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Google announces it will provide monthly OTA security updates to Nexus devices, starting today with Stagefright fixes — An Update to Nexus Devices — Security has always been a major focus for Android and Google Play: Android was built from day one with security in mind.

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

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Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:

Reddit Finally Bans Racist r/CoonTown And Other Hateful Communities, Updates User Policies — Reddit CEO Steve Huffman introduced an updated set of user policies Wednesday, which included details for how Reddit would be “quarantining” certain communities and banning ones which were particular awful, including the infamous r/CoonTown.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Tinder's First Non-Dating Feature Is Speed Networking For Forbes' 30 Under 30 — Tinder is tiptoeing into the friendzone, and the work place. After years of saying “We want to overcome all the issues of meeting new people”, not just dating them, today Tinder will announce its first explicitly non-romantic feature.

More: Forbes, TechRadar.com, Tech Times, Mashable, International Business Times, The Verge and Business Insider

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Launches “Live” Streaming Video Feature, But Only For Celebrities — Before Periscope and Meerkat jumpstarted the mobile live-streaming craze, Facebook was already quietly working on its own way to let public figures broadcast live videos to their fans.

Sam Biddle / Gawker:

Leaked internal documents show Uber lost $20.4M in 2012, $56M in 2013, and more than $160M in the first half of 2014 — Here Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser — Uber, Silicon Valley's prized amoral unicorn, is presumed to be a financial titan and a sure-thing IPO in the near future.

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Good Eggs Will Shut Down All Operations Outside San Francisco, Lay Off Nearly 140 Employees — Organic food delivery startup Good Eggs just announced that it will be closing its operations in Los Angeles, New York City and New Orleans — every city where it has a presence, except for San Francisco.

More: Good Eggs Blog, New Orleans Times-Picayune, The New Orleans Advocate, Eater SF - All, Inhabitat, Blog of New Orleans, Gambit, bizjournals, AM New York and Inside Scoop SF. Tweets: @mdudas

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Adidas acquires mobile fitness company Runtastic for $239M — Sporting giant Adidas has acquired Runtastic, a European mobile fitness startup known for its GPS fitness-tracking app of the same name, in a deal worth €220 million ($239 million). — Founded out of Austria in 2009 …

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Twitter Will Offer ‘Buy’ Buttons to as Many as 100,000 Merchants With New Shopify Deal — Twitter has been deliberate in its rollout of Buy buttons. But it's about to make a bigger splash. — The social network is in the process of integrating with Shopify and other e-commerce software companies …

More: Gizmodo

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg Business:

Apple defeats bid for lawsuit alleging iMessage interfered with delivery of texts after switching to non-Apple devices — Apple Defeats Bid for Group Suit Over Texts Lost in Phone Swap — Apple Inc. won a ruling beating back a group lawsuit sought by a former iPhone user who claimed …

More: Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Consumerist, Digital Trends, CNET, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, AppleInsider, iLounge and Patently Apple

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Slides Now Lets You Present From Your Android Device To Hangouts Video Calls — Earlier this year, Google Slides — the company's PowerPoint competitor — gained the ability to cast presentations to any screen with Chromecast or AirPlay. Today it's expanding this feature by also letting …

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat, Official Google for Work Blog, 9to5Google, Android Police, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, Google Operating System and SlashGear

New York Times:

Disney, Time Warner, Fox, CBS, Viacom, other media shares down as investors worry about digital rivals like Netflix, Facebook — Disney, Time Warner and Other Media Shares Fall as Investors Worry About TV's Future — If ESPN is in trouble, is the rest of television burnt toast?

More: Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

GoDaddy beats with Q2 revenue of $394.5M, but losses widen to $71.3M, missing estimates — GoDaddy Q2 a mixed bag as losses widen — The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company reported a net loss of 46 cents per share. Analysts were expecting EPS losses of 17 cents.

More: GoDaddy, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, bizjournals and Reuters

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Kantar: iPhone market share drops 2.3 points in the US to 30.5% but climbs in Europe and China — iPhone market share drops in US but climbs across Europe — The iPhone continues to prove hot among buyers in Europe, through Android still dominates the worldwide market by a wide margin, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

More: Fortune, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, Digital Trends, ValueWalk, BGR, Android Central, iMore, VentureBeat and Inquirer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Empowers Pages To Provide Customer Support Over Private Messages — A business publicly debating customer problems on their Facebook Page's wall is a recipe for a PR disaster. So today Facebook is giving Pages more options for privately messaging people who complain.

More: Facebook, Marketing Land, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Adweek, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, Business Insider, BuzzFeed and The Next Web

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple updates TestFlight app with support for testing native Watch apps and iOS 9 App Thinning — Apple is now allowing developers to test more iOS 9 features with an update to its beta distribution app TestFlight. The updated version enables developers to test faster …

More: Cult of Mac, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, AppleInsider and iMore

Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:

Fitbit shares sink more than 10% despite strong Q2 earnings of $0.21/share on $400M revenue — Fitbit shares sink 10% despite strong first report — Fitbit is reporting EPS beat of $0.21 adjusted on revenue beat of $400 million, with CNBC's Dominic Chu.

More: Fitbit, TechCrunch, BBC, StreetInsider.com, MarketWatch, Tech Trader Daily, Financial Times, Money Morning, VentureBeat, Wearable Tech Insider and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:

You can now look up ER wait times, hospital noise levels and nursing home fines on Yelp — Yelp is adding a ton of health-care data to its review pages for medical businesses to give consumers more access to government information on hospitals, nursing homes and dialysis clinics.

More: Yelp Official Blog, Wired, MedCity News, USA Today, Nieman Lab, Macworld and Consumerist. See also Mediagazer

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