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Japan's Sharp to stop making TVs for the North American market after worse-than-expected quarterly loss of $274m (Financial Times) אסף מגידש

LinkedIn asks its top 500 "Influencers" for blanket permission to syndicate posts, with no money changing hands (Peter Kafka/Re/code) אסף מגידש

Early Apple Designer Susan Kare Joins Pinterest's Creative Team (Matthew Lynley/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Uber closes round of almost $1B, valuing the company at over $50B and bringing total funding to more than $5B (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Lawsuit forces Samsung to issue software patch allowing users to delete bloatware, but only in China (Chris Chavez/Phandroid) אסף מגידש

Uber to plough $1bn into India investment drive (James Crabtree/Financial Times) אסף מגידש

HTC Spends Nearly $10M On A 15% Stake In Virtual Reality Platform WEVR (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Snapchat Revenue Could Hit $50 Million This Year - But It Still Needs a CFO (Kurt Wagner/Re/code) אסף מגידש

Integral Ad Science Raises $67 Million as It Tackles Ad Viewability, Fraud and Effectiveness (Mike Shields/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

YotaPhone cancels US launch of YotaPhone 2 despite successful Indiegogo campaign (Dan Seifert/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Game add-ons and other digital goods account for 77% of all Electronic Arts Q1 revenue (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Appeals court upholds Microsoft's $14.5M jury verdict against Motorola in patent royalty case (Bloomberg Business) אסף מגידש

Anti-Virus Firm BitDefender Admits Breach, Hacker Claims Stolen Passwords Are Unencrypted (Thomas Fox-Brewster/Forbes) אסף מגידש

Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard (Vlad Savov/The Verge) אסף מגידש

MasterCard and Samsung extend partnership in Europe for Samsung Pay (Shane McGlaun/SlashGear) אסף מגידש

Microsoft joins with Jasper in Internet of Things alliance (Barb Darrow/Fortune) אסף מגידש

Microsoft: Windows 10 passes 14M installs 24 hours after launch (Yusuf Mehdi/Windows Blog) אסף מגידש

Uber to invest $1B in India as it looks to hit 1M daily rides in the country by March 2016 (James Crabtree/Financial Times) אסף מגידש

CVS Health to use IBM's Watson to help patients with chronic conditions (Jessica Bartlett/Boston Business Journal) אסף מגידש

Google partners with Silent Circle, the makers of privacy focused Blackphone; adds carriers for the first time to its Android for Work program (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Pocket starts recommending articles and videos in a new public beta (Casey Newton/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Facebook completes full-scale prototype of its solar-powered Internet drone Aquila; develops laser that transmits data at 10 gigabits/second (Daniel Terdiman/Fast Company) אסף מגידש

Photo editing startup PicMonkey lands $41M from Bay Area-based Spectrum Equity (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

Google now lets Android devs offer closed betas that only require email address, open betas (Reto Meier/Android Developers Blog) אסף מגידש

Sources: Apple planning to debut new Apple TV during September iPhone event (John Paczkowski/BuzzFeed) אסף מגידש

LinkedIn beats Q2 estimates with $712M in revenue, up 33% YoY; shares rise as much as 14% in after-hours trading (Matthew Lynley/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Google is quietly distributing a new version of Glass for business customers that attaches to other glasses; consumer version at least a year away (Alistair Barr/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Smartwatch company Olio raises $10M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates (John Biggs/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Shopify beats Q2 estimates with $44.9M revenue, lower than expected $3.3M loss, in first results since IPO (Vito Pilieci/Ottawa Citizen) אסף מגידש

Sources: Apple agrees to rent 75K square feet of office space in San Francisco's SoMa, in first big push into the city (Cory Weinberg/bizjournals) אסף מגידש

Pinterest makes diversity hiring goals for 2016 public for accountability and promises to share findings on what works (Evan Sharp/Pinterest Blog) אסף מגידש

Groupon launches Groupon To Go food delivery service, available in Chicago, expanding to other metro regions in US throughout the year (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Google asks French data protection authority CNIL to withdraw its order forcing right to be forgotten delistings to be applied globally (David Meyer/Politico) אסף מגידש

Mobile Video Ad Firm Jun Group Raises $28 Million in New Funding (Mike Shields/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

T-Mobile beats estimates in Q2 with profit of $361M, revenue of $8.2B, and strong subscriber growth (Roger Cheng/CNET) אסף מגידש

Windows 10 Solitaire requires a subscription to remove ads (Andy Chalk/PC Gamer) אסף מגידש

Sources: NBCUniversal close to investing $250M in BuzzFeed at a $1.5B valuation, also investing in Vox Media at a $850M valuation (Re/code) אסף מגידש

An inside look at Zazzle, which expects $250M+ revenue and a gross margin of 45% this year, larger than Amazon's recent 35% gross margin (Ari Levy/CNBC) אסף מגידש

StubHub lets eventgoers call an Uber from its app (Edgar Alvarez/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Study: Shutdown of Google News and other aggregators in Spain hurt news sites' traffic and ad revenue, particularly for new and smaller publishers (Mike Masnick/Techdirt) אסף מגידש

Hammertoss: Russian hackers target the cloud, Twitter, GitHub in malware spread (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Caller ID App Truecaller Is Raising $100M At A $1B Valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Grooveshark lacked the music rights deals and the funding to compete against other services (Stephen Witt/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Sony Posts $780M Profit On Strong PlayStation And Sensor Businesses (Jon Russell/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer (Jason Koebler/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 are here! (Kirk Koenigsbauer/Office Blogs) אסף מגידש

Like with News Feed, Facebook wants to encourage organic interaction with businesses before monetizing Messenger and WhatsApp (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Uber to lease cars directly to UberX drivers with Xchange Leasing pilot program, which includes unlimited mileage and limited early termination fees (Leena Rao/Fortune) אסף מגידש

Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10, used to share access to Wi-Fi networks with contacts, requires opt in, encrypts passwords, and is easily disabled (Sebastian Anthony/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Facebook mobile ads accounted for $2.9B in revenue, roughly 72% of total Q2 sales (Financial Times) אסף מגידש