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Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment — Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government.
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The Latest to Disclose Government Requests, Yahoo Reveals the Least — Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, Yahoo disclosed late Friday some broad data about the number of requests that American law enforcement authorities had made for data about its users.
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Ready for the Industrial Internet? GE Announces “Predictivity” Platform, New Partnership With Amazon Web Services. — At the recent D: All Things Digital conference, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt talked a lot about the savings that could be realized via a massive expansion of the so-called …
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Meets Samsung Executives Amid Mobile Push — Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to boost advertising sales from mobile devices, is meeting with Samsung Electronics Co. executives today in Seoul. — Zuckerberg was seen entering Samsung offices … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Grasping for a Vine: Video for Instagram Will Be Sole Reveal at Facebook Event Thursday — Instagram plans to release a video product this Thursday at a press event at Facebook's headquarters, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, marking the first time the robust … | Wall Street Journal: |
Maker of ‘Candy Crush Saga’ Plans IPO — Candy Crush Saga is lining up something besides jelly beans: bankers. — Midasplayer International Holding Co., the publisher of online and mobile games including the popular Candy Crush Saga, has hired banks to pursue a U.S. initial public offering … | Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
Nokia Surges 11%: Huawei ‘Open’ to Buying Them, Says FT — Shares of Nokia (NOK) are up 41 cents, or 11%, at $4.10, during in mid-day trading following an article a short while ago by the Financial Times's Daniel Thomas, who writes that Chinese smartphone and networking vendor Huawei is open to buying Nokia …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google adds ‘carousel’ of search results for nearby restaurants, bars and other local places — Google is updating its search results pages on the desktop today to show an interactive “carousel” of nearby restaurants, bars and other local places. — It works as expected; type in a query such as …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Huawei Ascend P6 announced: 6.18mm thickness, 4.7-inch 720p display — We knew it was in the works given the sheer quantity of leaks but, with a small sigh of relief, Huawei's Ascend P6 is now official. At the company's London launch, the handset has been revealed with a 6.18mm-thick body …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Onion Pi turns Raspberry Pi into Tor proxy and wireless access point — The do-it-yourselfers at Adafruit have provided step-by-step instructions for turning a Raspberry Pi into a Tor proxy and wireless access point. A good project for users looking to anonymize their Internet traffic …
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
AT&T and Goal Zero deploy solar-powered Street Charge stations in NYC, we go hands-on (video) — If you'e lucky, your smartphone's battery can just make it through a full day, with the percentage meter dropping to the single digits as you finally get a chance to plug in.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the ‘DVR for everything’ — Nate Weiner turned down millions from Evernote to stay independent — but how big a business can you build off a bookmarklet? — The day before he turned 27, Nate Weiner drove from San Francisco to Mountain View … | Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Nvidia to license graphics technology: CEO — (Reuters) - Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said he will license graphics technology to other companies, a new model for the chipmaker that could lead to new business with Apple, Samsung and other mobile device makers.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Ubuntu phone OS has eight carriers signed on to boost development — Canonical has formed a “Carrier Advisory Group” of eight mobile operators who will collaborate to influence the development of Ubuntu for smartphones. — Canonical said the first members of the group are Deutsche Telekom …
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| Greg Roumeliotis / Reuters: |
Dish abandons Sprint bid for now to focus on Clearwire — (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp said it would not make a new offer to buy No. 3 U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel in time for a Tuesday deadline and will instead focus on its tender offer for Clearwire Corp.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Dell Committee Slams Icahn's Latest Offer, Saying It Falls Short — The special committee of Dell's board of directors overseeing its go-private process fired back at activist investor Carl Icahn's latest proposal today in a letter to shareholders, saying it is “not, in its present state …
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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook's Video Ads Now Likely Delayed Until Fall — Agencies Had Previously Been Told First ‘Slots’ Would Be Available in July — Facebook's hotly-anticipated video ads are likely delayed yet again — this time, until the fall. — Earlier this spring, the social network …
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CNET, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, ReelSEO Video Marketing and Business Insider. Thanks:@natives
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe's Q2 Earnings Beat Street With $1.011B In Revenue, $0.36 EPS, 700K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers — Adobe just reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $1.011 billion and non-GAAP operating income of $247.3 for an earnings per share of $0.36 …
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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Tumblr's Media Director Quits — Tumblr brought Mark Coatney aboard from Newsweek to bolster the site's editorial side—"to show how [Tumblr] can be key to connecting journalists and readers." Three years (and a Yahoo acquisition) later, and another early employee is gone. That's two in only a few weeks.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal — According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Amazon's Invasion of the CIA Is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing — The rumors are true. Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA. But what's most intriguing about the multi-million-dollar deal is not what Amazon is doing, but how the company is doing it — and what that means …
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Blekko releases iPhone and Android smartphone version of Izik search app — Blekko has released iPhone and Android smartphone versions of its Izik search app, rounding out the firm's pre-existing tablet and Web offerings. — The new version of Izik (which is pronounced “Isaac") …
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Apple TV gets iTunes Radio, Conference Room display option in beta update — Apple TV received little attention during Worldwide Developers Conference, but the diminutive set-top box still has the Cupertino company's attention, as new videos reveal iTunes Radio and a new Conference Room mode … Sponsor Posts
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