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Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked - change yours now — Already in the spotlight over concerns that its iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from a device's calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text, LinkedIn user accounts …

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Confirms Hack And Leak Of “Some” User Passwords — Shortly after it was reported that nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn account passwords were leaked onto the net, LinkedIn leapt into action and mounted their own investigation. — Though most of the morning was spent claiming …

More: msnbc.com, ZDNet, Chris Shiflett, Computerworld, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, Reuters, The Verge, Macworld, Linkedin Blog and Engadget

Nicole Perlroth / Bits:

That Was Fast: Criminals Exploit LinkedIn Breach For Phishing Attacks

More: ESET ThreatBlog and VentureBeat

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google Earth to get radically better 3D images, new UI on iOS and Android — Google has announced its plans to improve 3D maps. It's using “automated technology to extract 3D from aerial images.” The effect is stunning, every building is competely modeled from street to roof.

More: Wall Street Journal, The Register, CNET, BetaNews, The Next Web, ABCNEWS, Guardian, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bits, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, Inquirer and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @dannysullivan

MG Siegler:

What Google Maps Actually Just Unveiled: Anxiety Over Apple Maps — You want to know how I know that Google is very concerned about the forthcoming launch of Apple's own mapping product for iOS? I simply followed the Google Maps press conference today. — The mere fact that Google decided …

More: Search Engine Land, MacRumors, Screenwerk and TechSpot

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Google Street View cars have driven 5 million unique miles, collected 20 petabytes of images

More: CNET, The Next Web, The Verge and PetaPixel

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google launching Offline Maps for Android mobile users

More: IntoMobile, The Official Google Blog and SlashGear

Tweets: @mxfh, @parislemon and @dcseifert

Bloomberg:

HTC Said To Be Shut Out Of Next Version Of Windows — HTC Corp. (2498) is being shut out of the introduction of Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s next Windows software, people with knowledge of the matter said, cutting off another source of revenue after HTC reduced its second-quarter sales forecast by 13 percent.

More: Business Insider, The Next Web, Engadget, Seattle Times, parislemon, Pocketnow, Daring Fireball and SplatF

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

HTC stuck with inventory, weak Q2 revenue

More: BGR, Phones Review, The Verge and Reuters

IDC:

Android Expected to Reach Its Peak This Year as Mobile Phone Shipments Slow, According IDC — The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow slightly more than 4.0% year over year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate since 2009, due to a sharp decline in the feature phone market and sluggish global economic conditions.

Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:

Windows Phone To Top iOS Market Share By 2016, IDC Says

Lucian Constantin / PC Advisor:

LinkedIn stops collecting calendar meeting notes through its mobile apps — LinkedIn updated its Android and iOS apps to no longer send calendar meeting notes back to its servers when calendar integration is enabled — LinkedIn has confirmed researcher claims that the calendar integration feature …

More: BBC, PC & Tech Authority, SC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, the Econsultancy blog, Skycure Security, Softpedia News and CNET

Joff Redfern / Linkedin Blog:

More about our mobile calendar feature

More: CNET, Los Angeles Times, Bits, Guardian, The Verge, The Mac Security Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, The Register, The Next Web, App Advice, Computerworld, WebProNews and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @gartenberg

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO GO Subscription? About $12 A Month — Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO GO, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms.

More: GitHub, CircleID, digitaltrends.com, Lost Remote, BuzzFeed, Deadline.com, WebProNews, Business Insider, Gawker and SplatF

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

HBO Says No, for Now, to Fans Who Want a Web-Only Option

More: Doc Searls Weblog and parislemon. Tweets: @hbo and @parislemon. See also Mediagazer

Roberto Baldwin / Wired:

Kindle Fire Is First Android Tablet to Get HBO GO

More: CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, GigaOM and Daily Dot

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

New Mac spec sheet leaks out, WWDC launch pricing and naming included — . — The image above represents the full pricing matrix for new devices expected to unveil in a few days at the Worldwide Developers Conference. You will notice the Mac Pros, Retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and iMacs that we discussed before at length.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone, The Verge, The Register, Redmond Pie, Los Angeles Times, WebProNews, BGR, Wired, Apple Bitch, Gizmodo, iLounge and AllThingsD

John Flowers / McSweeney's:

Prospectus for Silicon Valley's Next Hot Tech IPO, Where Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong — Form S-1 — Registration Statement — Under — The Securities Act of 1933 — Ponzify, Inc. — LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS — Forget Facebook. Forget Groupon. Forget everything you know about Silicon Valley.

More: Business Insider

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple wants to keep Samsung's Galaxy S3 out of U.S. — Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone. — (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) — Excited shoppers weren't the only ones buying Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, when it went on sale in the U.K. last month.

More: TechCrunch, Reuters, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, BGR, Ars Technica, FOSS Patents and 9to5Google

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Airfoil Speakers Touch back in App Store minus new feature, Apple apologizes for poor handling — After being pulled from the App Store late last month, without warning, AirFoil Speakers Touch is back in, but minus one feature. The app's developers, Rogue Amoeba, had to remove …

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, MacStories, Under The Microscope, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW and Under The Microscope

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

Oracle Introduces Corporate Cloud To Challenge Salesforce — Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world's largest database maker, has introduced a cloud-computing service to let corporate customers access data over the Internet, stepping up competition with Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) and Workday Inc.

More: CNET, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews, Reuters, ReadWriteWeb and MarketWatch. Tweets: @larryellison

Chris Dannen / Fast Company:

How Airbnb Earned Me $20,000 And A Restraining Order From My Landlord — For a heady year, cash and friendly faces flowed into my apartment, paying my rent while I scraped together money to build a startup I had dreamed about for months. My apartment photographed well and tourists love Brooklyn …

More: Betabeat

Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:

Germany increases USB flash drive tax by over 2000 percent — Blank media tax was first introduced when the audio cassette became popular. It was arguedthat such media would have a negative impact on sales of commercial recordings, and so a secondary tax alongside sales tax was required …

More: Techdirt and Betabeat

Doug Bowman / Twitter Blog:

Taking flight: #Twitterbird — Over the past six years, the world has become familiar with a little blue bird. The bird is everywhere, constantly associated with Twitter the service, and Twitter the company. — Starting today you'll begin to notice a simplified Twitter bird.

More: GadgeTell, AllThingsD, Laughing Squid, Bloomberg Tech Blog, The Next Web, The Verge, TechCrunch, Twitter Advertising, Business Insider, API Evangelist, DealBook, Marketing Land, Daily Dot and Gawker. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

A Big Venture Round for Crowdfunding: Indiegogo Raises $15M — Kickstarter may be the best-known brand in crowdfunding, but Indiegogo now has the biggest war chest. In a new round announced today, Indiegogo now has the backing of Insight Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, broadstuff, Venture Capital Dispatch, Indiegogo Blog and VatorNews

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Google patents location-based mobile alerts that know where you're going to — To date, the term smartphone's mostly been a misnomer for larger screen, albeit still dumb, handsets imbued with rich web browsing experiences. With the exception of the Galaxy S III's SmartStay feature and the Droid RAZR …

More: Android News, Rumours …, AndroidGuys and Android Phone Fans

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

True Ventures Raises $205 Million Fund — While Facebook's sagging stock price may have chilled investors' appetite for rising technology start-ups, some venture capital firms continue to collect new money. — True Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with investments in Automattic …

More: True Ventures, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

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