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Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook plans to start selling video ads on Thursday, people say  —  Facebook Inc. will begin selling video advertisements later this week, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  The ads, which will play automatically in users' news feeds may help Facebook capture a share …
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 …
Landon Robinson / BestTechie:
We Didn't Get One of Valve's Steam Machines, So We Built One Ourselves  —  Late last week, computer game company Valve released its much anticipated game-centric, Linux-based operating system, SteamOS.  Alongside it, they sent out their own custom-built Steam Machines to 300 lucky beta testers across America …
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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.
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 …
Peter Rubin / Wired:
Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality  —  In May 2012, a programmer named John Carmack—who, as a cofounder of id Software and the man behind games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, is widely seen as the father of 3D gaming—tweeted a picture of what looked like steampunk bifocals made out of a black shoebox.
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Dan Lyons / Inbound Hub:
Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip ‘Hit Us in the Gut’  —  In public, Apple's rivals in the smartphone market have tried to downplay the technological advances Apple introduced in the iPhone 5s.  But it turns out that one breakthrough — Apple's speedy, 64-bit A7 microprocessor — has set off a panic inside its competitors.
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
NSA surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT  —  Bruce Schneier, at an Open Technology Institute presentation on Capitol Hill last Friday, said the NSA had created vulnerabilities in the Internet that criminals could exploit within the next two to three years.  —  Sean Gallagher
Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:
Facebook No. 1 Mobile App Of 2013 But Google Has 5 Of Top 10  —  Nielsen published a range of year-end data today.  Among other things the measurement firm said that 65 percent of American cell phone users now own smartphones.  By comparison comScore says the figure is 62 percent.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft: Skype runs on Windows Azure; SkyDrive up next  —  Summary: Microsoft is continuing to move more of its cloud services onto Windows Azure.  The latest in the queue: Skype and SkyDrive.  —  Microsoft is continuing to move more of its biggest cloud services onto its Windows Azure public cloud.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Federal Circuit affirms Microsoft's import ban against Motorola Mobility's Android-based devices  —  The Unitd States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today ruled against Google's (Motorola Mobility's) appeal of an import ban Microsoft won from the United States International Trade Commission …
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 …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Intellectual Ventures reveals list of 33,000 patents, in move toward (partial) transparency  —  Intellectual Ventures, under increasing pressure to be more transparent about its patent holdings, this morning released a searchable list of more than 33,000 of its patents …
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Google, Facebook Push to Control Web's Pipes … Technology giants like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are expanding efforts to control more of the world's Internet backbone, raising tensions with telecom companies over who runs the Web.  —  In the past year, these companies that supply …
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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