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June 6, 2013, 7:45 AM
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans 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  —  The National Security Agency …
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
Associated Press:
White House defends collecting phone records  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information “a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats.”
More: The Verge and Reuters
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 …
Roger Cheng / CNET:
BlackBerry's next flagship phone: the all-touchscreen A10  —  Sprint has already committed to selling the A10, which is the successor to the Z10, in November, CNET has learned.  —  BlackBerry's next flagship smartphone, the all-touchscreen BlackBerry A10, will launch during the holidays, CNET has learned.
Agam Shah / PC World:
AMD breaks from Windows exclusivity, adopts Android and Chrome OS  —  After years of Windows OS exclusivity, Advanced Micro Devices is opening the door to design chips to run Google's Android and Chrome OS in PCs and tablets.  —  AMD is expanding OS options as it designs chips based on x86 …
Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:
56% of American adults are now smartphone owners  —  Findings  —  56% of American adults are now smartphone owners  —  For the first time since the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project began systematically tracking smartphone adoption, a majority of Americans now own a smartphone of some kind.
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
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 …
John McDermott / AdAge:
Apple to Sell Audio Ads on iRadio, its Upcoming Streaming Music Service  —  New Ad Product Could Be Pricier Than Pandora, Thanks to Targeting Abilities  —  Now hear this: Apple will sell audio ads on its forthcoming streaming music service, already being dubbed “iRadio” by many.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Home Improvement And Repair Marketplace Porch Raises $6.3M From SV Angel, Jeff Skoll And Others  —  Porch, a soon to be launched home improvement and repair marketplace, has raised $6.25 million is funding from SV Angel, Chamath Palihapitiya, Javier Olivan, Jeff Skoll, Bill Lee, Geoff Entress, Charles Moldow, and others.
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.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google makes its stock Google Keyboard gesture-typing app available on the Play store  —  Google today released its Google Keyboard app for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above.  You can download it now directly from Google Play, although it's only available …
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
China surpassing U.S. with 54.9 petaflop supercomputer  —  Intel-based system has China poised to take the global lead in Top500 supercomputing list this month  —  China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S. …

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Tariq Panja / New York Times:
Sources: FIFA is close to giving Apple the global rights for its 2025 World Cup-style soccer competition in the US, likely for ~25% of FIFA's first $4B estimate

Kristen Hare / Poynter:
In its first open call for funding, Press Forward announces support, over two years, of $100,000 each for 100+ newsrooms focused on underserved audiences

Ian Youngs / BBC:
Huw Edwards, the BBC news anchor who has been off air since July 2023 after reports that he paid a young person for explicit images, resigns on “medical advice”

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