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Joanna Stern / ABC News:

Moto X Details Revealed: Colors, Wallpapers, Engravings Will Be Customizable at U.S. Factory — Motorola's upcoming phone called the Moto X will allow users to fully customize the look of the device with different colors and an engraving, sources have told ABC News.

More: Engadget, ReadWrite, ZDNet, The Verge, TechCrunch, GigaOM, 9to5Google, Examiner, CNET, The Register, TechHive, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Droid Life, Mobile Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, IntoMobile, Pocketables, AndroidHeadlines.com, eWeek and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @jyarow

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Streaming Entertainment Startup Boxee Acquired By Samsung For Around $30M — Israeli and NYC-based streaming media and entertainment startup Boxee has been acquired by South Korean electronics giant Samsung, we've been told by reliable sources. The Tel Aviv-based startup launched …

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Twitter Shows The Way Forward With Do Not Track — Twitter today announced a new way of targeting advertisements for its users, including a partnership with three online tracking firms: media6degrees (m6d), Chango, and Adara. This new system will display ads based on your behavior and reading habits …

More: The Verge, Mobile Marketing Watch, AdExchanger, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, ClickZ, SocialTimes, AllTwitter, gHacks Technology News, Lifehacker, Boing Boing, Digiday and SlashGear. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Will Soon Start Showing Targeted Ads Based On User Account Information, Browsing History — Another step ahead for Twitter in its bid to step up the pace with advertising on its platform: today the company announced that it would soon start “experimenting” with ways of making ads more …

More: Twitter Blog, AllThingsD, VatorNews, Business Insider, Computerworld, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reuters, VentureBeat, Digits, GigaOM, internetretailer.com, Macgasm, The Next Web, WebProNews and Mashable

Tweets: @robpegoraro and @joshconstine

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Acquires Xobni for Upward of $30 Million (Like ATD Said, Part 2) — Yahoo said it has bought Xobni, as AllThingsD had previously reported it was planning to do. — According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo paid $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tim Cook heralds sweeping iPhone sales push to Apple retail leadership — Apple CEO Tim Cook and his leadership team are moving to implement sweeping changes to the way iPhones are sold and marketed in order to deflect competition from smartphones running Google's Android operating system.

More: iMore, GigaOM, MacRumors, BGR, iClarified and TechnoBuffalo

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Boston University sues Apple over 1997 patent, asks for ban on iPhone sales — How do college students feel about this one? The powers that be at Boston University want a federal court to ban the sale of a wide range of Apple products — including the iPhone 5, the iPad and the MacBook Air …

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Doug Engelbart, American inventor and computing legend, passes away. — Douglas “Doug” Engelbart, a legendary American inventor and computing science icon passed away last night, according to family sources. The news of his passing was shared on Professor David Farber's email list.

More: New York Times, IETF, Mercury News, The Verge, ZDNet, Ars Technica, The Register, The Technology Chronicles, SiliconBeat, Business Insider, Digits, Engadget, CNET, AllThingsD, Robert Scoble, ReadWrite and Boing Boing

Tweets: @computerhistory, @anildash, @mkapor and @waxpancake

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

WordPress.org, Reddit, Mozilla & Others Will Participate In Anti-NSA Web Protests On July 4th — A number of high-profile websites will be taking part in an online protest tomorrow against the National Security Agency (NSA)'s surveillance of online activity and phone calls.

More: CNET, DSLreports, Digits, Hillicon Valley, BBC, Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit and The Boston Globe

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NSA spying

More: Associated Press, ReadWrite, CNET, Softpedia News and GamePolitics blogs

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft CEO Said to Give Bates Mergers Role in Revamp — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is considering a reorganization that would put Skype president Tony Bates in charge of acquisitions and relationships with software developers, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: Ars Technica, Digital Trends, CITEworld, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, BGR India, Joystiq, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Computerworld, Tech Trader Daily, gameinformer.com and Polygon

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

The $50 Million Man: Mattrick Gets Hefty Cash and Stock Package From Zynga, Including $19.3 Million in the First Year — Zynga just filed its 8-K regulatory filing that outlines the compensation it took to attract Microsoft Xbox head Don Mattrick to the troubled social online gaming company as its new CEO …

More: Business Insider, NYT Bits, Reuters, Digits and VG247

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft drops Facebook and Flickr photo integration from Windows 8.1, recommends official apps — One of the selling points of Windows Phone is the tight social integration and ability to pull photos from Facebook into the built-in photo application. Microsoft mimicked this same functionality …

More: BetaNews, AllFacebook, PetaPixel and Engadget

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Vine for iOS gets channels, trending users section, revining, new shooting tools, and protected accounts — Twitter today announced what it says is the biggest update to Vine for iOS yet, adding a slew of new features and fixing multiple issues. You can download the new app now directly from Apple's App Store.

More: Vine, The Verge, BuzzFeed, AppleInsider, CNET, TechCrunch, TechHive, MacRumors, Engadget, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo, GadgeTell, IntoMobile, ReelSEO Video Marketing, TUAW and Apple Fan Site

Mike Dano / FierceWireless:

AT&T prepping sale of customers' anonymous location information and Web, app usage data — AT&T (NYSE:T) said it “may” begin selling anonymous information about its customers' wireless and Wi-Fi locations, U-verse usage, website browsing, mobile application usage and “other information” to other businesses.

More: GigaOM, Forbes, Engadget, DSLreports and iClarified. Tweets: @blackplans

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Veteran VCs Peter Wagner and Gaurav Garg Launch Wing Venture Partners — Last month, when the networking startup Cumulus Networks came out of stealth and announced a Series A investment by a bunch of notable venture capitalists, Peter Wagner, a longtime managing partner at Accel Partners, was one of them.

More: Fortune, Venture Capital Dispatch and ZDNet. Thanks:@ahess247

Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:

How Facebook's IPO Created the Best-Paid County In America … It's not very often that the actions of a single company register in national economic statistics, but Facebook Inc. 's 2012 initial public offering appears to have hit the mark. — The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics …

More: The Atlantic Wire, Forbes, Business Insider, WebProNews and SiliconBeat

Harro Ten Wolde / Reuters:

Deutsche Boerse to launch Cloud Exchange to trade computing power — (Reuters) - German financial markets operator Deutsche Boerse is planning to commoditize computing power with the launch early next year of the world's first independent exchange for trading cloud computing capacity.

More: ITworld

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

USA TV network lands on iOS with new app to watch full show episodes — The NBC-owned USA TV network has launched its own iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch application to bring the USA show viewing experience to the small-screen. The application, like many TV network apps currently on the App Store …

More: TUAW, The Next Web and iPhone

Marc Hochstein / American Banker:

Bitcoin Group to California: You Have No Jurisdiction Over Us — A group that promotes the digital currency Bitcoin has thrown down the gauntlet with regulators, telling California officials that selling the digital currency does not require a state money transmitter license.

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Lockdown — Officially, Google killed Reader because “over the years usage has declined”.1 I believe that statement, especially if API clients weren't considered “usage”, but I don't believe that's the entire reason. — The most common assumption I've seen others cite is that …

More: Anil Dash, 25hoursaday.com, Coyote Tracks, TechCrunch, Co.Labs, Forbes and GigaOM. Tweets: @theromit. See also Mediagazer

Alex Kantrowitz / Forbes:

Google Reader Founder: I Never Would Have Founded Reader Inside Today's Google

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