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June 21, 2013, 3:30 PM

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Guardian:

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications — Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal

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Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:

FAA to Relax Rules for Gadgets in Flight — Airline passengers irritated at having to turn off their devices could soon see some reprieve, with regulators set to allow wider use of gadgets in flight. — The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using some types …

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Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

Instagram users upload 5M videos in first 24 hours — Just a day after release, video sharing is already proving so popular an activity on the app that it would take you years to watch all the clips uploaded to the service. — Instagram users have embraced the application's …

More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and www.idigitaltimes.co.uk

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Facebook Announces That It's Out Of Ideas — How the internet's most powerful company became a clone mill. — Via: Macey J. Foronda/Buzzfeed — The most important thing to understand about Facebook is that it can't lose. It has, and it will, and sometimes it should. But it can't.

More: PandoDaily, LiveSide.net, ZDNet, Forbes, memeburn and Los Angeles Times. Tweets: @nitashatiku

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why I will never click on your Instagram video, no matter how much you want me to

More: Daring Fireball, PC Magazine, The Atlantic Wire, TechHive, Inc.com, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, iPhone and Guardian

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What's The Difference?

More: AllThingsD, CNET, ReadWrite, Phones Review, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile and Instagramers.com. Thanks:@ryanlawler

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

It's no accident Facebook made Instagram's new videos exactly as long as a television commercial

More: WebProNews, NevilleHobson.com, Marketing Land and ABCNEWS. See also Mediagazer

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Said to Hire Robert Downey Jr. for $12 Million Ad Campaign — HTC has enlisted actor Robert Downey Jr. for a two-year global marketing deal worth about $12 million to promote the Taiwanese company's smartphone brand, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.

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Matt Brian / The Verge:

HTC slashed executive pay by half after disappointing 2012

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, SlashGear and Mashable

Nobuhiro Kubo / Reuters:

Tokyo court says Samsung infringed on Apple “bounce-back” patent — (Reuters) - A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd had infringed on rival Apple Inc's patent for a “bounce-back” feature on earlier models of its popular smartphones.

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Apple now charting App Store iOS fragmentation just like Google's Android — After first announcing that 93 percent of App Store customers are using the latest iOS 6 at WWDC last week, Apple has added the chart to its public developer site, mirroring Google's reporting of Android users in Google Play.

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

Google Mine — Google prepares a new service that's called Google Mine. It's integrated with Google+ and it's a way to keep track of the items you own and share some of them with your circles. Right now, the service is tested internally at Google. — “Google Mine lets you share …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, bizjournals, SocialTimes, Android Community, Pocket-lint, WebProNews and Gizmodo

Tweets: @caseynewton and @jwherrman

Thanks:@arpitnext

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Twitter is Developing Geo-Targeted Ads for Retailers — Twitter Is Playing Catch-Up to Facebook On Location-Based Ads — As soon as the end of the year, Twitter is planning to let brands show promoted tweets to people who open its mobile apps within close range of their stores.

More: Marketing Land, Engadget, TechCrunch, Business Insider, WebProNews and Adotas

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 5 coming to Virgin Mobile next Friday for $549.99 with unlimited plans starting at $30/month — We've just received word that Virgin Mobile will be carrying the iPhone 5 next week on its Beyond Talk plans with unlimited 3G/4G LTE data and messaging starting at $35/month (with $5 discount for auto-payments).

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Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Kickstarter apologizes for failing to remove a seduction guide funded on its site: ‘We were wrong’ — The team behind the creative crowdfunding site Kickstarter has explained why it didn't cancel a project offering backers a step-by-step guide to seducing women.

More: The Kickstarter Blog, PC Magazine, Guardian, The Verge, PandoDaily, AllThingsD and Betabeat. Tweets: @jbrodkin

Nicholas Vinocur / Reuters:

France to seek ban on Amazon bundled discounts, free delivery — (Reuters) - France's Socialist government aims to introduce a law preventing online retailer Amazon from offering both discounts and free delivery for books in France, the culture minister said, arguing this amounts to unfair competition.

More: Business Insider, Businessweek, The Next Web, Mashable and Softpedia News

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

AOL is launching a Google Reader replacement: ‘All your favorite websites, in one place’ — As the end of Google Reader nears, AOL is planning to announce its own alternative to the service: “AOL Reader.” — As you can see on the current landing page for the service, which is public …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo and Mashable. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

First Trailer for Ashton Kutcher's ‘Jobs’ Released — The first trailer for Ashton Kutcher's ‘Jobs’ was released earlier today, giving the wider public its first glimpse at the movie after it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to mixed reviews earlier this year.

More: AllThingsD, Betabeat, VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow and TUAW

Xperia Blog:

Sony hints new SmartWatch incoming next week — All signs are pointing to a new Sony SmartWatch being announced next week at the Mobile Asia Expo 2013 in Shanghai. Sony Mobile has tweeted a few messages with the hashtags #itstime and #MAE13 (the latter standing for Mobile Asia Expo).

More: TechHive, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, SlashGear, Inquirer, Kindle Review, Pocketnow, Engadget and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @sonyxperia

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

UK regulator warns Google to delete Street View snooping data or risk criminal action — After re-opening an investigation into Google's Street View privacy violations last year, UK officials have let Google off with a slap on the wrist. The case related to Google accidentally collecting data …

More: ICO.org.uk, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, PC World, TechEye, Marketing Land, CNET, BBC, AllThingsD, SlashGear, ZDNet, Associated Press, The H Security, The Next Web, Guardian, Softpedia News, Electronista, The Register and Inquirer

Wall Street Journal:

How HTC Lost Its Way With Smartphones — TAIPEI—After product fumbles and two years of share price declines, HTC Corp. Chief Executive Peter Chou knows the inevitable question is coming. — “I know you guys want to ask, will I quit,” Mr. Chou says in an interview at the Taiwanese smartphone …

More: PhoneArena, Android Authority, FierceWireless and The Verge

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Lenovo Miix is a watered-down ThinkPad Tablet 2, starts at $500 (hands-on) — Comb through Lenovo's current product lineup, and you'll find a little something for everyone. A Windows 8 tablet for businesses? Check. How 'bout a consumer model? Yep, that too. But hey, you can never have too many, right?

More: SlashGear and Electronista

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Michael Dell Takes His Buyout Case Directly to Shareholders — Michael Dell has taken his case for the leveraged buyout of the computer company that bears his name directly to shareholders today, filing a presentation slide deck with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission moments ago.

More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune and DealBook

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Soundwave hopes to shake up music discovery on iPhone and Android — Irish startup's app faces competition from Twitter #Music and others, but has Steve Wozniak and Stephen Fry in its corner — Soundwave is the latest music discovery app to be released for smartphones …

More: The Next Web, BBC, Digital Media Wire, Music Ally and Evolver.fm

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