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Justin Osofsky / Facebook Newsroom:

New Tools for Surfacing Conversations on Facebook — If there is something interesting going on, people are talking about it on Facebook. From favorite television shows to sporting events to the latest news; the conversations are happening on Facebook. Last week's kick-off …

More: TechHive, AllFacebook, SiliconANGLE, AllThingsD, Inside Facebook, The Verge, Computerworld, Sociobits.org, We Are Social, The Next Web, BetaNews, WebProNews, Digits, Engadget, memeburn, Mashable, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, The Drum and Softpedia News

Tweets: @socialmia, @evelynrusli, @om and @bijan

Vindu Goel / NYT Bits:

Facebook allows media partners to search public posts, see aggregate, anonymized data on private posts — Facebook Offers New Windows Into Social Conversation — Facebook is releasing two new search tools on Monday designed to give news organizations — and potentially, marketers …

Tweets: @lavrusik, @matthewkeyslive, @bdainton and @newswhip. See also Mediagazer

Spiegel Online:

iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data — The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be particularly secure.

More: CNET, The Register, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, It's a Gadget, iDownloadBlog.com, DSLreports, Financial Post and Errata Security. Tweets: @georgiebc

Peter Sayer / PC World:

Report: UK and US spies have cracked BlackBerry's BES encryption

Juan Forero / Washington Post:

Brazilian TV show says U.S. spied on state-run Petrobras oil firm, cites NSA documents

More: GigaOM, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, WebProNews, Softpedia News and Agence France Presse. Tweets: @fbajak

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

Long-shot bill forbidding NSA backdoors in encryption has renewed attention

More: TechHive

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft holding Surface 2 event on September 23rd in New York City — Microsoft is preparing to launch its next-generation tablets at an event in New York City on September 23rd. The software maker has emailed press invites to the media today, asking them to save the date for a Surface event.

More: AllThingsD, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and Business Insider. Tweets: @tomwarren

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Surface 2: no “RT” branding, Tegra 4, 1080p, possible white model — Surface 2 Details Emerge — Surface RT no more, but still Windows RT on the inside where it counts — Less than a week after the first report about the next generation Surface Pro 2 tablet …

More: ZDNet, ZDNet, Engadget, BGR, The Verge, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, pocketnow.com, The Tech Report and Softpedia News

Mat Smith / Engadget:

New PlayStation Vita coming October 10th: lighter, thinner, more battery life — If it's big enough for a live broadcast (with English translation), it's going to be good, right? Sony has announced a new version of its PS Vita, just weeks after announcing a price-drop across both the US and Europe.

Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg:

Sony Delays New PS4 in Japan to Focus on U.S. Holiday Sales

More: Reuters, CNET, Forbes, IGN, GameSpot, Electronista and Digits

Mat Smith / Engadget:

PS Vita TV is a mini console that brings games and services to your TV, arrives November for around $100 (video)

More: The Verge, Wired, The Next Web, Digits, iMore, Engadget and Cult of Mac

Tweets: @kyleorl and @m4tt

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Windows Unit Gets Fresh Leaders as Phone, PC and Xbox Efforts Move Closer Together — Less than two months after the big “One Microsoft” reorganization plan was announced, more units are starting to learn how the high-level changes will affect their operations. — Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com

More: GeekWire, Reuters, InfoWorld, The Verge, Windows Phone Central, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News, Electronista and MacDailyNews

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Google offers new concessions to avoid fine in EU antitrust case — (Reuters) - Google has offered further concessions aimed at ending a three-year investigation into complaints it was blocking competitors and to avert a possible $5 billion fine, the European Commission said on Monday.

More: Los Angeles Times, ScreenwerkScreenwerk, Inquirer, Associated Press, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Land, Computerworld, TechHive, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Softpedia News, KitGuru, Bloomberg and Electronista

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Opera Launches Coast, A Slick New WebKit-Based iPad Browser — About a year and a half ago, a small team at Opera started working on a new browser for tablets and today, it is launching the result of this project: Opera Coast, a new, almost chrome-less browser for the iPad.

More: Opera, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Inquirer, MacRumors, GigaOM, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, CNET, Softpedia News, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile and MacStories

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Carl Icahn Ends Effort To Take Control of Dell — The last bit of lingering drama 14-month old effort to take the computer company Dell private in a leveraged buyout just came to a close as activist investor Carl Icahn said he would not pursue any further efforts to take control of the company.

More: PR Newswire, CNET, The Register, Tech Trader Daily, DailyFinance.com, The Verge, GigaOM, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Inquirer, PE Hub Blog, Reuters and Forbes

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Instagram will have ads within a year, now has 150 million monthly active users — Instagram Pictures Itself Making Money — Leading the Charge to Woo Advertisers Is Facebook Veteran Emily White — MENLO PARK, Calif.—When Emily White joined Instagram from parent company Facebook Inc. in March …

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google, Yahoo and Facebook urge the US government for permission to release national security requests — Google, Facebook and Yahoo have filed separate motions with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) today, requesting that they are allowed to publicly disclose the number …

More: Facebook, The Official Google Blog, Yahoo! Global Public Policy, Los Angeles Times, CNET, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Washington Post, Business Insider, BBC and Electronista

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Worries That Microsoft Is Growing Too Tricky to Manage — SEATTLE — At a time when many people in business believe the number of products at Microsoft should be getting smaller, it is about to become a lot bigger. — Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset and services operations …

Tweets: @deanemurphy

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Xbox Music gets iOS and Android apps, free web playback; cloud locker to follow — The times they are a-changin' at Microsoft, and we are not just talking about the company's executive leadership: Xbox Music, the company's Spotify-like music subscription service, is launching on iOS and Android Monday …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Launches New Screen App And Viacom Partnership For Lean-Back Tablet And Smartphone Video — Yahoo launched a new mobile application this morning called “Yahoo Screen,” designed for Apple iOS devices, including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The app is meant to serve as a mobile home …

More: Yahoo, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, AllThingsD, Associated Press and Mashable. Tweets: @marissamayer

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