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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 …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, 8.0 and 7.0 Coming To The U.S. July 7 For $399, $299 And $199  —  Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 line has been official for a little while now, but U.S. availability and pricing was up in the air until today.  The relatively cheap tablets are going to be $199 …
Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:
Siri takes initiative to learn how to pronounce names in iOS 7  —  When Siri first launched, many users found lots of names were pronounced incorrectly and couldn't do much beyond adding phonetic spellings manually for each contact.  With iOS 7, it appears that Siri can now take initiative for learning proper pronunciations.
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.
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 …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Duck Duck Go's Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search  —  Look out, Google!  Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days.  Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program allows …
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: Medicine That Monitors You  —  SAN FRANCISCO — They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin.  But if your physician writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant future, you might hear a new twist on an old cliché …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Microsoft Pumps $700 Million Into Iowa Data Center  —  The mysterious company behind the $700 million “Project Mountain” data center in Des Moines, Iowa, finally has a name.  And it's not Apple or Amazon.  —  It's Microsoft.  —  Late on Friday, the Iowa Economic Development Authority …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
New Venture Focuses on Science of Deal, Not Art of the Deal  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Here is how the venture capital game used to be played around here:  —  A friend calls a friend who knows a guy.  A meeting is taken.  Wine is drunk (at, say, Madera lounge in Menlo Park).  A business plan?

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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Apple TV relies on a few tentpole titles to draw audiences, like HBO did in the past, while Netflix uses its catalog size and algorithms to keep viewers engaged

Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega was fired while working on a feature on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories

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