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June 19, 2013, 1:20 PM

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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, GigaOM and stratechery

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)

More: VentureBeat, MacRumors, Mercury News, Digits, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com and TUAW

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

As Fab Raises Another $150 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation, E-Commerce Industry Looks On Warily — Here's an interesting exercise I tried recently when talking with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists involved in e-commerce: “I say ‘Fab’; you say?” — “Inspiring.” — “Ballsy.” — “Ambitious.”

More: betashop, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Betabeat, Business Insider, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Next Web, Forbes, Tech in Asia and Valleywag

Wall Street Journal:

Tencent-Led Funding Values Fab at Over $1 Billion

More: TechCrunch and CNET. Tweets: @pkafka

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Said to Add Qualcomm as Surface RT Supplier — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), seeking to break into the market for tablet computers, will update its Surface RT using chips from Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), people with knowledge of the company's plans said. — Some new versions of Surface …

More: The Verge, PC World, CNET, Geek.com, Engadget, Benzinga, Phones Review, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, TechEye, Gizmodo, Lastest ITProPortal news, Neowin, Electronista and PhoneArena

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Leaseweb Wipes All Megaupload User Data, Dotcom Outraged — Ever since the raids in January last year, the fate of Megaupload users' personal files has remained uncertain. — It's been a frustrating situation for the millions of affected users and one that has taken a turn for the worst today …

More: Gizmodo, Business Insider, RT, PC World, Inquirer, SlashGear and Softpedia News. Tweets: @kimdotcom

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.

More: MacRumors, Gizmodo, Examiner, GigaOM, The Mac Security Blog, 9to5Mac, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified, Macgasm, Cult of Mac, iPhone, SlashGear and WMPoweruser

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: The Loop, App Advice, CNET, Gizmodo, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Salon, TUAW, MacDailyNews, MacNN and Macgasm

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Feedly Cloud Goes Live To Replace Google Reader's Backend, Power New Web Version Of Feedly's App — In 10 days, Google's RSS feed-reading service Google Reader will shut down for good. In its wake, developers working on products in the RSS ecosystem have been stepping up to deliver apps, tools and other services to fill the void.

More: Building Feedly, The Verge, The Next Web, CNET, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechHive, Wired, 9to5Mac, TIME, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable and aNewDomain

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple testing deep LinkedIn integration for iOS 7 — Further bolstering the presence of third-party social networks in iOS, Apple is testing deep LinkedIn integration for the upcoming release of iOS 7, according to code-based references found inside of the first beta of iOS 7.

More: T3 News, Mashable, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, iPhone Hacks, iLounge, GeekSays, Business Insider, App Advice, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified

Mat Smith / Engadget:

HTC Butterfly s revealed: 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, UltraPixel camera sensor (video) — HTC's just pulled back the proverbial curtains on the Butterfly s at its Taiwan launch event. It'll arrive boasting an identical-sounding 5-inch 1080p display, front-facing BoomSound stereo speakers and Sense 5 as expected.

More: The Next Web, TechHive, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Phones Review, CNET, Android Community, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, Android Beat, IntoMobile, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, Tech Digest, Unwired View, PhoneArena, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk and Digital Trends

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.

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, The Verge, Insanely Great Mac, SlashGear, Engadget, Softpedia News and iClarified

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

NSA Implementing ‘Two-Person’ Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden — The next Edward Snowden may need a partner on the inside. — On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a congressional hearing of the Intelligence Committee that the agency is implementing a …

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment

More: Google, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, Techdirt, Lastest ITProPortal news, Mashable, ReadWrite, The Atlantic Wire, 9to5Google, The Daily Caller and ZDNet. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

TripAdvisor Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys GateGuru Mobile App For Real-Time Travel Info — Travel portal TripAdvisor continues to push ahead with its mobile and social acquisitions: today the company announced that it has acquired GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time information on airports, weather, and flights.

More: PR Newswire, CNET, AllThingsD, PE Hub Blog, Tnooz, The Next Web, Skift and WebProNews. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Steven M. Davidoff / DealBook:

Google's Effort to Skirt Regulation May Invite More Scrutiny — Google's motto is “don't be evil.” But its recent acquisition of Waze, reportedly for $1 billion in cash, shows that just because you're not evil, it doesn't mean you can't be aggressive in pushing the boundaries of the law.

More: 9to5Google, Venture Capital Dispatch, Skift and Hillicon Valley

Ryan Tate / Wired:

The Price to Pay for Facebook's Free Wi-Fi? A Scrap of Privacy — The idea of offering people free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates began at Facebook as a one-off experiment, a project by two engineers during an all-nighter in May 2012. Since then, Facebook has gradually spread …

More: CNET, SiliconANGLE, Marketing Pilgrim, memeburn, Softpedia News and AllFacebook

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Power Testing: Can Two New Laptops Really Last All Day? — Most consumers pay little or no attention to the processors and other chips that power their computers, and rightly so. In recent years, changes to the design of these chips haven't made major, noticeable differences in everyday computing tasks.

More: iMore and Macworld

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP benchmarks: prepare for ludicrous speed — Today we had a chance to play with Qualcomm's latest dev tablet (MDP) which packs the company's mighty Snapdragon 800 SoC (MSM8974). The device is slightly larger than last year's MDP and features a 11.6-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel display …

More: Ars Technica, CNET and PhoneArena

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) Performance Preview: Qualcomm Mobile Development Tablet Tested

More: TechSpot, Android Beat and Android Community. Thanks:@nerdtalker

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data To Cloud Storage — Google just added a new service to Google Cloud Storage that will allow developers to send their hard drives to Google to import very large data sets that would otherwise be too expensive and time-consuming to import.

More: Cloud Platform Blog, 9to5Google and The Next Web

Esther Zuckerman / The Atlantic Wire:

Amazon Wants to Create Appointment TV Online, Not Follow Netflix Binging — Though Netflix may have emerged as the frontrunner when it comes to original streaming content, what with the successes of House of Cards and Arrested Development, don't expect Amazon to be following in its footsteps entirely.

More: The Wrap, GeekWire and Geekosystem. See also Mediagazer

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Rdio opens up its social movie and TV streaming service Vdio to everyone in the US and UK — Rdio surprised almost everyone last month when it launched Vdio, a new service for buying or renting digital copies of movies and TV shows. The company announced today that Vdio can now be accessed …

More: CNET, Rdio Blog, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch and GigaOM

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