Techmeme

• Convoy, which matches trucking companies with shippers that need to move freight, raises $62M Series B led by Y Combinator's Continuity Fund (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
• Microsoft says MS Paint will be available on the Windows Store as a free standalone app in the future (Mehedi Hassan/MSPoweruser)
• Sensor Tower says Netflix app revenue up 233% YoY to $153M in Q2 across Google Play and App Store, is highest grossing app overall, followed by Tinder, LINE (Randy Nelson/Sensor Tower Blog)
• Expedia and Priceline boost inventory of home-rental options to challenge Airbnb, with Priceline Group's Booking.com upping vacation rental inventory by 50% YoY (Chris Kirkham/Wall Street Journal)
• Roomba vacuum maker iRobot hopes to sell its users' floor plan data, seeking deals with Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet (Jan Wolfe/Reuters)
• Facebook has acquired a content rights startup called Source3 to help fight video pirates (Kurt Wagner/Recode)
• Alphabet: Q2 revenue of $26.01B, up 21% YoY, vs $25.64B est., net income of $3.52B with EC fine, CPC down 26%, and paid clicks on Google properties up 61% YoY (Steve Kovach/Business Insider)
• Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2017 Results (Alphabet Investor Relations)
• EU sets July 20 date for new proposals from Facebook, Google, Twitter to bring their user terms into compliance, after deeming earlier proposals insufficient (Julia Fioretti/Reuters)
• Sensor Tower: mobile game revenues grew 32% YoY to $12.2B in Q2 as Asian titles, like Honor of Kings, surged (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai appointed to Alphabet board of directors as its 13th member (Miguel Helft/Forbes)
• Sources: Foxconn close to investing in a TV display manufacturing plant in Wisconsin and possibly another factory in the Detroit area (Wall Street Journal)
• Microsoft Paint, first released with Windows 1.0 in 1985, to be "removed or deprecated" in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update; Paint 3D to remain (Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian)
• BingoBox already has more than a dozen Amazon Go-like unmanned shops open in China, plans to have almost 200 more by the end of August (Tom Hancock/Financial Times)
• Microsoft designs new AI chip for next version of HoloLens, which will let mixed reality goggles recognize speech and images on device instead of the cloud (Bloomberg)

TechCrunch

• Startup hub builder Factory plans gargantuan new campus in Lisbon
• Korean startup Urbanbase gets $1.8M to turn apartment floor plans into virtual reality
• SoftBank is reportedly keen to buy ?multi-billion dollar stake? in Uber
• Crunch Report | KKR Buys WebMD for $2.8 Billion
• SF-based Grabr grabs $2.6M to scale its traveller-driven shopping community
• Facebook acquires Source3 to get content creators paid
• SnapTravel raises $8 million for a hotel booking service that works over chat
• Alphabet keeps printing money despite a hefty $2.7B fine from the EU
• EverlyWell rolls out three new DNA-based products for food sensitivity, metabolism and breast milk
• Blue Apron faces lawsuit from former employee who alleges violation of Family and Medical Leave Act
• Snopes seeks crowdfunding in ownership battle
• Nvidia Shield TV gets updated YouTube app with 360 video
• Google releases the final Android O developer preview
• New Funny or Die series, The Real Stephen Blatt, streams exclusively on Amazon Prime Video
• Google?s Sundar Pichai to join Alphabet?s board
• Apple just dropped iOS 11 beta 4 for developers
• NASA seeks to build a quieter supersonic plane for passenger flight
• Hulu hires Google marketing veteran Kelly Campbell as CMO
• Ford?s 2018 Mustang GT can do 0-to-60 mph in under 4 seconds
• Amazon?s chat fiction app Rapids ties up with Amazon Studios with launch of ?Signature Stories?

GigaOm

Silicon Alley Insider

• 10 things in tech you need to know today (MSFT, GOOG, FB)
• Scaramucci says Trump tweets because he doesn't feel 'defended in the mainstream media' ? here's what he tweets about
• A new technology could change the game for Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and every smartphone user (GOOGL, NFLX, AMZN, AMAT)
• Google?s payments to partners are the highest in 8 years and Wall Street is not happy (GOOG, GOOGL)
• What it was like to attend Pokémon Go's first real-world event that turned out to be a disaster
• Verizon points the finger at Niantic for problems that led to Pokémon Go fiasco (VZ)
• Google hardly seems bothered by the YouTube advertiser boycott (GOOG, GOOGL)
• 16 cheap and creative ways to stay warm when your office is freezing
• 17 stunning works of art created using only Microsoft Paint (MSFT)
• The 17 best things to do in San Francisco, according to people who live there
• The absolute dominance of Google Chrome, in one chart (GOOG)
• From hacked casino fish tanks to malicious links, cybersecurity threats are everywhere ? and startups are raking in the dough
• Google built a tiny Street View car to map out one of the world's largest model cities
• Alphabet rakes in a $26 billion quarter, but the stock is sliding (GOOG, GOOGL)
• Facebook's cafeteria workers are demanding higher pay because they can't afford to live in Silicon Valley (FB)
• One of the leading institutions backing homeopathic 'treatments' has effectively banned them
• No matter how great The Rock is, he still won?t make you use Siri more often (AAPL)
• 11 of the most beautiful new homes around the world
• This self-driving police car can track criminals and launch drones ? and it?s already being deployed in Dubai
• Lenovo has a concept tablet can be folded into a smartphone with two displays

VentureBeat

Mashable

• Seal pup found on farm is a long, long way from home
• Sure, it's great to see Nymeria on 'Game of Thrones' again, but where the hell is Ghost?
• The ACLU is way too busy for your hamburger debates
• Veteran scoutmaster scolds Trump in scathing tweetstorm
• Today in nature is scary, here's a crocodile dragging an entire cow through the water
• The internet’s favorite fact checker Snopes is in deep trouble
• This giant snail that looks like a rabbit will give you nightmares
• Everyone is tweeting the Boy Scouts values after Trump turns jamboree into full-blown political rally
• This Trump/Scaramucci supercut proves why they call him 'The Mooch'
• Creepy spyware has infected Macs for years, and we're only just realizing it now
• How Google is trying to fix Android's emoji problem
• Your flight times could be cut in half thanks to NASA's supersonic tech
• Google tests autoplay videos in search, because we aren't allowed to have nice things
• Jared Kushner says a fake Guccifer tried to extort the Trump campaign for Bitcoin
• After all that, Amazon's Whole Foods deal may be delayed
• 7 surprising facts about the '80s vampire film ’The Lost Boys’
• How to get your Windows screenshots without MS Paint
• Apple commercial reminds us why Siri needs The Rock more than The Rock needs Siri
• There's no ban on carrying comics—or any other type of books—in checked bags
• The First Mashable Comic-Con Awards
• Silicon Valley entrepreneurs launch online tool to help women fight sexual harassment
• Anybody who did high school debate knows it's the worst way to tackle climate change
• Here are 7 things you (probably) didn't know about 'The Lost Boys'
• Are we about to reach peak emoji?
• Google hid a bizarre Easter egg in the Android O preview
• Arcade Fire says you can wear whatever you want to their show
• Passion Pit announces musical hiatus so frontman can cope with mental illness
• Show off your love for Star Wars with this business casual line for women
• This self-driving valet service is one of the smartest ways to use driverless cars
• GOP congressman isn't sure how to fix health care fiasco, but knows it involves sexism and a duel