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June 6, 2013, 4:05 PM

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Peter Burrows / Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Start iPhone Trade-In Program in Stores — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is starting an iPhone trade-in program this month aimed at getting users to upgrade to the iPhone 5 and turn in older models, people with knowledge of the plans said. — Apple has teamed up with Brightstar Corp. …

More: The Verge, BGR, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Business Insider, Reuters, CNET, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Engadget, IntoMobile, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable and iClarified. Tweets: @panzer

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily — Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama — • Read the Verizon court order in full here — • Obama administration justifies surveillance

Washington Post:

Administration, lawmakers defend NSA program to collect phone records — The Obama administration and key U.S. lawmakers on Thursday defended a secret National Security Agency telephone surveillance program that one congressman said had helped avert a terrorist attack in recent years.

More: Guardian, Mashable and The Register

Anna Palmer / Politico:

Verizon on offense behind the scenes — Officially, telecom giant Verizon has no comment about turning over millions of customers call logs to the government. — But behind the scenes, the company is vetting requests from senior Capitol Hill aides and others, asking Obama administration officials …

More: Digits, The Verge and Yahoo! News

Christina Bonnington / Wired:

Why Google Reader Really Got the Axe — When Google announced its plans to shutter Google Reader in March, the Internet freaked out. Twitter users raised their virtual pitchforks in outrage. Bloggers wept, scrambling to find a suitable replacement by the service's July 1 death date.

More: ParisLemon, GigaOM, Business Insider, The Verge, 9to5Google, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, SlashGear, Gizmodo and PhoneArena. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Signs Its Second Big Ad Deal, This Time With WPP — In April, Twitter linked up with ad giant Starcom in a deal worth “hundreds of millions” over a few years. Now it has another one, with Starcom's rival WPP. — WPP's press release doesn't mention a dollar value …

More: WPP, AdExchanger, Bloomberg, AdAge, VatorNews, Businessweek, GigaOM, Marketing Land, Softpedia News, The Next Web, memeburn and Guardian

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Facebook Adds Dock Feature in Effort to Make Its Home More Inviting — Facebook on Thursday announced it has added a new feature designed to make its Facebook Home software more appealing. — The social network is adding a dock to Facebook Home that allows users to more easily access their favorite apps.

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Verge, 9to5Google and IntoMobile. Tweets: @panzer

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

3-D Printer Firm MakerBot in Acquisition Talks — MakerBot Industries LLC, the fast-growing maker of 3-D printers, is in talks with suitors that could lead to the sale of the New York-based company, people familiar with the matter said. — The four-year-old startup was recently gauging …

More: Betabeat, Business Insider, Mashable and Quartz

Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:

Evernote Reminders Arrive on Android — Reminders, our most requested feature of all time, is now available on Android! With Reminders you get three great features all rolled into one: alarms, note based to-dos and the ability to pin notes to the top of your note list. Let's take a closer look.

More: The Next Web, Engadget, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, ZDNet and The Verge

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

AT&T Discusses Entering Into a Joint Bid for Hulu With Chernin Group — According to sources close to the telecommunications giant, AT&T is in discussions with the Chernin Group about mounting a joint bid to acquire the Hulu premium video site. — It makes sense — in addition to its core phone business …

More: Digital Media Wire, Forbes, GigaOM, DSLreports, CNET, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, BGR, FierceWireless and VatorNews. See also Mediagazer

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S4 update addresses storage complaints with move to SD card feature — Samsung has begun rolling out a software update for its Galaxy S4 that adresses a few issues early adopters have been complaining about. The 16GB variant of the Galaxy S4 has been slammed for only giving users 9.15GB …

More: SamMobile, CNET, GigaOM, Fudzilla, T3 News, BGR India, IntoMobile, Unwired View, Mashable, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Inquirer, Phones Review, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, Android Police, CNET, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile and MobileSyrup.com

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

‘Uber For Local Home Services’ Provider ClubLocal Launches In The Bay Area — Uber pioneered the market for on-demand, one-click rides from your mobile phone, and over the past few years we've seen a ton of ‘Uber for X’ startups pop up in different categories.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, Screenwerk, Wired and socalTECH.com

Jason Snell / Macworld:

Meet Vesper, a notes app with an all-star development team — Three people you may have heard of—writer John Gruber, developer Brent Simmons, and designer Dave Wiskus—have joined forces to create Q Branch, an app development company whose first product is a $5 iPhone app called Vesper.

