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Apple:

Apple and IBM partner to develop iOS enterprise apps and cloud services, tailor AppleCare for enterprise; IBM will sell iPhones and iPads to business clients — Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Mobility — Apple® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) …

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Apple and IBM Team Up to Push iOS in the Enterprise — Apple and IBM today announced a broad partnership to help companies deploy wireless devices and business-specific applications to run on them. — The combination brings together two historical competitors — who decades ago struggled …

More: 9to5Mac, Asymco, The Verge, PC World, InfoWorld, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, iMore, Gigaom, Mercury News, BGR, Forbes, Softpedia News, Wired, WCCFtech and Boing Boing

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @parislemon, @jyarow, @johnpaczkowski, @inafried and @johnpaczkowski

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft likely to announce job cuts this week; may be biggest restructuring in its history — Microsoft Said to Announce Job Cuts as Soon as This Week — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, as the software maker looks to slim …

More: Business Insider, Forbes, Network World, USA Today, TechSpot, The Daily Caller, Valleywag, Guardian, Tech Trader Daily, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom and ZDNet. Tweets: @lessien

Google:

Google appoints former Ford CEO Alan Mulally to its board of directors — Google Appoints Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - JULY 15, 2014 — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced it has appointed Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors.

More: 9to5Google, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Gigaom, CNET, GeekWire, Business Insider, Re/code, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, The Verge, Engadget, Jalopnik, Forbes, Mashable and Automotive News Automaker

Tweets: @bfeld and @dseetharaman

Google:

Google+ removes all name restrictions, apologizes for “unnecessarily difficult experiences” — When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped create a community made up of real people …

More: The Next Web, Techdirt, Marketing Land, ZDNet, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, CNET, Ars Technica and Phandroid

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @jilliancyork

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Google reveals Project Zero, a security team to find and report serious flaws in any software — Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google's Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers — Hacking wunderkind George Hotz's latest gig: An intern on Google's elite hacking team. Tribune Review, Andrew Russell/AP

More: Google Online Security Blog, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BetaNews, Help Net Security, ZDNet and 9to5Google. Thanks:@a_greenberg

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Misses In Q2 With Revenue Of $1.04B, EPS Of $0.37 — Today after the bell, Yahoo reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue (excluding traffic acquisition costs, or TAC) of $1.04 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.37. Revenue including TAC was $1.08.

More: Yahoo, ZDNet, Guardian, Quartz, Associated Press, Re/code, Tech Trader Daily, WebProNews and ABC News. Tweets: @dmac1. See also Mediagazer

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Yahoo now required to sell just 140M Alibaba shares in IPO, down from 208M shares

More: TechCrunch, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and Yahoo

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft won't let you set Google as default search on some new Lumias — Microsoft has disabled an option to set Google as the default search engine on some of its latest Lumia Windows Phones. The option is currently supported on the majority of Nokia's Lumia devices …

More: BGR, Computerworld, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, CNET, Neowin, Windows Phone Central and BetaNews

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

Call to cancel Comcast service turns into absurd interrogation; Comcast calls representative's behavior “unacceptable” — Call to cancel Comcast service descends into desperate, hysterical fireworks — A Comcast customer service representative tried to retain a customer …

More: SoundCloud, The Awl, Comcast, Gawker, PC Magazine, Laughing Squid, The Register, Business Insider, TechNewsWorld, Motherboard, Technologizer, The Hill, Consumerist, Neowin, WebProNews and TechHive

Tweets: @ryan, @darth, @ryan, @pkafka, @om and @fmanjoo

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple debuts iTunes Pass in Japan, allows Passbook-based iTunes credit refills at Apple Stores — Apple today has launched an interesting new service for iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore users in Japan with iPhones and iPod touches. The new service, called iTunes Pass (no …

More: iMore, AppleInsider, CNET, TechSpot, Tech Times, Redmond Pie, Gigaom and iPhone in Canada Blog. Thanks:@markgurman

Matt Brian / Engadget:

Novartis to develop Google smart contact lens to track diabetes and correct farsightedness — Google strikes smart contact lens deal to track diabetes and fix farsightedness — With Glass and Android Wear, Google has already invested a lot of time and resources into developing …

More: Novartis, Wall Street Journal, BGR, 9to5Google, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, New York Times, Android Central, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Fox News, Electronista, Fortune, PC Magazine, Geeky Gadgets and HEXUS.net Latest Content

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Marketing Chief Ho, Engineering Head Liu Said to Quit — HTC Corp. (2498) Chief Marketing Officer Ben Ho and President of Engineering and Operations Fred Liu have resigned from the Taiwanese smartphone maker, according to two people familiar with the matter.

