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Mary Jo Foley / 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

More: GigaOM, The Verge, Business Insider, GSM Insider, I4U News, Softpedia News, Digits, TechnoBuffalo, eWeek, Windows Phone Central, BGR, Computerworld, GeekWire, WinBeta, Tech Trader Daily, InfoWorld and CITEworld

Tweets: @inafried, @mattrosoff, @maryjofoley, @fmanjoo and @markgurman

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Ballmer: Why Microsoft doesn't want to be IBM (or Apple) and more — Summary: Microsoft's outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer talks about the CEO succession process, balancing hardware and software and why Microsoft won't ‘just’ be an IBM. — Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer is retiring within the next year.

More: CITEworld, Windows Phone Central, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Digits, Business Insider and Seattle Times blogs

Tweets: @jessicalessin, @mattrosoff and @edbott

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

The Rise and Fall of Windows Mobile, Under Ballmer

More: Digits and Wall Street Journal

Nicholas Thompson / Currency:

Why Steve Ballmer Failed

More: Slate, NYT Bits, New Yorker, Global Nerdy, Network World and Betabeat. Tweets: @tasneemraja

Simon Bisson / CITEworld:

Ballmer is leaving at the right time as the whole IT landscape shifts

More: iClarified. Thanks:@sbisson

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Beyond Ballmer: who will be Microsoft's next CEO?

More: AllThingsD, ABC News and Gizmodo

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

For Ballmer, Resistance Was Futile

More: ABC News and The Verge. Tweets: @harrymccracken, @harrymccracken, @emenietti and @caseynewton

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Steve Ballmer Just Made $769 Million

More: PandoDaily, Fortune, GeekWire, Tech.pinions, Light Reading, Engadget, CNET, ParisLemon, TechCrunch, dailywireless.org, Business Insider and CNET

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 …

More: Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Skift, I4U News, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, BGR, GigaOM, jessica lessin, Valleywag, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, Engadget, The Verge, bizjournals, 9to5Google, Business Insider and ReadWrite

Tweets: @alexia_tsotsis, @markmilian, @amir, @counternotions, @popmechauto, @dannysullivan, @amir, @amir and @jessicalessin

Jennifer Granick / Forbes:

My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander — On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman and I had called the NSA's activities “criminal” …

More: The Switch and emptywheel. Tweets: @vikram_nz and @attackerman. See also Mediagazer

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: emptywheel, The Verge, Softpedia News, Guardian and Techdirt

Tweets: @7im, @johnrlottjr and @ciaspygirl

Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies

Glyn Moody / Techdirt:

Did New Zealand Spooks Tap Into PRISM To Spy On Dotcom?

More: Ars Technica, iTnews.com.au, Public Address, Business Insider, Inquirer and Softpedia News

Tweets: @csoghoian, @jpbarlow and @ioerror

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iFixit:

Motorola Moto X Teardown — What does $12.5 billion dollars buy you nowadays? In Google's case, it buys Motorola, Inc. and all of its designs and patents. Is it what we would have spent the money on? Probably not, but the result of the acquisition is Motorola's first smartphone …

More: Gizmodo, CNET, Android Community, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, Engadget and Ars Technica

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Moto X on other carriers and developer editions rolling out “in days”

More: IntoMobile, The Verge, eWeek, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, PC Advisor, Gotta Be Mobile, pocketnow.com, Engadget, SlashGear, Electronista and Droid Life. Thanks:@kevinctofel

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.

More: Luma, AllThingsD, Engadget, CNET, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, The Next Web, T3 News, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography — On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company. — He had just one meeting to go. — That meeting was a board meeting …

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Acquires Image-Recognition Startup IQ Engines To Improve Flickr Photo Organization & Search — Oh, so you thought Yahoo's acquisition spree was over? Not even close. A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet another company …

More: IQ Engines, The Next Web, I4U News and Softpedia News

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Netflix May Need to Accelerate Its Spending for Original Shows — Binge viewing of original series might end up accelerating expenditures — Binge-viewing may lead to binge-spending at Netflix, which could eventually see the impact in its stock price. — What went unmentioned among …

More: GigaOM. Tweets: @christytanner

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google updates Play policies to ban apps and ads modifying devices, require games use its in-app billing service — Google today sent an email to third-party Android developers regarding a significant change to its Google Play Developer Program Policies. The changes affect both apps and the advertising practices that many apps use.

More: Google Operating System, T3 News, Android Beat, Engadget and TechHive. Tweets: @vijayshekhar. Thanks:@epro

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 …

More: Quartz, Techdirt, TechnoBuffalo, Digits, pocketnow.com, AppleInsider, BGR, Macworld, iMore, Electronista, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, PadGadget, App Advice and Associated Press. Thanks:@om. See also Mediagazer

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

Justice Department scolds Apple while seeking lighter e-book penalties

More: Reuters, AllThingsD, CNET and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Slice, The Shopping Companion Powered By Email Inbox Data, Raises $23M From Rakuten & Others — Slice, the technology startup whose mission is to organize all commerce data by tapping into the information buried in your inbox, has closed on $23 million in Series B funding led by e-commerce giant Rakuten …

More: bizjournals, VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, Pulse 2.0 and silicontap.com

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