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September 28, 2013, 4:40 AM

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Exclusive video: Steve Ballmer's intense, tearful goodbye to Microsoft  —  Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always been a speaker and performer like no other — his absolute enthusiasm for his company is electric in person, turning ordinary corporate events into raw displays of emotion …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone  —  It's widely known that the NSA has taps connected to the various telco networks, thanks in large part to AT&T employee Mark Klein who blew the whistle on AT&T's secret NSA room in San Francisco.
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Samantha Murphy Kelly / Mashable:
Apple Feature to Turn MLB Stadiums Into Interactive Playgrounds  —  Major League Baseball is launching a major initiative to make attending games at stadiums a completely interactive experience for fans.  —  Taking advantage of Apple's iBeacon indoor mapping, a new feature in iOS 7 …
Christina Farr / VentureBeat:
Palantir just raised a massive $196M, filing shows  —  Palantir investor Peter Thiel speaking to a roomful of interns at the San Francisco Exploratorium.  —  Shadowy data-mining startup Palantir closed over $196 million in funding, according to an SEC filing.
More: Mercury News and TechCrunchTweets: @startupljacksonThanks:@chrissyfarr
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
Feds Targeted Snowden's Email Provider the Day After NSA Whistleblower Went Public  —  When on June 9 Edward Snowden stood up in Hong Kong and revealed himself to the world as an NSA whistleblower, the Justice Department wasted little time in targeting his email provider.
More: The Verge and SlashGearTweets: @kpoulsen
Phone Arena:
ABI Research: Android taking over the tablet market from iOS  —  According to ABI Research, there has been a change in the global tablet market.  The Apple iPad, which has been credited with creating the tablet category with the launch of the OG version in 2010, has “passed the baton to the Android ecosystem …
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Evernote teams up with Saleforce.com on collaboration app  —  Evernote wants to entrench its note-taking and sharing application more in businesses and hopes that a new Salesforce.com version will help it do so.  Evernote for Salesforce, which debuts Friday at the Evernote Conference …
Russell Holly / Geek.com:
Google Glass XE10 update to finally open the door to Glassware apps  —  Google Glass is about to get one of its biggest updates yet.  That's right, Glass is finally getting the long-awaited ability for users to install third party apps.  —  Google's wearable computer has improved dramatically since …
Andrew Goldfarb / IGN:
Valve Announces Steam Controller  —  “A different kind of gamepad.”  —  Valve has announced Steam Controller, “a different kind of gamepad.”  —  The controller features two circular trackpads.  As explained by Valve, “Driven by the player's thumbs, each one has a high-resolution trackpad as its base.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Swiftype Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smarter Search Engine For Web And Mobile Sites  —  Swiftype, a Y Combinator-backed startup that creates a smarter search engine for websites, has raised $7.5 million led by NEA, with angel investors participating.  The startup previously raised $1.7 million …
Walter Frick / Harvard Business Review:
If Crowdfunding is the New Day Trading, Look Out  —  Paul Volcker famously said the only financial innovation to improve society in recent memory was the ATM.  Not everyone agrees.  In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued …
Tweets: @harvardbizThanks:@wfrick

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