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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: ‘A Genius Among Geniuses’ — Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions. — The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency's logo …
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| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report — Our take on five things the spy agency would like the public to believe about its vast surveillance powers — The National Security Agency is telling its story like never before. Never mind whether that story is, well, true.
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| Sara Morrison / The Wire: |
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional — A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional. — U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found …
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See also Mediagazer| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 includes notification center and Siri-like personal assistant — Microsoft is preparing to ship its Windows Phone 8.1 update with two significant changes: a notification center and a Siri-like personal assistant. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed … | Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
Photosynth creator and architect of Bing mobile and mapping leaves Microsoft to join Google — A Microsoft Star Goes to Google — SEATTLE — Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a respected engineer and software designer at Microsoft, has left the company to join its rival Google.
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| Garett Sloane / Adweek: |
Apple pushes iTunes Radio ad sales, builds real-time bidding exchange for in-app ads — Apple Is Building an RTB Platform to Sell In-App Ads — Apple leadership has given the iAds team a new mission: always be selling iTunes Radio. And while the sales team is busy pushing Apple radio inventory …
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See also Mediagazer| Zeke J Miller / TIME: |
Obama To Meet Tech Execs Over NSA Spying, Obamacare Website — President Barack Obama will meet with many of Silicon Valley's best-known executives Tuesday at the White House to discuss the troubled Healthcare.gov website and controversial surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency, the administration announced.
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| Brian R. Fitzgerald / Digits: |
As Walt Mossberg exits, WSJ's new personal tech team includes Geoffrey Fowler and new hires Joanna Stern, Wilson Rothman, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles — WSJ Announces Personal Tech Reviewing Team — Today we are announcing expanded Wall Street Journal coverage of personal technology … | Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook: |
Avago to Buy LSI for $6.6 Billion — Avago Technologies plans to make the biggest acquisition in its history — with the help of a former owner. — Avago, a semiconductor company, said on Monday that it had agreed to buy the LSI Corporation for about $6.6 billion in cash …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Ho Ho No! Amazon Apologizes After Customers Lose Access to Christmas Content. — If you buy a digital song, book or movie, do you really own that song, book or movie? — Or are you just renting a collection of bits, which are never really going to be yours?
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Boing Boing, TorrentFreak, Guardian, Examiner, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Gigaom, BetaNews, ExtremeTech, Softpedia News, TechHive, DSLreports, TechHive and internetretailer.com. Tweets: @chartier
| Matthew Keys / The Desk: |
Exclusive: Twitter working on “edit” feature for tweets — Twitter is working on a new feature that would allow users to edit tweets once they are published, three sources close to the project have confirmed to The Desk. — Those sources, who asked to be identified only as Twitter employees …
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See also Mediagazer| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
Two More Executives Leaving BlackBerry — EVP of Global Sales, Official in Charge of M&A Strategy to Depart in Weeks — TORONTO—The leadership upheaval at BlackBerry Ltd. continues under interim Chief Executive John Chen, according to people familiar with the matter.
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Launches “Donate” Button For Non-Profits That Also Collects Billing Info For Itself — Facebook unveiled a “Donate Now” button today to make it much easier for non-profits to take contributions. A nice side effect for its business? The button will collect credit card numbers …
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Facebook, ReadWrite, CNET, Marketing Land, AllThingsD, Gigaom, Daily Dot, TechHive, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, SlashGear, The Next Web and Marketing Pilgrim. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| John Coté / San Francisco Chronicle: |
S.F. rolls out 3 miles of free Wi-Fi along Market Street — It's a bit like free citywide Wi-Fi on the installment plan. — After announcing a deal in July to bring free Wi-Fi to San Francisco's public parks, the city will officially roll out free wireless connectivity Monday along a main transit spine - Market Street.| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Sprint launches LTE in St. Louis, San Diego; wraps up 2013 with 300 4G cities — Sprint on Monday announced a new batch of 70 markets receiving its LTE network. Sprint filled in a few big holes in its metro coverage map, including San Diego and St. Louis, but mostly these rollouts …
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
AOL's Tim Armstrong reluctantly lets go of Patch as shareholder pressures mount — AOL Chief's White Whale Finally Slips His Grasp — Tim Armstrong, the chief executive of AOL, is finally winding down Patch, a network of local news sites that he helped invent and that AOL bought after he took over.
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Tweets: @pkafka, @peterlattman and @karenpinchin
See also Mediagazer| Josh Halliday / Guardian: |
Google will not answer to British court over UK privacy claim — Search giant insists lawsuit concerning UK internet users' privacy should be brought in California where it is based — Google has been called “arrogant and immoral” for arguing that a privacy claim brought by internet users …
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PR Newswire, Telegraph, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, BBC, TechWeekEurope UK, Daily Mail, SlashGear and Electronista
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
TV Check-In Company Viggle Buys Facebook Publisher Wetpaint — Viggle, the company that rewards people for watching TV shows, has bought Wetpaint, a Facebook-centric publisher that specializes in writing about TV shows. — The deal, which is costing Viggle $30 million in cash and stock … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Crowdtilt Raises Another $23 Million From Andreessen Horowitz & Others For International Expansion, Enterprise Tools — Crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt wasn't looking to raise another round, but when their Series A lead investor Andreessen Horowitz offered to lead their B round, the team decided it would make sense given their plans.| David Streitfeld / NYT Bits: |
Amazon Workers in Germany Strike Again — This post has been updated to include new reporting. — Amazon warehouse employees in Germany walked off the job again Monday even as they tried to take their case directly to the e-commerce giant's Seattle headquarters.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Violin Memory Fires CEO Basile as IPO and Quarterly Results Disappoint — Violin Memory, the flash-storage player, just fired CEO Don Basile (pictured) in the wake of the lousy performance of its initial public offering and quarterly results that were worse than anyone expected.
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