More: Engadget, The Verge, DailyTech, 9to5Google and MobileBurn.com

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

FCC extends net neutrality comment deadline after ‘overwhelming’ traffic — The Federal Communications Commission has been calling on the public to provide comments on its controversial net neutrality proposal, and it said today that it would actually be extending the length of the comment period …

More: Washington Post, CNET, Ars Technica, The Register, TechHive, PandoDaily, TIME, Comcast, ZDNet, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Electronista, iMore, Engadget, Variety, Free Press Blog, Techdirt, TechCrunch and DSLreports. Tweets: @eshap. See also Mediagazer

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Intel Beats Estimates, Raises Forecast on Improved PC Market — Chipmaker Intel said on Tuesday that an improved PC market helped it to deliver quarterly earnings that exceeded its initial estimates. The company also hiked its full-year sales outlook. — Intel reported second-quarter earnings …

More: Intel, Re/code, VentureBeat, CNET, New York Times, The Verge, Mercury News, TechCrunch, Quartz, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Liliputing. Tweets: @inafried

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Nest and Samsung launch Thread, a wireless mesh standard for the smart home — Samsung, ARM, Nest and four other companies have gotten together to build a new radio standard for the smart home. Dubbed Thread, it is a low-power, mesh network protocol that also supports IPv6.

More: Thread Group, New York Times, VentureBeat, Wired, PC World, Re/code, USA Today, eWeek, Sammy Hub, Connectedly, ZDNet, EE Times and The Register

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LivingSocial Poaches eBay Exec Gautam Thakar To Be Its New CEO — LivingSocial is today announcing a new CEO and president, putting to rest a question mark that has hovered over the daily deals business for the last several months. Gautam Thakar, an eBay executive who had been CEO …

More: LivingSocial, Re/code, VentureBeat, ZDNet and GeekWire

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone 8.1 now rolling out to Lumia devices with new Cyan update — Microsoft is starting to distribute Windows Phone 8.1 to existing Lumia devices this week. The Lumia Cyan update provides the full Windows Phone 8.1 software, alongside some tweaks and customizations specifically for Lumia handsets.

More: Nokia Conversations, The Register, Windows Phone Central, Phones Review and TechOne3

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Tim Draper's Six Californias initiative heads for 2016 ballot; source says shady tactics used for signatures — Tech VC Says His Plan to Break California Apart Is Moving Forward — Tim Draper, legendary venture capitalist, has a plan to cement Silicon Valley's status as the most-hated locale in America: make it its own state.

More: TechCrunch, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, bizjournals, Network World, Sacramento Bee, Mercury News, LAist and ValueWalk

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Snapchat Adds Geofilters For Quick Image Location Tags, And A New Revenue Possibility — Snapchat has added a new feature to its app starting today that will offer special image filters depending on your location. All you need to do to activate them is swipe right from the preview screen …

More: Snapchat, BuzzFeed, Android Central, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks and PandoDaily

Andrew Martonik / Android Central:

MediaTek announces MT6795 64-bit octa-core processor with 2K display support — MediaTek, makers of processors for a variety of different applications including mobile devices, is today announcing its latest high-end chip, the MT6795. This SoC, which sits at the top of the MT67xx range …

More: Re/code and Inquirer

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Using Adobe Flash For Your Web Site? Google Mobile Results Will Issue Searchers A Warning. — Flash, Adobe's multimedia based web site technology, is not a friend of mobile devices or search spiders and now Google has decided to step up their campaign against such sites using the technology.

More: Google Webmaster Central Blog, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Engadget, eWeek, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gigaom, MacRumors, Softpedia News, iMore, The SEM Post, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Search Engine Roundtable, CNET and App Advice

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