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August 23, 2013, 8:10 PM

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Microsoft:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months  —  Board of directors initiates succession process; Ballmer remains CEO until successor is named.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months …
ZDNet:
Microsoft's Ballmer on his biggest regret, the next CEO and more  —  Summary: I had 15 minutes today to ask Microsoft's outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer a few questions.  We talked his biggest regrets, his thinking on what's next and more.  Here's Part 1.  —  Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft:
Moving forward  —  Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding his plan to retire.  —  I am writing to let you know that I will retire as CEO of Microsoft within the next 12 months, after a successor is chosen.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Steve Ballmer Just Made $769 Million  —  As difficult as it may have been for Steve Ballmer to announce his plans to retire as CEO of Microsoft within the next year, there's one thing that likely made it a bit easier to stomach — the big spike in his personal wealth that followed.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's next CEO: Who's on the short list?  —  Summary: Microsoft is beginning its search for a successor to CEO Steve Ballmer.  Here's who might be on the internal short list of possible candidates.  —  Microsoft is starting a formal search process for its next CEO …
Don Reisinger / CNET:
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies  —  The material provides the first evidence of a financial relationship between the tech companies and the NSA.  —  The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the costs of major internet companies involved …
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times  —  Surveillance State: Three Ways You're Being Watched  —  Some National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade …
More: The Verge.  Tweets: @ciaspygirl
Amir Efrati / jessica lessin:
Exclusive: Google Designing Its Own Self-Driving Car, Considers ‘Robo Taxi’  —  From left, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, CEO Larry Page, and co-founder Sergey Brin in 2011.  (Credit: Google)  —  Google Inc., which has been working on software to help major automakers build self-driving cars …
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Citing Steve Jobs email, DOJ claims Apple changed in-app purchase to retaliate against Amazon  —  In the Apple ebooks case, the federal government wants to change the way that Apple does business — not just for ebooks, but in all content markets.  —  The DOJ on Friday filed a revised proposed remedy …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Moto X on other carriers and developer editions rolling out “in days”  —  AT&T is now selling the Moto X online and in retail stores, beating other carriers to the punch.  That's about to change.  According to Punit Soni, VP, Product Management at Motorola Mobility, other carrier devices will roll out in days, per his Google+ account.
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
iWork for iCloud beta now open to anyone with an Apple ID  —  First it was available to developers, then a select few who received invitations, and now the beta of iWork for iCloud is available for all.  Apple's made no official announcement, but point your browser to icloud.com …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram's First Acquisition Is Video Sharing App Luma  —  Instagram has just made its first acquisition, buying both the team and technology of Y Combinator company Luma (formerly known as Midnox).  Luma created a video-capture, stabilization and sharing app, which will be shut down soon.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Uber Confirms $258 Million Fundraise  —  It's not like Uber to be quiet.  But after a day without comment, the car-hailing company has now responded to our report yesterday that it raised a pile of cash, based on an official filing that echoed our sleuthing about the deal in July.

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