like a local and rent a room through Airbnb may soon no longer be one of them.

More: In English Section, bizjournals, Reuters and Guardian

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