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June 6, 2013, 1:00 PM

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily — Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama — • Read the Verizon court order in full here — • Obama administration justifies surveillance

Guardian:

Verizon forced to hand over telephone data - full court ruling — The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order

More: New York Times, Examiner, Help Net Security, Forbes, BuzzFeed, Network World, FierceEnterpriseCommunications …, BetaNews, FierceWireless, Post Politics, Mashable, Electronista, TechEye, WebProNews, The Raw Story and Inquirer

Guardian:

Obama administration defends NSA collection of Verizon phone records — Obama administration says order is ‘critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats’ as senior politicians condemn surveillance — • Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

More: Hillicon Valley, The Week Magazine, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, CNET, DSLreports, The Verge, VentureBeat, Mashable and SlashGear

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Report: Verizon providing all call records to U.S. under court order

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

BBM Is Not Coming To iPhone And Android On June 27 — There's a report spreading around today that BBM is coming to iPhones and Android devices on June 27. — The report is based on a tweet from T-Mobile's UK account. (T-Mobile has deleted the tweet.) — According to a source …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Digital Trends, iMore, 9to5Mac, CNET, CrackBerry.com, MobileSyrup.com, LaptopMemo and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @markgurman

Roger Cheng / CNET:

BlackBerry in talks to preload BBM on rival handsets

More: MacRumors, BGR, Pocketnow, Digital Trends, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidOS.in, ValueWalk and BGR India

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

AT&T Discusses Entering Into a Joint Bid for Hulu With Chernin Group — According to sources close to the telecommunications giant, AT&T is in discussions with the Chernin Group about mounting a joint bid to acquire the Hulu premium video site. — It makes sense — in addition to its core phone business …

More: GigaOM, CNET, VentureBeat, DSLreports, TheStreet.com, BGR, FierceWireless, TechCrunch and VatorNews. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Signs Its Second Big Ad Deal, This Time With WPP — In April, Twitter linked up with ad giant Starcom in a deal worth “hundreds of millions” over a few years. Now it has another one, with Starcom's rival WPP. — WPP's press release doesn't mention a dollar value …

More: WPP, VatorNews, GigaOM, Marketing Land, Businessweek, AdAge, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Guardian, Softpedia News, Mashable and memeburn

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S4 update addresses storage complaints with move to SD card feature — Samsung has begun rolling out a software update for its Galaxy S4 that adresses a few issues early adopters have been complaining about. The 16GB variant of the Galaxy S4 has been slammed for only giving users 9.15GB …

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Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:

Evernote Reminders Arrive on Android — Reminders, our most requested feature of all time, is now available on Android! With Reminders you get three great features all rolled into one: alarms, note based to-dos and the ability to pin notes to the top of your note list. Let's take a closer look.

More: The Next Web, ZDNet, Engadget, The Verge, AndroidGuys, SlashGear and Ubergizmo

Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

Ayla launches with $5.4M to turn everything into a connected device — A world where humans interact with machines that respond to our every need may seem fantastical, but Ayla Networks launched today to make this sci-fi vision a reality. — Ayla's mission is to build an ecosystem for the Internet of Things.

More: NYT Bits and Data Center Knowledge

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Google's YouTube Triples Mobile Sales Amid Wireless Shift — Google Scores YouTube Mobile Ad Sales Jackpot — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube has tripled advertising sales on mobile devices in the past six months, the company said, contributing as much as an estimated $350 million to revenue at the video-sharing website.

More: The Verge, Mobile Marketing Watch, Marketing Land, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, everythingiCafe, Cult of Mac and memeburn

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Russia's Yandex Has A New Take On Search Results, Take Action Inside The Page — With Google dominant in so many markets, one would thing that search is kind've ‘done’. Of course, we have yet to really tap into social search, and Facebook Graph search is showing a clear direction.

More: Yandex.Company, WebProNews, GigaOM, The Next Web and Softpedia News

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Tango launches Asia-style games platform for its 120m users, snags Gameloft as a launch partner — Video messaging service Tango has taken a big step into the mobile entertainment and gaming space after it launched a new content platform for developers, alongside launch partner Gameloft.

