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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.
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| 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 …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What's The Difference? — Instagram just launched video functionality. Glorious, 15-second, editable video functionality. Complete with image stabilization. — So what does this mean for Vine? In the end, the competition should give users plenty to be excited about … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
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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 …
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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| Peter Cohan / Forbes: |
| 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 Smith / Engadget: |
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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 …
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom hands-on: 10x telephoto, 100x intrigue (video) — It's easy enough to describe the Galaxy S4 Zoom, since it's essentially a Galaxy S4 Mini with a 10x zoom lens stuck on the back. But that sort of summary doesn't do it justice. When you hold the phone-slash-camera …
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Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — The Internet is up for grabs. — Foreign countries want to control it. Military regimes use it to spy, to oppress, and to attack public and private institutions. ‘Big Content’ sought to censor it and dismantle its architecture.
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| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Best Buy relaunching trade-in offer for ‘free’ iPhone 5 — Best Buy says it had the biggest day ever for its four-year old trade-in program on June 1. That's when the electronics retailer gave customers the opportunity to trade in iPhone 4 and 4S models and get a “free” iPhone 5 in return.
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| Cecilia Kang / Washington Post: |
Apple trial defense: A guilty verdict would send chills across Internet industry — NEW YORK — Apple lawyers on Thursday closed their arguments in a federal antitrust trial with fierce warnings that a guilty verdict would sends chills across the Internet industry.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
| 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 …
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| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
The reason it took so long for HBO to get on Apple TV: cable companies — HBO built the Apple TV app in-house for the first time ever — To some, Apple TV seems like a laggard. — The web TV box that Apple has referred to for years as a “hobby” is only now offering access to shows …
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| 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?| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Oracle Shares Fall on Weaker Than Expected Q4 Sales — Oracle's earnings results for its fourth fiscal quarter just crossed the wires. While the bottom line was even with what analysts had expected, sales fell a little short of the consensus again by about $100 million.
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Leap Fund offers $25 million for Leap Motion developers — Highland Capital Partners, which led Leap Motion's Series A round, wants to boost the ecosystem for apps built for the Leap 3D gesture-control system, which ships next month. — Leap Motion won't ship its cutting-edge 3D gesture …
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