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July 16, 2013, 11:40 PM

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Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs:
Responding to government legal demands for customer data  —  Today we have asked the Attorney General of the United States to personally take action to permit Microsoft and other companies to share publicly more complete information about how we handle national security requests for customer information.
Wall Street Journal:
Google Pitches Online TV Service to Media Companies  —  Streaming of Traditional TV Programming Is Also Planned by Others  —  Google Inc. has approached media companies about licensing their content for an Internet TV service that would stream traditional TV programming, people familiar with the matter say.
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
After Acquisitions Aplenty, Yahoo Q2 Beats With EPS At 35 Cents, But Revenue Flat Again At $1.07B  —  The day for purple exclamation points (or lack thereof) has arrived.  Yahoo just released its earnings report for the second quarter of 2013, with better-than-expected (non-GAAP) net earnings of $386 million, or 35 cents per share.
John McDermott / AdAge:
Captain Morgan Starts Targeting Ads At Foursquare Check-Ins  —  At a Bar?  Captain Morgan Suggests a Captain and Ginger  —  Foursquare has started rolling out post check-in ads — ads served to users immediately after they check in at certain locations — and Captain Morgan is one of the first brands on board.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Before ‘OK Glass’, Google considered ‘pew pew pew’, Glassicus, and Go Go Glass  —  If you've ever wondered why Google ended up going with “OK Glass” as the official phrase for its Glass product, this one's for you.  Glass Marketing Manager Amanda Rosenberg has finally revealed its origins.
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Verizon set to unveil new Droid lineup at press event on July 23rd  —  Verizon Wireless has just sent us an invite for a press event in New York City on July 23rd.  In the invite the carrier says it will “unveil the next generation of one of [its] most popular family of devices.”
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Hands on with OWA for iPhone, Microsoft's Outlook for iOS (sort of)  —  Microsoft has added another piece to its “free” Office package for iPhone users—free as in “free with an Office 365 account,” that is.  This time, Microsoft included an Outlook mail client and calendar...sort of.
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
LivingSocial closes its New York office space and terminates its local events division  —  LivingSocial, the daily deals startup and Groupon competitor in which Amazon invested a hefty $175 million, is closing its NY office at 101 Fifth Avenue and is terminating its local events division.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Gesture In The Picture, As Intel Reportedly Picks Up Omek But PrimeSense Dismisses Apple Acquisition Rumors  —  Yet more exits for Israeli startups, with the latest two developments a throwback to the hardware and engineering muscle that raised the tech profile of the region in the first place …

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