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Kevin Systrom / Instagram Blog:
Introducing Video on Instagram  —  Over the past two and a half years, Instagram has become a community where you can capture and share the world's moments simply and beautifully.  Some moments, however, need more than a static image to come to life.  Until now these stories have been missing from Instagram.
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Instagram Launches 15-Second Video Sharing Feature, With 13 Filters And Editing  —  Instagram, the immensely popular photo-sharing app that was acquired by Facebook in a $1 billion deal last year, is not just for photos anymore.  —  At a press event at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Facebook launches new Instagram video stabilization feature ‘Cinema’  —  Today, at its Menlo Park headquarters, Facebook's Instagram division announced ‘Cinema,’ a new feature that will cut wobbling from clips that its users shoot.  Kevin Systrom, a founder at Instagram …
New York Times:
Web's Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders  —  WASHINGTON — When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a similar Silicon Valley concern.  Instead the man who was responsible for protecting …
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Explored Plans to Build Amazon Rival  —  Microsoft Corp. recently explored rolling out an e-commerce marketplace aimed at taking on heavyweights Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc., according to people briefed on the company's plans.  —  The software giant held discussions with retailers …
More: The Verge
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Samsung goes big with Windows 8-powered Ativ line  —  The Ativ laptops, PCs, and tablet were prominent amid a smorgasbord of product announcements.  —  NEW YORK — The Ativ name may be silly, but Samsung Electronics is betting heavily on it as the namesake for anything related to Windows.
Mat Honan / Wired:
Inside Digg's Race to Build the New Google Reader  —  Andrew McLaughlin is, like, California-enthusiastic.  Like, we're-totally-going-to-do-this- guys enthusiastic.  The 43 year-old CEO of the recently re-imagined Digg is a believer in the way the Internet can make the world better.
Adam Pasick / Quartz:
Google admits those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring  —  You can stop counting how many golfballs will fit in a schoolbus now.  —  Google has admitted that the headscratching questions it once used to quiz job applicants (How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
Guardian:
Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant  —  Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication  —  • Document one: procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons
Ben Gilbert / Engadget:
NVIDIA's Shield now $300, arrives on June 27th (video)  —  Even before hitting store shelves, NVIDIA's Shield is shedding $50 from its original $350 asking price — the little Android portable gaming console will cost $300 when it arrives at retail on June 27th.
Bloomberg:
Google Gets 3 Months to Fix Privacy or Face French Fines  —  France gave Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) three months to amend its policy regarding Internet users' data to avoid fines, and said five other European countries will follow suit by the end of July.  —  The U.S. search engine giant …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Cisco to acquire Composite Software for $180M  —  Summary: The networking giant wants to bolster its data virtualization software and services portfolio with the acquisition, which will build on its existing unified platform.  —  Zack Whittaker  —  Cisco said on Thursday its intention …
Rolfe Winkler / Digits:
WhatsApp Surpasses 250 Million Active Users  —  WhatsApp tells The Wall Street Journal it has more than 250 million monthly active users, the first time it has revealed the scope of its popular smartphone messaging app.  —  The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app …
Pratik Naik / Fstoppers:
Adobe Photoshop CC Has Already Been Pirated In Just One Day  —  With all the recent discussion about Adobe's Creative Cloud model and the polarizing opinions surrounding it, one of the topics people have been mentioning is how it will stop the pirating of Photoshop and other Adobe products in the suite.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET:
Google Fiber spawns startup renaissance in Kansas City  —  Google's super-fast Internet service launched a year ago in Kansas City.  CNET's Marguerite Reardon takes a look at the impact it has on the local startup scene.  —  KANSAS CITY, Kan. —The modest two-story bungalow on State Line Road looks …
More: 9to5Google
Businessweek:
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization  —  In 1940, a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy began to think about what a war with Germany would look like.  The admirals worried in particular about the Kriegsmarine's fleet of U-boats, which were preying …
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Alyn Griffiths / Dezeen:
Interview with Richard Sapper on turning down a job at Apple  —  Interview: German industrial designer Richard Sapper has launched a new website chronicling his work dating back to the 1950s.  In an interview looking back on his career he tells Dezeen how he turned down the chance to work at Apple …

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