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June 22, 2013, 9:35 PM

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Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google Confirms Antitrust Review of Waze Deal  —  Google on Saturday confirmed that it has been contacted by lawyers from the Federal Trade Commission over the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of the mobile navigation company Waze, which closed in mid-June.
Washington Post:
U.S. charges Snowden with espionage  —  Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain …
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 …
Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
How Web mail providers leave door open for NSA surveillance  —  Protecting users' e-mail privacy from the National Security Agency and other intelligence services means using encryption.  But with the exception of Google, few companies do everything they can.  —  One of Google's massive data centers.
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Board Modifies Tim Cook CEO Bonus Stock Award to Be More Performance Based  —  Apple's Board of Directors has elected to modify the award of restricted stock that Tim Cook received after being promoted to CEO in August 2011.  The modification, made at Cook's request …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer's Gmail  —  The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland, according to court records released to the volunteer this week.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
RIP Snapjoy: The Dropbox-Acquired Photo Service Is Shutting Down  —  Snapjoy, the online photo storage service that Dropbox acquired in December, has some bad news today for its users: it is shutting down.  The company noted the information in a blog post, as well as in an email it's currently sending …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
After five years, social music player TuneWiki announces plans to shut down on June 28  —  Social music player TuneWiki has announced it will be shutting down on June 28, 2013.  The five-year-old company wouldn't disclose a reason for its decision, but it did thank its loyal fans for their support.
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Marissa Mayer Has Quietly Cut 1,000 Jobs At Yahoo  —  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has cut 1,000 jobs since she joined the company almost a year ago.  —  According to Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic, she's done it “through a combination of attrition and ramped-up performance management …
Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac:
New iPhone 5S photos unfortunately reveal little new about the device  —  MacRumors has allegedly gotten their hands on photos of what appear to the rear shell and components of the rumored iPhone 5S.  While these photos reveal little new about the device, they provide a closer picture at what we might see from Apple later this year.

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