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John Paczkowski / Re/code:
Apple plans to announce a wearable in September with HealthKit and HomeKit integration  —  Code/red: Apple Plans to Announce Wearable in September  —  Start the Countdown Timer on Whatever Old-Fashioned Piece of Junk You Have on Your Wrist Right Now Remember back in June when I said Apple hoped …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB Of Storage For $10/Month  —  In today's cloud storage wars, most companies are defined by the amount of space their users get for the least amount of money.  With new pricing and updates to its Pro offering, Dropbox is hoping to show …
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
How Many People See Your Tweets?  Twitter Opens Its Nifty Analytics Dashboard To Everyone  —  Back in July, Twitter launched a really nifty analytics dashboard.  A bit like Google Analytics for tweets, it allows you to gauge the performance of each and every tweet you sent.  How many people saw it?
Don Reisinger / CNET:
Time Warner Cable suffered a nationwide outage this morning due to “Internet backbone” issue  —  Time Warner Cable suffers massive outage nationwide  —  The cable giant's services are down in a number of areas across the US, but are slowly coming back online.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
T-Mobile adds Songza, Rdio, others to Music Freedom; Google Play Music ‘later this year’  —  Google's got the most votes, but it's not on the list yet  —  Apparently T-Mobile remains unfazed by net neutrality concerns over its Music Freedom initiative; today the carrier added several new music streaming services to the program.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Lending Club files for IPO, lists $500M as a preliminary fundraising target  —  Lending Club, Leader in Peer-to-Peer, Plans I.P.O.  —  In its nearly eight years, Lending Club, the biggest marketplace for peer-to-peer loans, has garnered fans across Wall Street.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Pew study shows social media users are more reluctant than others to share their dissenting views, online or off  —  How Social Media Silences Debate  —  The Internet might be a useful tool for activists and organizers, in episodes as momentous as the Arab Spring or as trivial as the Ice Bucket Challenge.
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
Google Eyes Giant Offices in Historic Los Angeles Airplane Hangar  —  A massive former airplane hangar just north of Los Angeles International Airport was home to construction of the world's largest airplane in the 1940s and then hosted filming for movies including “Independence Day” and “Transformers.”
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Server infrastructure provider Nutanix raises $140M Series E at a $2B+ valuation  —  Nutanix Lands $140M On $2B+ Valuation, IPO Could Be Next  —  Nutanix, a five-year old converged infrastructure provider, announced $140M in Series E funding today, based on a whopping $2B+ valuation.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Alibaba's net income nearly triples to $2B in the quarter, may unveil IPO price range as soon as Tuesday  —  Alibaba Profit and Mobile Revenue Soar Again as I.P.O. Nears  —  With less than a month before its initial public offering, the Alibaba Group is intent on showing just how profitable — and focused on mobile — it really is.

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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to a record-setting $360M in North America, beating Avengers: Endgame's $357M; globally, it hit $932M, second to Endgame

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Imax reaches its highest-grossing month ever with $257M globally in July, 47% above its previous record; The Odyssey has generated $221M globally in Imax so far

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Former 60 Minutes correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley plan to serve as part-time journalists-in-residence at Columbia during the coming academic year

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