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June 21, 2013, 5:25 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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Tweets: @levie, @digiphile and @rafat

Facebook Security:

Important Message from Facebook's White Hat Program — At Facebook, we take people's privacy seriously, and we strive to protect people's information to the very best of our ability. We implement many safeguards, hire the brightest engineers and train them to ensure we have only high-quality code behind …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, The Next Web and Engadget. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Facebook Security Bug Exposed Personal Account Information, Emails And Phone Numbers, Six Million Accounts Affected — A Facebook security bug exposed users' personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected six million accounts.

More: CNET

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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

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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.

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.

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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, WebProNews, Business Insider and TechCrunch

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, VatorNews, Mashable, PC Magazine, PandoDaily, AllThingsD and Betabeat. Tweets: @jbrodkin

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, ZDNet, Inc.com, memeburn and Forbes

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

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

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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: AppleInsider, Betabeat, VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, 9to5Mac and Pocketnow

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft debuts Bing Boards, user-created collections of images, videos, and links to complement its algorithms — Microsoft today announced a new experiment called Bing Boards, a “way for passionate people to create highly specialized content” specifically for search.

More: LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, PC World, Engadget and Neowin

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, TechNewsWorld, Businessweek and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

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: The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, TechHive, The Register, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Kindle Review, Engadget, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Electronista and Inquirer. 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 …

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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 and FierceWireless

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?

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