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June 16, 2015, 11:15 PM
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
St. Louis Cardinals investigated by FBI for breaching Astros' network; internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics, scouting reports compromised  —  St. Louis Cardinals Investigated by F.B.I. for Hacking Astros  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors …
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon is developing an app that pays ordinary people, rather than carriers, to deliver packages; no firm timetable for when the service would launch  —  Amazon Seeks Help With Deliveries  —  Web retailer mulls paying people to drop off packages amid push to cut shipping costs
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
‘600 Million’ Samsung Mobiles Vulnerable To Keyboard Cracking Attack  —  Given everything that's occurred over the last two years, Android phone owners would be forgiven for thinking major manufacturers had their backs when it came to security, especially encryption.
Biz Carson / Business Insider:
SEC filing shows Y Combinator raising money for new VC fund, the Y Combinator Continuity Fund I  —  Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's hottest startup factory, has filed to raise a venture capital fund  —  Y Combinator is raising money to create a new VC fund according to forms filed with the SEC.
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Bertel King, Jr / Android Police:
Mozilla Makes A Beta Version Of Webmaker For Android Available To Download From Google Play  —  Born and raised in the rural South, Bertel knows what it's like to live without 4G LTE - or 3G, for that matter.  The only things he likes sweeter than his tea are his gadgets …
John Cook / GeekWire:
Techstars acquires UP Global, operator of Startup Weekend and Startup Next  —  Techstars and Up Global have long been joined at the hip, both founded with the mission to support and empower entrepreneurs.  —  In fact, the very idea for the 54-hour Startup Weekend bootcamps …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Adobe announces 2015 Creative Cloud updates and the new integrated Adobe Stock image service for additional fees
David Still / Box:
Box debuts Box for Office Online, lets users create and manage Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files from its website  —  Introducing Box for Office Online, A New Way to Work in the Cloud  —  Microsoft Office files are among the most uploaded, edited and shared files in Box.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Google expands security rewards to bugs in Android devices, starting with Nexus 6 and Nexus 9  —  Google today launched the Android Security Rewards program to compensate researchers who find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in the company's mobile operating system.

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Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Sources: a group of US states is preparing a lawsuit against Paramount's WBD acquisition; California's AG has said his office would make a decision soon

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memo: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim say they will stay at 60 Minutes as they don't want to see it die and are “working to build trust with Nick”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Q&A with BBC's Matt Brittin on the necessity of YouTube, growing the BBC's role in education and skills, streamers helping pay for public broadcasting, and more

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Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Fairphone 2, a new modular Android smartphone, with HD 5-inch display, 2GB RAM, MicroSD and dual SIM slots, will be available in Europe in the fall, for €525
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Sony's Xperia Z4 is coming to the US this summer as the Z4v for Verizon Wireless
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter rolls out auto-play videos and GIFs after several months of testing, enlists Moat to independently measure the viewability of its video ads

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Jon Gertner / Fast Company:
Behind the scenes at US Digital Service and 18F, part of Obama's new digital corps which is attracting top Silicon Valley talent
Darlene Storm / Computerworld:
UK tech firm designs system using emoji instead of PIN numbers for online banking, says they are harder to hack, easier to remember
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