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June 21, 2013, 2:55 PM

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Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:
FAA to Relax Rules for Gadgets in Flight  —  Airline passengers irritated at having to turn off their devices could soon see some reprieve, with regulators set to allow wider use of gadgets in flight.  —  The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using some types …
Guardian:
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications  —  Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal
Nobuhiro Kubo / Reuters:
Tokyo court says Samsung infringed on Apple “bounce-back” patent  —  (Reuters) - A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd had infringed on rival Apple Inc's patent for a “bounce-back” feature on earlier models of its popular smartphones.
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple now charting App Store iOS fragmentation just like Google's Android  —  After first announcing that 93 percent of App Store customers are using the latest iOS 6 at WWDC last week, Apple has added the chart to its public developer site, mirroring Google's reporting of Android users in Google Play.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Mine  —  Google prepares a new service that's called Google Mine.  It's integrated with Google+ and it's a way to keep track of the items you own and share some of them with your circles.  Right now, the service is tested internally at Google.  —  “Google Mine lets you share …
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
HTC Said to Hire Robert Downey Jr. for $12 Million Ad Campaign  —  HTC has enlisted actor Robert Downey Jr. for a two-year global marketing deal worth about $12 million to promote the Taiwanese company's smartphone brand, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
iPhone 5 coming to Virgin Mobile next Friday for $549.99 with unlimited plans starting at $30/month  —  We've just received word that Virgin Mobile will be carrying the iPhone 5 next week on its Beyond Talk plans with unlimited 3G/4G LTE data and messaging starting at $35/month (with $5 discount for auto-payments).
Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:
Instagram users upload 5M videos in first 24 hours  —  Just a day after release, video sharing is already proving so popular an activity on the app that it would take you years to watch all the clips uploaded to the service.  —  Instagram users have embraced the application's …
Nicholas Vinocur / Reuters:
France to seek ban on Amazon bundled discounts, free delivery  —  (Reuters) - France's Socialist government aims to introduce a law preventing online retailer Amazon from offering both discounts and free delivery for books in France, the culture minister said, arguing this amounts to unfair competition.
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
UK regulator warns Google to delete Street View snooping data or risk criminal action  —  After re-opening an investigation into Google's Street View privacy violations last year, UK officials have let Google off with a slap on the wrist.  The case related to Google accidentally collecting data …
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
First Trailer for Ashton Kutcher's ‘Jobs’ Released  —  The first trailer for Ashton Kutcher's ‘Jobs’ was released earlier today, giving the wider public its first glimpse at the movie after it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to mixed reviews earlier this year.
Wall Street Journal:
How HTC Lost Its Way With Smartphones  —  TAIPEI—After product fumbles and two years of share price declines, HTC Corp. Chief Executive Peter Chou knows the inevitable question is coming.  —  “I know you guys want to ask, will I quit,” Mr. Chou says in an interview at the Taiwanese smartphone …
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
AOL is launching a Google Reader replacement: ‘All your favorite websites, in one place’  —  As the end of Google Reader nears, AOL is planning to announce its own alternative to the service: “AOL Reader.”  —  As you can see on the current landing page for the service, which is public …
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Lenovo Miix is a watered-down ThinkPad Tablet 2, starts at $500 (hands-on)  —  Comb through Lenovo's current product lineup, and you'll find a little something for everyone.  A Windows 8 tablet for businesses?  Check.  How 'bout a consumer model?  Yep, that too.  But hey, you can never have too many, right?
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Michael Dell Takes His Buyout Case Directly to Shareholders  —  Michael Dell has taken his case for the leveraged buyout of the computer company that bears his name directly to shareholders today, filing a presentation slide deck with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission moments ago.
Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:
GitHub Got Silly Rich.  Next Step: ‘Make More Awesome’  —  Four years into its journey as a company, GitHub remained something of an independent.  The startup, which helps companies and developers build software, rebuffed the repeated advances of venture capitalists.
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Soundwave hopes to shake up music discovery on iPhone and Android  —  Irish startup's app faces competition from Twitter #Music and others, but has Steve Wozniak and Stephen Fry in its corner  —  Soundwave is the latest music discovery app to be released for smartphones …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Intuit Buys Elastic Intelligence, Will Use Connection Cloud To Help SMEs Build Apps  —  Some consolidation in the area of cloud services for enterprises: Intuit, the business services company that targets SMEs, is buying Elastic Intelligence, creators of Connection Cloud, a product that helps SMEs create DIY cloud-based apps.

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