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July 16, 2014, 8:55 AM

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Apple:

Apple and IBM partner to develop iOS enterprise apps and cloud services, tailor AppleCare for enterprise; IBM will sell iPhones and iPads to business clients — Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Mobility — Apple® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) …

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Apple and IBM Team Up to Push iOS in the Enterprise — Apple and IBM today announced a broad partnership to help companies deploy wireless devices and business-specific applications to run on them. — The combination brings together two historical competitors — who decades ago struggled …

More: Wall Street Journal, CNBC, DailyFinance.com, ZDNet, Business Insider, BetaNews, eWeek, Guardian, WCCFtech, PC World, InfoWorld, Wired, Boing Boing, Softpedia News, iMore, GeekWire, Mercury News, BGR and Gigaom. Tweets: @darth

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

In IBM and Apple's wake, what will team Android do? — Summary: The biggest challenge for team Android is that Google and Samsung, two partners with enterprise ambitions, will have to herd cats to reach corporations to counter Apple and IBM. — Google, Samsung and team Android may have to form …

More: Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

Asymco:

A historical look at how Apple's independence and IBM's business model agility led to a strategic partnership — IBM and Apple: Catharsis — IBM did not invent personal computing but their “PC” became synonymous with the category. Having entered the market in 1981, the IBM PC quickly became the top selling brand.

More: The Verge and Fortune. Tweets: @lunaticsx and @inafried

Google:

Google+ removes all name restrictions, apologizes for “unnecessarily difficult experiences” — When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped create a community made up of real people …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Samsung In Talks To Scoop Up SmartThings For Around $200 Million — Google has Nest, Apple has HomeKit and Samsung has...SmartThings, we're hearing. The deal was completed for around $200 million dollars, though it might have been less according to one source. — (Update: The deal is not done yet, says another.)

More: ZDNet, Connectedly, Geeky Gadgets, 9to5Google, Gigaom, The Next Web, SyrupCast and Engadget

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

FiftyThree's Pencil iPad stylus arrives in the UK — Are you a Briton who's been itching to try out Pencil, FiftyThree's Bluetooth-connected iPad stylus? Until now, the only way to get hold of the device would be to order it from the US and bracing yourself for the inevitable barrage of paperwork and annoyance from customs.

More: The Next Web, Guardian, iMore, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gigaom, App Advice and Geeky Gadgets

Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:

Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? — The combination of access and toughness has made her a preeminent arbiter of status. — The technology journalist Kara Swisher likes to call herself Sherlock Homo, but on a spring evening in Austin …

More: Valleywag, TechCrunch, and PandoDaily

Tweets: @nytfridge, @nilofer, @mikeisaac and @kluo

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Google:

Google appoints former Ford CEO Alan Mulally to its board of directors — Google Appoints Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - JULY 15, 2014 — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced it has appointed Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors.

More: 9to5Google, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Fortune, SiliconBeat, Gigaom, GeekWire, Business Insider and Jalopnik

Tweets: @bfeld and @theromit

New York Times:

Time Warner rejected $80B takeover bid by Murdoch's 21st Century Fox last month, no longer in discussions — Rupert Murdoch Said to Have Made Offer for Time Warner — Twenty-First Century Fox, the media empire run by Rupert Murdoch, made an $80 billion takeover bid in recent weeks …

More: CNET, Bloomberg, The Verge, Business Insider, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and Fortune

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eMarketer:

Microsoft to Surpass Yahoo in Global Digital Ad Market Share This Year — Google, Facebook continue on as the market's leaders — Yahoo's push to maintain its position as a top global ad seller will take another hit in 2014, according to new projections from eMarketer.

More: Business Insider, Reuters, SiliconBeat, Forbes, VentureBeat and Businessweek. Tweets: @emarketer

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Oculus Spots People Selling Rift Pre-Orders, Cancels Their Shipments — The second version of the Oculus Rift VR headset is expected to start arriving this week, but actually getting your hands on one is going to be tough. Over 45,000 units had been pre-ordered as of the first of this month …

More: TechSpot, Arcade Sushi, TechRadar.com, Develop Feed, Eurogamer.net, CraveOnline, Tech Times and Joystiq

Reto Meier / Android Developers Blog:

Google offers Udacity course in Android development; all course materials are free — Learn to Think Like an Android Developer — By Reto Meier, Head of Scalable Developer Advocacy — Today I'm proud to announce the latest resource for learning to develop Android apps: Developing Android Apps: Android Fundamentals.

More: Digital Trends, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Android Central, 9to5Google, Android Authority, SlashGear and Pocketnow

Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed:

Bloomberg $20K+/year terminals have a classifieds section called POSH — There's A Secret Craigslist Just For Rich People — The classifieds section of the Bloomberg terminal, which costs more than $20,000 a year, is called POSH. Aptly named. — The Bloomberg terminal …

More: The Verge, Tech Times, Gizmodo and The Daily Caller. Tweets: @mikepmoffatt

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Google reveals Project Zero, a security team to find and report serious flaws in any software — Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google's Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers — Hacking wunderkind George Hotz's latest gig: An intern on Google's elite hacking team. Tribune Review, Andrew Russell/AP

More: BBC, Guardian, Google Online Security Blog, HEXUS.net Latest Content, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Tweets: @mattcutts. Thanks:@a_greenberg

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Sling's ‘M1’ streaming box brings built-in WiFi at a lower price — It's been nearly two years since Sling unveiled new placeshifting boxes, so it's high time the company brought its products into the year 2014. The firm just announced two refreshes, including the entry-level M1 …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Yelp raises limit on API requests from 100 to 25K calls/day for unapproved developers — Yelp Liberates Its API To Box Out Foursquare And Google — Yelp wants as many inroads and reminders for its service around the web as possible, so today it upped the limit on its API for pulling nearby places …

More: Yelp Official Blog and Skift

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Dropbox partners with Deutsche Telekom to preload its app on Android handsets in EU outside Germany — Dropbox partners with Deutsche Telekom - but only outside Germany — Seeking to reach all 3 billion of the world's connected people, Dropbox will be pre-installed on the phones of one of Europe's biggest telecoms firms

More: The Dropbox Blog, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Next Web, Webrazzi and ITProPortal

John Cook / GeekWire:

Realogy buying ZipRealty for $166 million, a valuation that could give Redfin pause — Realogy Holdings, which operates brands such as Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA and Sotheby's International, is adding another one to its lineup. Madison, New Jersey-based Realogy today announced …

More: Bloomberg, RTTNews, Inman News, bizjournals and SiliconBeat

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Adobe Partners With Google To Release Open-Source Font For Chinese, Japanese And Korean Languages — Adobe and Google today announced the launch of a new open-source font for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) languages that covers 65,535 glyphs, making it one — if not the — largest font to cover these languages.

More: The Typekit Blog, Google Developers Blog, Macworld, CNET and The Next Web. Tweets: @triketora

Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:

Chinese Hackers Extend Reach to Smaller U.S. Agencies, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — After years of cyberattacks on the networks of high-profile government targets like the Pentagon, Chinese hackers appear to have turned their attention to far more obscure federal agencies.

More: Washington Post, Gizmodo and Nextgov. Tweets: @penenberg

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