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Reuters:

Venezuela's Maduro offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden — (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday he had decided to offer asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has petitioned several countries to avoid capture by Washington.

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Andrew Leonard / Salon:

AdBlock Plus lets some advertisers pay to play — The hugely popular browser extension charges a fee from big advertisers such as Google to let some ads go through — If you use AdBlock Plus to keep your Web browsing experiencing free of annoying clutter, this is the kind of tweet that might grab your attention:

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Eric Mack / CNET:

Moto X not on agenda for upcoming Google event, says source — A popular podcaster claims to have received a personal invite to an exclusive event from Motorola's Guy Kawasaki. — See any hidden messages here? — Despite speculation that Google could be planning to reveal the Moto X …

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Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint:

Google sends invites to 11 July press event - subtly hints at Moto X unveiling in ad?

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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Amazon and Barnes & Noble slash prices on tablets in Europe — Consumers in Europe are getting better deals on tablets this week, as both Amazon and Barnes & Noble dropped prices on their devices. — Barnes & Noble, which sells Nook products only in the U.K. and not the rest of Europe …

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

FCC officially approves Softbank buyout of Sprint and Sprint buyout of ClearWire — As previously rumored, the FCC has officially approved Softbank's purchase of Sprint and, furthermore, Sprint's purchase of the rest of ClearWire. Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and commissioner Ajit Pai …

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Charles Arthur / Guardian:

European watchdogs order Google to rewrite privacy policy or face legal action — European watchdogs threaten tech company with legal action over 2012 policy which ‘violates commitment to transparency’ — Privacy watchdogs in the UK, Germany and Italy have told Google to rewrite …

Andrew Webster / The Verge:

BBC to end 3D TV experiment with ‘Doctor Who’ special later this year — For the past two years the BBC has been experimenting with 3D television, but the technology hasn't quite caught on the way the corporation would've hoped. Because of this, 3D programming will be put on hiatus at the end of this year …

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Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Glass Boutique app store, MP3 player, Lock-screen & more revealed — Google's recent XE7 update for its Glass Explorer Edition already shows signs of an unactivated locking system for the wearable, as well as a “Boutique” app store and media player. The official changes in XE7 include a web browser …

More: Engadget, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, AndroidHeadlines.com, AndroidOS.in, TechCrunch, Android Beat, Softpedia News and SelfScreens. Thanks:@c_davies

Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:

Want to Listen to Jay-Z's New Album? Get Ready to Spam Your Friends — Music critics get paid for their unusual insights into songs and albums. This can mean pointing out something in the rhythm or timbre of a song that we might have missed. As musicians experiment with using mobile apps as albums …

More: New York Times, AppleInsider, GigaOM, TorrentFreak, Ars Technica, BBC, Daring Fireball, CNET, VentureBeat and The Verge

Cody Toombs / Android Police:

Falcon Pro Updates To v2.0.4 Outside Of The Play Store, Now Supports A Way To Blatantly Skirt Twitter's Token Limit — Falcon Pro users have had a front-row seat to quite a bit of drama over the last few months. The events started when the app struck its 100,000 user token limit …

More: Joaquim Verges, ZDNet, The Verge, Techie Buzz and Android Beat

Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:

Michael Dell, Silver Lake Said to Rule Out Raising Offer — Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management LLC won't sweeten their $24.4 billion offer to take Dell Inc. (DELL) private, people with direct knowledge of the situation said. — Dell and Silver Lake are ruling out an increase …

More: ZDNet and DealBook

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

‘Restore The 4th’ galvanizes over 100 nation-wide protests against NSA, PRISM, and government spying — “Stop the surveillance! Restore the fourth amendment!” — It's the largest online protest since SOPA. And perhaps an even larger offline protest, as protestors galvanized by the Restore …

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