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Washington Post:

U.S. spy network's successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary — U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats …

More: The Verge, Techdirt and Boing Boing

Tweets: @gregorydjohnsen, @kgosztola, @nycjim, @granick, @declanm, @laughingstoic, @declanm, @yahoo and @declanm

Washington Post:

Inside the 2013 U.S. intelligence ‘black budget’ — The pages in this document appear in the summary of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's multivolume FY 2013 Congressional Budget Justification — the U.S. intelligence community's top-secret “black budget.”

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @declanm

AllThingsD:

Android's Hugo Barra Departs Google for China's Xiaomi — One of Google's top Android executives is leaving the company. — Hugo Barra, whose official title is vice president of product management for Android, has been one of the more public faces of the mobile operating system …

Hugo Barra / Google+:

A new Android chapter — After nearly 5½ years at Google and almost 3 years as a member of the Android team — the most amazing group of people I've ever worked with in my life — I have decided to start a new career chapter. In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China …

More: The Register, Marketing Land, Washington Post, Inquirer, Business Insider, PC Magazine, GadgeTell, SiliconANGLE, BBC, Geek.com, Digital Trends, ZDNet, TechSpot, FierceMobileContent News, MobileBurn.com, Ubergizmo, BGR India, Guardian, Mashable and SlashGear

Tweets: @xiaomichina and @xiaomichina

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle

More: PC Pro, Business Insider and Android Beat. Tweets: @fromedome

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple begins training support staff on iOS 7 & iTunes Radio, preparing for customer surprise — Apple has started training its AppleCare technical support staff on the changes and feature-set of iOS 7, according to multiple AppleCare employees. These people say that training began today …

More: MacRumors, MacNN, ValueWalk, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile and iClarified. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@jordankahn

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Guess who's advising Box: Ex-Microsoft exec Sinofsky helping Levie and team — Like many modern relationships, this one started with a Facebook message. — Steven Sinofsky and Box CEO Aaron Levie — That was how Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, connected with Steven Sinofsky after hearing …

More: The Box Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web and GigaOM

Tweets: @theromit, @stevesi and @caseynewton

Thanks:@johnhcook

Leo Kelion / BBC:

Skype confirms 3D video calls are under development — Skype said that limitations with current 3D technologies had stopped it launching the feature — Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls. — The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype's tenth anniversary.

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

Facebook forced to clarify how it's using your data for ads — In proposed terms of service, the social network illustrates how member data is used as a part of Sponsored Stories — because a court ordered it do so. — Facebook is making changes to the two key documents that govern …

More: AllThingsD, Facebook, TechCrunch, Engadget and The Next Web

Tweets: @dangillmor and @waltmossberg

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Foursquare Launches New “Passive” Tip Feature for Phones — Earlier this year, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley raised $41 million, and promised to use that money “to do the things we want to do.” — Today he's giving people a glimpse of what that looks like: A new feature that will allow …

More: Foursquare Blog, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, Betabeat, Marketing Land, NYT Bits, Fast Company, About Foursquare, Engadget and All Points Blog

Tweets: @jwherrman, @pkafka and @pkafka

Thanks:@mattlynley

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Sharpens Its Flickr iOS App With Enhanced Filters, More Camera Tools; Makes Pro Tools Free — Yahoo has just released a significant new update for its Flickr photo app for iOS, a further sign of how it wants to be not just where you go to store and view pictures, but where you create them as well.

More: Flickr Blog, NYT Bits, The Verge, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Verge, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, PetaPixel, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, TUAW, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks and CNET

Wall Street Journal:

Sales of BlackBerry's Q10 Keyboard Phone Fall Flat — Carrier Executives and Retailers Report Dismal Sales and Returns — When BlackBerry Ltd. Chief Executive Thorsten Heins was asked why he decided to start selling the company's new keyboard-equipped smartphone months after a new touch-screen device …

More: BGR, GigaOM, The Verge, ZDNet, ValueWalk, Digital Trends, InvestorPlace and I4U News

Wall Street Journal:

Verizon and Vodafone Rekindle Talks on $100 Billion-Plus Deal

More: Bloomberg, VentureBeat, DealBook, BGR, GigaOM, Reuters, AllThingsD, Reuters, DSLreports, Digits, The Switch, The Next Web, ZDNet, The Register, ValueWalk, SlashGear, CrackBerry.com and FierceWireless. Tweets: @dkberman. See also Mediagazer

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Why Twitter's new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO — No one in Silicon Valley has any doubt that San Francisco-based Twitter is on a road to a public offering. Given its current valuation — estimated at around or over $10 billion — and the amount of money it has raised …

More: Digital Trends, Slate, The Atlantic Wire, Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, AllTwitter, Business Insider, CNET, Engadget, The Equity Kicker, VatorNews, I4U News, memeburn, Softpedia News, SocialTimes, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com and TUAW

Tweets: @anildash, @stop, @hunterwalk, @jamesmanning4, @stephenfleming, @mparekh and @moesch

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Text-based bug that crashes apps in OS X 10.8 & iOS 6 discovered, fixed in OS X 10.9 and iOS 7 — An exploit publicly announced yesterday (picture of source page available here - won't force a crash) shows how a string of Arabic characters can crash applications in OS X 10.8 and iOS 6.

More: Ars Technica, BGR, TechCrunch and MacRumors

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon's Push to the Cloud Adds to Server-Market Woes — To understand the challenges facing makers of server systems, look to health-care staffing firm Schumacher Group. — The Lafayette, La., company, has been shifting a growing proportion of its computing chores to computers operated …

Tweets: @shiraovide

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

The ‘Other’ Server Makers Are Gaining Ground

More: Forbes, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE and eWeek. Tweets: @qhardy

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Facebook spam: a $200m business in links alone — Italian researchers uncover price lists for posting third-party links to Facebook fan pages - and calculate that they earn substantial amounts for most popular ones — Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people …

More: BGR, Marketing Land, Forbes, ValueWalk, SiliconBeat, Help Net Security, I4U News and memeburn

Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

Here's how one hacker is waging war on the Syrian government — As President Obama weighed U.S. air strikes in Syria this week, a lone American hacker was waging his own attack on the Syrian government. He works a white-collar job in the United States by day, while at night he's …

More: The Verge and Washington Post. Tweets: @binarybits

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

U.S. Losing Ground In Mobile App Market — If mobile apps are the post-PC era's software industry, the U.S. may be losing its edge. According to new findings mobile analytics firm Flurry released this morning, the U.S. isn't leading in the creation of mobile applications …

More: The Flurry Blog, GigaOM, VentureBeat and bizjournals. Thanks:@flurrymobile

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Amazon launches Mexico Kindle Store with 70,000 eBooks in Spanish — Amazon has launched its ‘Mexico Kindle Store’ in a widening of its online eBook retail platform in a bid to attract ever more customers. — From today, the Mexico Kindle Store will offer more than two million eBooks …

More: Amazon.com, GigaOM, The Verge, BetaNews, Engadget and Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer

Jonathan Marino / TheStreet.com:

Twitter Sets Up Revenue Streams Prior to IPO #ftw — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Twitter is trying to assure that it doesn't repeat the mistakes of rival social media company Facebook (FB), which took 15 months to catch up to what proved to be an overinflated float price.

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