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June 15, 2014, 11:05 PM

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New York Times:
Profile of Tim Cook describes him as projecting “quiet consideration” towards design, details his involvement in iWatch development, more  —  Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own  —  Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, was an adolescent boy in a small Alabama town in the early 1970s when he saw something he couldn't forget.
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
U.S. officials scrambled to nab Snowden, hoping he would take a wrong step.  He didn't.  —  While Edward Snowden was trapped in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport last year, U.S. officials were confronting their own dearth of options in the White House Situation Room.
Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
Chat app Line rakes in $1.5m in just one month of users creating and selling their own stickers  —  Messaging app Line opened a marketplace in April that lets anyone create and sell their own stickers, with sales starting on May 8.  Today it announced that the Line Creators Market has drawn …
Andy Weir / Neowin:
Leaked document reveals branding implications for Microsoft's Nokia acquisition  —  Microsoft's purchase of Nokia's devices business was completed back in May, but many questions have remained over the integration of the two.  One of the biggest areas awaiting clarification has been that of branding …
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
Window into Airbnb's hidden impact on S.F.  —  Thousands of San Franciscans have transformed their homes into impromptu inns using Airbnb, the website that lets people rent rooms or houses to travelers.  These short-term rentals haven't been an easy sell to landlords, housing activists …
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