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June 6, 2012, 2:00 PM

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked - change yours now — Already in the spotlight over concerns that its iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from a device's calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text, LinkedIn user accounts …

@linkedin:

Our team continues to investigate, but at this time, we're still unable to confirm that any security breach has occurred. Stay tuned here.

More: CNET, msnbc.com, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Business Insider and SlashGear

Doug Bowman / Twitter Blog:

Taking flight: #Twitterbird — Over the past six years, the world has become familiar with a little blue bird. The bird is everywhere, constantly associated with Twitter the service, and Twitter the company. — Starting today you'll begin to notice a simplified Twitter bird.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Verge, Marketing Land, Twitter Advertising, Laughing Squid, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, Pulse2 Technology … and Mashable!. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Joff Redfern / Linkedin Blog:

More about our mobile calendar feature — You may have seen a few press stories highlighting concerns about how your data is used in the opt-in calendar feature of our mobile phone apps. We deeply care about our members trust so I want to provide clarity around what we do, don't do …

More: Guardian, CNNMoney.com, The Register, Computerworld, VatorNews, Inquirer, The Next Web, CNET, SlashGear, Ars Technica, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews and Mashable!. Tweets: @gartenberg

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

LinkedIn's iOS app collects and transmits names, emails and notes from your calendar, in plain text — The LinkedIn mobile app for iOS devices collects full meeting notes and details from your device's calendar and sends them back to the company, The Next Web has been informed.

More: Computerworld, BetaNews, The Not-So Private Parts, Skycure Security, Bits, Help Net Security, Internet Evolution, CNET, The Verge, Softpedia News, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, Mobile, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Appolicious Advisor, Business Insider and textually.org. Tweets: @marcoarment

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google Earth to get radically better 3D images, new UI on iOS and Android — Google has announced its plans to improve 3D maps. It's using “automated technology to extract 3D from aerial images.” The effect is stunning, every building is competely modeled from street to roof.

More: CNET, The Next Web and Daring Fireball

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Google Street View cars have driven 5 million unique miles, collected 20 petabytes of images — Regardless of how you may feel about Google Street View cars and what kind of effect it may have on your privacy, they're still on the roads on nearly every continent in the world.

More: The Verge, The Next Web and The Next Web

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google launching Offline Maps for Android mobile users

More: 9to5Google, IntoMobile and Lifehacker

Tweets: @mxfh, @parislemon and @dcseifert

IDC:

Android Expected to Reach Its Peak This Year as Mobile Phone Shipments Slow, According IDC — The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow slightly more than 4.0% year over year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate since 2009, due to a sharp decline in the feature phone market and sluggish global economic conditions.

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft has now sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7 — Microsoft announced today that the company has now sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7 since its introduction in October 2009. Speaking at Computex 2012, Microsoft's Steve Guggenheimer revealed the number while demonstrating some of the latest Windows 7 devices.

More: PR Newswire, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Engadget, VentureBeat, GadgeTell, Computerworld, Neowin, WinBeta, The Next Web, Redmond Pie and Everything Microsoft

Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine:

Microsoft Keynote: Embedded Windows, Cloud Computing, Windows in Your Car

More: The Verge and Engadget

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman Has a Lot to Say (Interview) — Today I had my first in-person sit-down interview with Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. Over the course of 30 minutes we talked about a lot of things, and quite frankly she had a lot to say. — For one thing …

More: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Computerworld, ZDNet, Guardian, Bits and Business Insider. Tweets: @lessien

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Tennis Pals Ellison and Hurd Explored HP-Oracle Merger

More: Bloomberg

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO GO Subscription? About $12 A Month — Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO GO, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms.

More: BuzzFeed, Daring Fireball, GitHub, Business Insider, Lost Remote and digitaltrends.com

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

HBO Says No, for Now, to Fans Who Want a Web-Only Option

More: TechCrunch, SplatF and parislemon. Tweets: @parislemon

Agam Shah / Computerworld:

Google TV box gets movie streams from Android 4.0 smartphones, tablets — An upcoming Google TV box based on Android 4.0 OS and an ARM processor will come closer to smartphones and tablets with the capability to play direct movie streams from Android 4.0 mobile devices …

More: CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, SlashGear, Android News, Rumours …, Inquirer and PC Advisor

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

After nearly two years without an update, Apple to finally revamp Mac Pro next week — Yesterday, we reported that Apple has an incredible WWDC surprise: major updates to four of its Mac lines. We were able to affirm that three of these updates would cover the redesigned MacBook Pro with a Retina Display …

