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June 15, 2012, 4:00 PM
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The Wrap:
Microsoft Manufacturing Tablet to Rival Apple iPad, Says Insider (Exclusive)  —  Microsoft is set to unveil a tablet next week that will mark its entry into rival Apple's territory with its own branded product, TheWrap has learned.  The company has scheduled a secretive event for Monday …
Steven Sloan / Bloomberg:
SEC Pressed Facebook For Details On Mobile Revenue Before IPO  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pressed Facebook Inc. (FB) executives to explain in more detail how a user shift to mobile devices could impact the company's profits, according to documents made public today.
Chris O'Brien / SiliconBeat:
New SEC filings show questions Facebook faced in IPO process  —  A series of new filings today disclosed a wide range of questions Facebook received from the SEC during its IPO process, including requests for greater disclosure about many of its metrics, its risks from the shift to mobile …
More: CNNMoney.com, Bloomberg, Forbes and CNET.  Thanks:@mercnews
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Gives Podcasts a Gentle Push Out of iTunes  —  Podcasts were supposed to be a big deal several years ago, but that boom never happened.  Now there's at least anecdotal evidence that the format is actually picking up steam, as creators, listeners and advertisers warm to the format.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Woot Founder And Daily Deals Pioneer Matt Rutledge Leaves Amazon  —  Matt Rutledge, founder and CEO of Woot, and the grandfather of the daily deal, is stepping down from his position, two years after the website sold to Amazon.com.  In an email sent to staffers, and subsequently posted …
More: CNET and GeekWire
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Download Site Founder Receives 4.5 Year Jail Sentence, Forfeits $4.7m  —  In June 2011, the biggest ever operation aimed at tackling online movie piracy took place in Europe.  The target for police in Germany, Spain, France, and the Netherlands was movie-streaming portal Kino.to and its affiliates.
Business Wire:
AOL Announces Close of $1.056 Billion Patent Transaction with Microsoft  —  Reaffirms Commitment to Return 100% of Proceeds to Stockholders  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AOL, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), today announced that it has completed the previously announced $1.056 billion patent transaction …
BBC:
Apple 1 computer and Steve Jobs Atari memo sold at auction  —  A rare functioning Apple 1 computer - the company's first product - has been sold at an auction for $374,500 (£240,929).  The price was more than double Sotheby's high estimate and sets a new record for the collector's item.
New Zealand Herald:
FBI told to copy seized Dotcom data  —  The FBI has been ordered to start copying 150 terabytes of data - including 10 million emails - contained on the seized computers belonging to internet mogul Kim Dotcom.  —  In her ruling released today, chief High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann ordered …
Wall Street Journal:
Yammer Agrees to Sell Itself to Microsoft  —  Business-software company Yammer Inc. agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $1.2 billion, according a person familiar with the matter, in a sign Microsoft may be trying to plug holes in its ubiquitous Office software.
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
You can now build and share YouTube playlists with friends in Google+ Hangouts  —  You can watch YouTubes in Google+ Hangouts, which is a pretty fun feature, but you haven't been able to share a complete playlist of videos that lets you watch a series of clips.  Selecting them one by one is a pain in the butt.
BBC:
NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne school dinner photo ban lifted  —  Martha's NeverSeconds blog started as a writing project with her dad  —  A ban on a nine-year-old girl taking photographs of her school meals has been lifted.  —  Martha Payne, from Argyll, got more than two million hits …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Dropbox for iOS updated with automatic photo uploads, gallery view, and a new way to earn bonus storage  —  Dropbox has just updated its iOS client to version 1.5, and the new release includes some notable additions.  First on the list is automatic uploads for photos and videos in your camera roll …
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Intel dismisses ‘x86 tax’, sees no future for ARM or any of its competitors  —  Walking cautiously through the automatic revolving door of a swanky, black, shiny, minimalist hotel in London, the first thing I notice about Mike Bell, Intel's chief of mobile, is that he's large.
Serenity Caldwell / Macworld:
Geofencing alerts to come to Find My Friends this fall  —  This fall, you can stop asking your friend “Are you here yet?”—your phone will tell you for them.  According to Apple's iOS 6 website, the company's Find My Friends app is set to add a new geofencing notification system with iOS 6.
More: GigaOM and CNET
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
PopTip Offers Real-Time Twitter Poll Result Tracking, Hashtags And Correct Spelling Not Required  —  More often than not, a crowdsourced answer is the right one.  Just take a look at Estimize — the anonymous user base of 6,500 users is more accurate than Wall Street 67 percent …
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Kodak Loses Ruling In Fight With Apple Over Patents  —  Eastman Kodak Co. failed to persuade a judge to rule that Apple Inc. (AAPL) has no interest in a group of patents Kodak is putting up for sale as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.  —  U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan …
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Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

Eli Stokols / Politico:
Interviews with 24 people reveal the tense relationship between President Biden and the New York Times, beset by misunderstandings, grudges, and a lack of trust

Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson:
Internal memo: G/O Media sells The Onion to a new Chicago-based firm, Global Tetrahedron, which promises to keep The Onion's staff intact and in Chicago

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