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August 23, 2013, 5:40 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 …
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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
Bloomberg:
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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