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June 15, 2012, 2:20 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.
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Facebook Defends Its IPO Process, Points Finger At Nasdaq  —  Facebook filed a joint motion on Friday to consolidate the forty-plus class-action lawsuits against the company as a result of its messy IPO, requesting that the many legal precedings be moved to a Federal court in New York.
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: CNET and Bloomberg.  Thanks:@mercnews
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: GeekWire
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple expected to launch 13" Retina MacBook Pro by early Oct.  —  Apple will bring a high-resolution Retina display to its 13-inch MacBook Pro with a product update set to launch this October, according to one insider.  —  Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI shared in a note with AppleInsider …
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.
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 …
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
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.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Aaron Sorkin on Jobs Movie, Zuckerberg as Antihero and More: The Full D10 Interview (Video)  —  One of the most engaging interviews at the 10th D: All Things Digital conference was with well-known Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.  —  Best known for television hits such as “The West Wing” …
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 …
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
AOL shuttering resume site Emurse on July 15  —  Emurse, a company in the increasingly hot recruiting and job search industry, is being shuttered by AOL.  AOL bought the online resume site in mid 2009, but has done effectively nothing with the service, and now as part of the company's increasing attempts …
More: ZDNet and AOL Help
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 …
More: TUAW
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
ICANN Glitch Reveals Personal Details of gTLD Applicants  —  The Internet's governing body this week admitted that it inadvertently revealed the mailing addresses and contact details of those who applied for the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).  —  Those details were viewable …

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