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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iPhone 6 with larger, sharper 1704 x 960 resolution screen in testing  —  Apple is preparing to release a new iPhone with a larger screen later this year, and while multiple reports have indicated that the screen will be larger, the exact dimensions of the screen and its resolution have so far been guesswork.
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
NSA Docs Detail Efforts To Collect Data From Microsoft's Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com  —  Last July, Glenn Greenwald published a set of claims regarding a number of Microsoft services that were, especially at the time, unsettling: That Microsoft had helped the NSA “circumvent its encryption” …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook For iOS Tries Popping Up Cards Of Related Content To Browse After You Post  —  Facebook is taking a swing at suggesting contextual content to keep you surfing after you share.  A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say you're at …
Adam Pash:
Switching from iPhone to Android loses incoming iMessages, senders still get delivery receipt  —  iMessage purgatory  —  I recently switched from an iPhone to Android, and discovered shortly thereafter that my phone number was still associated with iMessage, meaning that any time someone …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Flappy Bird to Return to the App Store in August, Will Be Multiplayer and ‘Less Addictive’  —  Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen today announced plans to return Flappy Bird to the App Store in August in a new interview with CNBC's Kelly Evans.  According to Nguyen, the new version of Flappy Bird …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Surface Pro 3 might join Microsoft's Surface mini unveiling next week  —  Microsoft is holding a Surface press event in New York City next week, but the company may have accidentally revealed one of the announcements.  In a support article published yesterday, Microsoft says a fresh update for Windows 8.1 …
Miguel Helft / Fortune:
Square expects to start turning a profit in about a year, has secured $225M line of credit  —  Square's status?  It's complicated  —  Exclusive: Internal documents show that the innovative payments company expects losses through mid-2015.  But then it predicts a turnaround.
Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:
Google's not sure how to bring its self-driving-car to market, talks regularly to auto makers  —  Google Talking to Auto Makers About Self-Driving Car  —  Google is talking to auto makers about how to bring its self-driving-car technology to market, executives said Tuesday.
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Samsung offers ‘deep apology’ and compensation to workers who've contracted incurable diseases  —  Recent documentary uncovered 56 cases of leukemia  —  South Korean electronics giant Samsung has officially apologized over the illnesses and deaths of some of its factory workers.
Barb Darrow / Gigaom:
Acxiom snaps up LiveRamp and its data onboarding smarts for $310M  —  Acxiom is not some shiny Silicon Valley startup.  In fact, it's over 40 years old.  The company, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, also happens to be a pioneer in collecting data — and converting that data into big bucks …
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Microsoft to offer Xbox Live Gold refunds once requirement is dropped for entertainment apps  —  If you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription only to access media apps such as Netflix and Hulu, Microsoft's recent decision to remove the digital requirement may have left you feeling short-changed.
Takashi Amano / Bloomberg:
iPhone market share in Japan is 36.6% in year ending March, up from 25.5% a year earlier  —  Apple Boosts Japanese Market Share After NTT Docomo Sells IPhone  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) boosted its share of the Japan mobile-phone market to more than a third after the country's largest wireless carrier started selling the iPhone.
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Red Hat refuses to support commercial Linux customers if they use rival versions of OpenStack  —  Red Hat Plays Hardball on OpenStack Software  —  Rivals Fear That Software Maker Is Using Linux Dominance to Block Use of Alternative Cloud Software  —  Software maker Red Hat Inc …

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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
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