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June 19, 2013, 6:45 PM

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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.
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 …
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 …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple TV Gets a Bit Bigger, With HBO and ESPN Apps (For Most, but Not All of You)  —  Apple's TV hobby just got a bit bigger: Apple has added five new content providers to its sort-of set-top box, notably Time Warner's HBO Go and Disney's WatchESPN.  Also available as of today …
More: iMore, Macworld and CNET
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.
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)
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?'”
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.
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 …
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.
Michael Lee / ZDNet:
Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords  —  Summary: Although iOS generates seemingly random passwords for its hotspots to eliminate the use of ‘default’ passwords, researchers at a German university have found that they are able to break these passwords in under a minute.
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process  —  Obama and other NSA defenders insist there are robust limitations on surveillance but the documents show otherwise  —  Since we began began publishing stories about the NSA's massive domestic spying apparatus, various NSA defenders …
Tweets: @csoghoian
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 …
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, @qhardy and @markmilian
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:
Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome Gets Gmail Clipping  —  Web Clipping is one of our favorite Evernote features.  With a simple click of our browser extension, you can save just about anything you see online into your Evernote account for permanent safekeeping.  Today, we're taking this one step further.

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