More: Wired, The Register, AppleInsider, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, MacRumors, AllThingsD, Ubergizmo, MacGazette, I4U News, WebProNews, Apple Bitch, Engadget, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, MacNN, eWeek, The Verge, CNET and MacRumors. Tweets: @marcoarment

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

True Ventures Raises $205 Million Fund — While Facebook's sagging stock price may have chilled investors' appetite for rising technology start-ups, some venture capital firms continue to collect new money. — True Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with investments in Automattic …

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Matt Peckham / Techland:

IPv6 Day: Only the Biggest Change to the Internet Since Its Inception — It's only the most significant architectural development in the history of the Internet, and presto, it transpired last night at 00:01 GMT. Did you notice? — I'm betting not, and that you probably …

More: Los Angeles Times, BBC, ZDNet, Computerworld, SlashGear, InfoQ, gHacks Technology News, O'Reilly Radar, Inquirer and Pluggd.in

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

After Selling A Startup To Google For $81 Million, 26-Year-Old Nat Turner Now Wants To Solve Healthcare — 26-year-old Nat Turner and his business partner, Zach Weinberg, sold ad tech company Invite Media to Google in 2010 for $81 million. — This Friday, the pair are quitting Google to begin a new startup in health care.

More: Nat Turner. Tweets: @cdixon

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Lenovo demos ThinkPad tablet running Windows 8, we go hands-on — Yes, another Windows 8 tablet. After getting hands-on with some new devices from Acer, ASUS and Samsung, you might already having trouble telling one device from the other. You might even say the same about Lenovo …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Softpedia News, Windows 8 Beta, CNET, WinBeta, The Verge, VR-Zone and Windows 8 Beta

Darrell Etherington / BetaKit:

Ebook Community Wattpad Raises $17.3M, Claims Higher Engagement Than Pinterest — Toronto-based Wattpad, an online community revolving around the creation and sharing of free ebooks,today announced a new Series B round of funding that weighs in at $17.3 million.

More: TechCrunch, Mark Evans Tech, GigaOM and AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Big data + cloud computing = $25M from Silicon Valley's biggest VCs — Delphix, a startup that exists at the boring-to-consumers-but-otherwise-a- total-goldmine intersection between cloud computing and big data, has just dried the ink on a healthy funding deal — one that brings tech heavyweights …

More: Delphix, The Next Web and silicontap.com

Cory Doctorow / Technology Review:

The Curious Case of Internet Privacy — Free services in exchange for personal information. That's the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. It could be the worst deal ever. — Here's a story you've heard about the Internet: we trade our privacy for services.

Doug Cameron / Wall Street Journal:

Nasdaq Tabs $40 Million as Facebook IPO Compensation — Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. outlined plans for a “one-time” payout of around $40 million to compensate some financial firms that lost money after the exchange operator botched their trades during the initial public offering of Facebook Inc.

More: Business Insider, The Next Web and Bloomberg. Tweets: @cnbc

Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:

Ancestry.Com Said To Be Working With Qatalyst To Find Buyers — Ancestry.com Inc. (ACOM), the family-history research website, is weighing a sale and working with Frank Quattrone's Qatalyst Partners LLC to find buyers, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

More: The Tech Trade

Sam Byford / The Verge:

AMD shows off 11-inch Compal Windows 8 hybrid tablet — We've seen Intel's vision for Windows 8 already, but don't count out AMD. The company is showing off a Windows 8 tablet from Compal here at Computex Taipei, and it's in the hot form factor of the moment — the detachable keyboard dock.

More: Engadget, Seattle Times, Liliputing, eWeek, Softpedia News, Neowin, Mashable! and Gotta Be Mobile

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

GetTaxi hails $20m in funding as the Israeli startup eyes the NYC cab market — GetTaxi has announced a whopping $20m funding round as the Israeli startup ramps up its international efforts and sets its sights on the lucrative NYC taxi market. — We've seen a surge in taxi apps in recent times …

More: PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Daily Disruption, VentureBeat and Betabeat. Thanks:@tgw_paul

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Intel demonstrates ultrabook-to-phone wireless charging — Intel's new all-in-one PC concept features inductive charging for your keyboard, but the company isn't stopping there — it envisages a future where ultrabooks will top up your phone. Demonstrated with an Acer Aspire laptop …

More: Gizmodo and Redmond Pie

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Stuxnet expert calls US the “good guys” in cyber-warfare — Ralph Langner also says there's little novel in the new “Flame” malware. — Ralph Langner is one of the world's foremost experts on Stuxnet — Ralph Langner — TALLINN, ESTONIA—Sitting in the front row for the first full …

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