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June 7, 2013, 7:50 PM

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Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:

What the ...? — You may be aware of press reports alleging that Internet companies have joined a secret U.S. government program called PRISM to give the National Security Agency direct access to our servers. As Google's CEO and Chief Legal Officer, we wanted you to have the facts.

Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:

I want to respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PRISM: — Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking …

More: The Verge, DSLreports, AllFacebook, CNET, ZDNet, Business Insider, The Next Web, Guardian, Post Politics, Quartz and Corporate Intelligence

Tweets: @alexismadrigal, @csoghoian, @tomgara, @dannysullivan and @mathewi

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

WaPost backtracks on claim tech companies ‘participate knowingly’ in PRISM data collection — The Washington Post published an investigative report uncovering the government-run PRISM program, which allegedly monitored US citizen's Internet activity illegally, but now the paper is stepping away …

More: Business Insider, Techdirt, Examiner, CNNMoney.com, Businessweek, Digital Media Wire, CNET, Wonkblog, Daring Fireball, Guardian, Web Host Industry Review, GigaOM and Gizmodo

Tweets: @fredericl, @fredericl and @dannysullivan

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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

Triangulating On Truth - The Totalitarian State — The Guardian breaks a big story yesterday - a court document authorizing the FBI and NSA to secretly collect customer phone records. All of them, for all Verizon customers. — Then today the Washington Post breaks an even bigger story …

More: TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Forbes, Errata Security, Kindle Review, The Atlantic Wire, Law Blog, Techdirt, Guardian, Android Authority and SiliconANGLE. See also Mediagazer

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

President Obama on NSA spying: Congress has known about it and approved for years — President Obama delivered his first public statements on the massive government surveillance efforts targeting millions of ordinary citizens, which were revealed by leaked documents published online earlier this week.

More: Washington Wire, The Atlantic Online and Marketing Land

Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Dissecting Big Tech's Denial of Involvement in NSA's PRISM Spying Program — The National Security Agency and the FBI have been tapping into the servers of nine technology companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, to collect audio, video, photographs, e-mails and other documents under …

More: TechHive, SiliconBeat and VentureBeat

Tweets: @parislemon, @parislemon, @parislemon and @fredericl

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

“Direct Access” Is The Defining Phrase Of The NSA Scandal

More: Business Insider and iMore. Tweets: @csoghoian and @dannysullivan

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Through a PRISM darkly: Tracking the ongoing NSA surveillance story

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Nick Hopkins / Guardian:

UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation

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New York Times:

Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak

More: Slate, TechCrunch, The Verge, The CIO Report, Wall Street Journal, O'Reilly, App Advice, Forbes, ValueWalk, Law Blog, Guardian, Lifehacker and Firedoglake. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple Signs Sony Up for iRadio, Now Has All Three Major Music Labels On Board — Sony Music has signed on to Apple's forthcoming iRadio service, according to a person familiar with negotiations between the two companies. — The deal means Apple now has agreements with all three major music labels.

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Snapchat close to raising as much as $100 million at a jaw-dropping valuation … The It girl of web services, Snapchat, is close to snagging about $100 million in new investment at a valuation nearing half a billion dollars, sources familiar with company's fund raising efforts tell me.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Betabeat, The Next Web, Business Insider and Valleywag

Tweets: @dcurtis and @semil

Guardian:

Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks — Exclusive: Top-secret directive steps up offensive cyber capabilities to ‘advance US objectives around the world’ — • Read the secret presidential directive here — Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security …

More: Guardian, CNET, Engadget, Hillicon Valley, Errata Security and ABCNEWS

Tweets: @sard, @ggreenwald and @trevortimm

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple displays extremely sparse iOS 7 banner at Moscone ahead of WWDC (Updated: OS X banners going up) — Apple has been steadily preparing the Moscone Center in San Francisco for its Worldwide Developer Conference all week long. Today banners for iOS 7 appeared featuring a very colorful and thin …

More: MacStories, The Atlantic Wire, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, MacRumors, SlashGear, TUAW, Engadget and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @parislemon

Businessweek:

Google Wallet Is Leaking Money — Google Wallet (GOOG), the mobile software that allows Android users to pay for purchases online and in stores with their phones, has become a money pit. The company has dedicated hundreds of developers to Wallet and spent about $300 million to acquire digital payment startups to help develop the app.

More: GigaOM, BGR, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Marketing Land and MobilePaymentsToday.com News

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Twilio Raises A $70M Series D As They Consider An IPO — Twilio, the company whose APIs help developers easily add SMS, voice, and VoIP functionality to their applications, has closed a Series D round of $70M dollars. — The round was led by Redpoint Ventures and existing investors Bessemer …

More: GigaOM, The Next Web and bizjournals. Tweets: @alex

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Samsung Electronics loses $12 billion market value on smartphone worries — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co lost $12 billion in market value on Friday, hit by brokerage downgrades that have underscored concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone.

Reuters:

Cyber disputes loom large as Obama meets China's Xi — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will complain to Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit on Friday about alleged Chinese hacking of U.S. secrets, even as the White House faces growing questions at home over American government surveillance.

More: AllThingsD

Michael Isikoff / Open Channel:

Chinese hacked Obama, McCain campaigns, took internal documents, officials say

More: ValueWalk, The Verge and Gizmodo

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon, Google execs clash with Apple lawyers in ebook pricing trial — On the fourth day of the federal government's ebook pricing trial against Apple, Amazon and Google executives offered testimony in hearings that were often fraught and occasionally funny — but still introduced little evidence …

More: The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors and Business Insider

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Amazon Demanded Same Terms From Publishers For Which Apple is Now On Trial

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