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August 30, 2013, 7:25 PM

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Scoop: Google acquired WIMM Labs to bolster its own smartwatch plans — Watch out, Samsung: Google has some smartwatch development projects of its own, and it quietly snapped up Los Altos, Calif.-based WIMM Labs last year to kickstart these efforts. WIMM Labs not only gives Google the talent …

Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs:

Standing Together for Greater Transparency — General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart. But today our two companies stand together.

More: Ars Technica, The Register, SiliconBeat, ReadWrite, Center for Democracy …, Business Insider, AllThingsD, InfoWorld, GigaOM, The Switch, The Verge, BGR, Digits, Macgasm, Wired, WebProNews, GeekWire, TechCrunch and SlashGear

Tweets: @iamjaygreene and @froomkin

Paul Thurrott / WindowsITPro:

Microsoft, Google Push Forward with Lawsuit Against US Government — Microsoft and Google—otherwise the unlikeliest of allies—announced on Friday that they would push forward with lawsuits they originally filed against the US government in June. The firms believe that the government's behavior …

Kelli B. Grant / CNBC:

Apple's iPhone trade-in program to add consumer choice — Apple is poised to start offering an in-store trade-in program, but consumers already have plenty of options to turn their old iPhone into cash—enough, in some cases, to get their next one for free.

More: Wired, Forbes, VatorNews, The Next Web, The Mac Observer, Washington Post, Macworld, SiliconBeat, MobileSyrup.com, everythingiCafe, Lifehacker, SlashGear, VentureBeat, POPSUGAR and Gizmodo

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple aims for convenience over value as competing iPhone trade-in firms continue to offer better deals — Cook at Palo Alto Apple Store (Getty Images) — Following our reports detailing the new service, Apple today officially kicked off its new Apple Store iPhone trade-in program …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Digits, Bloomberg, MacStories, The Atlantic Wire, bizjournals and Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@markgurman

@cnbc:

BREAKING: Apple tells @jonfortt that $AAPL's trade-in program to roll out nationwide today; customer must leave store with new contract.

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Apple blocking support personnel vacations from Sept. 15-28 for launch of new iPhones & iOS 7 — AppleCare employees have been restricted from taking time off for a two-week period, from Sept. 15 through 28 — a span during which Apple is expected to launch its new iPhone lineup, as well as the revamped iOS 7 mobile operating system.

More: 9to5Mac, NYT Bits, GigaOM, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, SlashGear, Macgasm, Wired, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, MacNN and ValueWalk

Microsoft:

Microsoft and ValueAct Capital sign cooperation agreement — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with ValueAct Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm with $12 billion in assets under management that beneficially owns approximately .8 percent …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, NYT Bits, Business Insider, GigaOM, Bloomberg, bizjournals and Reuters

Tweets: @jyarow and @scottmaustin

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft Opens Board Seat for Activist Shareholder ValueAct

More: MoneyBeat

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray to Leave Company — Twitter's free speech defender is leaving the nest. — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's general counsel and chief navigator of its thorny digital First Amendment issues, is departing the company.

More: bricoleur, Guardian, NYT Bits, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Betabeat, The Verge, bizjournals, GigaOM, Mashable, Hillicon Valley and Digits

Tweets: @vijaya, @reckless, @mcandrew, @trevortimm, @mikeisaac and @sg

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Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Facebook Tests “Trending” Section in News Feed — Two months after rolling out hashtags — key words in posts that are marked by “#” - Facebook is experimenting with new ways to make them useful. — The social network has begun testing a “trending” topics section in the homepage news feed of its website.

More: ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Marketing Land and The Next Web. Tweets: @evelynrusli

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Forget 1TB, China's Tencent is giving away 10TB worth of free cloud storage — Yesterday we reported that Chinese tech giants Baidu and Qihoo 360 are currently courting users with 1TB of free space, putting the free space given by Dropbox, Box and Microsoft to shame.

More: The Register, Engadget, Geek.com, Gizmodo, memeburn and Softpedia News. Tweets: @cstromme

Casey Newton / The Verge:

New faces of Android: the inside story of Google's management shuffle — With Andy Rubin and Hugo Barra out, who's next up to lead Google's biggest platform? — One big loss at the world's most popular smartphone platform has been followed by another. Five months after Android founder Andy Rubin left …

More: AllThingsD. Tweets: @nytimesbits, @caseynewton and @caseynewton

Brian Fung / The Switch:

Obama's intelligence czar vows to release his own transparency report — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will begin releasing annual reports about the National Security Agency's surveillance activity in the coming months, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has confirmed.

More: IC ON THE RECORD, Computerworld, The Atlantic Wire, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, Hillicon Valley, Softpedia News, The Daily Caller, Politico, PC World, Techdirt, GigaOM, WebProNews, Washington Post and Washington Post

Tweets: @jameeljaffer, @b_fung and @digiphile

Patrick Gray / Wired:

Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance

More: SiliconBeat. Tweets: @jilliancyork and @dangillmor

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Nokia unveils its connected car platform: Here Auto — After years of being the auto industry's mapmaker, Nokia on Friday announced its intention to become a much bigger technological force in the vehicle. Nokia took the wraps off of Here Auto, an embedded infotainment and connected car system …

More: Nokia Conversations, Nokia, Businessweek, Engadget, Nokia Conversations, VentureBeat, Benzinga, Gearburn, SlashGear, BetaNews, ZDNet, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, Crave, TechHive, Electronista, TechCrunch and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @heremaps

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