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Kelli B. Grant / CNBC:

Apple's iPhone trade-in program to add consumer choice — Apple is poised to start offering an in-store trade-in program, but consumers already have plenty of options to turn their old iPhone into cash—enough, in some cases, to get their next one for free.

More: Forbes, Washington Post, Wired, SiliconBeat, Macworld, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe and SlashGear

@cnbc:

BREAKING: Apple tells @jonfortt that $AAPL's trade-in program to roll out nationwide today; customer must leave store with new contract.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple aims for convenience over value as competing iPhone trade-in firms continue to offer better deals

More: The Atlantic Wire and MacStories. Thanks:@markgurman

Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Microsoft and Google to sue government over transparency — Summary: Negotiations between big tech companies and the government to disclose their cooperation have broken down. Things may change today. — In a blog entry by Microsoft General Counsel & Executive Vice President …

Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs:

Standing Together for Greater Transparency — General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart. But today our two companies stand together.

More: Digits, The Verge, BGR, GeekWire, TechCrunch, PC World and WindowsITPro

Tweets: @iamjaygreene and @froomkin

Brian Fung / The Switch:

Obama's intelligence czar vows to release his own transparency report — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will begin releasing annual reports about the National Security Agency's surveillance activity in the coming months, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has confirmed.

More: IC ON THE RECORD, The Atlantic Wire, CNET, Gizmodo, Hillicon Valley, GigaOM, Softpedia News, The Verge, Politico, PC World, Techdirt and WebProNews

Tweets: @jameeljaffer, @b_fung and @digiphile

Patrick Gray / Wired:

Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance — Everyone assumes that technology companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google don't care that their customers are being spied on. I don't believe that's true. — On the very day the media dropped detailed documents …

More: SiliconBeat. Tweets: @jilliancyork and @dangillmor

Washington Post:

NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks

Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

The NSA has its own team of elite hackers

More: Softpedia News, SlashGear, TechCrunch and The Daily Caller

Tweets: @percival, @vinceinthebay, @virusbtn and @csoghoian

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray to Leave Company — Twitter's free speech defender is leaving the nest. — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's general counsel and chief navigator of its thorny digital First Amendment issues, is departing the company.

More: bricoleur, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Betabeat, GigaOM, TechCrunch and Digits

Tweets: @vijaya, @mcandrew, @reckless, @sg, @mikeisaac and @trevortimm

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Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Nokia unveils its connected car platform: Here Auto — After years of being the auto industry's mapmaker, Nokia on Friday announced its intention to become a much bigger technological force in the vehicle. Nokia took the wraps off of Here Auto, an embedded infotainment and connected car system …

More: Nokia Conversations, Nokia, Businessweek, Engadget, TechHive, Nokia Conversations, VentureBeat, Gearburn, The Next Web, BetaNews, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, Crave, Benzinga, ZDNet, Electronista and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @heremaps

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Forget 1TB, China's Tencent is giving away 10TB worth of free cloud storage — Yesterday we reported that Chinese tech giants Baidu and Qihoo 360 are currently courting users with 1TB of free space, putting the free space given by Dropbox, Box and Microsoft to shame.

More: Gizmodo, Geek.com, Engadget, memeburn and Softpedia News. Tweets: @cstromme

Bloomberg:

Carl Icahn Increases Nuance Stake, May Seek Board Seat — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn boosted his stake in Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN) and may seek to put a representative on the board of the speech-recognition software maker. — Funds controlled by Icahn, including Icahn Partners LP …

More: ZDNet

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft makes latest Surface price cuts permanent — Summary: Microsoft is cutting prices on Surface Pro, Surface RT and touch covers and making those cuts permanent, rather than promotional. — Microsoft has made previously temporary price-cut promotions for its Surface devices permanent.

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

More Galaxy Gear details leak: 10 hour battery life, two storage options — We've already heard most of the details on Samsung's smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, but there's still room (and time) for some more information. The latest leaks from AmongTech confirm what our sources have told us but with the addition of a few more tidibts.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Screenshots of Samsung's ‘Galaxy Gear’ smartwatch companion app leak ahead of Sept. 4 unveiling

More: The Verge, ReadWrite, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, Sammy Hub, Ubergizmo, Android Beat, Mashable, Pocket-lint, pocketnow.com, Android Police, Fone Arena, IntoMobile and Gizmodo

Tweets: @evleaks and @charlesarthur

Casey Newton / The Verge:

New faces of Android: the inside story of Google's management shuffle — With Andy Rubin and Hugo Barra out, who's next up to lead Google's biggest platform? — One big loss at the world's most popular smartphone platform has been followed by another. Five months after Android founder Andy Rubin left …

More: AllThingsD. Tweets: @caseynewton

Dan Farber / CNET:

A vote for Bill Gates as interim Microsoft CEO — “There is no clear candidate with the visionary skills to turn company around other than Bill Gates,” says Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. — The evaluations of Steve Ballmer's 33 years at Microsoft are winding down …

More: Inquirer, X-bit labs, bizjournals, GeekWire, Business Insider, Computerworld, ValueWalk and TechCrunch

Harry Brignull / The Verge:

Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you — These carefully crafted elements are built to misdirect and confuse — Harry Brignull is a London, UK-based independent user experience designer with a PhD in cognitive science. He is also the founder of Dark Patterns …

More: Softpedia News and larry borsato. Tweets: @mickeleh, @gt and @skybondsor

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