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Apple's Tim Cook, tech execs meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance — President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.
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| Jonathan Allen / Reuters: |
NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access — The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information.
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| Reuters: |
Exclusive: BlackBerry open to going private, sources say — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is warming up to the possibility of going private, as the smartphone maker battles to revive its fortunes, several sources familiar with the situation said. — Chief Executive Thorsten Heins …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying — “We knew USG would come after us”. That's why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service. It hadn't been told to provide data to the government …
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Thanks:@alex| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Email Company Reportedly Used By Edward Snowden Shuts Down Rather Than Hand Data Over To Feds — When Edward Snowden emailed journalists and activists in July to invite them to a briefing at the Moscow airport during his long stay there, he used the email account “edsnowden@lavabit.com” according to one of the invitees.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Tumblr Had $16.6 Million Left When Yahoo Bought It — In the wake of Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr, there was some chatter about how much runway David Karp would have had if he hadn't sold the company. — Now we know, sort of: Tumblr, which had raised $125 million since 2007, had $16.6 million in cash left when Yahoo bought it.
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| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
Why Google Glass costs $1,500 now and will likely be around $299 later — If the $1,500 price tag for Google Glass is a budget buster for you, don't give up hope just yet. When the wearable gadget arrives on the consumer market it could cost as little as $299 according to Topology Research's Jason Tsai … | Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Apple faces three major legal showdowns Friday — Apple and Samsung continue to their legal squabbles over which company is the innovator and which one is the copycat. (Park Ji-Hwan / AFP/Getty Images / July 27, 2010) — Get your legal scorecard ready.
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| Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
Nexus 7 2 release date UK: Asus confirm 28 August — The Nexus 7 2, or 2nd generation Nexus 7 as it is also known, will launch in the UK on 28 August, Asus has confirmed to Pocket-lint. The UK release date comes just one month after the US launch, but ahead of previous suggestions by retailers in the UK...| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile's John Legere: The most dangerous man in wireless — The CEO has vowed to shake up the status quo — and he's managing to do just that, all while posting T-Mobile's highest customer growth in four years. — T-Mobile CEO John Legere makes several big announcements in New York City during its big press event in July.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Time Warner CEO Says Having Game Of Thrones As ‘Most Pirated’ Is ‘Better Than An Emmy’ — Because it's so popular — and so pirated (in part because you can't view it legally online if you're not an HBO subscriber via cable/satellite) — the question of Game of Thrones and piracy is a story that just never dies.
| Benedict Evans: |
Amazon's profits — The problem with Amazon is not that it doesn't make a profit, but that you don't actually know what the profits are. — On the face of it, this sounds like an absurd statement - it doesn't make any profits. After all, look at this chart - massive revenue growth, zero profit.
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
These Silicon Valley Titans Think You Probably Shouldn't Start a Company — From the ninth-floor offices of Asana — the software startup run by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz — you can see the high rises of downtown San Francisco twinkling in the moonlight, with the Bay Bridge looming beyond.
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New York Times and Inc.com. Tweets: @davemcclure, @mattcohler, @semil and @dehfne. Thanks:@dmoskov
| Jonathan Seff / Macworld: |
Roku app now beams videos from your iOS device to your TV — Roku has moved a step closer to Apple's AirPlay abilities with a cool new trick in the latest version of its iOS app. Play on, Roku. The 2.3 update expands on the “Play on Roku” feature introduced back in September 2012.| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Asus to manufacture Nexus 10 refresh — The largest of Google's three Nexus devices is soon due for a refresh, and it looks like Asus will be the manufacturer this time around. — Google's Nexus program is something of a bidding war in the planning stages.
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Shell Company Related To Cowardly Patent Troll, Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, Forced To Settle Frivolous Lawsuit Against One-Man Business After Law Firm Donates Nearly $200,000 Worth Of Defense — This story will circulate a lot today. I'd like to suggest a more informative …
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