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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.| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
NSA Implementing ‘Two-Person’ Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden — The next Edward Snowden may need a partner on the inside. — On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a congressional hearing of the Intelligence Committee that the agency is implementing a …
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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 … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
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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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple testing deep LinkedIn integration for iOS 7 — Further bolstering the presence of third-party social networks in iOS, Apple is testing deep LinkedIn integration for the upcoming release of iOS 7, according to code-based references found inside of the first beta of iOS 7.
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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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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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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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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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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| 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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| 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, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Inside Facebook and Business Insider. Thanks:@natives
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Kodak prepares $406 million offering as it eyes bankruptcy exit — (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co on Tuesday said it will seek court approval for a $406 million rights offering that could give creditors a big equity stake in the company after it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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| 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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