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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Twitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloud — Twitter may try to buy its way out of its growth problem by making another move into music. — The company is considering a deal to acquire SoundCloud, the music and audio-sharing company, according to people familiar with both companies.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Angela Ahrendts' plan for the future of Apple Retail: China emphasis, mobile payments, revamped experience — When Ron Johnson finalized his decision to move from leading Apple's retail strategy to become the Chief Executive Officer of J.C. Penney, the executive jumped in his car to drive …

More: App Advice, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, BGR, iMore, MacNN, iLounge, ifoAppleStore and MacDailyNews

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NSA records every cell phone call in the Bahamas and one unnamed country, gathers call metadata in Mexico, the Philippines, and Kenya — Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas — The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting …

More: PandoDaily, The Register, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Computerworld

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Dan Lyons / Billboard:

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs' Biographer, Predicts Jimmy Iovine Will Run Apple's Content Business — It may not be the headphones or the streaming. Does Tim Cook think Jimmy Iovine is the next Steve Jobs? Apple is reportedly acquiring Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion …

More: CNET News, MacNN, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider and App Advice

Tweets: @lessien, @walterisaacson and @janicebmin

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

GoPro Files For $100M IPO With 2013 Revenue Of $985.7M, Up 87.4% From The Year Prior — This afternoon GoPro filed its S-1 document with the SEC, detailing its financial performance as it looks to go public. The company states that it will raise up to $100 million in the offering, trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol ‘GPRO.’

More: GoPro, Inc., Business Insider, BBC, New York Times, PandoDaily, Quartz, The Verge, Engadget, CNET News, GeekWire, Gigaom, Los Angeles Times, StreetInsider.com, Connectedly, Pulse 2.0, Glass and VentureBeat. Tweets: @pkedrosky

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Groupon to Replace Nearly All of Its Merchants' Cash Registers With iPads — Groupon has long said it wants to be known as more than a deals company. Now it's showing how. — Today, the company is introducing an iPad-based checkout system that it expects tens of thousands of businesses that run a Groupon promotion to use.

More: Business Wire, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Marketing Pilgrim, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Connectedly, PadGadget, Engadget, The Next Web and Electronista

Tweets: @delrey and @mdudas

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:

Canonical's cloud-in-a-box: The Ubuntu Orange Box — Summary: Canonical had an unexpected hit at OpenStack Summit: It's an Intel-powered, cloud-in-a-box. — When Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu Linux, made his keynote speech at OpenStack Summit in Atlanta …

More: SlashGear, Tech Trader Daily, Ubuntu Insights and The VAR Guy

Washington Post:

US Justice Department charges five members of Chinese military with conducting economic cyber-espionage against six American companies — Chinese military members charged with cyber-espionage against U.S. firms — The Justice Department on Monday charged members of the Chinese military …

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Tweets: @matthewkeyslive and @ahess247

Pete Williams / NBC News:

FBI Director says Chinese govt blatantly uses cyber-espionage to obtain economic advantages

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Re/code:

Google Buys an Enterprise Android Company, Divide (Formerly Known as Enterproid) — Google is buying a startup that focuses on Android in the enterprise and was backed by its Google Ventures investing group. — Needless to say, it's an alignment of interests. — The company is Divide, formerly known as Enterproid.

More: Divide Blog, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, TechnoBuffalo, Global Nerdy, bizjournals, Electronista, The Next Web, SlashGear, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Gigaom and CITEworld. Tweets: @backlon

Re/code:

AT&T Says It Wants to Sell Web TV, Too — AT&T's proposed $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV will accelerate its plans to offer an Internet television service. — AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said DirecTV holds established entertainment industry relationships …

More: Wired

Cindy Boren / Washington Post:

AT&T-DirecTV deal hinges on NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ package renewal

More: AT&T SEC filings, Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, SBNation.com, Digital Trends, Fortune and VentureBeat. Tweets: @jbflint

Alexandra Bruell / AdAge:

Facebook reaches multi-year deal with advertising giant Publicis Groupe worth around $500M — Publicis Strikes Deal With Facebook Worth Hundreds of Millions — Budgets Moving More Aggressively Toward Digital — Festival — Internet Week New York — Publicis Groupe …

More: Wall Street Journal, Inside Facebook, Marketing Land, Re/code, AllFacebook and MarketingVox News & Trends

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Exclusive: Intel CEO promises Broadwell PCs on shelves for holidays — (Reuters) - Intel Corp's next-generation Broadwell processors will ship in time to be used in personal computers sold during the holiday season but probably won't be available for back-to-school shopping, Chief Executive Brian Krzanich said.

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Don Reisinger / CNET News:

Amazon reportedly drops $20M in Yummy77 — Amazon will hold a minority stake in the Chinese online food vendor but will allow it to operate as a standalone company. — Amazon appears to have invested millions into an online company that provides fresh food to customers across China.

More: TechNode and Pulse 2.0

Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung planning to bring biometric authentication to lower-end smartphones — Samsung Looks to Expand Biometric Sensors in Mobile Devices — Samsung Electronics is working to use biometric sensors in its mobile security system which the company expects to be available even for low-end smartphone models, an executive said Monday.

Matt Haughey / MetaTalk:

Pioneering web forum MetaFilter lays off 3 moderators, says revenues peaked before plunge in Google referrals — State of MetaFilter — Today I need to share some unfortunate news: because of serious financial downturn, MetaFilter will be losing three of its moderators to layoffs at the end of this month.

More: The Awl. Tweets: @stevesilberman, @tjshirey, @thesimonfraser, @randfish, @waxpancake, @adamcarson, @zmx and @dangillmor. Thanks:@nethistorypod

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Inside High Fidelity, the virtual reality successor to ‘Second Life’ — A crude hint of how physical connection could invade the online world — As virtual reality gains steam, the question of virtual worlds is never far behind. Philip Rosedale is best known for online community Second Life.

Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:

Cisco announces line of dedicated desktop videoconferencing devices for $1,000 to $2,000 each — Cisco hopes to put a $1500 videoconferencing device on every desk — Hot on the heels of its lower-priced videoconferencing gear for conference rooms, Cisco is now hoping …

More: eWeek and ZDNet. Tweets: @alex. Thanks:@mattrosoff

John Cook / GeekWire:

Redfin plans massive expansion, pushing real estate service into as many as 46 new markets — Redfin is going national — in a big way. The Seattle online brokerage is looking to hire real estate professionals in a whopping 46 new markets in 19 new states, according to recent job postings on the company's Web site.

Thanks:@toddbishop

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

For Do Not Call violations, Sprint will pay FCC $7.5M in largest ever settlement — On Monday, Sprint agreed to pay the Federal Communications Commission $7.5 million to resolve violations of the Do Not Call registry—the largest settlement payout ever. The program first began in 2003 …

More: CNET News, Re/code, The Register, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, The Verge and The Hill

Tricia Duryee / GeekWire:

Mike McSherry departs Nuance three years after selling Swype for $100 million — Mike McSherry, a Seattle start-up veteran, has left Nuance Communications nearly three years after the company purchased Swype, GeekWire has learned. Swype is famous for building a mobile keyboard that allows …

More: Re/code

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