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Edward Snowden: ‘The US government will say I aided our enemies’ - video interview — In the second part of an exclusive interview with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden contemplates the reaction from the US government to his revelations … | Wall Street Journal: |
Secret Court's Redefinition of ‘Relevant’ Empowered Vast NSA Data-Gathering — The National Security Agency's ability to gather phone data on millions of Americans hinges on a secret court ruling that redefined a single word: “relevant.” The National Security Agency's ability to gather phone data … | Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing — The Obama administration, in a new court filing, urged the nation's surveillance court to throw out a request by civil liberties groups to disclose its secret rulings about the scope and legality of the Patriot Act.| Bradley Brooks / Associated Press: |
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| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
Beats trying to launch streaming music service with AT&T — Exclusive: Music industry legend Jimmy Iovine wants to launch his Spotify competitor with a big splash, which is why he's trying to partner with a wireless carrier. — When Jimmy Iovine, the co-founder and CEO of Beats Electronics …
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Nokia Lumia 1020 with 41-megapixel camera confirmed in sample photos from Joe Belfiore — Nokia's 41-megapixel Windows Phone will be called the Nokia Lumia 1020. That's according to sample photos posted on Flickr by Microsoft Windows Phone manager Joe Belfiore.
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| Greg Bensinger / Digits: |
Amazon's Diapers.com Founders Jump Ship — Amazon's Quidsi unit, home of Diapers.com and Soap.com, has lost its two co-founders. — Quidsi Chief Executive Marc Lore and Chief Operating Officer Vinit Bharara have both left the Jersey City, N.J. company. In automated email replies …
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Microsoft Restructuring Set for Thursday — According to numerous sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is poised to unveil his plan to drastically restructure the tech giant this week. And, while timing might change, sources said that the current plan is to make it public on Thursday.
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Direct message sync, mobile search improvements and more — People use Twitter to connect to the things and people they care about. Today, we're making that even easier with a coordinated update for seven different apps: Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com and TweetDeck.
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TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise — TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that runs a marketplace for outsourcing errands and temporary work projects, has laid off a number of staffers as part of a larger restructuring, TechCrunch has learned.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
With Declining Nook Sales, B&N Says Lynch Out As CEO, Huseby Steps Up, Big Strategic Review Planned — Looks like things at Barnes & Noble will get a bit worse before they have a chance of getting better. The bookseller has just announced that William Lynch has resigned as CEO … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft brings the Office Store to 22 new markets and adds intelligence tool Power BI to Office 365 — Fresh off of the Build developer moot with its Windows and Azure focus, Microsoft today announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference that it will bring the Office Store and SharePoint to 22 new markets …
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Google, Amazon and Apple Pump Up Ad Spending as Tablet Wars Heat Up — Looks like the battle for the hearts of consumer electronics lovers is increasingly playing out in advertisements. — Ad Age recently released its list of the Top 200 U.S. advertisers (subscription required) … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Equifax Buys Identity Protection Startup TrustedID for About $30 Million — Data giant Equifax Inc. said it had bought TrustedID, a well-known Silicon Valley identity protection company. — While the Atlanta-based company declined to disclose financial terms of the deal …
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MarketWatch, ZDNet and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Hard drive-wiping malware that hit South Korea tied to military espionage — The hackers responsible for a malware attack in March that simultaneously wiped data from tens of thousands of South Korean computers belong to the same espionage group that has targeted South Korean and US military secrets for four years, researchers said.
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InfoWorld, Help Net Security, Associated Press, akgulian.com, Motherboard and ITWire.com
| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Android distribution numbers updated for July, Jelly Bean now the most used version — As it does every month, Google has just updated the Android distribution data to reflect the month of July. Jelly Bean is now running on 37.9 percent of devices, with 32.3 percent of those running Android 4.1.x.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Pinterest rival The Fancy gets $53 million from Will Smith, American Express; valued at $600 million — The New York startup scene keeps booming and the latest boost is coming from social commerce company, The Fancy, that is said to have raised $53 million in new funds and is valued at a whopping $600 million.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Cloud-based event management company Cvent files for up to $100M IPO — Cvent, a company that provides cloud-based event management is raising up to $100M via an IPO, according to an SEC filing. The company says that it reserves the right to sell up to the maximum of $1ooM in shares to generate working capital and develop products.
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