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July 31, 2015, 4:25 PM

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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

YotaPhone cancels US launch of YotaPhone 2 despite successful Indiegogo campaign, citing complications with its manufacturing partners — YotaPhone 2 won't be coming to the US — Yota Devices revealed today that it is canceling its plans to launch the YotaPhone 2 in the US, citing complications with its manufacturing partners.

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Yusuf Mehdi / Windows Blog:

Windows 10 passes 14M installs 24 hours after launch — Windows 10 - The First 24 Hours — It has been an incredible 24 hours for Windows and our fans. We're humbled and grateful to see the response to Windows 10. We have seen unprecedented demand for Windows 10 …

Wall Street Journal:

Uber closes round of almost $1B, valuing the company at over $50B and bringing total funding to more than $5B; Microsoft participated in the round — Uber Valued at More Than $50 Billion — Ride-sharing app, which just closed a funding round, reaches mark faster than Facebook

More: CNNMoney, Bloomberg Business, VentureBeat, Quartz and Business Insider

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard — Nvidia promised spectacular, unprecedented gaming performance from its 8-inch Shield Tablet last year, but its pursuit of extreme performance seems to have gone a tiny bit too far. The company is now recalling …

Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:

Early Apple Designer Susan Kare Joins Pinterest's Creative Team — Susan Kare, an early Apple designer behind some of the company's early typefaces and icons, has joined Pinterest. — She'll be part of Pinterest's creative team as a product design lead, according to the company.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, VentureBeat, Cult of Mac, Forbes and Mashable. Thanks:@malliegator

Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:

Anti-Virus Firm BitDefender Admits Breach, Hacker Claims Stolen Passwords Are Unencrypted — BitDefender, a much-respected anti-virus firm, has leaked a portion of its customers' usernames and passwords after facing an extortion attempt by a hacker, going by the name DetoxRansome.

More: HACKER FILM BLOG, Computerworld and TechWorm

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Snapchat Revenue Could Hit $50 Million This Year — But It Still Needs a CFO — Snapchat is finally making some real money, with a lot more coming in 2016. It's also looking for someone to manage all that cash. — Snapchat is targeting around $50 million in revenue this year …

More: Business Insider and International Business Times

Bloomberg Business:

Appeals court upholds Microsoft's $14.5M jury verdict against Motorola in patent royalty case — Microsoft Beats Google as Patent Royalty Case May Aid Consumers — Microsoft Corp. won an appeals court ruling that may lower the rates many electronics makers pay to license technology considered standard in smartphones and computers.

More: Reuters, Android Central, Neowin and Ars Technica. Tweets: @fosspatents

James Crabtree / Financial Times:

Uber to invest $1B in India as it looks to hit 1M daily rides in the country by March 2016 — Uber to plough $1bn into India investment drive — Uber is set to plough $1bn into a major expansion in India, placing its investment in the country on a par with China and signalling an escalation …

More: PCWorld, ZDNet, Fortune, Reuters, The Economic Times, Tech in Asia, The Register, Engadget, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, The Next Web, Business Insider and Seeking Alpha

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:

Game add-ons and other digital goods account for 77% of all Electronic Arts Q1 revenue — Electronic Arts Raises Guidance on Strong Quarter — Revenue, profit forecasts boosted amid gains in digital sales — Electronic Arts rode a wave of momentum through its fiscal first quarter …

More: Business Wire, TheStreet.com, Ledger Gazette, Dakota Financial News, NASDAQ.com, Bidness Etc and NASDAQ.com

Chris Chavez / Phandroid:

Lawsuit forces Samsung to issue software patch allowing users to delete bloatware, but only in China — Lawsuit forces Samsung to issue software patch allowing users to delete bloatware, but only in China — As an Android “power user,” there's probably nothing more frustrating …

More: The Korea Times, Android Community, SlashGear, Fone Arena, SamMobile and N4BB

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

HTC Spends Nearly $10M On A 15% Stake In Virtual Reality Platform WEVR — HTC is planning to release its extremely well-received virtual reality headset Vive to consumers later this year, possibly in November. In the meantime, the Taiwanese company is busy building out its VR ecosystem.

More: Los Angeles Times, Develop Feed, Telecompaper, Android Authority, TechnoBuffalo, Purecontent Blog, GamesIndustry.biz, socalTECH.com and Road to VR

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

LinkedIn asks its top 500 “Influencers” for blanket permission to syndicate posts, with no money changing hands — LinkedIn Starts Building a Syndicated Content Network — LinkedIn has gotten a lot of mileage out of the free content that famous people like Richard Branson write for the social network.

More: The Digital Reader

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