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Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Amazon plans big expansion of online grocery business: sources  —  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is planning a major roll-out of an online grocery business that it has been quietly developing for years, targeting one of the largest retail sectors yet to be upended by e-commerce, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
U.S. ITC issues limited import ban on AT&T models of Apple's older iPhones, iPads after Samsung patent win  —  The U.S. International Trade Commission has issued a limited exclusion and cease & desist order for the AT&T versions of Apple's iPhone and iPad, reports Reuters, Bloomberg and others.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Will Appeal ITC Import Ban on Older iPhones, iPads
Om Malik / GigaOM:
What I think of Salesforce's decision to buy Exact Target for $2.5 billion  —  Salesforce, the San Francisco-based company that started out as a customer relationship management (CRM) business is continuing its transformation into a cloud application layer company and to that end …
More: AllThingsD
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Salesforce.com Makes Its Biggest Acquisition Yet, Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Bloomberg Launches Bloomberg Beta, A $75 Million Early-Stage Investment Fund Led By Former IGN Exec Roy Bahat  —  Media company Bloomberg is launching its own venture capital fund, called Bloomberg Beta today.  With the fund, the company is putting aside $75 million to invest in early-stage startups.
More: VentureBeat and Forbes
DEADLINE:
Steve Ballmer Treks To Hollywood To Tout Xbox One To TV Moguls And Agents  —  EXCLUSIVE 10 AM... UPDATEd 12:30 PM : Deadline has learned the meetings were an intimate preview of the new Xbox One capabilities before next week's E3 confab where secretive Microsoft will unveil details of the device's technology.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's 500M user accounts second only to Facebook, viewed as key driver of future growth  —  Apple's current account base of 500 million users is growing and spending at a tremendous rate, suggesting to one analyst that new services such as mobile payments or streaming radio could be key to the company's future growth.
The White House:
Fact Sheet: White House Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues  —  Today the White House announced major steps to improve incentives for future innovation in high tech patents, a key driver of economic growth and good paying American jobs.  The White House issued five executive actions …
Justin Lafferty / AllFacebook:
Facebook Sees Record Gaming Numbers In 1Q  —  Facebook Monday released their latest gaming statistics, showing that 250 million people are playing games on Facebook each month.  The first quarter of the year also represented the most successful three-month period in terms of revenue and people playing games to date.
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
London's going out app YPlan raises a $12M Series A round and says it will expand to NYC in 2013  —  YPlan, the mobile application that tells you where to go each night, has just raised $12 million (£7.9 million) in Series A financing.  The round was led by General Catalyst Partners …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple releases economic impact report for new headquarters, predicts 23,400 employees by 2016  —  Apple has released a report today detailing the economic and fiscal impact of both its current business and new headquarters in Cupertino.  The 'campus 2′, also known as the ‘spaceship’ is set to be complete in 2016.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Google Glass photo update brings HDR, better low-light shots and captions  —  At Google I/O, the Glass team promised monthly updates for the head-mounted computer.  Today, a new version of the software (XE6) is being shipped out to the few who have them so far and it contains a bunch of updates that center on images.
Joseph Volpe / Engadget:
Sprint Vital leaks out: 5-inch HD display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 13MP camera, Android 4.1 (video)  —  Looks like Sprint really is prepping a 5-inch Android flagship of its own: the Vital.  Thanks to an anonymous source, Engadget's received a motherlode of details on the upcoming …
More: CNET and PhoneArena
Kim Zetter / Wired:
American Gets Targeted by Digital Spy Tool Sold to Foreign Governments  —  The email appeared to come from a trusted colleague at a renowned academic institution and referenced a subject that was a hot-button issue for the recipient, including a link to a website where she could obtain more information about it.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
IBM to Acquire Cloud Services Company SoftLayer  —  Computing giant IBM just made another move in its quest to becoming the biggest provider of cloud computing services.  It said it will acquire SoftLayer, a privately held cloud services player based in Dallas.  —  Financial terms are not being disclosed.

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Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

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

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
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