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June 19, 2015, 3:05 PM

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Amaryllis Fox / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter tests place and product pages that feature reviews, pricing, and buy buttons, as well as collections to curate products and places — Testing new ways to make it easier to discover products and places — Every month, millions of people Tweet about what they love: products they buy …

More: TechCrunch, International Business Times, Adweek, Re/code, GeekWire, Engadget, PCWorld, VentureBeat, iMore, Fortune, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks and SlashGear

Tweets: @schmooey, @adambain, @twittershopping and @sarahfrier

Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

FCC votes in favor of giving consumers the right to block robocalls and spam text messages — FCC Moves to Prevent Robocalls and Spam Texts — Under new plan, phone carriers can block robocalls and automated text messages to cellphones and landlines — WASHINGTON—The Federal …

More: FCC, NBC News, Business Insider, TechSpot, VentureBreak, O'Grady's PowerPage, SlashGear, Bloomberg Business, CNET, Help Net Security, Fortune, Boing Boing, The Hill and USA Today

Jessica Guynn / USA Today:

Google to remove nude or sexually explicit images posted online without consent from its search results when requested — Google to remove “revenge porn” from search results — SAN FRANCISCO —In a significant step to combat “revenge porn,” Google will honor requests to remove …

More: Google Public Policy Blog, The Verge, Washington Post, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, Business Insider, Engadget, VentureBeat, PCMag UK and Fusion. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Jim Buckmaster / craigslist blog:

eBay sells back 28.4% stake in Craigslist in a confidential agreement in which both companies agree to end all litigation — Exit, Stage Left — From eBay press release: … From Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene I:

More: eBay Inc., Bloomberg Business, Forbes, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and 24/7 Wall St.

Tweets: @sr_lazarus and @craignewmark

Joseph Menn / Reuters:

OPM hack employed rare tool also used in last year's Anthem breach, which was tied to Chinese intelligence — U.S. employee data breach tied to Chinese intelligence — The Chinese hacking group suspected of stealing sensitive information about millions of current and former U.S. government employees …

More: Re/code

Jeremy Horwitz / 9to5Mac:

Apple quietly pulls original iPad mini, its last non-Retina iOS device, from website and Apple Store — Apple quietly pulls original iPad mini from web site and Apple Store — Last week, above. Today, below. — The original iPad mini has quietly disappeared from Apple's web site …

Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:

Pinterest hires former Apple and Facebook engineer Scott Goodson to head mobile platform and web teams — Pinterest Hires Former Facebooker Scott Goodson As Head Of Core Experience — Former Facebook and Apple engineer Scott Goodson is joining Pinterest to run the company's mobile platform and web teams …

More: ZDNet

Nick Arnott / iMore:

A look at the OS X and iOS security vulnerabilities that make up XARA and what to do until Apple fixes them — XARA, deconstructed: An in-depth look at OS X and iOS cross-app resource attacks — Does the Indiana University XARA whitepaper make your head hurt?

More: WCCFtech, MacRumors, The Loop, International Business Times, Daring Fireball, Mashable, SecurityWeek and TIME. Tweets: @1password

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

RingCentral Expands Beyond Phone Service With Glip Acquisition — RingCentral, a cloud-based phone and communications system for companies, will today announce a plan to expand into messaging and collaboration with the acquisition of Glip. — Terms are not being disclosed on the deal.

More: eWeek and No Jitter

Emily Chang / Bloomberg Business:

Q&A with Kleiner Perkins' general partners John Doerr and Beth Seidenberg: we felt betrayed by Ellen Pao — Kleiner Perkins Q&A: We Felt ‘Betrayed’ by Ellen Pao — Two general partners at the venture capital firm speak out about the gender-discrimination lawsuit

More: Wall Street Journal

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