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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, memeburn and New Yorker.  Tweets: @nitashatiku
Kevin Systrom / Instagram Blog:
Introducing Video on Instagram  —  Over the past two and a half years, Instagram has become a community where you can capture and share the world's moments simply and beautifully.  Some moments, however, need more than a static image to come to life.  Until now these stories have been missing from Instagram.
Christopher Mims / Quartz:
It's no accident Facebook made Instagram's new videos exactly as long as a television commercial  —  Facebook is going to get us all watching television ads again.  —  Instagram, the photo-sharing app that Facebook acquired last year, just added the ability to share videos, as well.
Guardian:
Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant  —  Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication  —  • Document one: procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons
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.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Here's Apple's Closing Slide Deck in E-Book Case, and the DOJ's, Too  —  After three weeks of arguments in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the U.S. Department of Justice's e-books price-fixing case against Apple concluded today with final summations.  As part of its presentation …
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.
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 …
Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld:
Oracle's Ellison spills beans on upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans  —  Database 12c.1 will focus on in-memory computing, according to Ellison  —  Oracle hasn't even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow …
More: AllThingsD
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 …
Wired:
Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act  —  The Internet is up for grabs.  —  Foreign countries want to control it.  Military regimes use it to spy, to oppress, and to attack public and private institutions.  ‘Big Content’ sought to censor it and dismantle its architecture.
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.
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.
More: PandoDaily
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:
Intel joins Samsung, Qualcomm in Alliance for Wireless Power  —  Summary: Intel is now part of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) Board of Directors, joining firms including Qualcomm, Samsung and Broadcom.  —  Charlie Osborne  —  The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) has added Intel to its portfolio of members.

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