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July 31, 2016, 9:55 PM
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Leslie Hook / Financial Times:
Source: Uber to invest $500M into its own global mapping project  —  Uber is preparing to pour $500m into an ambitious global mapping project as it seeks to wean itself off dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars.  —  The San Francisco-based transportation company …
Hillary Clinton 2016:
Clinton campaign: DNC's data analytics program we used was breached; no evidence hackers accessed internal systems  —  Hillary for America Spokesman Nick Merrill released the following statement on news reports regarding cyber hacks targeted at the campaign: “An analytics data program maintained by the DNC …
Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security:
Recent hacks indicate US election systems and voting machines could be targeted too; government must take urgent steps to secure them, and consider retaliation
Reuters:
Sources: Clinton campaign computer network hacked in addition to Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Fred Wilson / AVC:
Blockchain technology and crypto-tokens enable new business models for creating open protocols, financed by the tokens protocol creators retain at launch  —  Protocols are a geeky topic.  It's way more interesting to talk about applications.  People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application.
Jeffrey Rodman / Backchannel:
Polycom's co-founder Jeffrey Rodman recounts the early days of his $2B company  —  Polycom's co-founder on the best investment he ever made, and why thinking small is a big idea … was March of 1991 and Polycom co-founder Brian Hinman and I were on yet another urgent trip to buy components.
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Michael Andronico / Tom's Guide:
Axon 7 review: ZTE's best phone to date with good build quality, fast performance, and a useful and clean MiFavor 4.0 UI, but OnePlus 3 offers more for $399  —  The term “affordable flagship” is inescapable these days, thanks to a crop of low-cost unlocked devices that can hold their own among the iPhones and Galaxies of the world.
Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek:
Google has issued patches for 115 Android Stagefright-related flaws since vulnerability was made public a year ago  —  On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a vulnerability in Android.  A year later, it's clear that Stagefright has had a major impact on the mobile security world …
Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal:
Walgreens to shutter Drugstore.com and Beauty.com, which were a part of a $429M acquisition in 2011, to focus on its own website  —  Retailer also to shutter Beauty.com as part of a broader plan to cut costs  —  Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. on Thursday said it is shutting down two websites …
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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

Inside Radio:
iHeart reduces its total debt by over $440M and extends most of its debt maturities by three years, by using debt exchange transactions

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Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:
Samsung Galaxy Note 7, new Gear VR specs and pics leak; Note 7 will have iris scanner, 5.7-inch QHD display, 4GB of RAM, 12 MP f/1.7 camera, 3500 mAh battery

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
IRS delivers a notice of deficiency for $3B-$5B to Facebook, claims Facebook undervalued assets transferred to Irish subsidiary in 2010
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Instagram will soon let users filter comments on their posts, turn off comments on individual posts, or turn off comments on their posts entirely
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