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June 20, 2013, 12:50 AM

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Don Mattrick / Xbox Wire:

Your Feedback Matters - Update on Xbox One — Last week at E3, the excitement, creativity and future of our industry was on display for a global audience. — For us, the future comes in the form of Xbox One, a system designed to be the best place to play games this year and for many years to come.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft reverses Xbox One online check and used games policies following backlash — A major U-turn ahead of the console wars — Microsoft is making a major U-turn today by reversing some of its controversial Xbox One policies. In a statement on the company's Xbox blog …

More: NEWS.com.au, Associated Press, VentureBeat, CNET, Forbes, Examiner, GeekWire and VideoGamer.com

Jordan Devore / destructoid:

Microsoft to drop Xbox One DRM, region locking

More: Gotta Be Mobile and VG247

Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft-Nokia Advanced Talks Recently Broke Down — Microsoft Corp. was recently in advanced discussions with Nokia Corp. about a purchase of the Finnish company's device business, according to people familiar with the matter, in a marriage that could have reshaped the mobile-phone industry.

More: eWeek, The Register, Network World, BGR, WMPoweruser, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, ReadWrite and SuperSite for Windows. Tweets: @pkafka

Apple:

HBO GO & WatchESPN Come to Apple TV — iTunes Viewers Now Purchasing Over 800,000 TV Episodes & Over 350,000 Movies Per Day — Apple® today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV® joining the great lineup of programming offered to customers. iTunes® users …

More: asymco, ZDNet, The Verge, GigaOM, NYT Bits, AppleTell, SiliconANGLE, TUAW, Forbes, TechSpot and bizjournals. Tweets: @asymco. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple TV Gets a Bit Bigger, With HBO and ESPN Apps (For Most, but Not All of You)

More: iMore and Macworld

Mat Honan / Wired:

Yahoo's Very Bad Idea to Release Email Addresses — Yahoo is releasing inactive Yahoo IDs so that users can score a better email address. This means you can finally have albert@yahoo.com instead of albert9330399@yahoo.com, for example. Sounds great, right? It's actually a spectacularly bad idea.

More: Reuters, Forbes, Graham Cluley, The Technology Chronicles and Lifehacker

Tweets: @nikcub, @nikcub and @csoghoian

Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:

L.A. school board OKs $30 million for Apple iPads — L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy stepped out of a Tuesday Board of Education meeting during a vote to spend $30 million on iPads because, he said, he owns a small amount of stock in Apple. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times / March 13, 2012)

Alex de Joode / LeaseWeb Blog:

LeaseWeb: Statement on former client MegaUpload — On Twitter today we saw Kim Dotcom tweeting some statements saying LeaseWeb wiped data from dedicated servers formerly in use by his storage service MegaUpload. I think this calls for a reaction. — First of all, we appreciate the long period …

More: Web Host Industry Review. Tweets: @kimdotcom

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Leaseweb Wipes All Megaupload User Data, Dotcom Outraged

More: RT, BGR, The Verge, TechSpot, Gizmodo and Business Insider. Tweets: @kimdotcom

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Acquires Social Startup Spindle — Twitter has acquired Spindle, a social startup focused on the location and check-in space, and discovering local places of interest nearby. — “We've spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: 'What's happening nearby right now?'”

More: Spindle, Computerworld, The Verge, The Next Web, CNET, VentureBeat, Mashable, Los Angeles Times, Xconomy, CNET, Skift and TechCrunch

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot In $403M Deal, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry — Today Stratasys announced that it has acquired MakerBot, as we reported, in a stock deal worth $403 million based on the current share value of Stratasys.

More: Investor's Business Daily, AllThingsD, Computerworld, GeekWire, GigaOM, Laughing Squid, PE Hub Blog, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Business Insider, TechHive, adafruit industries blog, Boing Boing, The Verge and Engadget

Tweets: @bre and @dannysullivan

Wall Street Journal:

Web Companies Pay for Internet Fast Lane — Streaming video on the Web can be a bumpy experience: The video can slow or stop altogether. To avoid these problems, Netflix Inc., the biggest online video outlet, has been trying to install special equipment directly connected to the networks of Internet access providers.

More: Variety. Tweets: @amir_efrati, @rsingel and @shaliniwsj

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Intellectual Ventures sues Motorola Mobility, again — IV launches another lawsuit against Google-owned Motorola Mobility over patents, the latest in series of lawsuits in recent months. — Intellectual Ventures is coming back for seconds in another lawsuit against Google-owned Motorola Mobility.

More: FOSS Patents, Electronista, GeekWire, AllThingsD, PhoneArena and InfoWorld

Steven Musil / CNET:

LinkedIn suffers site outage due to ‘DNS issue’ — The business networking site's home page is replaced by a domain sales page for about an hour. — LinkedIn is battling a DNS issue that took the business social networking site offline for an hour Wednesday night.

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat and The Register. Tweets: @linkedin

Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo:

Best Buy Is Recalling Thousands of MacBook Pro Batteries Over Fire Risk — Best Buy is recalling 5,100 third-party replacement MacBook Pro batteries after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported 13 separate cases in which the batteries caught fire, at least one causing serious injury.

More: bigstory.ap.org, U.S. Consumer Product …, CNET, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Electronista and Cult of Mac

Avi Schneider / GeekTime:

EMC acquires Israeli storage startup, Scale IO, for $200-300M — 3:30PM Jerusalem, Israel - Israeli startup, ScaleIO, a leader in enterprise data and elastic converged storage, has been purchased by enterprise data giant, EMC, for a reported purchase price sitting somewhere between $200-300M.

More: Business Insider and TechCrunch

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Wired Editor Michael Copeland Joins Andreessen Horowitz To Lead New ‘Content Strategy’ — Wired Senior Editor Michael Copeland is joining venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. We've confirmed with the VC firm that Copeland will be leading Andreessen's new ‘content strategy.’

Tweets: @mvc, @markmilian and @qhardy

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Lytro Enables Its Camera's Hidden WiFi Chip, Launches A Companion iOS App (With Animated GIFs!) — It sure doesn't seem like many people have bought Lytro's crazy light-field camera (the one that lets you focus your photos after you take them) — but if you're one of those who did: go plug that thing in.

More: AllThingsD, LYTRO BLOG, Engadget, Gizmodo, PetaPixel, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, bizjournals, CNET, TUAW and The Verge. Tweets: @spencerchen. Thanks:@elinblesener

Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:

LG to mass-produce flexible displays — Firm releases displays with bendable screens — LG Display is expected to solidify its leadership in the display market as it will mass-produce a new flexible smartphone panel for major clients from the fourth quarter of this year.

More: CNET, PhoneArena, Electronista, Softpedia News and Unwired View

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Black Pearl Systems: Check out the secret startup of Ex-Apple hardware guru Tim Bucher — There's a new band of pirates loose in the Valley, and they're out to grab the best and the brightest from companies like Netflix, Apple, Amazon and Intel: Cupertino-based stealth startup Black Pearl Systems quietly …

Husain Sumra / MacRumors:

Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video — EverySteveJobsVideo (via The Loop) today released a never-before-seen video of Steve Jobs in 1994, while he was at NeXT, pondering his legacy in the personal computer field and whether he thought he would be remembered for his work in the future.

More: Redmond Pie, PadGadget, The Atlantic Wire, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and TUAW

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