"Actually, there is something new about Apple's upcoming iPhone 7" AppleInsider 7:47 AM
"Like it or not, Apple is right about Spotify" The Next Web 5:28 PM
"Munster: it will cost Apple $500 million to buy Tidal" phoneArena 9:55 AM
"Why Apple Acquiring Tidal Could Be Exactly What The World Needs" Stereophile 5:21 PM
"Apple Rips Spotify For Spreading 'Rumors And Half-Truths' About App Store Policies" HotHardware 5:20 PM
"Apple winning the enterprise security race, Samsung makes push" ZDNet 6:46 PM
"Ex-Burberry CEO has focused on staff T-shirts since joining Apple" Page Six 7:42 AM
"Meet the leaker who reveals Apple's products before they come out" Business Insider 9:12 AM
"AT&T Might Make Apple's TV Dreams Come True: AT&T submitted a proposal to the FCC about new set-top box rules." The Motley Fool 5:28 PM
"There will never be anything like the iPhone again" Business Insider 7/2
"Spotify's Issue With Apple Highlights the Tech Giant's Powerful Ecosystem: Competing with Apple may not be easy. But it's not because of its app submission policies. It's because it built the iPhone, iOS, and the App Store from the ground up." The Motley Fool 7/2
"Brexit Is No Biggie for Apple, Inc.: The strengthening yen may offset most or all of Brexit's negative impact on Apple." The Motley Fool 7/2
"Tech's dream presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg tells tech to stop hiding data from the government: Apple, Google and Facebook are 'dangerously wrong,' he writes." Bloomberg 7/2
"Apple sued in China over showing of war film from the 1990s" ["A Beijing court says the case has been brought by a production center that alleges that Apple has infringed its exclusive online rights to broadcast a film that depicts Chinese fighting against Japanese soldiers in northern China in the early 1930s. The plaintiff is also suing the developer and operator of the Youku HD app available on Apple's App Store that it says enabled users to watch the film and caused it 'huge economic losses,' according to the Beijing Haidian District People's Court."] Associated Press 7/2
"If this was rap beef, then Apple Music just dissed Spotify" Quartz 7/2
"Apple Users Spend More On In-App Purchasers Than Their Android Counterparts" Digital Trends 7/2
"Illinois man to plead guilty in celebrity iCloud hacking case" Reuters 7/2
"Apple Maps to gain Japan transit data in iOS 10" AppleInsider 7/2
"Apple's continuing commitment to accessibility" iMore 7/1
"You have to see Apple's spaceship-like campus — it has a 100,000-square-foot gym: New drone footage shows Apple campus as it nears completion" MarketWatch 7/1
"Bon Iver frontman slams 'horrid' Apple Music" Cult of Mac 7/1
"Bad month for Apple repairs as Tekserve to close, Louis Rossman videos likely to disappear" 9to5Mac 7/1
"Apple's Tim Cook May Watch Nike Whiff on Huge 2020 Sales Goal: Nike is on track to miss its ambitious $50 billion 2020 sales target." TheStreet 7/1
"NASA and Apple Music Team Up For Visions in Harmony" MacStories 7/1
"Elizabeth Warren's epic 2015 political rant foreshadowed this year's populist anger: The Massachusetts Senator isn't shy about taking on big targets — be it Trump or tech." Recode 7/1
Non-Apple News
"New York Falls and Seattle Rises on 'America's Top Tech Cities' List" Slashdot 9:01 PM
"A brief history of the QWERTY keyboard: On July 1, 1874, the Remington typewriter hit the market, with the earliest version of what would become the keyboard layout we still use today." CNET 7/1
"Apple Talk 08: The next iPhone, with Neil Cybart" iMore 7/1
"Instagram's Kevin Systrom, Unfiltered: The CEO of Instagram on the past and future of the popular photo-sharing app" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/1
"The Dalrymple Report: How Am I Going to Top That?" The Loop 7/1
"TMO Daily Observations 2016-07-01: Apple Music and Tidal, Spotify's App Store Gripe" The Mac Observer 7/1
"Road to Macstock -Matt Hillyer on The Benefits of Virtualization" MacVoices 7/1
"CNET UK podcast 488: Android Nougat, suing Apple for billions and angering Adele" CNET 7/1
"Apple's 'next big thing' might already be here" ZDNet 7/1
"Invention idea: a scanning stand for iOS devices" Apple World Today 7/1
"With iPhone 7 Likely To Disappoint, This Fall Is Samsung's Time To Strike" Forbes 7/1
"This crazy graphic charts all of the scientific advancements behind the iPhone" BGR 7/1
Non-Apple
"Don't call them chatbots, call them intelligent assistants" VentureBeat 7:33 AM
"It's Possible! How To Build A VR-Ready Gaming PC For $600" Digital Trends 7/2
"How Doom reveals its secrets like a Frank Frazetta painting" VentureBeat 7/2
"The skinny on super-slim laptops: Full-power processors and high-res screens hit a new generation of laptops just 10mm to 13mm thick." CNET 7/2
