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June 27, 2013, 5:15 PM

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Guardian:

NSA collected Americans' email records in bulk for two years under Obama — • Secret program launched by Bush continued ‘until 2011’ — • Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days — • Current NSA programs still mine US internet metadata

More: Techdirt, The Verge, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Atlantic Wire, The Daily Caller, VentureBeat, Forbes, Business Insider, Wonkblog and RT

Tweets: @attackerman, @davidkenner and @mat

Guardian:

How the NSA is still harvesting your online data — Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating ‘one trillion records processed’ — A review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities …

Tweets: @ethanz and @jeffjarvis

Facebook Engineering / Facebook:

Introducing the Facebook for Android Beta Testing Program — Android's openness, reach, and diversity create enormous opportunities for developers. At Facebook, we've been able to utilize Android's flexibility to innovate in ways that aren't possible on other platforms, like building the first version of Home.

More: PC Magazine, Inside Facebook, SlashGear and Mashable

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Facebook announces Beta Program for its main Android app, ironically uses Google Groups — In a meeting with journalists today, Facebook announced it's offering a Beta Program for its app on Android, allowing users to test upcoming versions. The first beta will be available today.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Computerworld, GigaOM, CNET, AllThingsD, Engadget, VentureBeat, Macgasm, Pocketnow, Gizmodo and WebProNews

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI — On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport.

More: The Verge and Techdirt. Tweets: @mlcalderone. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Leaked Details Of Facebook's New Chat Rooms Feature — Facebook has built a new feature codenamed “Host Chat” that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I've contacted Facebook and it confirms it has begun testing this feature in the wild.

More: AllFacebook, Gizmodo, Macgasm and BestTechie

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Can't Add Galaxy S4 to Samsung Patent Lawsuit — Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost its bid in a lawsuit to add Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it alleges to infringe its patents. — The decision yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Yahoo News Gets A Makeover, But The Bigger Improvements Are Under The Hood — A little over a month after Yahoo partnered with Twitter to beef up its homepage news feed with relevant tweets from news organizations, the company is today announcing a major makeover for one of its flagship properties, Yahoo News.

More: Yahoo!, AllThingsD, The Next Web and BetaNews. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Personal Assistant App Donna Goes Live, With Better Battery Performance And Instant Uber Requests — Personal assistant app Donna is ready to help simplify users' lives, and is being launched on the Apple App Store today to do just that. With the general release also comes a few new features …

More: The Next Web, BestTechie, Inc.com, GigaOM and Valleywag

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Windows Azure Web Sites, Mobile Services Now Generally Available — Microsoft has announced general availability of Windows Azure Web Sites and Mobile Service, accentuating the emphasis on development using the Azure cloud service. — According to Microsoft, Windows Azure Web Sites allows customers …

More: MSDN Blogs, ZDNet, GeekWire, ReadWrite, TechNet Blogs and ScottGu's Blog

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Microsoft: Azure powers 299M Skype users, 50M Office Web Apps users, stores 8.5T objects

Casey Newton / The Verge:

First clues emerge about Jelly, Twitter co-founder's mysterious new startup — On April 1st, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone posed a question on a company blog: “What is Jelly?” The answer, he said, is a new company and product named after the jellyfish. Unmentioned in the post is that Jelly …

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Square Poaches Facebook Ad Product Director Gokul Rajaram to Lead Product Engineering — Square has hired Gokul Rajaram, Facebook's director of ad products, as its product engineering lead, the company announced today. — Rajaram will oversee software development for the company's point-of-sale system …

More: squareup.com, TechCrunch, CNET, TechCrunch, AllFacebook, The Next Web, Digits, AdExchanger, Business Insider and ZDNet

Tweets: @gerryshih and @pkafka

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Verizon wraps up LTE rollout; plans all-VoIP phone launch for late 2014 — Verizon Wireless's LTE juggernaut has hit its 500th market, leading the carrier to declare on Thursday its rollout is “substantially complete.” Verizon's 4G network now covers 298 million people and covers 95 percent of the U.S. population.

More: Verizon Wireless, CNET, The Verge, DSLreports, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, Neowin, dailywireless.org, Gotta Be Mobile, Light Reading and VoIP Watch

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Twitter #Music for iOS updated with genres, five new charts, and in-app Rdio authentication — Twitter today released the first update to its Twitter #Music app for iOS. You can grab the new version now directly from Apple's App Store. — The biggest addition is undoubtedly genres …

More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, CNET, 9to5Mac and Engadget

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet — Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors. — The company, which has been in stealth mode since …

More: AllThingsD, Business Insider, Valleywag, ReadWrite, Forbes, GigaOM, Betabeat, VentureBeat, ZDNet, NYT Bits, Digits, Fortune, PE Hub Blog, Mashable and CNET. Tweets: @om

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Adobe Acquires Conversational Marketing Platform Neolane For $600M In Cash To Bolster Its Marketing Cloud — Adobe today announced that it has acquired Neolane, a conversation marketing company with an annual revenue of just under $60 million, in a transaction that's worth $600 million in cash.

More: AllThingsD and ZDNet

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures — I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let's start with the fund. — We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million) …

More: TechCrunch, Forbes, The Next Web, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Domain Name Wire, PE Hub Blog, PandoDaily and AllThingsD. Thanks:@msuster

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google Now comes closer to Chrome, shares TV show info — The Android version of Google's notification system can reveal background about TV you're watching, and Google is wiring Now up to Chrome, too. — Chrome prompts users if they want to receive Google Now updates through their browser.

More: Softpedia News, 9to5Google and WebProNews

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google will remove all Blogger sites that monetize adult content, from June 30 — Google sent an email to Blogger users today warning them that their site will be removed at the end of the month if they do not remove all adverts and links to external sites hosting adult content.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, Macgasm, 9to5Google, Softpedia News and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Air attack: Aereo CEO talks up his tech, prepares Chicago launch — Armed with his DVRs and tiny antennas, Aereo says the shift in TV has begun — Chet Kanojia, Aereo's founder and CEO, strolls past the rows and rows of DVRs, TV antennas, and transcoders, and smiles when he recalls …

More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Engadget, Variety, The Next Web and GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Kickstarter Allowing Canada-Based Projects Beginning This Summer — Kickstarter just announced via its Twitter account that it will be opening up its crowdfunding platform for Canada-based projects as of “later this summer.” Thus far, that's as specific as the company is getting …

More: Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, Polygon, Joystiq and WebProNews

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

TouchCast Wants You to Watch Web Video With Your Fingers — The problem with most Web video startups is that you've seen them before. Another compilation of cheap clips posing as the next big cable channel. Another solution for nonexistent “discovery” problems. Another “Instagram for video” that won't be.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Forbes and Adweek

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App — Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the Digg iOS app. An Android app is expected to make its debut in the next three to four weeks.

More: Ars Technica, iMore, CNET, App Advice, The Next Web, SlashGear, BestTechie, Lifehacker, The Digital Reader, MobileSyrup.com, TUAW, I4U News, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog and PhoneArena. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

Google Behavior Risks Banning Order If Talks With EU Fail — Google Inc. (GOOG) risks a ban of some of its actions if settlement talks with the European Union fail to solve competition concerns, the EU's antitrust chief said today. — If negotiations don't succeed, “there is a tougher way to handle it …

More: ZDNet

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