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July 3, 2015, 12:10 AM

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Biz Carson / Business Insider:

Reddit's popular ‘ask me anything’ feature is down after a key employee is gone — Reddit's popular Ask Me Anything (iAMA) feature is offline following a key employee's departure. — Subreddit moderators are revolting and setting their sections to private today after Reddit's director of talent …

More: Gizmodo and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @campbell14085, @gamediviner, @startupljackson, @benparr, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mattrosoff and @bizcarson. Thanks:@bizcarson. See also Mediagazer

Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:

Reddit moderators shut down popular subreddits to protest removal of Victoria Taylor, AMA co-ordinator and Reddit's director of communications — Reddit In Chaos After Allegedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor — If you tried to visit r/IAmA (one of Reddit's biggest subs) recently …

More: Fusion

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:

Yelp Sale Process Said to Stall as Founder Decides to Wait — Yelp Inc., which hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to find a buyer, has temporarily decided not to pursue a sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. — The consumer-review website has had several interested suitors …

More: Business Insider, International Business Times and USA Today. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:

Yelp stock closes down about 10% amid reports it has stopped pursuing a sale of company — Yelp skids 10% amid sale halt reports — Yelp shares slipped on Thursday afternoon amid reports the company's sale process had stalled. — Following a trading halt around 12:50 p.m. ET …

More: Fortune, Los Angeles Times and Re/code

Megumi Fujikawa / Wall Street Journal:

Casio is developing a durable men's smart watch priced around $400, expected by early 2016 — Casio Bets on a Watch That Is Smart — Japanese watchmaker hopes to outmaneuver Apple Watch's technological wizardry — Japanese watchmaker Casio Computer saw the potential of the wrist …

More: Engadget, Fone Arena, Phones Review, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, SiliconANGLE, Pocket-lint, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk and PhoneArena

Terry Myerson / Windows Blog:

Microsoft details Windows 10 rollout plan: Windows Insiders will be first, rest will be in phases — Windows 10: Preparing to Upgrade One Billion Devices — With around four weeks to go before Windows 10 becomes available, I thought it would be helpful to provide some context on how we will roll-out Windows 10 to the world.

Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:

Apple's new design leads will report to CEO Tim Cook, and not Jony Ive — Apple updated its executive bios to reflect changes in its design team that were announced earlier this year. But the updates came with an unexpected twist. — The bio of Jony Ive now includes his new title, Chief Design Officer.

More: Daring Fireball, The Verge, Business Insider, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider and Apple Spotlight

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple's iOS 8.4 kneecaps Home Sharing, music streaming now limited to Apple TV — While Apple introduced an array of new music features with its latest iOS 8.4 update featuring Apple Music, it also quietly nerfed content serving functionality by apparently limiting Home Sharing …

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, Kirkville, Mashable, Macworld, PC Magazine, Redmond Pie, CNET, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Inquirer, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, Forbes, MacRumors, iMore, iPhone Hacks and discussions.apple.com. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Prince sends takedown requests to Spotify, Rdio, and Deezer — Prince Won't Stream 4 U (Unless You're On Tidal, Or Maybe Google Music) — Call it the Taylor effect: it looks like another high-profile musician is sharpening his arrows to take aim at how streaming music services pay artists.

John Callaham / Windows Central:

Microsoft confirms its new Edge browser won't support Silverlight — Microsoft has already announced that its new Microsoft Edge web browser in Windows 10 will not be using many of the features that were a part of its old Internet Explorer browsers. That includes support for ActiveX-based plug-ins.

More: Windows Blog, WinBeta and The Register

Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:

Large blocks of IPv4 addresses are no longer available in North America; organizations can either join the wait list or request smaller blocks — It's official: North America out of new IPv4 addresses — But the move to IPv6 picks up speed. — Remember how, a decade ago …

More: The Next Web, The Tech Report, Digital Trends and V3.co.uk

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Ex-DEA agent Carl Force pleads guilty to stealing bitcoins during Silk Road investigation — Former U.S. agent pleads guilty to bitcoin theft in Silk Road probe — A former federal agent pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing bitcoins during the government's investigation of Silk Road …

More: U.S. Department of Justice, Ars Technica, Forbes, Gizmodo, USA Today, Tech Times and PCWorld

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