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May 11, 2013, 10:35 PM

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New York Times:
Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals  —  A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers' private information through the company's ubiquitous data terminals to break news.  —  The company confirmed that reporters …
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Bloomberg Execs Knew Journalists Were Tracking Clients In 2011  —  An anchor made on-air comments about tracking log in information more than a year ago.  A big deal internally — but handled quietly.  —  Executives at the financial information company Bloomberg have known about journalists using …
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Fed, Treasury Examining Bloomberg Use of Terminal Data  —  Both the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury Department are examining the extent to which Bloomberg-terminal usage by top officials might have been tracked by Bloomberg journalists, CNBC has learned.
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Big changes coming to AppleCare this fall: warranty subscriptions, in-store iOS device repairs, more [u]  —  In a town hall session held on Thursday, Apple informed tech staff that major changes to the AppleCare and AppleCare+ service programs will be enacted starting this fall …
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Google's VP9 video codec nearly done; YouTube will use it  —  One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17.  —  Google plans to finish defining its VP9 video codec on June 17 …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
As Tech Giants Scramble For Talent, It's Buy Or Die  —  The writing's on the wall.  Mobile is the future, and it requires different skill than the web.  Entrepreneurship is more fetishized than ever, making standard hiring tough.  The result is days like today where Yahoo, Twitter …
Josh Chin / China Real Time Report:
Rare Move: Telecom Rivals Team Up on App Payments … China's three state-run telecom carriers are not known for their cooperative abilities, be it with each other, with customers or even with partners.  —  So it comes of something of a surprise that China Unicom (Hong Kong) …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Facebook's General Counsel Ullyot to Depart the Company  —  Facebook's top lawyer Ted Ullyot is leaving the social networking giant, apparently to take some time off.  —  Facebook disclosed the departure today.  Ullyot, 45, will be officially gone in July; the search for his replacement will include internal and external candidates.
Michael B. Farrell / The Boston Globe:
Boston goes Google as its drops Microsoft e-mail services  —  The mayor who doesn't do e-mail is now on Gmail.  —  Whether Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who doesn't even have a computer on his desk, actually uses it is another matter.  But he's moving to Google, and bringing some 20,000 other city employees with him.
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Patent Court Torn on Whether Software Deserve Patents  —  The nation's top patent court issued a deeply divided opinion today on how to determine if software is eligible for legal protection, reflecting the broader debate that has split the computer industry.
More: ITworld.com and Reuters
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
Special Report: U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback  —  (Reuters) - Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers and security firms sell tools for breaking into computers.
More: The Verge

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