More: GigaOM, Engadget, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Snapchat Launches v5.0 With Revamped UI, Swipe Navigation, And In-App Profiles — Snapchat, the app that lets you send pics and videos that self-destruct, has just released a huge update to version 5.0 “Banquo” (I'll get to that in a minute), which includes a dramatic revamp of the app's UI.

More: The Verge

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

MacBook Air refresh looks set for WWDC, potentially with faster Wi-Fi — Apple appears set to release new versions of its MacBook Air notebook computer at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference, according to information provided by a source. Earlier this week, we reported that Apple …

More: iMore, GigaOM, Macworld, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk and Gizmodo. Thanks:@llsethj

Christina Farr / VentureBeat:

Box rolls out new revenue-share plan, SDKs to help its app partners make money — Cloud storage player Box plans to split revenues with the developers writing apps for its storage and collaboration platform. — Box is focused on business customers rather than consumers …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, ReadWrite, ZDNet and GigaOM

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Countries Seek Entrepreneurs From Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — A bold new billboard looms over U.S. 101, the highway that runs through the heart of the global technology industry. “H-1b problems?” it reads. “Pivot to Canada.” — That sassy invitation is directed at the thousands …

More: Venture Capital Dispatch

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

N3twork raises a $12M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to build an Internet based on your interests — Today N3twork announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A round of funding, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and participated in by Floodgate, and Google Ventures.

More: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, bizjournals and GigaOM

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Exclusive: Microsoft, FBI take aim at global cyber crime ring — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and the FBI, aided by authorities in more than 80 countries, have launched a major assault on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings, believed to have stolen more than $500 million from bank accounts over the past 18 months.

More: TechNet Blogs, Inquirer, ValueWalk, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, The Register, Datamation.com and SlashGear

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Focus, criticism shifts to Amazon in Apple e-book trial — The online retailing giant is accused of being a bully by two publishing company CEOs who testified during the trial. — NEW YORK — Amazon acted like a bully and threatened the publishers when discussing a new e-book sales structure …

More: AllThingsD, Reuters, AppleInsider, paidContent, Macgasm, MacDailyNews and MacNN. See also Mediagazer

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Says Differences in Publisher Deals Belie E-Book Conspiracy Charges

More: GeekWire, The Register and Fortune

Melissa Grey / Engadget:

Time Warner updates browser version of TWC TV to allow for out-of-home viewing — For Time Warner Cable subscribers, sly on-the-job TV-watching is about to get easier (don't lie, we know you do it). Starting today, the browser version of TWC TV will offer on-demand and live content …

More: The Verge and Electronista

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:

Leaked Nokia EOS images fuel the rumor fire — Images surfaced today of what could be Nokia's next camera-driven flagship phone. — Not one, but two sources bubbled up photos on Wednesday of a Nokia Windows phone that could be the handset-maker's next flagship, after its freshly-announced Lumia 925.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft goes public with Windows 8.1 upgrade policies — Summary: Microsoft is sharing more on how existing Windows 8 and Windows RT users will be able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 ‘Blue’ preview and final. — With the public preview builds of Windows 8.1 due out later this month …

More: Digital Trends, Inquirer, Softpedia News, ITworld.com and Geek.com

Wall Street Journal:

Lenovo Plans Push in Servers, Storage, CEO Says — CHENGDU, China—Lenovo Group Ltd. sees growth opportunities in servers and storage, and plans to enter smartphone markets in developed countries in the next year, its chief executive said. — “Servers and storage is the business …

More: CNET

Joe / iTweakiOS:

The Ugly Truth: Your iPhone and iPad Are LIMITED (T-Mobile the Exception) — For a long time now, possibly years, Apple iPhone and iPad users have always wondered why their devices seemed to be “out-performed” by Android devices, mainly Samsung Galaxy phones, when it came to cellular networking speeds and performance.

More: FierceWireless, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, Gotta Be Mobile, MacDailyNews and iPhone

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

EE hits 500k UK subscribers, will launch shared 4G plans and pre-pay mobile broadband this summer — Mobile network operator EE has reached 500,000 subscribers in the UK and announced plans to launch shared 4G plans and pay-as-you-go mobile broadband later this summer.

More: Inquirer, ZDNet, GigaOM, Telegraph, PC Pro, Crave, SlashGear, Engadget and Reuters

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