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Paul Ford / Bloomberg Business:

Code: what is it, how it's evolved, and why it matters for all businesses — What Is Code? — You are an educated, successful person capable of abstract thought. A VP doing an SVP's job. Your office, appointed with decent furniture and a healthy amount of natural light filtered through vertical blinds …

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EU Press Room:

Antitrust: Commission opens formal investigation into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements — The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into certain business practices by Amazon in the distribution of electronic books ("e-books").

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Kellex / Droid Life:

Sources: New Nest Cam is a slimmed down version of Dropcam; new app has updated UI, slide-down menu, button-heavy interface — This is the Nest Cam and the New Nest App for Android — You know that story from earlier today that suggested Nest may unveil a new wireless camera at next week's event?

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Nate Swanner / The Next Web:

Apple Music will stream at 256kbps, below the ‘industry standard’ 320kbps — Arriving June 30, Apple Music is going to try and curate tracks with a human touch. It won't stream them at the highest possible bitrate, though. — Apple has confirmed Apple Music's streaming bitrate is 256kbps.

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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Matt Murphy Moves to Menlo Ventures From Kleiner — Venture capitalist Matt Murphy, who left Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers earlier this year, has found a new investing home. — Murphy will join Menlo Ventures as managing director, the Menlo Park, Calif., firm said on Thursday.

More: TechCrunch, New York Times and PE Hub Blog

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Reddit bans ‘Fat People Hate’ and other subreddits under new harassment rules — In the wake of a new anti-harassment policy, Reddit is banning a handful of its worst communities. “Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content …

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Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Google creates and funds Sidewalk Labs, a startup developing and incubating tech to improve urban life, headed by former deputy mayor of NYC Daniel L. Doctoroff — Sidewalk Labs, a Start-Up Created by Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living — Google's ambitions and investments …

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Xiaoyun Zhang / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter simplifies blocking multiple accounts by letting users share and import block lists — Sharing block lists to help make Twitter safer — Today we're making it possible to share block lists on twitter.com. This new, advanced feature makes blocking multiple accounts easy, fast and community driven.

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Tweets: @anildash and @hunterwalk

Mark Brown / Pocket Gamer:

Apple's Xcode 7 allows anyone to build and test apps on iOS devices, no $99/year developer license required — Apple's new Xcode lets anyone sideload apps and emulators onto their iOS device — Freedom! — Review — Videos — Tips — The new version of Xcode …

More: ZDNet, bouk.co, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, SiliconANGLE, AfterDawn.com, Cult of Mac and Touch Arcade

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

In his speech on privacy practices, Tim Cook failed to fairly explore the benefits of free, ad-supported services — What Apple's Tim Cook Overlooked in His Defense of Privacy — Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, delivered a speech last week that raised some eyebrows in the technology industry.

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Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:

Jawbone sues Fitbit over patent infringement, its second suit against Fitbit in two weeks — Jawbone Hits Fitbit With Second Lawsuit in Two Weeks — Fitness trackers from Jawbone and Fitbit are made to count heartbeats. They may soon be put to use counting lawsuits between the two rivals.

More: Digital Trends, Business Insider, BBC, VatorNews, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, BuzzFeed, ABC News, Engadget and VentureBeat

Eli Blumenthal / USA Today:

Removed job listing suggests Amazon planning daily video show to drive product sales — Amazon job listing suggests company could soon launch live video shows — NEW YORK— Could Amazon be looking to expand into daily, live video shows? That appears to be the case, according to a job listing from the Internet retailer.

More: GeekWire and PC Magazine

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

iOS 9 code hints 1080p, 240fps, flash coming to iPhone FaceTime cameras — Code found in the first iOS 9 developer betas reveals that Apple is planning to support some significant camera features and upgrades with the new software version. Presumably planned for the next iPhone hardware version …

More: BGR, MacRumors, TechWeekEurope UK, SlashGear, Fone Arena, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Pocket-lint, MacNN, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, TodaysiPhone.com and Neowin. Thanks:@chancehmiller

Lucian Constantin / PCWorld:

European authorities bust cybercrime gang that hijacked business payments — Police in several European countries arrested 49 suspected members of a gang they say broke into corporate email accounts, using them to divert payments from business customers. — The gang operated in Italy …

More: Europol, Reuters, ZDNet, ComputerWeekly, The State of Security, Naked Security, The Hill, SC Magazine and SecurityWeek. Thanks:@atechmemefan

Wall Street Journal:

Critics say that startups' use of vague, unconventional, and non-GAAP financial terms inflate their valuations — Tech Startups Woo Investors With Unconventional Financial Terms — but Do Numbers Add Up? — Critics say the practice is inflating some companies' valuations

More: PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg View, The Verge and Fortune

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Dan Primack / Fortune:

2015 could be the slowest year for VC-backed tech IPOs since financial crisis; only seven VC-backed tech companies have gone public this year — Something is rotting under Silicon Valley — I spent a good chunk of last week in Silicon Valley, speaking to venture capitalists who mostly wanted …

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google on iOS and Android can now use geolocation to answer “When does this restaurant open?” or “How long is this river?” — [WATCH] Google's Amazing Location-Aware Search Finds Answers About Nearby Places — How tall is that tower in front of you?

More: Android Police, Business Insider, Search Engine Roundtable, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, Liliputing, 9to5Google, BGR and Android and Me

Chris Welch / The Verge:

iOS 9 extends Continuity to cellular connections; T-Mobile first to offer feature — iOS 9 brings more flexibility to Apple's great Continuity feature — Continuity is one of the best things about going all in on Apple hardware. With it, you can easily send and receive calls or text messages …

More: TmoNews, Computerworld, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Tech Times, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, AppleInsider, iMore and PhoneDog.com

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