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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

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Dan Frommer / Quartz:

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Patrick May / Mercury News:

Yahoo sued for sexual harrassment, complaint alleges female exec coerced female engineer into sex — Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment — A high-level female Yahoo executive helping to lead the company's mobile-content efforts was named Friday in a state lawsuit filed …

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Barton Gellman / Washington Post:

Washington Post writer responds to criticism of analysis of 160K conversations intercepted by the NSA, sheds light on data set, analysis methods — How 160,000 intercepted communications led to our latest NSA story — The Debrief An occasional series offering a reporter's insights

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Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Jury finds Apple did not push MLB, others to adopt its live video streaming format and cause them to infringe Emblaze patent — Apple Wins Emblaze Patent Trial Over Live Video Streaming — Apple Inc. (AAPL) defeated a lawsuit brought by Emblaze Ltd. (BLZ) claiming the iPhone-maker pushed …

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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Silicon Valley's Real Estate Crunch Is A Golden Opportunity For Other American Cities — Curse CEO Hubert Thieblot moved his company headquarters to “Rocket City” Huntsville, Alabama from San Francisco last year. — When Curse CEO Hubert Thieblot told his employees last year that he was moving …

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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Lyft reverses under legal pressure, cancels Friday night New York launch — Attorney General insists NY Supreme Court issued injunction—but Lyft denies it. — Facing the weight of the New York Attorney General, Lyft now says it will delay its planned launch in the Big Apple on Friday evening.

More: Lyft Blog, ag.ny.gov, Betabeat, The Register, SlashGear, The Verge, BuzzFeed, Forbes, The Technology Chronicles, TechCrunch and Turnstyle. Tweets: @buzzfeedben

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple Spent Over $3B With 7,000 U.S. Small Business Suppliers In 2013 — Today, Apple SVP of Operations Jeff Williams attended a meeting with President Obama following the company's adoption of the White House's ‘SupplierPay’ initiative. The program, which also includes a financing component …

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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Apple launches new Swift blog, offers Xcode 6 beta for free — Apple's new Swift programming language has attracted a lot of interest from developers since it was announced last month at WWDC, and now the company is looking to get it in the hands of more developers.

More: Apple Developer, iMore, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, Mashable, Forbes, GeekWire, MacNN, TUAW, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, The Verge, inessential.com, Macworld, Softpedia News and SlashGear

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

Judge orders unmasking of Amazon.com “negative” reviewers — A federal judge has granted a nutritional supplement firm's request to help it learn the identities of those who allegedly left “phony negative” reviews of its products on Amazon.com. — The decision means that Ubervita …

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Dropbox updates desktop client with streaming sync: Up to 2x faster via overlapping uploads and downloads — Dropbox today announced its desktop client is getting streaming sync, a new feature that significantly reduces the time needed to synchronize large files.

More: The Dropbox Blog, Tech Times, Engadget, ZDNet, Business Insider, Gigaom, WinBeta and Lifehacker

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Samsung updates app store, rebrands it as Galaxy Apps, will offer “hundreds of apps” exclusive to Galaxy devices — Samsung keeps its distance from the Android pack with Galaxy Apps store — Samsung has spent the last several years trying to separate itself from the rest of the Android pack.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, Mashable, PC World, Inquirer, Wired.co.uk, The Register, Re/code, Android and Me, PC Magazine, CNET, BetaNews, AndroidGuys, TechnoBuffalo and CIO.com

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