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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment — Google is preparing to ask the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government.
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The Latest to Disclose Government Requests, Yahoo Reveals the Least — Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, Yahoo disclosed late Friday some broad data about the number of requests that American law enforcement authorities had made for data about its users.
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| Erin McClam / NBC News: |
Surveillance helped stop plots against NYSE and New York subway, official says — NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander discusses the agency's phone surveillance program at an open House hearing Tuesday. — National Security Agency surveillance programs helped disrupt plots to bomb … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Maker of ‘Candy Crush Saga’ Plans IPO — Candy Crush Saga is lining up something besides jelly beans: bankers. — Midasplayer International Holding Co., the publisher of online and mobile games including the popular Candy Crush Saga, has hired banks to pursue a U.S. initial public offering … | Bloomberg: |
Facebook's Zuckerberg Meets Samsung Executives Amid Mobile Push — Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to boost advertising sales from mobile devices, is meeting with Samsung Electronics Co. executives today in Seoul. — Zuckerberg was seen entering Samsung offices … | Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
Nokia Surges 11%: Huawei ‘Open’ to Buying Them, Says FT — Shares of Nokia (NOK) are up 41 cents, or 11%, at $4.10, during in mid-day trading following an article a short while ago by the Financial Times's Daniel Thomas, who writes that Chinese smartphone and networking vendor Huawei is open to buying Nokia …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Ready for the Industrial Internet? GE Announces “Predictivity” Platform, New Partnership With Amazon Web Services — At the recent D: All Things Digital conference earlier this month, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt talked a lot about the savings that could be realized via a massive expansion …
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
AT&T and Goal Zero deploy solar-powered Street Charge stations in NYC, we go hands-on (video) — If you'e lucky, your smartphone's battery can just make it through a full day, with the percentage meter dropping to the single digits as you finally get a chance to plug in.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Grasping for a Vine: Video for Instagram Will Be Only Reveal at Facebook Event Thursday — Instagram plans to release a video product this Thursday at a press event at Facebook's headquarters, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, marking the first time the robust … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe's Q2 Earnings Beat Street With $1.011B In Revenue, $0.36 EPS, 700K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers — Adobe just reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $1.011 billion and non-GAAP operating income of $247.3 for an earnings per share of $0.36 … | Jackie Dove / Macworld: |
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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook's Video Ads Now Likely Delayed Until Fall — Agencies Had Previously Been Told First ‘Slots’ Would Be Available in July — Facebook's hotly-anticipated video ads are likely delayed yet again — this time, until the fall. — Earlier this spring, the social network … | 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.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Huawei Ascend P6 announced: 6.18mm thickness, 4.7-inch 720p display — We knew it was in the works given the sheer quantity of leaks but, with a small sigh of relief, Huawei's Ascend P6 is now official. At the company's London launch, the handset has been revealed with a 6.18mm-thick body …
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Apple TV gets iTunes Radio, Conference Room display option in beta update — Apple TV received little attention during Worldwide Developers Conference, but the diminutive set-top box still has the Cupertino company's attention, as new videos reveal iTunes Radio and a new Conference Room mode … | Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Tumblr's Media Director Quits — Tumblr brought Mark Coatney aboard from Newsweek to bolster the site's editorial side—"to show how [Tumblr] can be key to connecting journalists and readers." Three years (and a Yahoo acquisition) later, and another early employee is gone. That's two in only a few weeks.
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| GigaOM: |
Having problems with your Netflix? You can blame Verizon — If you are trying to get Netflix and use Verizon's broadband, then there is a good chance that your video performance is less than optimal. Some Verizon customers might even go as far as calling it a crappy Netflix experience.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
HP swaps PC, printer unit captains: It's all about China, Lenovo — Summary: Todd Bradley steps down from HP's PC and printer unit to be replaced by Dion Weisler, a former Lenovo and Acer executive. HP is hoping Bradley and Weisler can form an executive tag team that can tackle China and Lenovo.
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| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Cloudera names new CEO; Mike Olson now chairman and chief strategy officer — Cloudera co-founder Mike Olson is no longer the company's CEO, according to a Tuesday morning blog post from Olson. Former Arcsight CEO Tom Reilly is taking over the company's leadership role …
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
BlackBerry Q10 officially available at AT&T on June 21st — The pre-order process for the BlackBerry Q10 is already well underway, but AT&T has kept quiet on its official retail and online availability until now. The company has now confirmed to us that the QWERTY-laden device will be ready …
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| Priceonomics: |
Airbnb vs Hotels: A Price Comparison — Price of Airbnb vs Hotel by US City — Mouseover to get price comparison detail — Size of bubble corresponds to number of Airbnb listings (logarithmic scale) — At Priceonomics, we like to get more for our money.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz And Others — FiftyThree, the startup behind the wildly popular drawing app Paper, has closed a Series A round of financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Highline Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV Angels, and Jack Dorsey.
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| AppleInsider: |
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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Digital Media Wire, FierceWireless, PhoneNews.com, CNET, SlashGear, Lifehacker, Macgasm, DSLreports, PadGadget and iClarified
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the ‘DVR for everything’ — Nate Weiner turned down millions from Evernote to stay independent — but how big a business can you build off a bookmarklet? — The day before he turned 27, Nate Weiner drove from San Francisco to Mountain View …
Tweets: @backlon
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Blekko releases iPhone and Android smartphone version of Izik search app — Blekko has released iPhone and Android smartphone versions of its Izik search app, rounding out the firm's pre-existing tablet and Web offerings. — The new version of Izik (which is pronounced “Isaac") …
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