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Today's Top Stories // Jul 1, 2013

Will Apple Sideline Siri Before She Kills Google?

Editor's note: Dan Kaplan is a freelance Content Strategist and armchair futurist. He has worked in marketing for Asana, Twilio and Salesforce.... read more

Android, Led By Samsung, Continues To Storm The Smartphone Market, Pushing A Global 70% Market Share

Google is grappling with an ongoing antitrust case in Europe over its online search business, and if its rivals have anything to do with it, that might extend... read more

First Firefox OS Smartphone Has Arrived: Telefonica Prices ZTE Open At $90 In Spain, Latin American Markets Coming Soon

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Delivery Hero Tops Up Series D With $30M As Its Global Take-Out Service Heads For Profit

While others in the online food delivery space stumble, Delivery Hero is helping itself to some fresh financing today: the online take-out ordering service has... read more

Groupon Goes For The High End With Groupon Reserve For Fancy Meals, Hotels, And More

Groupon's built up a reputation for a soup-to-nuts approach to bargains for goods and services, with deals for usually-expensive meals pitted against offers for... read more

Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' SF LGBT Pride As Tech Companies Publicly Celebrate Equal Rights

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very... read more

Apple Trademarks iWatch Name In Japan -- Keep Calm And Carry On

Let the speculation merry-go-round continue. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple has trademarked the name iWatch -- again. This time Japan is the... read more

Investors Are Wont To Follow -- Data From Seedrs Shows Equity-Based Crowdfunding Is No Different

In a blog post published today, Seedrs, the UK site that makes it easy to invest in early-stage startups, sheds some light on what it takes to reach the... read more

To Drive More Clicks, Twitter Is Testing A Popular Tweets History Feature [Update: It's Gone]

A little over a year ago, Twitter kicked off an initiative to experiment with different ways of making tweets more interactive -- a strategy that has brought us... read more

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Why Obama Was Never Going To Be A Civil Liberties Champion

Barack Obama was never going to be a champion of civil liberties; he leads a very old and quickly growing strain of the Democratic party that prioritizes the… read more

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NASA's Next 5 Missions | Windows 8.1: Essential Facts

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