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June 8, 2014, 6:05 AM

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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iOS 8 Extensions: Apple's Plan for a Powerful App Ecosystem  —  Amidst the variety of announcements from WWDC 2014, Extensibility — a new set of technologies for developers to extend their apps — has been mainly regarded as Apple's solution to the lack of inter-app communication on iOS.
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Who are the investors making 2000X paper gains from Uber's first angel round?  —  Meet the Uber Rich  —  Uber's new round of financing values it at $17 billion.  So these lucky ones who were in at the start have made 2,000x their initial outlay.  The valuation of Uber is poised to hit …
More: Valleywag and FortuneTweets: @thestalwart and @chrisrcampbell
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New York Times:
How Google, Facebook, and other tech giants are now more actively impeding government spying  —  Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Just down the road from Google's main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become …
Lee Fang / VICE:
Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality  —  Activists protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2014.  Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images  —  Consumer advocates everywhere are demanding that the Federal Communication Commission continue …
Forbes:
Arista Networks cofounder and storied investor David Cheriton sues his former company over IP  —  Arista Networks Faces Lawsuit From A Billionaire Cofounder Who Is ‘Suing Himself’  —  Arista Networks' initial public offering was supposed to be a triumph for a pair of old school technologists.
More: Business InsiderThanks:@rmac18
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Congressional hearing suggests first sale doctrine won't apply to digital goods anytime soon  —  Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music?  —  People can be surprised to discover that they don't actually own the digital books and songs they buy, but that they instead rent …
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