"Android's full-disk encryption just got much weaker—here's why: Unlike Apple's iOS, Android is vulnerable to several key-extraction techniques." Ars Technica 7/1
"Is the 'rugged' Galaxy S7 Active worth the extra $100?" CIO 7/1
"After a fatal Tesla crash, the debate over the safety of semi-autonomous technology continues" Recode 7/1
"Tesla Autopilot Death a Stark Reminder that Autonomous Vehicles Are Still Early" The Mac Observer 7/1
Humor/Cartoons
"Spotify gives Apple an earful!" The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 7/1
"Download & Install iTransmission 5 Torrent App On iOS" Redmond Pie 7/2
"iTransmission 5 launches in Cydia, enables Bittorrent downloads on iPhone or iPad" iDownload Blog 7/2
"Coming July 2: Gene Steinberg meets Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' and author Bob 'Dr. Mac' LeVitus, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7/1
"Microsoft Doesn't Care About Brexit, UK to Remain Top Market: The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union, but Microsoft doesn't see this decision as reason enough to make changes to the way it does business in the region." Softpedia 8:22 AM
"Microsoft will continue to invest in the UK post-Brexit" Neowin 8:22 AM
"Did Microsoft Acquire LinkedIn for the Cloud Business?" Investopedia 8:58 AM
"HP Debuts 'Device as a Service' for Enterprise Customers" PC Magazine 5:29 PM
"AMD promises fix for Radeon RX 480's controversial, spec-exceeding power consumption" PCWorld 9:58 AM
"Harvard is latest college to file infringement lawsuits: A lawsuit filed by Harvard University against microchip giant Micron Technology is the latest patent suit brought by a big university that could result in a major cash windfall, though educational institutions filing infringement suits over federally funded research has drawn criticism." Boston Herald 8:58 AM
"Sony chief Hirai places faith in artificial intelligence" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:47 AM
"Singapore banks eye Facebook IDs for transfers" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:46 AM
"Oracle Ordered To Pay HPE $3 Billion In Itanium Suit: A Silicon Valley jury has sided with HPE in a long-running dispute focused on support for the Itanium server platform." InformationWeek 7/2
"Oracle ordered to pay $3bn damages to HP" BBC 7/2
"Oracle Makes News with Its Biggest Bond Sale Ever" Market Realist 7/2
"Dell Kills Android Business To Focus On Windows 2-in-1 Devices" Forbes 7/2
"Dell gives up on Venue Android tablets; focuses on 2-in-1 Windows 10 hybrids" Yibada 7/2
"Microsoft Won, But Who Else Wanted LinkedIn? New documents reveal some of the other companies that were allegedly interested in purchasing LinkedIn." PC Magazine 7/2
"Bidding war drove up Microsoft's LinkedIn bill" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7/2
"LinkedIn filing details bidding war resulting in Microsoft acquisition" ZDNet 7/2
"3 Ways for Apple to Get Back to $100: The world's leading consumer-electronics company is out of favor, but that may not last long." The Motley Fool 8:11 PM
"Apple Investor Weekly: iPhone Under Pressure In Japan, Lower EPS Estimates But 2017 Setting Up Well" Forbes 7:43 AM
"Apple's Fate Depends On Product, Not Hardware Innovation" Seeking Alpha 7/1
Industry News
"Dow, S&P 500 shake off Brexit, log best week of 2016: U.S. markets are closed for Fourth of July" MarketWatch 7/1
"Stocks Close Out Massive Week With Quiet Gains: Wall Street was far quieter than normal on Friday after an eventful week as traders escaped the office early for the long Independence Day weekend." TheStreet 7/1
"What Brexit? Stocks Score Big Weekly Gains; Will Apple Break Resistance?" Investor's Business Daily 7/1
"Stocks close higher on first day of 3rd qtr., nearly wipe out Brexit losses" USA Today 7/1
"Stocks End Higher For 4th Straight Day After Upbeat Manufacturing Data" MarketWatch Pulse 7/1
"U.S. Stocks Edge Up as Government Bond Yields Touch New Lows: Shares inch up amid hopes central banks will remain supportive after Brexit vote" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/1
"Asian markets end higher after BOE signals more easing: Asian stock markets rose Friday after Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney signaled a stronger possibility of a summer rate cut to support the U.K. economy in the wake of the country's vote last week to leave the European Union." MarketWatch 7/1
"European stocks shrug off Brexit worry to snap string of weekly losses: European stocks ended higher Friday, pushing the Stoxx Europe 600 to its best week in five after a stunning series of sharp gains in the wake of the U.K.'s Brexit vote." MarketWatch 7/1
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