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June 24, 2013, 4:50 AM

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Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Aims to Become Newspaper for Mobile Devices — Facebook Inc. is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. — The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tailored …

More: VatorNews, Gizmodo, The Verge, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Engadget, Softpedia News, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Business Insider, The Digital Reader, Rev2.org, App Advice and iClarified. Thanks:@steverubel. See also Mediagazer

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Update: As Microsoft Restructuring Nears, Top Execs Fret Over Their Fate — According to sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is likely unveil his plans to restructure the tech giant to a larger group of senior execs by July 1. — That prospect has many top managers …

More: The Verge, Neowin, LiveSide.net, WMPoweruser, T3 News and eWeek

Jon Matonis / Forbes:

Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From California — Directly following last month's Bitcoin 2013 conference event in San Jose, CA that brought good revenue into the state, California's Department of Financial Institutions decided to issue a cease and desist warning …

More: Wired, CNET, Ars Technica, Bitcoin Magazine, The Hacker News, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, CoinDesk, The Verge and Business Insider

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Aided by WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong to seek asylum in Ecuador — PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong, according to an announcement from the Hong Kong government made Sunday afternoon. With assistance from WikiLeaks, Snowden is said to be seeking asylum in Ecuador.

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Apple notifies iTunes users of $100M in-app purchase settlement details, $5 credit to those inappropriately charged under $30 — Parents of kids who racked up hundreds of even thousands of dollars in in-app purchases can now begin to seek compensation for their bills.

More: CNET, The Verge and App Advice. Thanks:@llsethj

Tracey Lien / Polygon:

The Apple obstacle for serious games — Making a serious game for iOS devices is not as easy as you'd think — When the iPhone launched in 2007, it changed the video game landscape in a way that no one could have predicted. Where gaming was once confined to PCs and consoles …

More: 9to5Mac

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The 2013 MacBook Air Review (13-inch) — Things didn't go exactly as I'd expected at WWDC. I spent the week before the show at Computex, talking to PC OEMs, who had all just launched their Haswell ULT based Ultrabooks. With a couple of exceptions however, the bulk of Haswell ULT systems …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Source: Snapchat Snaps Up $80M From IVP At An $800M Valuation — It's the second day of summer, and Snapchat has raised an $80 million Series B round at an $800 million pre-money valuation, according to a source. The phat Series B round was led by Institutional Venture Partners …

More: The Next Web, Snapchat and Business Insider

Nicole Lee / Engadget:

Life after Kinect: PrimeSense's plans for a post-Microsoft future — When PrimeSense founder Aviad Maizels put a prototype of a 3D sensor on a chip in front of Microsoft in 2006, he had no idea it would lead to the biggest turning point in the Israeli startup's history.

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.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Machinima Wants a Mega-Round. Who Wants to Invest in a YouTube Giant? — With more than two billion YouTube views a month, Machinima is one of the biggest players on the world's biggest video site. — So, how much is that worth? — The people who run the video network are going to find out.

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