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June 3, 2014, 11:30 AM

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Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

What's Apple Really Up To? Keeping You in Apple World. — Today, at its annual developers conference, WWDC 2014, Apple laid out the first step in its latest plans — new versions of its mobile and Mac operating systems, iOS and OS X, respectively. The second step will come in the fall …

More: VentureBeat, New York Times, Daily Dot, Wall Street Journal, ITworld.com, The Register, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Slate, MacDailyNews, Fortune, fr.anc.is, Pixel Envy, Wired, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet and FierceWireless. Tweets: @mrinaldesai

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

The Winners and Losers at Apple's WWDC Keynote — With 200 million iPads and 500 million iPhones sold to date, Apple can cause some serious waves when it throws its weight around. Here's a look at who should be cheering after today's keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference …

More: Mashable, Techie News, CrackBerry.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Wired.co.uk, Ubergizmo, Tech2, TechCrunch, The Verge and ABC News. Tweets: @startupljackson

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple's WWDC Delivers Developer Fanservice

More: AnandTech, TechCrunch, MediaNama, Slanted Viewpoint and MacStories. Tweets: @drbarnard

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Apple Drops Google For Bing As “Spotlight” Search Provider In iOS 8 & Mac OS X “Yosemite” — Bing has gained another win with Apple, becoming integrated into a new version of Spotlight in Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X “Yosemite” operating system and in the coming iOS 8 mobile operating system.

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Fortune, The Verge, GeekWire, The Register, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Roundtable, Mashable, Neowin, TechEye, WebProNews and ZDNet. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Big Win For DuckDuckGo: Apple Adding To Safari As Private Search Option

More: ReadWrite, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, Daily Dot, Search Engine Roundtable, Daring Fireball, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, WebProNews, SlashGear, TechCrunch and Ars Technica

Duncan Campbell / The Register:

Details of GCHQ's secret base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East revealed — REVEALED: GCHQ's BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE — Snowden leaks that UK.gov suppressed — Exclusive Above-top-secret details of Britain's covert surveillance programme …

More: Wired.co.uk. Tweets: @theregister and @csoghoian

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Intel bets on Surface Pro 3-like 2-in-1 devices with “mobile PC” reference design — Intel Bets On Surface Pro 3-Like “2-In-1″ Devices — Today at the Computex event in Taiwan, Intel unveiled a reference design '2-in-1′ device, raising the profile of tablet-hybrids.

More: Intel Newsroom, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, VentureBeat, iMore, BGR, Computerworld, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Re/code, The Verge, Softpedia News, Engadget, Windows Phone Central, Electronista, The Next Web and TechEye

Kurt Wagner / Mashable:

Myspace Is Embarrassing Users With Old Photos to Win Them Back — Myspace wants you back — even if it requires a little blackmail — The social network is emailing users old photos of themselves in hopes of enticing them to return to Myspace. The emails include one or two old photos …

More: Business Insider, The Register, Consumerist, Neowin, ABC News, hypebot and InvestorPlace

David Yanofsky / Quartz:

Safari in OS X Yosemite demo shown to truncate URLs in address bar to domain name level — Apple just took another step towards obscuring the way the web works — At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference today the company rolled out a new look for its web browser, Safari.

More: Wordyard and The Verge. Tweets: @jbenton, @ubax, @steve_e and @dsearls

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iOS 8 to Include Battery Usage Per App and Much More — During today's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Tim Cook and other Apple executives gave us a fast-paced, broad-ranging look at some of the features we can expect with iOS 8, including improvements to Messages …

More: SwiftKey, ZDNet, Softpedia News, iPhone, ABC News, App Advice, TUAW, PhoneArena and ParisLemon

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Cloud HR Startup Zenefits Raises Another $66.5M From Andreessen Horowitz and IVP At A $500M Valuation — Well that was fast. — It was a little more than four months ago that Zenefits raised a $15 million Series A Round from Andreessen Horowitz to power explosive growth in its cloud-based HR platform.

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal, PE Hub Blog, Fortune and New York Times

Bloomberg:

Fidelity Said to Be Competing to Lead Uber Round at $17B — Fidelity Investments is competing to lead Uber Technologies Inc.'s new financing in a round that could value the ride-sharing service at about $17 billion, according to people familiar with the situation.

Tweets: @eghosao

Alex Hern / Guardian:

Reddit, Imgur and Boing Boing launch anti-NSA surveillance campaign — The Reset the Net campaign aims to encourage direct action, urging visitors to install privacy and encryption tools — Some of the world's largest websites are planning a coordinated day of action on Thursday to oppose mass surveillance online.

More: TechCrunch, NBC News, Tech2, Electronista, Network World, VentureBeat and BetaNews

Tweets: @counternotions and @alexisohanian

Richard Padilla / MacRumors:

OS X Yosemite Public Beta Limited to First Million Registered Users — Earlier today as Apple was unveiling OS X Yosemite for the first time at the Worldwide Developers Conference, software chief Craig Federighi announced that there would be a public open beta for the new operating system ahead of its launch this fall.

More: AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Softpedia News, MacDailyNews, The Mac Observer, MediaNama, Guardian, Geeky Gadgets, Gotta Be Mobile, ReadWrite, App Advice, iSource, SlashGear, MACé" blog, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and BGR

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones — Ostendo's Tiny Projectors Are Designed to Display Crisp Video, Glasses-Free 3-D Images — In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head. — Instead, imagine stepping into an empty room …

More: Inside Mobile Apps, Business Insider and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@evelynrusli

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Home Deco Site Houzz Raises $150M At A $2.3B Post-Money Valuation — Looks like home-remodelling and design site Houzz is upsizing. Filings that the startup made at the end of May in Delaware, uncovered by the folks at VCExperts, indicate that it is raising a Series D round of $150 million …

More: Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Re/code and Forbes

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Wall Street Journal:

Law enforcement requests to monitor cellphones stay sealed long after investigations end — Sealed Court Files Obscure Rise in Electronic Surveillance — The U.S. government requests thousands of orders for electronic surveillance every year, and the vast majority stay sealed from the public.

Tweets: @jenvalentino and @natewessler

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Facebook acquires mobile data plan firm Pryte — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is acquiring Pryte, a Finnish company that aims to make it easier for mobile phone users in under-developed parts of the world to use wireless Internet apps. — Facebook did not disclose financial terms of the deal …

More: Pryte, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, USA Today, Bloomberg and Mashable

Rich Trenholm / CNET News:

HTC One E8 is a plastic M8, coming early June — The HTC One E8 has been confirmed to bring its polycarbonate shell to “selected markets” in “early June.” — The HTC One E8 replaces the M8's brushed metal case with plastic to bring the price down. — HTC

More: HTC Blog, The Next Web, The Next Web, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, PandoDaily, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Softpedia News, The Verge, Android Police, IntoMobile, BGR and Gizmodo

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

John Oliver: Stop Calling It Net Neutrality; It's ‘Preventing Cable Company F**kery’ — In last night's John Oliver show (technically “Last Week Tonight"), his “top story” was all about net neutrality. This is both surprising (because the issue has received little mainstream attention) …

More: YouTube, DSLreports, CNET News, The Next Web, TechCrunch, TIME and SlashGear

Tweets: @mmasnick, @howardlindzon and @gigastacey

Chris Dannen / Fast Company:

Apple's 850-page Swift iBook is out; here's how the language differs from C and Objective-C — What's New And Different About Apple's New Swift Programming Language? — We tore apart Apple's 850-page iBook on its new, simpler programming language, to find out why Apple would introduce a new language …

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