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August 21, 2013, 5:45 PM

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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
NSA gathered thousands of Americans' e-mails before court struck down program  —  The National Security Agency unlawfully gathered as many as tens of thousands of e-mails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a now-discontinued collection program, according to a 2011 secret court opinion.
Wall Street Journal:
What You Need to Know on New Details of NSA Spying  —  Today's report in The Wall Street Journal reveals that the National Security Agency's spying tools extend deep into the domestic U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, giving the agency a surveillance structure with the ability to cover …
Wall Street Journal:
New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach  —  Programs Cover 75% of Nation's Traffic, Can Snare Emails WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Secret court ‘troubled’ by NSA surveillance, ruled illegal  —  Summary: A secret Washington D.C.-based surveillance court found the NSA's email and data collection program illegal in 2011, as it collected tens of thousands of American emails each year.  —  Zack Whittaker
Dave Capra / Facebook Developer Blog:
Embedded Posts Now Available to Everyone  —  We introduced Embedded Posts in July to make it easy for publishers to add any public post from Facebook to their blog or web site.  Today, we're excited to make Embedded Posts available to everyone.  We've also added several enhancements based on feedback from our launch partners.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal?  —  Here's a fun combination to ponder: The world's most powerful media company and America's most popular sport.  —  That could happen if Google buys the rights to the NFL's Sunday Ticket package, the all-you-can-eat subscription-TV service currently owned by DirecTV.
Facebook Newsroom:
Technology Leaders Launch Partnership to Make Internet Access Available to All  —  Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm, Samsung to be founding partners  —  MENLO PARK, CA, — Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, today announced the launch of internet.org …
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:
Field Trip now ready for Google Glass  —  The Field Trip app for exploring and learning about your surroundings launches a Glassware app for a more hands-free approach to real-world discovery.  —  Self-guided smartphone tours just got a lot more hands-free, as the Field Trip app …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Amid Executive Changes, HP Posts Declining Q3 Revenue Of $27.2B As Its PC Division Weakens  —  Today HP announced its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $27.2 billion, down 8 percent year over year.  The company earned $0.86 per share on a non-GAAP basis.
Jesse Hicks / The Verge:
Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years for WikiLeaks disclosures  —  Bradley Manning's court-martial reached an end today, with Army Colonel Denise Lind sentencing him to 35 years in prison.  The WikiLeaks source, arrested in Iraq in 2010 for releasing nearly 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft offers classrooms free Surface RT tablets with ad-free Bing for Schools  —  Microsoft's plan to battle Google in the classroom is launching today.  Bing for Schools is a new ad-free version of Microsoft's search service that includes strict filtering and privacy protections designed for schools.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple poaches Levi's Senior VP for U.S Retail as search for chief continues  —  Apple has poached Enrique Atienza from Levi Strauss, a global clothing sales powerhouse, to become a top director for its U.S Retail market, according to sources with knowledge of the hire.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance  —  WASHINGTON — The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces, according to newly disclosed documents …
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Introduces ‘My List,’ A Personalized Instant Queue For Users All Over The World  —  Netflix is continually working to make its streaming video service more personalized, adding features that will make individual users keep coming back for more.  The company's latest effort in that direction …
John Cook / GeekWire:
Full memo: Big Fish CEO announces job cuts, cancellation of cloud games business and closure of Ireland and BC facilities  —  Big Fish Games CEO Paul Thelen at Casual Connect in 2012 announcing the company's cloud-based game platform, which is being shut down today.  —  It's a bad day for Big Fish.
Steve Dent / Engadget:
LG exec: tablet, phablet, smartwatch and Firefox OS device coming soon  —  LG's mobile communications head in Bulgaria, Dimitar Valev, has laid out some of the company's key plans in an interview with Dnevnik.bg.  For starters, he confirmed that the company will fire up its temporarily mothballed tablet lines …
Peter Burrows / Bloomberg:
Goldman Invests $40 Million in Salesforce Rival SugarCRM  —  SugarCRM Inc., a maker of sales-tracking software, raised $40 million from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to speed global expansion as it takes on larger rivals Oracle Corp. (ORCL) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM)
Rajat Agrawal / BGR India:
Doubts cast over developer interest in BlackBerry as lone developer accounts for a third of all apps  —  In what could be the latest in a series of reality checks for BlackBerry, a report has emerged claiming that just one app developer accounts for a third of all apps on the company's app store.
Bloomberg:
Apple IPad's China Market Share Slumps as Samsung Tablets Gain  —  The iPad's share of China's tablet-computer market plunged by more than 20 percentage points in the second quarter as Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) built on its lead in smartphones to cut into Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s sales.

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