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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 …

More: The Verge, NYT Bits, AllThingsD, Engadget, CNET, Business Insider, ZDNet, GigaOM, Betabeat, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Jewish Press, BGR, 9to5Google, WebProNews, App Advice, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint and iClarified

Tweets: @jyarow and @danprimack

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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: Computerworld, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Wall Street Journal, BGR India, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, VG247, LiveSide.net, gameinformer.com, Polygon, The Seattle Times, Engadget and GamesIndustry International

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 …

More: Boston Herald, CNET, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, Patently Apple, iClarified, BostInno and Cult of Mac

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: 25hoursaday.com, GigaOM, TechCrunch and Forbes

Tweets: @theromit, @davewiner, @waxpancake and @panzer

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Alex Kantrowitz / Forbes:

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

Official Google Reader Blog:

A final farewell

More: SiliconANGLE, Building Feedly, memeburn, GSMArena Blog, TechnoBuffalo, eWeek, Wonkblog and BuzzFeed

Tweets: @tcarmody and @edbott

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google Alerts Drops RSS Delivery Option

More: ZDNet, Google Operating System and TechLifeWeb

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, SiliconBeat, Forbes, Business Insider, Venture Capital Dispatch, WebProNews, Valleywag and Softpedia News. Tweets: @wsjcorpintel

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NSA spying — Summary: Germany is one of the most privacy conscious nations in the world, with data and privacy laws stronger than any other in the EU. And amid the NSA spying scandal, the country's top security chief has warned users to simply avoid U.S. companies.

More: Associated Press, GigaOM, Digits, ReadWrite, Softpedia News and GamePolitics blogs

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, Engadget, iPhone and MacNN

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: Engadget, DSLreports and iClarified. Tweets: @blackplans

AppleInsider:

Apple now No. 1 in customer satisfaction on Samsung's home turf of South Korea — Apple's products are renowned around the world for quality, but now the company's iPhone has achieved yet another milestone: it has taken the top spot for customer satisfaction in South Korea the home country of Apple's chief rival, Samsung.

More: Examiner, 9to5Mac, Electronista, memeburn, Ubergizmo and iDownloadBlog.com

Michal Conger / Washington Examiner:

State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook ‘likes’ — State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook “likes,” prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was “buying fans” in social media, the agency's inspector general says.

More: PC Magazine, Foreign Policy, Gawker, BostInno, NationalJournal.com, Forbes and Gizmodo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Will Soon Start Showing Targeted Ads Based On User Account Information — 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 “useful” by matching ads more closely to users on Twitter.

More: Twitter Blog and The Next Web

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Moto X will not be a Droid on Verizon — The new flagship stands alone, but the Droid lives on — Motorola's forthcoming Moto X phone will not be a Droid device on Verizon, multiple sources tell The Verge. The change marks a sharp inflection point in the tight relationship between the two companies …

More: Examiner, eWeek, TechnoBuffalo, Android Geeks, PhoneArena, AndroidHeadlines.com and IntoMobile

John McDermott / AdAge:

Motorola Debuts its First Ad for Upcoming Moto X Smartphone

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

EE DoubleSpeed LTE goes live July 4; 802.11ac router, Mobile Payments, more — UK 4G carrier EE has revealed its latest devices, including an 802.11ac router for EE's fiber, as well as detailing its shared 4G plans and double-speed roll-out. EE DoubleSpeed will go live on July 4th …

More: Examiner, BetaNews, ZDNet, Guardian, GigaOM, Engadget, Telegraph, Crave, Inquirer and Bloomberg. Tweets: @benedictevans

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

F.C.C. Is Told Verizon Underpaid Data Refunds — WASHINGTON — An independent telecommunications lawyer filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, claiming that Verizon Wireless had vastly understated the amount it collected from false data charges on customer bills …

More: DSLreports and FierceWireless

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Near Time Warner Cable Deal for TV Programs — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is nearing a deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) to give subscribers of the cable television service access to channels via Apple TV, people with knowledge of the negotiations said.

More: PC Magazine, Businessweek, The Register, Business Insider, Hillicon Valley, T3 News, InvestorPlace, AppleTell, Softpedia News, I4U News, WebProNews, Light Reading, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Quartz and The Mac Observer. See also Mediagazer

Chris Brook / Threatpost:

Skype Vulnerability Can Lead to Android Lockscreen Bypass — A vulnerability in Skype's Android application could enable an attacker to bypass the lockscreen on some Android phones, giving them full access to the device if it's in their possession. — According to Pulser …

More: SiliconANGLE, Full Disclosure, InfoWorld, IntoMobile, Softpedia News and TechNewsDaily.com

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

BeachMint board ousts founders, company returns $20 million to investors — The long, slow unraveling of Los Angeles ecommerce startup BeachMint appears to have come to an end. Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation tell PandoDaily that the company's co-founders …

More: Business Insider

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires former YSL CEO Paul Deneve to work on special projects under Tim Cook — Confirming a claim from earlier today, Bloomberg's Adam Satariano reports that Apple has confirmed the hire of former Yves Saint Laurent CEO Paul Deneve. According to Apple, Deneve will report to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

More: Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Reuters, AllThingsD, TechHive, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, CNET, App Advice, TUAW, Macgasm, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, Business Insider and The Next Web

Tweets: @satariano, @levie and @reneritchie

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Apple's decision to hire fashion exec for “special projects” could boost its wearable computing efforts

More: Vogue.com UK, iPhone Hacks, iMore and GeekWire

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:

Softbank Bid for Sprint Said to Win Majority FCC Support — SoftBank Corp. (9984)'s $21.6 billion bid for mobile carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) won the support it needs from the last U.S. regulatory body reviewing the transaction, said people familiar with the matter.

More: Hillicon Valley, VentureBeat, DSLreports, The Verge, The Mac Observer, GeekWire, I4U News, Electronista, CNET and Engadget

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