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President Obama Defends NSA Spying — It's “transparent,” the president tells Charlie Rose in an interview. Here's a portion of that transcript, from PBS. — Image by Matt Dunham / AP — Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what I've said, and I continue to believe …
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Journalists Need To Start Asking About Storage, Not Access — It's becoming pretty clear, particularly from today's Snowden Q&A and the partial transcript from President Obama's Charlie Rose interview, that we're zeroing in on how the government accesses private individual data.
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Digg Reader Update! — Over the last 90 days, the Digg engineering team — all 5 of them — has been heads-down building an updated take on the RSS reader. For our first public release, in time to (just) beat the shutdown of Google Reader, our aim has been to nail the basics …
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| David Shapiro / The Official Google Blog: |
Chromebooks: coming to more stores near you — In Northern California where I live, summer is here, which means family vacations, kids' camps, BBQs and hopefully some relaxation. But it also means back-to-school shopping is just around the corner. So in case you're on the hunt for a laptop …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Jony Ive's title flattened to ‘Senior VP, Design’ alongside iOS 7 revamp — To go along with his complete redesign of iOS, Jony Ive's official executive title at Apple has been flattened to drop the word “Industrial.” The change is notable as this new title plants Ive's position …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M — According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo is offering to pay $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins. — That's below the more than $40 million raised …
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| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
How Clearwire Became the Darling of Telecom — Clearwire Corp. has long been the U.S. wireless industry's most embattled carrier. In recent months, the money-losing company has also emerged as its crown jewel. — The company, which covers less than half the U.S. population … | Jackie Dove / Macworld: |
Adobe releases Creative Cloud into the wild — Adobe has released its long-awaited and highly controversial Creative Cloud suite of applications for both longtime professional devotees and the newcomers it hopes to attract. Having historically operated on an upgrade schedule of every 12 to 16 months …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
New screenshots from hacked iPad iOS 7 simulator show potential Maps, Safari, Game Center UIs — This past weekend, we highlighted a couple of screenshots from a hacked version of the iOS 7 simulator that supports the iPad, and we also provided some steps to tweak the simulator yourself.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal — According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.| Don Clark / Digits: |
AMD Prepares Move to ‘Seattle,’ Its First ARM Chip — Advanced Micro Devices has been using the same technology foundation as Intel since the 1980s. Now the underdog chip supplier is fleshing out plans to diverge. — The company on Tuesday is announcing “Seattle,” the code name …
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Virtual gaming headset Oculus Rift raises $16 million from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners — Fresh off the heels of a buzzy turn at gaming conference E3, Oculus Rift has raised its first round of funding, according to several people familiar with the situation.
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| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business — (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001.
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Samsung to Give Away 1 Million Copies of Jay-Z's New Album … As the Miami Heat faced off against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA finals Sunday night, a curious TV ad aired near the end of the second quarter featuring rap star Jay-Z in a studio, riffing with a cast … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Accel Closes $100M For Big Data Fund 2 To Invest In The ‘Second Wave’ Of Big Data Startups — The tech industry has been buzzing about “big data” for years now. And according to venture capital firm Accel Partners, the excitement around the big data space is not set to die down any time soon …
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| Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Microsoft offering Surface RT tablets for $199 to educational institutions — If you thought Microsoft's effort to push Surface RT tablets into classrooms would stop with a 10,000-unit giveaway, you'd be mistaken. Ryan Lowdermilk, a technology evangelist for the company …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Ex-HTC execs can't quit phone game, create startup Kazam — Kazam is a smartphone manufacturer focused on design, customer service, and the European market. But the company faces an extreme uphill climb. — Two former HTC executives are hoping for a fresh start with their own company.
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AT&T starts nationwide FaceTime over cellular rollout — AT&T appears to be in the midst of rolling out support for Apple's FaceTime video calling service for iPhone on its cellular network, making good on a promise to support all video chat apps over wireless by the end of the year.
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Google Settles Suit, Clears Way For Stock Split — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year.
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