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July 16, 2015, 1:55 PM

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Abhijeet M. / SamMobile:

Sources: Samsung's Tizen-based Gear A smartwatch will feature a 1.2 GHz Exynos processor, Bluetooth 4.1, a digital crown, and more — Exclusive: Samsung Gear A (Orbis) specifications — With all the Galaxy Note 5 news flooding the internet of late, Samsung's upcoming smartwatch hasn't been in the limelight for some time now.

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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

eBay confirms agreement to sell eBay Enterprise to investment consortium for $925M — eBay has confirmed previous rumors that it's selling its enterprise services business, eBay Enterprise, for $925 million. — The unit specializes in developing and managing ecommerce sites for retailers …

More: Wall Street Journal, AdExchanger, TechEye, Re/code, eBay Inc., TechSpot, The Next Web, New York Times, The Register, TechCrunch and ValueWalk. Tweets: @bigalittlea

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

eBay Reports Q2 Revenues Of $4.4B, EPS Of $0.76, Sells Enterprise Division For $925M — In its last quarter before the spin off of PayPal as a separate company, e-commerce giant eBay today reported its Q2 earnings for the quarter that ended June 30. — The company reported total revenues …

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Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook to Pay About $60 Million for Gesture-Control Firm Pebbles — Facebook Inc. Thursday agreed to buy Israel-based gesture-control company Pebbles Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter. — Facebook agreed to pay around $60 million for the company, according to one of these people.

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

To Boost Video Views, Facebook Tests A New “Watch Later” Button — Video has been one of the fastest-growing content categories on Facebook of late, with 4 billion daily video views on the site as of last quarter. Now, the social network wants to expand that even more.

More: PC Magazine, ValueWalk, SocialTimes, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, USA Today, Mercury News and Fortune

Financial Times:

Apple and Samsung are in advanced talks with GSMA telecom association about standardized electronic SIM cards with support from AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, more — Apple, Samsung in talks with telecom groups to launch e-Sim card — Apple and Samsung are in advanced talks to join the rest …

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, VentureBeat and AppleInsider

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Misfit Unveils $20 Flash Link Activity Tracker and Link App, Drops Prices on Shine and Flash — Misfit today announced the debut of Misfit Link, a new app that's designed to add new capabilities to the Misfit Flash, which is the company's inexpensive activity and sleep tracker.

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, TechHive, ZDNet, iMore, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo and Ubergizmo

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Intel shows Moore's Law is slowing with plans for a third generation of 14nm chips, delays switch to 10nm process to 2017 — Intel confirms tick-tock-shattering Kaby Lake processor as Moore's Law falters — Company will make three generations of 14nm processors, delaying the switch to 10nm.

More: FierceCIO News, The Verge, eWeek, Computerworld, The Next Web, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, Re/code and ZDNet

Jackie Dove / The Next Web:

App Annie: iOS lags Google Play in app downloads but still generated 70% more revenue on strength in China — App Annie report: Google Play's downloads top the App Store as Apple retains revenue lead — While the Google Play store crushed Apple's App Store in worldwide downloads …

More: App Annie Blog, VentureBeat, WebProNews and AndroidHeadlines.com

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

As the Twitter Turns: Comms Head Gabriel Stricker Out in “Shift” in Strategy — Gabriel Stricker, Twitter's longtime head of communications, is leaving the company. — Unlike the departure of CEO Dick Costolo recently, the social communications company did not pretend this was not due …

Tweets: @gabrielstricker

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