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Reform Government Surveillance:

Global Government Surveillance Reform — The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world's governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information. While the undersigned companies understand …

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Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users — Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers' data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama …

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Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:

Facebook, Google, Twitter, and more create the Reform Government Surveillance coalition

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James Ball / Guardian:

Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games — NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life — Read the NSA document Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments

Lorraine Luk / Digits:

China Mobile to Accept iPhone Orders This Week — China Mobile Ltd. plans to take preorders for Apple Inc.'s iPhones from Thursday in Shanghai, according to an advertisement on its website, as the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers moves closer to launching high-speed fourth-generation mobile services in the country.

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Tim Wu / The New Republic:

Binge-viewing was just the beginning. Netflix has a plan to rewire our entire culture — Given all the faces you see glued to computers, tablets, and cell phones, you might think that people watch much less television than they used to. You would be wrong.

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

“Hour of Code” Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From Obama (and the Republicans, Too!) — By now you may have heard about the United States' woeful lack of public coding classes, despite the economy's ever-growing need for technical workers.

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Verizon Confirms EdgeCast Acquisition, Adding Over 6K Customers To Its Content Delivery Business — Verizon is indeed going to acquire EdgeCast Networks, a content delivery network founded in 2008 that has grown to be one of the fastest-growing Internet companies in the world.

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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

Microsoft CEO Search: Stalemate — The Microsoft CEO succession process appears to be stalled. This is a company with immense human, technical, and financial resources; the tech industry is filled with intelligent, energetic, dedicated candidates. What's wrong with the matchmaking process?

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Michael Lee / ZDNet:

Google catches French govt spoofing its domain certificates — Summary: Fraudulent certificates were used in a commercial device to inspect encrypted traffic on a private network. — Michael Lee — France's cyberdefence division, Agence nationale de la sécurité des …

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Klint Finley / Wired:

New website ranks database popularity, shows continued growth for non-relational systems — New Site Tracks the Cracks in Oracle's Empire — Oracle is one of the most successful companies in the history of tech. But like any tech giant, it can be overturned.

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Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba and Haier Create Logistics Joint Venture — Alibaba to Invest $360 Million in Haier Electronics as Part of Deal — BEIJING—Alibaba Group will invest $2.82 billion Hong Kong dollars ($360 million) in Haier Electronics Group Co. as part of a deal between the two companies to form a logistics joint venture.

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