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June 27, 2013, 3:25 PM

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Guardian:

NSA collected Americans' email records in bulk for two years under Obama — • Secret program launched by Bush continued ‘until 2011’ — • Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days — • Current NSA programs still mine US internet metadata

More: The Verge, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Techdirt, The Atlantic Wire, Forbes and Business Insider

Tweets: @attackerman, @davidkenner and @mat

Guardian:

How the NSA is still harvesting your online data — Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating ‘one trillion records processed’ — A review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities …

Tweets: @jeffjarvis and @ethanz

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Can't Add Galaxy S4 to Samsung Patent Lawsuit — Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost its bid in a lawsuit to add Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it alleges to infringe its patents. — The decision yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal …

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple, Samsung Spar Over ITC Import Ban on Older iPhones, iPads

More: FOSS Patents, Examiner, NYT Bits, BGR, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Electronista, PhoneArena and TUAW

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI — On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport.

More: Techdirt. Tweets: @mlcalderone. See also Mediagazer

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Facebook announces Beta Program for its main Android app, ironically uses Google Groups — In a meeting with journalists today, Facebook announced it's offering a Beta Program for its app on Android, allowing users to test upcoming versions. The first beta will be available today.

More: The Next Web, Inside Facebook, CNET, AllThingsD, Engadget, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Gizmodo

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Yahoo News Gets A Makeover, But The Bigger Improvements Are Under The Hood — A little over a month after Yahoo partnered with Twitter to beef up its homepage news feed with relevant tweets from news organizations, the company is today announcing a major makeover for one of its flagship properties, Yahoo News.

More: Yahoo!, AllThingsD, BetaNews and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Windows Azure Web Sites, Mobile Services Now Generally Available — Microsoft has announced general availability of Windows Azure Web Sites and Mobile Service, accentuating the emphasis on development using the Azure cloud service. — According to Microsoft, Windows Azure Web Sites allows customers …

More: MSDN Blogs, ZDNet, ReadWrite, GeekWire, ScottGu's Blog and TechNet Blogs

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Microsoft: Azure powers 299M Skype users, 50M Office Web Apps users, stores 8.5T objects

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Square Poaches Facebook Ad Product Director Gokul Rajaram to Lead Product Engineering — Square has hired Gokul Rajaram, Facebook's director of ad products, as its product engineering lead, the company announced today. — Rajaram will oversee software development for the company's point-of-sale system …

More: TechCrunch, squareup.com, CNET, The Next Web, Digits, AdExchanger, Business Insider and ZDNet

Tweets: @pkafka and @gerryshih

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet — Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors. — The company, which has been in stealth mode since …

More: AllThingsD, ReadWrite, Business Insider, Valleywag, Betabeat, NYT Bits, Forbes, ZDNet, GigaOM, Digits, CNET, VentureBeat, Fortune, PE Hub Blog and Mashable. Tweets: @om

Digits:

Apple Spells Out iTunes Radio Terms for Record Labels — Ahead of its launch of an online radio service, Apple circulated terms to independent record labels last week, many of them more generous to the music companies than what rival Pandora Media currently pays.

More: GigaOM, App Advice, The Register, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, AppleInsider, Engadget, Gizmodo, BGR, TUAW, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, iPhone, SlashGear, PhoneArena, The Mac Observer, Ubergizmo, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista and Billboard. Tweets: @tconrad. See also Mediagazer

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Verizon wraps up LTE rollout; plans all-VoIP phone launch for late 2014 — Verizon Wireless's LTE juggernaut has hit its 500th market, leading the carrier to declare on Thursday its rollout is “substantially complete.” Verizon's 4G network now covers 298 million people and covers 95 percent of the U.S. population.

More: Verizon Wireless, CNET, The Verge, DSLreports, dailywireless.org, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, Light Reading, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile and VoIP Watch

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Windows 8.1 in-depth hands-on: features, apps, impressions and screenshots — The last time we wrote about Windows 8.1, we had lots to talk about, but very little to share in the way of hands-on impressions. You see, though Microsoft unveiled loads of new features, apps and UI tweaks …

More: The Verge, CITEworld, BGR, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, Guardian, ZDNet, PC World, CNET, blog.chron.com, LAPTOP Magazine, Neowin and Datamation.com

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

What does Windows 8.1 offer to desktop die-hards?

More: MSDN Blogs and Inquirer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Personal Assistant App Donna Goes Live, With Better Battery Performance And Instant Uber Requests — Personal assistant app Donna is ready to help simplify users' lives, and is being launched on the Apple App Store today to do just that. With the general release also comes a few new features …

More: The Next Web, GigaOM and Valleywag

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Air attack: Aereo CEO talks up his tech, prepares Chicago launch — Armed with his DVRs and tiny antennas, Aereo says the shift in TV has begun — Chet Kanojia, Aereo's founder and CEO, strolls past the rows and rows of DVRs, TV antennas, and transcoders, and smiles when he recalls …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Engadget, Variety and GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App — Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the Digg iOS app. An Android app is expected to make its debut in the next three to four weeks.

More: iMore, App Advice, The Next Web, SlashGear, BestTechie, Lifehacker, The Digital Reader, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup.com, TUAW, I4U News and Macworld. See also Mediagazer

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Kickstarter Allowing Canada-Based Projects Beginning This Summer — Kickstarter just announced via its Twitter account that it will be opening up its crowdfunding platform for Canada-based projects as of “later this summer.” Thus far, that's as specific as the company is getting …

More: Engadget, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Joystiq and MobileSyrup.com

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures — I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let's start with the fund. — We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million) …

More: Forbes, TechCrunch, VatorNews, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Domain Name Wire, PE Hub Blog, PandoDaily and AllThingsD. Thanks:@msuster

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google will remove all Blogger sites that monetize adult content, from June 30 — Google sent an email to Blogger users today warning them that their site will be removed at the end of the month if they do not remove all adverts and links to external sites hosting adult content.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, Macgasm, 9to5Google, Softpedia News and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

TouchCast Wants You to Watch Web Video With Your Fingers — The problem with most Web video startups is that you've seen them before. Another compilation of cheap clips posing as the next big cable channel. Another solution for nonexistent “discovery” problems. Another “Instagram for video” that won't be.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Forbes and Adweek

Tim Westergren / Pandora Blog:

Pandora and Royalties — (Warning: This is long, but I'd really like to fully articulate Pandora's perspective on royalties, which is simply impossible to do in just a few sentences.) — Over 13 years ago when I started this company, we set out with a singular mission …

More: the understatement, Techdirt, Businessweek, TheStreet.com, SiliconBeat, Evolver.fm, BestTechie, Gizmodo, hypebot, The Next Web, SlashGear and Daring Fireball

Tweets: @tconrad, @pkafka, @tconrad and @tconrad

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