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June 19, 2015, 1:55 AM
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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users  —  Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed  —  The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
David Pierce / Wired:
Project Lightning demotes the timeline to get to the core of Twitter: curated news and information  —  Twitter Is Killing Twitter To Save Twitter  —  Twitter isn't about a 140-character limit.  It's not about a timeline.  It's not about your joke going viral, or getting Justin Bieber to follow you by any means necessary.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery  —  Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device's debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple's considerations for the 2016 release of a second-generation model.
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Nokia to design and license smartphones in 2016 when Microsoft agreement permits it  —  Nokia CEO says to get back into phones: Manager Magazin  —  Nokia, once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, plans to start designing and licensing handsets again once an agreement …
New York Times:
Fitbit shares soar in trading debut, close up 48.4% or $9.68, at $29.68  —  Fitbit Shares Surge 48 Percent in Market Debut  —  Shares of Fitbit soared in their trading debut on Thursday, even after the company priced its initial public offering above an already heightened range.
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Toshiba's Windows 10 laptops all have a built-in Cortana key  —  Toshiba just unveiled its back-to-school laptop lineup, and while mainstream notebooks are normally a bit of a snooze, there's at least one detail that makes these worth a second look.  Everything in the line …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EFF's 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon  —  Digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fifth annual Who has your back? report into online service providers' transparency and privacy practices when it comes to government requests for accessing user data.
Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:
Ellen Pao Officially Found Liable For Roughly $276,000 In Court Fees From Kleiner Perkins  —  Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit CEO to pay more than a quarter …
Barb Darrow / Fortune:
Former EMC, HP exec Dave Donatelli to lead Oracle's converged hardware group, report once again to Mark Hurd  —  Dave Donatelli, ex of EMC, ex of HP, to lead Oracle hardware  —  That thing F. Scott Fitzgerald said about there being no second acts in American lives?  It clearly does not hold for Dave Donatelli.

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From Mediagazer

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: former 60 Minutes EP Bill Owens seeks ~$50M to launch a rival news series with Scott Pelley and other fired staffers; a source close to Owens denies it

Christofer Hamilton / The Wrap:
Licensed shows account for ~40% of Netflix's global series titles but generate 50%+ of series-driven sign-ups, meaningfully outpacing their share of the catalog

Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea

More News

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Google and Storyful are launching YouTube Newswire, a feed of verified user-generated videos
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google quietly acquired “app streaming” startup Agawi last fall that lets users access apps without downloading them first

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Julia Love / Reuters:
Slice Intelligence research says 2.79M Apple Watches sold to date; IHS estimates $49 band costs Apple $2
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