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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
HTC in disarray: staff departures, ‘disastrous’ First, and production problems cloud company's future  —  Internal upheaval comes at a bad time for the struggling phone maker  —  The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week.
Aloysius Low / CNET:
HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik leaves company  —  Earlier today, it was reported on the Verge that HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera had left the company alongside other high-level employees.  Product strategy manager Eric Lin even had a strongly worded warning for remaining employees …
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4  —  It's that time of decade again.  Time for a new Xbox.  It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360.  The transition from Xbox 360 to the newly announced Xbox One will take right around 8 years …
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and ‘always-online’ requirement unclear
Andrew Yoon / Shacknews.com:
Xbox One won't allow indies to self-publish games
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Xbox One has non-replaceable hard drive, external storage is supported
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome  —  The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week's Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it's a significant leap in how we use search engines.
Brad Stone / Businessweek:
Inside Google's Secret Lab  —  Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition.  Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup …
Mitali Pattnaik / Twitter Advertising:
Capture user interest with the Lead Generation Card  —  Marketers regularly talk to us about their goals, and for many it boils down to one major theme: generating leads, and ultimately driving purchases.  —  With those goals in mind, today there's a new addition to our suite of Twitter Cards …
Jimio / Twitter Blog:
Getting started with login verification  —  Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter.  Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.
Connie Guglielmo / Forbes:
Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple  —  Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for covering digital media technologies and companies including Microsoft and Apple , has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take a job with Apple.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple identifies certain patents allegedly infringed by Samsung Galaxy S4 and Google Now app  —  Last week Apple informed the court that it intended to amend its infringement contentions in the second California patent litigation with Samsung to target the Galaxy S4 (instead of some other product …
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a hard-nosed negotiation  —  The US government's price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York.  Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme …
Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:
Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers  —  Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits.  —  The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but raises new privacy concerns.
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Confirmed: Samsung buys 10% stake in Korean handset maker Pantech for $48 million  —  Samsung is investing in hardware after the company agreed to spend 53 billion won ($48 million) to acquire a 10 percent stake in fellow South Korean firm Pantech, the country's third-largest maker of mobile devices.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud  —  Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency.
Dennis Schaal / Skift:
Hipmunk CEO: We think we can be bigger than Kayak  —  Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, left, and co-founder Steve Huffman.  / Hipmunk  —  Hipmunk co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein, 25, believes his flight and hotel metasearch company can one day be larger than Kayak, and with $20.2 million …

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Roku raises the prices of its flagship hardware devices, citing shortages of RAM and other components due to AI; Roku Ultra's price rises $50 to $150

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