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July 26, 2015, 6:55 AM

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Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:
Exclusive: Amazon planning drive-up grocery stores with the first likely coming to Sunnyvale — sources  —  For decades, drive-thrus have served up everything from coffee to prescriptions to dry cleaning — not to mention burgers and fries.  Now Amazon.com Inc. wants to add another item to the list: Your groceries.
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Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds  —  Let's face it: coming up with a grade-A tweet isn't easy.  That's why some people just copy good tweets from other people and act like they came up with the 140-character witticism on their own.  This has been going on since the beginning of Twitter.
Chuong Nguyen / TechRadar:
Dell launching Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet with Windows in the US this month starting at $1,600  —  Dell built the Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet to survive extreme environments  —  IP65-rated and tested with MIL-STD-810G specifications  —  Made for outdoor use in harsh environments …
Laurie Burkitt / Wall Street Journal:
China to End Ban on Videogame Consoles  —  Gamers in China have turned to mobile and computer entertainment  —  BEIJING—China will lift a ban on making and selling videogame consoles in the country, paving the way for foreign companies like Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. to expand in one of the world's largest videogame markets.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Team behind Delicious releases Dmail, a Chrome extension to make Gmail messages self-destruct  —  Dmail Makes Your Gmail Messages Self-Destruct  —  Have you ever regretted sending an email, and wished you could take it back?  Or maybe you've worried about sending confidential information over email …
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Technicolor to Buy Cisco's Set-Top Box Unit for About $600 Million  —  The deal signals the priorities of Cisco's incoming CEO, who assumes the role on Monday  —  SAN FRANCISCO— Technicolor SA has agreed to buy Cisco Systems Inc.'s TV set-top business for about $600 million …
Syed Raza Hassan / Reuters:
Pakistan to shut down BlackBerry's secure messaging services by Dec. 1 for “security reasons”  —  Pakistan to shut down BlackBerry services by December over ‘security’  —  The Pakistani government plans to shut down BlackBerry Ltd's secure messaging services by Dec. 1 for …
More: ZDNet
Ted Johnson / Variety:
FCC OKs AT&T-DirecTV merger with conditions lasting 4 years: expand fiber internet to 12.5M new customers, submit interconnection agreements for review, more  —  FCC Approves AT&T-DirecTV Merger  —  AT&T and DirecTV's merger cleared its final federal regulatory hurdle on Friday, garnering the votes at the FCC for approval.

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