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Here s what s on the Monday menu.

UberPOP suspends service in France after being declared illegal, and after last week s sometimes violent taxi drivers protests. Elsewhere as the Uber world turns: Company says its drivers are being intimidated by taxi drivers in South Africa. And Uber will invest $50 million over the next five years in Indian tech hub Hyderabad.

SEC regulators launch probe into whether hedge funds and other investors are improperly selling hot private tech stocks.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary next week, Amazon has scheduled July 15 as Prime Day, which it s billing as having more deals than Black Friday.

Hacking Team, an Italian maker of surveillance software, is hacked. Documents purported to be taken in the hack show that it has been working with repressive governments.

Instagram will reportedly be showing higher-resolution photos sometime in the near future.

Fitness apps data: California, Colorado and Washington residents are most active.

And in the latest episode of people behaving badly on social media: Pearl Harbor trends on Twitter after USA s Women s World Cup victory over Japan.

 

Photo: French taxi drivers burn tires as they protest against UberPOP in Marseille on June 25, 2015. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images)