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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.
Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
Like LinkedIn, eHarmony is hacked; 1.5 million passwords stolen  —  A screenshot of insidepro.com, the site used by a hacker to dump two lists containing 8 million stolen passwords from LinkedIn and eHarmony.  —  EHarmony, the popular online dating site, was the target of a password hacking attack …
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Confirms Hack And Leak Of “Some” User Passwords
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.
Ryan Singel / Wired:
IE 10′s ‘Do-Not-Track’ Default Dies Quick Death  —  Well, that didn't take long.  —  The latest proposed draft of the Do Not Track specification published Wednesday requires that users must choose to turn on the anti-behavioral tracking feature in their browsers and software.
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
The all new foursquare launches to cash in on “making the real world easier to use”  —  Foursquare has been teasing the fact that it was about to launch a brand new version this week, and we've been following all of the clues on what it might potentially entail.
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Confirmed: Sprint's Virgin Mobile second US carrier to offer prepaid iPhone; from June 29, plans start at $30  —  Apple's push into the US prepaid market has been given another significant boost after Sprint-owned Virgin Mobile announced that it will become the second operator to offer the iPhone to its customers.
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.
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Another Super Angel Levels Up: Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures Closes $70M  —  What happens when a super angel gets its wings?  You become a boutique fund.  —  Or at least that's how Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures is putting it with a fresh fund worth about $70 million.
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Google hit with patent claim over Google Drive  —  The growing popularity of cloud technology is attracting not just users but patent lawsuits too.  The latest example is a suit filed against Google that claims the company's Drive and Docs products violate a 1999 software patent.
More: ZDNet and Wired
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Search beats display by large margin in mobile ad spending, study shows  —  Facebook better hurry up with that search engine it's reportedly building.  A new survey of the mobile market shows that search ads are outstripping display ads by a wide margin in every region of the world.
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Twitter Product VP Satya Patel Steps Down As Its Products and Ad Business Grow  —  Satya Patel joined Twitter in March of 2011, after a four-year stint as an investor with Battery Ventures.  He took on the big job of managing the company's core product as well as its growing advertising business.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
This Beautiful Device Turns Your iPhone and Android Into an Ultra-Thin Laptop  —  This is the ClamBook, a super-sleek, airier-that-Air thingamajig that has a 16:9 widescreen, a keyboard, and a battery.  It will turn your iPhone or Android cell into a beautiful, ultra-thin laptop.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
30,000 secret surveillance orders approved each year, judge estimates  —  If the government spies on you but brings no charges, you'll never know.  —  Jonathan McIntosh  —  A federal judge estimates that his fellow federal judges issue a total of 30,000 secret electronic surveillance orders each year …
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Facebook's Answer To The App Store Is Days From Launching  —  Facebook's App Center, an App Store equivalent for Facebook applications, is launching in the coming days, according to a source briefed by Facebook on the service.  —  The launch date could be as soon as today or tomorrow, our source said.
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Facebook rolls out new “low friction” mobile payments for developers in 60+ countries  —  Following an announcement at the Mobile World Congress this year, Facebook is now officially rolling out a new, 2-step mobile payment flow that developers can include in their Facebook apps via Facebook's Payments API.
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Exclusive: The brains behind Hive launch on-demand Hadoop service  —  Two key members of the Facebook team that created the Hadoop query language Hive are launching their own big data startup called Qubole on Thursday.  Co-founders Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma are taking that experience …
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Bing Revamps Their Webmaster Tools & Launches Partial Yahoo Site Explorer Replacement  —  Today at SMX Advanced, Bing has launched a revamped version of their webmaster tools product, with a new user interface and improved features.  Much of the changes are just sprucing up existing data …
Wall Street Journal:
Appsurd: In Silicon Valley, It's Hard to Make a Joke  —  With Explosion of Internet Ideas, Lots Get Taken Seriously; TacoCopter Test Flight  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Last fall, digital designer Alex Cornell had an idea for a spoof on Silicon Valley.  While goofing off at work …

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