More: iMore, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, GigaOM, MacStories, Business Insider, ParisLemon, iMore and TUAW

Christina Farr / VentureBeat:

Box rolls out new revenue-share plan, SDKs to help its app partners make money — Cloud storage player Box plans to split revenues with the developers writing apps for its storage and collaboration platform. — Box is focused on business customers rather than consumers …

More: InfoWorld, The Next Web, ZDNet, ReadWrite, GigaOM and CNET

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

BBM Is Not Coming To iPhone And Android On June 27 — There's a report spreading around today that BBM is coming to iPhones and Android devices on June 27. — The report is based on a tweet from T-Mobile's UK account, but the tweet has been deleted. — According to a source with knowledge …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CrackBerry.com, SlashGear, CNET, The Verge, Digital Trends, iMore, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com and IntoMobile. Tweets: @markgurman

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches Bing Translator for Windows 8 with over 40 languages, camera translation, and offline support — Microsoft today announced the release of the Bing Translator app for Windows 8 and Windows RT with support for more than 40 languages. You can download the app now directly from the Windows Store.

More: Bing, BetaNews, Daring Fireball, PC World, GeekWire, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, The Verge and Engadget

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Google's YouTube Triples Mobile Sales Amid Wireless Shift — Google Scores YouTube Mobile Ad Sales Jackpot — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube has tripled advertising sales on mobile devices in the past six months, the company said, contributing as much as an estimated $350 million to revenue at the video-sharing website.

More: The Verge, Mobile Marketing Watch, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Marketing Land, Cult of Mac, everythingiCafe and memeburn

Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

Ayla launches with $5.4M to turn everything into a connected device — A world where humans interact with machines that respond to our every need may seem fantastical, but Ayla Networks launched today to make this sci-fi vision a reality. — Ayla's mission is to build an ecosystem for the Internet of Things.

More: NYT Bits and Data Center Knowledge

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Russia's Yandex Has A New Take On Search Results, Take Action Inside The Page — With Google dominant in so many markets, one would thing that search is kind've ‘done’. Of course, we have yet to really tap into social search, and Facebook Graph search is showing a clear direction.

More: Yandex.Company, GigaOM, The Next Web and Softpedia News

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Google: Search hits, YouTube views are key predictors of a movie's box office performance — Google has released a white paper that shows a proportional impact on a movie's box office success based on the number of searches that it receives. Among the insights, the company highlights …

More: The Verge, Google, Search Engine Watch and Business Insider

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Tango launches Asia-style games platform for its 120m users, snags Gameloft as a launch partner — Video messaging service Tango has taken a big step into the mobile entertainment and gaming space after it launched a new content platform for developers, alongside launch partner Gameloft.

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac and Engadget

Wall Street Journal:

Lenovo Plans Push in Servers, Storage, CEO Says — CHENGDU, China—Lenovo Group Ltd. sees growth opportunities in servers and storage, and plans to enter smartphone markets in developed countries in the next year, its chief executive said. — “Servers and storage is the business …

More: AllThingsD and CNET

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Video Discovery Startup Showyou Launches Channel Platform, Unveils A Revenue Model — We've been following video discovery startup Showyou since its very earliest days. The company has created an app that makes it easier for video viewers on a mobile phone or tablet to find new content, and share it with friends.

More: VentureBeat and GigaOM

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