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June 16, 2014, 10:45 AM

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

With an Amazon Smartphone, the Retailer Seeks a Tether to Consumers — Hold the phone: Amazon wants to burrow even deeper into your life. — The retailer is expected to introduce a smartphone on Wednesday at an event in Seattle, a long-rumored project that aims to close any remaining gap between …

More: CNET, Business Insider, Forbes, Gigaom Research and Quartz

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Chinese gov't reveals Microsoft's secret list of Android-killer patents — For more than three years now, Microsoft has held to the line that it has loads of patents that are infringed by Google's Android operating system. “Licensing is the solution,” wrote the company's head IP honcho in 2011 …

More: Gigaom, BGR, Gizmodo, ZDNet, The Verge, Softpedia News, TechEye, Android Central and Good E-Reader

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Bitcoin security guarantee shattered by anonymous miner with 51% network power — In a first, one player got a monopoly of Bitcoin's total computational power. — For the first time in Bitcoin's five-year history, a single entity has repeatedly provided more than half …

More: Washington Post, Wired.co.uk, SlashGear, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Verge and CryptoCoinsNews

Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:

To combat distracted driving, DoT seeks authority to regulate navigation aids, including apps — Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles — Getting directions on the road from Google Maps and other smartphone apps is a popular alternative to the expensive navigation aids included in some cars.

More: TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Tweets: @kerrypicket

Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Tony Fadell reflects on his time at Apple, building Nest, and working at Google — Is Tony Fadell the next Steve Jobs or ... the next Larry Page? — At Apple he masterminded the iPod and was once seen as a potential CEO. Now the founder of Nest-which he recently sold to Google …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @tfadell, @blakeir, @jyarow, @salsop, @jyarow and @dujkan

New York Times:

Profile of Tim Cook describes him as projecting “quiet consideration” towards design, details his involvement in iWatch development, more — Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, was an adolescent boy in a small Alabama town in the early 1970s when he saw something he couldn't forget.

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions — On Feb. 10, Jason Fyk received a strange Facebook message. — “Bro.” — The message had been sent by someone who wasn't his friend on the social network, someone using the alias “Anthony. *” It was a name Fyk had come to know and dread.

Thanks:@waqasaday

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Edward Snowden experiments with BeamPro telepresence robot to make appearances outside Russia — Inside Edward Snowden's Life as a Robot — Snowden appears via Beam bot in the ACLU's New York offices with (from left) journalist Laura Poitras, Freedom of the Press Foundation director Trevor Timm and security technologist Micah Lee.

Jon Southurst / CoinDesk:

Bitcoin Wallet, Apps Re-Enter iOS Store After Apple's Policy Shift — Apple is making good on its recent bitcoin policy shift, with a new bitcoin wallet app appearing for download in the iOS App Store. — The ‘Coinpocket’ app is described by its developer as a wrapper …

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Tech Isn't All Brogrammers, It's Still Nerds Building New Things — R. Stanley Williams works at HP Labs, and he has for a long time. In the video of him that I am watching, his pony tail flows out over his blue-collared shirt, and onto his lumpy sweater.

Tweets: @dtunkelang and @rands

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

On-Demand Grocery Startup Instacart Raises $44 Million From Andreessen Horowitz — On-demand grocery delivery startup Instacart wants to make its service available in every city in the United States. To make that happen, it's raised $44 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.

More: VatorNews, Re/code, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat

Wall Street Journal:

EU, South Korea to partner on developing 5G technologies together — EU, South Korea to Ally on Faster Mobile Access — So-Called 5G Could be Crucial for European Bloc, Which Trails Telecom Rivals — In the race to get the world's fastest mobile Internet service …

More: Yonhap News, ZDNet, Engadget, EU Press Room, Gigaom, iMore, Inquirer and PC World

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