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Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs:
Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 are here!  —  Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.  —  It's a big day for Microsoft and we are excited to be part of it!  Today, we're pleased to announce the availability …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is working on streaming PC games to Xbox One  —  Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system debuts today, enabling Xbox One game streaming to PCs.  While that's a neat feature for Xbox One owners, Microsoft is working on streaming PC games to Xbox One consoles too.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft execs speak about how they dealt with feedback for Windows 10, unifying platforms  —  The story of Windows 10 from inside Microsoft  —  Windows 10 has a lot to live up to.  Microsoft has made a lot of promises about it.  And oddly enough, we've heard most of them before, with Windows 8.
Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Q2 profit down 8% YoY, fifth straight quarterly profit drop as Galaxy S6 falls short of market expectations  —  Samsung Profits Hurt By Smartphone Price Declines  —  Cheaper smartphone models from China and India could fuel further price cuts  —  SEOUL- Samsung Electronics Co …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Beats In Q2 With $4.04B Revenue, User Growth Slows To 3.47% QOQ To Hit 1.49B  —  People aren't using Facebook less, according to its new earnings report.  Facebook recovered from last quarter's miss, beating the street's estimates in Q2 2015 with $4.04 billion in revenue and $0.50 earnings per share.
Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code:
Yelp stock drops 28% following grim earnings; company cites rising talent costs amid competition with “unicorns”  —  Yelp Admits the Unicorn Bubble Is Hurting Its Profits  —  Yelp debuted “surprise losses” on its earnings yesterday, causing its stock to plummet 28 percent by the next day.
More: CNBC and Search Engine Watch.  Tweets: @joshconstine
Wish Wu / TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog:
Android vulnerability silences phone and kills screen, affects Android 4.3 and above, and can be exploited by a malicious website or app  —  Trend Micro Discovers Vulnerability That Renders Android Devices Silent  —  We have discovered a vulnerability in Android that can render a phone apparently dead …
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer  —  President Obama has established a new initiative across multiple government agencies that will focus entirely on creating the fastest supercomputers ever devised.  The National Strategic Computing Initiative …
Arjun Sethi / Yahoo:
Yahoo unveils an audioless video messaging app called Livetext, launching in US, UK, Canada, Germany, and France tomorrow  —  Yahoo Livetext - A New Way to Connect  —  We're all walking around with a device in our pockets, primarily to communicate with others.
Stephen Witt / The Verge:
Grooveshark lacked the music rights deals and the funding to compete against other services  —  Why Grooveshark failed  —  Sometime in early 2006, Josh Greenberg, a freshman at the University of Florida, began attending meetings at a school club for budding business types.
Tweets: @reckless

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