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July 8, 2014, 8:40 AM

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Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung Sees Phone Rebound After Earnings Miss Estimates — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted second-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as the world's biggest smartphone maker loses market share to Apple Inc. (AAPL) and less expensive devices from Chinese manufacturers.

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Box raises $150M more from TPG and Coatue Management at $2.4B valuation, expects IPO after labor day — Web-Storage Startup Box Raises $150 Million as It Awaits IPO — Box Inc. has bought itself some breathing room as it waits for a more suitable time to hold an initial public offering.

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Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Box's updated S1 shows Q1 sales up 94% and losses up just 11% year-on-year

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Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:

Popcorn Time's “Netflix for Torrents” Is Coming to Chromecast — Popcorn Time is a miracle: It lets you stream torrents of movies and TV shows as though they were on Netflix or Hulu. Is it illegal? Probably! But it's also awesome, hard to trace, and soon, it'll work with your Chromecast.

More: 9to5Google, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, AndroidHeadlines.com and CNNMoney.com

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, A Next-Generation Email Platform — Founded by Dropbox and MIT alums, a new startup called Inbox is launching out of stealth today, hoping to power the next generation of email applications. Similar to the newly launched Gmail API, Inbox offers a more modern …

More: InfoWorld, Business Insider, Electronista, The Next Web and VentureBeat

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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Keith Rabois' Homebuying Startup OpenDoor Raises $9.95M From Everyone — Well. — It seems like a lot of Valley investors want to see the process of buying homes become a lot more efficient. — After Khosla Ventures VC and former Square COO Keith Rabois teased that he was working …

More: bizjournals, VentureBeat and Re/code

Tweets: @howardlindzon and @mike_greenfield

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple bolsters iOS 8 Health app with on-device steps counting & caffeine tracking — Apple has made significant enhancements to its upcoming Health application for iOS 8 in the latest beta of the new iPhone operating system. Most notably, the Health application can now utilize …

More: BGR, MacRumors, App Advice, AppleInsider, MacNN, Softpedia News and Gigaom. Tweets: @tim. Thanks:@mikebeas

Angelica Mari / ZDNet:

20 armed, disguised men steal $36M worth of Samsung products from Brazil factory; nobody hurt — Samsung suffers massive robbery in Brazil — Summary: Approximately $36m worth of products have been stolen from a São Paulo factory — In an operation that resembled the 1978 Lufthansa heist …

More: Digital Trends, Reuters, GSMArena Blog, Engadget, Electronista, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, AndroidHeadlines.com, Business Insider and SamMobile

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Nearly undetectable ATM skimmers threaten regions like the US that haven't adopted more secure “chip & PIN” tech — The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers — Like most electronic gadgets these days, ATM skimmers are getting smaller and thinner, with extended battery life.

More: ZDNet, SecurityWeek, Gizmodo, Gizmodo UK, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Engadget, The Verge and Business Insider. Tweets: @ec

Philip Guo / Communications of the ACM:

Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities … At the time of writing (July 2014), Python is currently the most popular language for teaching introductory computer science courses at top-ranked U.S. departments. — Specifically, eight …

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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

How John Arrillaga Sr. turned orchards into office parks for Silicon Valley's tech giants — The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley — How John Arrillaga Sr. transformed California fruit orchards into high-priced office space for the likes of Google, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco.

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Twitter Replaces Media Chief Chloe Sladden with Katie Stanton (Exclusive) — Less than a month after the departure of Twitter Media chief Chloe Sladden, the social media giant has found her replacement. — Katie Stanton, previously vice president of international market development …

More: SocialTimes, Re/code and Softpedia News

Tweets: @chloes and @awallenstein

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Internet of Things heats up for chip makers as Atmel pays $140M for Newport Media — Above: Atmel has acquired Newport Media — Atmel has agreed to buy wireless chip maker Newport Media for $140 million as part of a move into smart connected devices with applications with the internet of things.

More: PC World, Bloomberg, Open Interconnect Consortium, The Register, Reuters, socalTECH.com, silicontap.com, eWeek and Light Reading

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iPhone 6 Front Panel Subjected to Scratch Test, Significant Bending — Earlier today, we shared a video of what appeared to be the front panel of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 subjected to a limited bending stress test, but YouTube user Marques Brownlee has now acquired the same front panel and subjected …

More: YouTube, The Tech Block, The Register, Business Insider, DisplayBlog, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Daring Fireball, MacRumors and Tapscape

Tweets: @lukew and @thetechblock

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

New Zealand ISP allows its customers to subscribe to the U.S. version of Netflix — Slingshot, a local internet provider in New Zealand, wants to give its subscribers a little extra perk: The ISP just added a new “global mode” to its internet plans that allows its customers to access video services …

More: Computerworld, DSLreports, Computerworld News …, CNET, The Next Web, New Zealand Herald, TVNZ, Stuff.co.nz and New Zealand Herald. See also Mediagazer

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

LG's Android Wear-based G Watch is now on sale across the world on Google Play and key retailers — LG took the wraps off the G Watch in March, a smartwatch powered by Android Wear, Google's platform for wearables. Now the G Watch is finally available for purchase worldwide on Google Play …

More: LG Newsroom, Droid Life, Android Central, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo and Gotta Be Mobile

Kevin Collier / Daily Dot:

How currency exchange Moolah contributed to mistrust and tumbling prices for Dogecoin traders — The death of Dogecoin — On May 4, against all odds, Dogecoin surged to the finish line in Aaron's 499, a nationally televised NASCAR race in Talladega, Ala.

More: The Verge

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Isis mobile wallet will rebrand to avoid sharing name with violent militant group — Isis is facing an identity crisis. The company behind the mobile wallet app has announced it will rebrand to avoid sharing its name with the extremist militant group ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

More: Isis News, ABC News, RT, ZDNet, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, Gigaom, The Register, Fortune, PhoneNews.com, CIO.com, CNNMoney.com, Electronista, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Android Central, CNET, Engadget and Gizmodo

Tweets: @caseynewton, @harrymccracken, @profjeffjarvis and @startupljackson

Stan Higgins / CoinDesk:

Next Bitcoin Core Version to Include ‘Smarter’ Transaction Fees — Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen has outlined the details of new floating transaction fees to be included in the code of the next Bitcoin Core release. — In a new post on the official Bitcoin Foundation blog …

More: Bitcoin Foundation, SiliconANGLE and NEWSBTC

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Samsung, Intel, Dell team up on standards for connected gadgets — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, Intel Corp and Dell have joined to establish standard ways for household gadgets like thermostats and light bulbs to talk to each other, at odds with a framework backed by Qualcomm, LG Electronics and other companies.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, New York Times, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Windows Phone Central, Bloomberg, ZDNet, The Next Web, CNET, SlashGear, FierceWireless, Re/code and Engadget

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