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U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms — Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.
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| James Bamford / Wired: |
NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning, Meet the Spy Chief Leading US Into Cyberwar — Infiltration. Sabotage. Mayhem. For years four-star General Keith Alexander has been building a secret army capable of launching devastating cyberattacks. Now it's ready to unleash hell.| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind — SAN FRANCISCO — In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo's top lawyers made their case. The government had sought help in spying on certain foreign users, without a warrant, and Yahoo had refused, saying the broad requests were unconstitutional.
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple's Eddy Cue: Yep, we caused e-book pricing to rise — The head of Apple's content businesses also says the company considered a deal with Amazon where Apple would control music and Amazon would control books. — NEW YORK— A high-level Apple executive admitted his company's deal … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Finally. Office 365 is available for the iPhone, lets you edit any Word, Excel and PowerPoint file — After so many years of speculation, it's finally happened. At long last, a version of Microsoft's popular Office applications are available for iOS owners.
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ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget, BGR, GigaOM, iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, NextBigWhat, SlashGear and TUAW. Tweets: @benedictevans
| Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com: |
New in iOS 7: zooming during video capture — As we continue to discover both the big features and smaller nice-to-haves in iOS 7 on an ongoing basis, it has just come to our knowledge that you can access the Camera's zoom controls while shooting video. — Think twice before dismissing …
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| eMarketer: |
Google Takes Home Half of Worldwide Mobile Internet Ad Revenues — Facebook to earn more than one in 10 mobile ad dollars this year — Google earned more than half of the $8.8 billion advertisers worldwide spent on mobile internet ads last year, helping propel the company to take in nearly … | Josh Elman / Medium: |
“How will they make money?” is the wrong question — Seems like every year we hear about a few new consumer networks raising large amounts of money at high valuations. And right on cue, we hear cynics asking, “But how will they ever make money?” let alone “enough money to justify the valuation.”
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Symantec Cutting up to 1,700 Jobs as Early as Today — Security software company Symantec may lay off as many as 1,700 employees as early as today, sources familiar with the company's plans tell AllThingsD. — The cuts are part of a company-wide reorganization first announced in January …
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| Greg Barto / TechCrunch: |
Lucas And Spielberg Predict “Massive Implosion” Of Hollywood Caused By Tech Industry — George Lucas and Steven Spielberg aren't so bullish on the future of the film industry. At a talk at USC, the pair agreed that it's on track to have a “massive implosion”.
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| Ed Christman / Hollywood Reporter: |
BMI Files Suit Against Pandora — Broadcast Music Inc. is seeking a determination of rates for a blanket license for all music played on the streaming service. — BMI, Broadcast Music Inc., today filed suit at the U.S. Southern District Federal Court in New York, seeking a determination …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
CloudFlare's Mirage 2.0 Speeds Up Mobile Sites By Using Virtualized Images And Minimizing Requests — About a year ago, CloudFlare launched Mirage, a service for its paying users that aimed to speed up website loading times by delivering smaller images and using “lazy load” …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
EU Regulators Eye Google Again — This Time It's Android — As the European Union's antitrust investigation into Google's search business draws closer to settlement, another probe of another of the company's businesses appears to be in the offing. — The European Commission … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple working with Logitech and Moga for MFi game controllers, details framework at WWDC — In the clearest sign yet that Apple is serious about supporting dedicated third-party game controllers in iOS, the company held a 45-minute long session at WWDC on Tuesday, showing off app frameworks … | Microsoft: |
Microsoft and Best Buy announce the Windows Store only at Best Buy — Store-within-a-store will launch this summer at more than 600 Best Buy locations, offering Windows-based PCs, tablets, accessories and support from dedicated, Microsoft-trained staff. — Microsoft Corp. and Best Buy Co …
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Reuters, AllThingsD, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, Network World, Business Insider, The Register, WindowsObserver.com, LiveSide.net, Windows Phone Central, CNET, The Droid Guy, VentureBeat and The Verge. Tweets: @levie
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy NX mirrorless camera appears in press shots, may launch later this month — Samsung's mobile chief JK Shin hinted that the company would soon be announcing an Android-powered mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, and now the Galaxy NX is all but official.
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