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Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages — • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism — • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch — • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
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| Microsoft: |
Statement from Microsoft About Response to Government Demands for Customer Data — In response to an article in the Guardian on July 11, Microsoft issued the following statement:
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One Microsoft: Company realigns to enable innovation at greater speed, efficiency — Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding changes in the senior leadership team at the company. — Today, we are announcing a far-reaching realignment …
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| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
The Rise of Julie Larson-Green, the Heir Apparent at Microsoft — It remains to be seen whether the Microsoft reorganization announced by CEO Steve Ballmer this morning can rejuvenate the once-mighty software company. But one thing is crystal clear: The reshuffling marks another huge win …
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| Microsoft: |
Transforming Our Company — As the times change, so must our company. — In the 37 years that Microsoft has been helping to improve people's lives by helping them to realize their own potential with technology, we have seen exactly the kind of transformation we had hoped for when we set …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablets, base model to cost $349 — Microsoft is planning to cut the price of its Surface RT tablets. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Surface plans have revealed to The Verge that the price cut could occur as early as next week, with each model being cut by $150.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia 1020: a 41-megapixel Windows Phone available on July 26th for $299.99 at AT&T — After weeks of leaks, Nokia is making its Lumia 1020 handset official on Thursday. The Finnish smartphone maker has just unveiled its latest flagship Windows Phone on stage at an event in New York.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Verizon joins Ubuntu's potential smartphone launch partners — Verizon will help “shape” Ubuntu phone OS, possibly sell the phones. Verizon Wireless today joined Canonical's “Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group (CAG),” meaning the company is exploring smartphones based on Ubuntu.
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
RIAA Wants Infamous File-Sharer to Campaign Against Piracy — Did you hear the one about the world's most infamous music file-sharer being asked to publicly extol the virtues of the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy platform? — The RIAA is suggesting Jammie Thomas-Rasset do just that.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
YouWeb Founder Peter Relan Debuts New Company Building Studio And Accelerator, 9+; Raises $2M In Funding — As we reported a couple of weeks ago, serial entrepreneur Peter Relan is sunsetting his gaming and mobile focused incubator YouWeb, which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint and others.
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Pebble passes 275,000 pre-orders and 1M app downloads, says Gmail and IMAP support coming — Smartwatch maker Pebble has announced passing 275,000 device preorders and 1 million app downloads and is making a renewed commitment to its development platform, promising to help third-party … | Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
FreedomPop Raises Another $5 Million To Help Launch Its Freemium Mobile Phone Service — Freemium wireless internet provider (and soon to be wireless carrier) FreedomPop revealed that it has just locked up another $5 million in funding from existing investors DCM Capital and Mangrove Capital …
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| jessica lessin: |
Andreessen Says Foreign Web Co.'s Could Take Advantage of Prism Fallout — SUN VALLEY, Idaho- Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said in an interview that U.S. Internet companies may lose business to foreign competitors following revelations about Prism, the government data-mining effort.
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| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
PCWorld Exits Print, and the Era of Computer Magazines Ends — The last of the big general-interest PC magazines is no longer a magazine. — By Harry McCracken @harrymccrackenJuly 11, 2013 — The news isn't shocking. In fact, it's sort of a shock it didn't happen several years ago.| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
NSA's Snowden case review focuses on possible access to China espionage files, officials say — A National Security Agency internal review of damage caused by the former contractor Edward Snowden has focused on a particular area of concern: the possibility that he gained access to sensitive files …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
More Moves Abroad for Twitter's Top Brass as Three Execs Head Overseas — Three of Twitter's top execs are moving away from the company's headquarters in San Francisco, charged with overseeing international offices across multiple countries. — The changes, noted in the three executives' Twitter profiles … | The Coinbase Blog: |
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