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June 3, 2015, 3:55 AM

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Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business:
Amazon offers free shipping to all customers on small goods without requiring a minimum order  —  Amazon Debuts Free Shipping on Small Goods Without Minimum Order  —  Not just for Prime members  —  Amazon.com Inc. is introducing free shipping on thousands of popular, smaller items …
Chao Wang / Pinterest:
Pinterest to launch Buyable Pins in US to let you buy pinned products without leaving the app  —  Coming soon: Buyable Pins!  —  We're always looking for ways to help you go out and do the creative ideas you Pin—whether that's figuring out the ingredients for a new dish or installing an app to mix up your workouts.
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Tim Cook talks data encryption and criticizes competitors' stances on customer privacy at Washington event  —  Apple's Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy  —  Yesterday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook was honored for ‘corporate leadership’ during EPIC's Champions of Freedom event in Washington.
Walt Mossberg / Re/code:
Google Photos Review: best photo backup-and-sync cloud service, but free only applies to images up to 16MP, and videos 1080p or less, more than enough for most  —  The New Google Photos: Free at Last, and Very Smart  —  Last Thursday was liberation day for Google Photos …
More: ABC News
Hannah Jane Parkinson / Guardian:
Google is developing a tool called Im2Calories to identify food in pictures and determine its calorie count  —  Google wants to count the calories in your Instagram food porn  —  Artificial intelligence technology Im2Calories aims to identify pictures of food posted to Instagram, and tell users the calorie count of their meals
Eran Megiddo / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft confirms it has bought 6Wunderkinder, maker of the Wunderlist to-do list app  —  Welcome 6Wunderkinder!  Microsoft acquires Wunderlist  —  What's better than completing that last important task on your to-do list?  Doing so with a beautiful and useful productivity app.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Sony Mobile cuts 1K jobs, nearly half of staff, in its Sweden R&D and manufacturing center  —  Confirmed: Sony Mobile Cuts 1,000 Workers In Sweden As Handset Maker Restructures  —  The shakeout among less successful mobile handset makers continues apace.
National Journal:
Senate passes the USA Freedom Act to restore and revise some Patriot Act spying provisions, ending bulk collection of US call metadata  —  Senate Passes Major NSA Reform Bill  —  The USA Freedom Act, which will restore but reform the expired Patriot Act's spy authorities …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft bringing SSH to Windows and PowerShell  —  Will contribute to OpenSSH to make it run well on Windows.  —  SSH, or secure shell, is the mainstay of remote access and administration in the Linux world, and the lack of any straightforward equivalent has always been an awkward feature of the Windows world.
Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal:
Biggest MasterCard issuers reject $19M settlement with Target over hacked credit-card data  —  Biggest MasterCard Issuers Scuttled Deal on Target Data Breach  —  Citigroup, Capital One and J.P. Morgan Chase vetoed MasterCard's deal with Target over hacked credit-card data
More: Fortune and SC MagazineTweets: @benthompson
Adam Gross / Facebook Developers:
Facebook to remove support for SHA-1 certificate signatures Oct. 1, will require SHA-2  —  Moving to a More Secure Standard: Please Update your Apps To Support Certificates Signed with SHA-2  —  As part of our commitments to helping developers build secure apps and protecting the people who use Facebook …
TechCrunch:
Instagram Beefs Up Ads With App Install And Buy Buttons, Interest Targeting, API  —  Instagram is ready to make some serious money.  After a year and half of format experiments and basic targeting, Instagram is giving advertisers much more powerful tools.  Those include “Shop Now” …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google plans expansion of Baseline Study for later this year with Study Kit apps that enable collection of health data on iOS, Android, and Chrome  —  Google Tests ‘Study Kit’ Apps To Collect Health Data Before Wider Launch Of Baseline Study This Year  —  In July 2014, Google announced Baseline Study …
More: The Verge
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Sprinklr acquires text analytics software provider NewBrand, its seventh purchase in 18 months  —  Sprinklr Acquires NewBrand, The $1 Billion Social Startup's Seventh Buy In 18 Months  —  Sprinklr founder Ragy Thomas believes that patience at large companies for fragmented social media partners is running out.
More: AdExchanger and MediaPostThanks:@kylegiunta
Christine Magee / TechCrunch:
Udemy raises $65M Series D led by Stripes Group to more quickly grow Udemy for Business  —  Udemy Raises Another $65 Million To Help Anyone Learn Anything  —  Udemy, the online education marketplace that wants to help anyone learn anything, has pulled in $65 million in new venture funding.

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