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June 14, 2013, 1:55 AM

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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.

More: Los Angeles Times, Rubbing Alcoholic blog, Business Insider and The Verge

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.

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: CNET, The Verge and The Atlantic Wire

Tweets: @clairecm, @gerryshih and @csoghoian

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Escape from PRISM: how Twitter defies government data-sharing

More: VentureBeat

Reuters:

T-Mobile, Verizon not under U.S. data watch due to foreign ties: WSJ

More: Engadget, Wall Street Journal and PhoneArena. Tweets: @csoghoian

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

NSA chief drops hint about ISP Web, e-mail surveillance

More: New York Times, Techdirt, SiliconBeat, Electronic Frontier Foundation and New Yorker

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 …

More: New York Times, Engadget, Reuters, Cult of Mac, Macgasm, MacRumors, Kindle Review and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Steve Jobs initially didn't want an iBookstore, Eddy Cue says — Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services, says he had to convince Jobs to pursue iBooks, and he only had a couple months to make it happen before the iPad announcement.

More: AllThingsD, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, Examiner, Fortune and SlashGear

Tom Hays / Associated Press:

Exec At NY Trial: Apple Didn't Fix E-Book Prices

More: Bloomberg, Washington Post, TUAW, Washington Post and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: TechCrunch, Mashable, Digits, The Register, BGR, VatorNews, SocialTimes, Screenwerk, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, AllFacebook, Bloomberg, Quartz, dailywireless.org, Forbes and Marketing Pilgrim. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, CNET and App Advice

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 …

More: CNET, ZDNet, Mercury News, Business Insider, Electronista and bizjournals

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 …

More: Reuters, AllThingsD, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Business Insider, CNET, Network World, WindowsObserver.com, The Register, LiveSide.net, Windows Phone Central, The Droid Guy, VentureBeat, The Verge and ZDNet. Tweets: @levie

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft to open 600 Windows Stores inside Best Buy and Future Shop locations in the US and Canada this summer

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 …

More: Financial Times, BGR, Electronista, Marketing Land, The Verge, The Droid Guy and Android Community

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Twitter launches #FollowMe: highlight reels based on tweets, photos and Vines — It's common for Twitter regulars to get a stream of new followers, but it's not always clear why they should follow back — how do you summarize a person's post history in a few seconds?

More: SlashGear, Silicon Florist, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Marketing Land, memeburn, VentureBeat, PandoDaily and Softpedia News

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 …

More: Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint and Gizmodo Australia. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81

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”.

More: Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, CNBC and CNET

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 …

More: Billboard, Engadget, BMI.com, The Verge, The Next Web, Forbes and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Betting On The ‘Reinvention Of Local,’ Sequoia Leads Thumbtack's $12.5M Series B — Thumbtack, a marketplace for local service providers, has raised a $12.5 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital. — When co-founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta told me about the funding …

More: PandoDaily, Forbes, VentureBeat and AllThingsD

Emily Gogolak / NYT Bits:

Smartphone Makers Pressed to Address Growing Theft Problem — Seeking to curb the nationwide increase in smartphone thefts, New York State's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, and the San Francisco district attorney, George Gascón, on Thursday announced an initiative to try to address the problem.

More: CNET

Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post:

Smartphone Thefts Probed By State, City Prosecutors As Companies Fail To Act

More: The Verge, Engadget, DSLreports, dailywireless.org and CNET. Thanks:@gerryfsmith

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Samsung chief alludes to ‘mirrorless’ Galaxy Camera sequel coming June 20th — We had a feeling the Galaxy S4 Zoom wouldn't be the final word in Samsung's Android-powered camera lineup for 2013, and now it seems that a truer successor to the high-spec Galaxy Camera is indeed on its way.

More: The Korea Times, SamMobile, CNET, Android Beat, TechSpot, TUAW, IntoMobile, Unwired View, Android Police, Gizmodo, CNET, AndroidOS.in, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Android Beat

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy NX mirrorless camera appears in press shots, may launch later this month

More: SlashGear, SlashGear, Sammy Hub, The Verge, Ubergizmo, 1001 Noisy Cameras, PetaPixel, Digital Trends and 9to5Google

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