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June 14, 2013, 6:50 PM

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Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Facebook to Hold Mysterious Product Launch Event on June 20 — Facebook seems to have even more products up its sleeve. On the heels of releasing its new hashtag feature this week and the roll out of its new iPhone and Android features, the company will hold an event on Thursday …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Will Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event

More: Tom Waddington, GeekWire and Computerworld

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.

More: ZDNet, SiliconBeat, Techdirt, Mashable, InfoWorld, WebProNews, CNET, Hit & Run, Law Blog, The Daily Caller, TechSpot, The Verge, Softpedia News, The Verge, emptywheel and Gizmodo

Tweets: @mathewi, @rsingel, @gerryshih and @csoghoian

Michael Riley / Bloomberg:

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.

More: TechCrunch, Yahoo! News, The Register, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Quartz, CNET, Politico, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Business Insider, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Valleywag, Bloomberg, Mashable and ReadWrite

Tweets: @dhh, @pkedrosky, @csoghoian, @declanm and @csoghoian

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them

Tweets: @karl_sparx

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Bills would clip NSA's wings on phone data

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Senator Wyden's Press Feed, The Huffington Post, KTVZ-TV, Washington Times, Daily Kos and Mediaite

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Sources: Facebook in Talks With Feds to Allow FISA Disclosures

More: VentureBeat, The Verge and The Atlantic Wire

James Bamford / Wired:

NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning, Meet the Spy Chief Leading US Into Cyberwar

More: Los Angeles Times, The Verge, Boing Boing, New York Times and Rubbing Alcoholic blog

Julia White / The Microsoft Office Blog:

Office Mobile for iPhone now available for Office 365 subscribers — Today, we're releasing Office Mobile for iPhone available at no extra charge from the Apple App Store for Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 ProPlus subscribers. Similar to our free Office Mobile for Windows Phone …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Office for iPhone: Microsoft delivers basic document editing, but no iPad version — After months of rumors and speculation on Microsoft's Office plans for iOS, the software giant is finally delivering a copy for iPhone today. Office Mobile for iOS will be strictly iPhone only initially …

TechCrunch:

Path Is On The Path To New Funding, Approaching $1B Valuation — We're hearing from multiple sources that private social network Path is raising a new round of funding that could value the company as high as $1 billion. According to one source, the company is in the process …

More: Betabeat, CNET, Valleywag, The Droid Guy, larry borsato and Business Insider

Tweets: @mulligan, @eghosao, @benedictevans, @shaig and @caseynewton

Thanks:@forrestkoba

Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

EU to end mobile roaming charges next year — Consumers will next year be able to use their mobile phones across the European Union for the same price as at home, it is planned, after officials voted to fast-track major reforms of telecoms regulation. — It will cost the same to use …

More: 9to5Mac, The Next Web, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, Omio, Cult of Mac, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, PhoneArena, Light Reading, TechCrunch, Electronista, Inquirer, iClarified, Mobile Industry Review, IntoMobile and Softpedia News

Ryan Tate / Wired:

Bloomberg Puts Every New York Neighborhood on Nextdoor — There's been a war brewing between Silicon Valley startups and the New York City government, which recently blocked attempts by online services Airbnb, Uber and RelayRides to compete, perhaps illegally, with Gotham hotels and taxis.

More: The Next Web, PandoDaily, TechHive, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and ABCNEWS

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Carl Icahn May Walk Away From Dell Proxy Fight He Started — Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor who has been one of the key players in the proxy fight over the struggling computer maker Dell, may be ready to take his chips off the table. — CNBC's David Faber reported minutes ago …

More: New York Post, Tech Trader Daily and FierceEnterpriseCommunications …. Tweets: @edbott

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Songbird Sings Its Last Tune As Music Service Runs Out Of Money And Plans To Shut Down June 28 — Songbird, an early digital music service that aimed to compete against the iTunes, Pandoras and Spotifies of this world with an open source platform, is shutting down on June 28, after running out of money and failing to find a buyer.

More: News from the Nest, The Droid Guy, hypebot and Digital Trends. See also Mediagazer

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

CenturyLink Acquiring AppFog To Move Into Platform-As-A-Service Market — According to a source within the company, CenturyLink is acquiring AppFog, a platform-as-a-service company. Terms of the deal were not revealed. — AppFog will become part of Savvis, a Century Link company …

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, The Register, Oregonian, Silicon Florist, Web Host Industry Review and GeekWire. Thanks:@marshallk

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

President Obama orders government spectrum to be opened for wireless broadband — President Obama may still be facing many questions over the NSA surveillance efforts of phone and internet users, but he's moving forward with another government technology effort that's not likely to draw quite as much controversy.

More: The White House, The White House, VentureBeat, Washington Post, Engadget, AllThingsD, Mashable and IntoMobile. See also Mediagazer

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