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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

In another supplier confrontation, Amazon stops taking preorders for forthcoming Warner movies — Amazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos — The Everything Store is shrinking again. Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features …

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

As London cabbies protest, Uber launches UberTaxi platform for London cabbies — Up to 12,000 black-cab drivers (cabbies) are expected to fill the streets of London today, in protest against technology-enabled services such as Uber. Their gripe? Uber allows its users to beckon a cab …

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Bloomberg:

Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic From London to Berlin — Uber Technologies Inc., the car-sharing service that's rankling cabbies across the U.S., is fighting its biggest protest from European drivers who say the smartphone application threatens their livelihoods.

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Adam Withnall / The Independent:

Uber sign-ups ‘increase 850%’ as black cab drivers stage London taxi protest

More: ITProPortal, Forbes, TND - The Next Digit, CNNMoney.com and Pocket-lint

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Amazon Prime music streaming could launch as early as this week with Sony and Warner, but without Universal — Amazon Said to Be Close to Unveiling Music Streaming Service — Amazon is planning to introduce a limited music streaming feature as early as this week, according to several people briefed on the company's plans.

More: New York Post, BGR, USA Today, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Business Insider, WebProNews, The Next Web and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

HP Labs working on new computer architecture with new OS and memristor-based memory — With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer — If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.

More: Business Insider, The Register, InfoWorld, ExtremeTech and Gizmodo

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Powerful worm on Twitter unleashes torrent of out-of-control tweets — Twitter on Wednesday was briefly overrun by a powerful computer worm that caused tens of thousands of users to tweet a message that contained self-propagating code exploiting a bug in the TweetDeck app.

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Twitter restores TweetDeck service after fixing XSS vulnerability that allowed tweets to execute code

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Banks say credit cards for sale online were used at P.F. Chang's, restaurant investigating — Banks: Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang's — Nationwide chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro said today that it is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data reportedly stolen …

More: Bloomberg, The Verge, Naked Security, Electronista, CNET News, SecurityWeek, New York Times, Help Net Security, SC Magazine, tech.co and Reuters

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Wallet's 2-Click Instant Buy Checkout Comes To iOS — About a year ago, Google Wallet launched its Instant Buy API for Android apps, and today it is bringing it to iOS apps. With Instant Buy, developers can integrate Google Wallet's checkout into their apps and have users check out with as few as two clicks.

More: Google Commerce, AppleInsider, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, iMore and App Advice

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Oculus expects to sell “north of a million units” for first consumer Rift — Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe (left) says he's not expecting “a console-scale market” right out of the gate. — With a recent high-profile buyout to the tune of $2 billion, you might think Facebook and Oculus are expecting …

More: Kotaku, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, The Verge, WebProNews and Blue's News

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Twitter Mulling Shake Up of Top Execs — Including COO Ali Rowghani Shift — Twitter is undergoing a major reevaluation of its top management, including a possible shift in the duties of its COO Ali Rowghani. — Sources familiar with the company say it has already made some moves …

Tweets: @peterlauria3, @uniquevisitor, @pkedrosky and @monkbent

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Introduces “Google My Business,” A New One-Stop Shop To Help Business Get Found Online — Google announced a suite of tools this morning for business owners, offering them a one-stop shop to update their business information, add photos, read reviews and, of course, use Google+.

More: Google and Your Business, PC Magazine, Mashable, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, ScreenwerkScreenwerk and The Next Web

Ray Kurzweil / KurzweilAI:

Ray Kurzweil, who predicted a computer would pass the Turing test by 2029, does not think chatbot Eugene Goostman passed — Response by Ray Kurzweil to the announcement of chatbot Eugene Goostman passing the Turing test — Two days ago, on June 8, 2014, the University of Reading announced …

More: Re/code, Business Insider and The Verge. Tweets: @declanm

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Firefox OS smartphones as cheap as $25 launching in India and Indonesia later this year — India, Indonesia to Get $25 Smartphones — Mozilla's Firefox Operating System Powers Devices Priced for Emerging Markets — SHANGHAI—Smartphones as cheap as $25 powered by Mozilla Corp.'s software …

More: Wall Street Journal, The Mozilla Blog, Gigaom, TechSpot, bizjournals, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, TIME, CNET News, Computerworld, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Comcast to test its YouTube competitor by the end of the year — Comcast is looking to test a new platform for the distribution of online videos through its new X1 cable set-top boxes by the end of the year, the company's SVP of Video Matt Strauss confirmed during an interview at the sidelines of the TV of Tomorrow Show this week.

More: VentureBeat and Beet.TV. Tweets: @brianward and @amir. See also Mediagazer

Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle:

Comcast turning 150k routers rented by Houston customers into public Wi-Fi hotspots by July — Comcast is turning your Xfinity router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot [Updated] — Update: Comcast has turned on the first 50,000 residential hotspots. — Original post:

More: BGR, Houston Chronicle, DSLreports, Gizmodo, Houston Chronicle, ABC News, Business Insider, TechSpot, Electronista, Click2Houston.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, SlashGear and blog.chron.com. Tweets: @comcasthouston

Tricia Duryee / GeekWire:

Watch out, Yelp: Amazon has been quietly collecting local reviews for a month — Amazon has quietly launched the ability for customers to write reviews for local restaurants, spas and activities, putting it squarely in competition with other online services, like Yelp, Angie's List or Google's Zagat.

Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:

Alibaba's 11 Main online mall bids to lure U.S. shoppers — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is setting up a virtual shop on Main Street USA. Alibaba, which is set to score the biggest IPO in U.S. history, on Wednesday is opening 11 Main, an online mall of boutique …

More: TechCrunch, CNET News, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, BBC, ABC News, WebProNews, Financial Times, Reuters and Neowin

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

US Appeals Court rules warrantless phone location tracking is illegal — Summary: A panel of appeals judges has ruled that police must obtain a warrant before collecting cellphone location data, adding further weight to the pro-privacy argument. — Zack Whittaker

More: The Verge, ACLU, Computerworld, CNET News, Engadget, Gigaom, TIME, NationalJournal.com, Just Security, dissenter.firedoglake.com and Phandroid

David Pierce / The Verge:

The Verge announces This Is My Next, a Wirecutter-like buying guide that's “all about the best things” — Welcome to This Is My Next, your buying guide for the future — If you write about technology, work in technology, or just spend regular time near technology, the questions come early and they come often.

More: The Verge and Capital New York. Tweets: @piercedavid, @blam, @fromedome, @joshuatopolsky, @mmasnick, @mikeisaac, @dsilverman and @kevinroose

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Becomes More Search Engine-Like With The Launch Of Guided Search On The Web — In April, Pinterest introduced a new way to narrow down what you're looking for on mobile with the addition of a feature called “Guided Search,” which pops up related terms at the top of the screen after you enter in a keyword to start a search.

More: Oh, How Pinteresting!, VentureBeat, CNET News, PC Magazine, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable, Ubergizmo, Gigaom, Search Engine Land and The Next Web

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