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James Galbraith / Macworld:

Intel's Iris graphics boost 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro GPU performance by more than 50% — Benchmarks: Upgraded graphics boost new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro — The first of the new MacBook Pros unveiled on Tuesday are in the Macworld Lab, and the results show that the internal updates …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, I4U News, Ars Technica, Electronista, MacRumors and AppleInsider

Cory Scott / Official LinkedIn Blog:

LinkedIn explains security features behind Intro, its controversial email routing product — The Facts about LinkedIn Intro — This blog post is intended to provide more information and address inaccurate assertions that have been made as a result of a product we launched on Wednesday called LinkedIn Intro.

More: The Next Web, The State of Security, Forbes and WebProNews

Tweets: @digiphile and @jacobian

Jim Newell / Guardian:

Thousands gather in Washington for anti-NSA ‘Stop Watching Us’ rally — Statement from whistleblower Edward Snowden read to crowd featuring groups from left and right of political spectrum — Thousands gathered by the Capitol reflection pool in Washington on Saturday to march, chant …

More: The Hill, CNET, Associated Press, SlashGear and The Raw Story

Tweets: @stopwatchingus and @sinak

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

Social sharing service Buffer has been hacked, pauses all shares temporarily — Users of Buffer — the tool that allows you to schedule your social media across timezones — may need to remove the app after Buffer was hacked today and the service began spreading scam links.

More: Buffer Open, TechCrunch, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Android Central, AllThingsD, Tech Cocktail, Graham Cluley, I4U News, WindowsObserver.com and Mashable

Tweets: @buffer, @joelgascoigne, @joshuatopolsky, @panzer and @joelgascoigne

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Next on Deck for Snapchat and Pinterest: Some Sales Help? — Earlier this week, AllThingsD broke the news of two major fundings of a pair of hot startups: Scrapbooking service Pinterest and messaging service Snapchat. — Pinterest's round of $225 million at a $3.8 billion valuation …

More: Dalton Caldwell and PandoDaily

Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Snapchat looking to raise up to $200M, declined more than $1B bid by Facebook

More: TechCrunch, VatorNews, Business Insider, Mashable, Gigaom, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Forbes, Betabeat, AllThingsD and socalTECH.com

Tweets: @danprimack, @evelynrusli and @dannysullivan

Thomas Gryta / Digits:

AT&T's Plan Revamp Signals the End of Voice Minutes — The days of worrying about minutes ticking away on your cell phone plan are nearly gone. — As of today, AT&T is dropping the availability of its old plans for new smartphone subscribers, and all of the remaining plans include unlimited calling …

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Qualcomm marketing exec Chandrasekher reassigned after calling Apple's 64-bit A7 a “gimmick” — After Apple 64-bit A7 criticism, Qualcomm exec reassigned — The 64-bit Apple A7 chip is now being used in all of Apple's marquee iOS products, including the newest iPhone and iPad.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Global Nerdy, Cult of Mac and Guardian

John McCrank / Reuters:

Exclusive: Aiming to avoid Facebook chaos, NYSE runs Twitter IPO test — (Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange on Saturday did a test run of Twitter's highly anticipated market debut, as it seeks to avoid the types of problems that plagued Facebook's initial public offering on rival Nasdaq.

More: The Atlantic Wire

Sanjay Bhatt / The Seattle Times:

Amazon's plans for spherical building in downtown Seattle approved by city design panel — Amazon's bubble building gets OK from design panel — A city panel on Tuesday signed off on Amazon.com's design for a five-story office building formed by three intersecting spheres …

More: GeekWire, AllThingsD, Business Insider, TechSpot, The Verge, SlashGear and Gizmodo

John Knefel / Rolling Stone:

Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters — Promotional materials for private spy companies show that mass surveillance technology is being sold to police departments as a way to monitor dissent — The documents leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …

More: Beyond Search

Bloomberg:

Apple, Google Must Face Group Antitrust Hiring Lawsuit — Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and two other Silicon Valley companies must face a group lawsuit representing more than 64,000 technical employees claiming their incomes were held down by the companies' agreements not to recruit one another's workers.

More: San Francisco Chronicle, The Verge, Electronista, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Mercury News, iClarified, AppleInsider, The Register and bizjournals

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon Publishing reportedly retreating in NYC. Thank (or blame) Barnes & Noble — When Amazon Publishing launched its general trade imprint in New York in 2011, the goal was to go head-to-head with the big traditional publishers here. The company announced in May of that year …

More: I4U News, TeleRead, CNET, Businessweek, New York Times and GeekWire. See also Mediagazer

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