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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, Forbes and memeburn.  Tweets: @nitashatiku
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What's The Difference?  —  Instagram just launched video functionality.  Glorious, 15-second, editable video functionality.  Complete with image stabilization.  —  So what does this mean for Vine?  In the end, the competition should give users plenty to be excited about …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
Tweets: @declanm
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.
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 …
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 …
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?
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Best Buy relaunching trade-in offer for ‘free’ iPhone 5  —  Best Buy says it had the biggest day ever for its four-year old trade-in program on June 1.  That's when the electronics retailer gave customers the opportunity to trade in iPhone 4 and 4S models and get a “free” iPhone 5 in return.
Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:
GitHub Got Silly Rich.  Next Step: ‘Make More Awesome’  —  Four years into its journey as a company, GitHub remained something of an independent.  The startup, which helps companies and developers build software, rebuffed the repeated advances of venture capitalists.
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.
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 …
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
The reason it took so long for HBO to get on Apple TV: cable companies  —  HBO built the Apple TV app in-house for the first time ever  —  To some, Apple TV seems like a laggard.  —  The web TV box that Apple has referred to for years as a “hobby” is only now offering access to shows …
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
New MacBook Airs may suffer from Wi-Fi connectivity issues  —  The 2013 MacBook Air seems to have trouble playing well with others.  —  Jacqui Cheng  —  The latest MacBook Airs may be having some issues with their Wi-Fi connections, per Gizmodo's reading of the Apple discussion forums.
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Betaworks: the startup factory behind ‘Dots’ and Digg keeps evolving  —  With early investments paying off big, Betaworks begins building its second generation of products  —  Betaworks, the New York-based startup factory founded in 2007, is having a good run.

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