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June 13, 2014, 11:35 PM

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Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Twitter brings Bing translation to iOS, expands use on Web  —  Seeing the World Cup as a chance to lower language barriers, the social site enables translation in its iPhone and iPad app, and Twitter.com timeline.  It's a win for Bing.  —  Twitter has begun using Bing-based language translation in its iOS app.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft: No Plans For Ads In Cortana Yet; Debating Bringing To Androids & iOS  —  It's far too early to consider monetizing Cortana, Microsoft's new virtual personal assistant, but the company is already thinking about how to scale her across different devices, platforms and around the world.
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Handicapping the Winners and Losers in the Twitter Shakeup  —  While companies are not games, it's not hard to want to handicap the winners and losers in any major management shift or executive shakeout.  —  So, let's dispense with the niceties and get down to the brass tacks of what happened …
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
@SCOTUS_servo tweets unannounced changes to Supreme Court opinions after they're published  —  Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions  —  Supreme Court opinions are the law of the land, and so it's a problem when the Justices change the words of the decisions without telling anyone.
Amazon.com:
75% of Kindle Fire HDX Customer Questions Now Come via the Mayday Button—Average Response Time is Just 9.75 Seconds  —  Eight months ago, Amazon launched the Mayday button, connecting you to live, on-device tech support 24x7, 365 days a year—for free.  Today, Amazon announced that the Mayday button …

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