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August 30, 2013, 9:15 PM

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Scoop: Google acquired WIMM Labs to bolster its own smartwatch plans — Watch out, Samsung: Google has some smartwatch development projects of its own, and it quietly snapped up Los Altos, Calif.-based WIMM Labs last year to kickstart these efforts. WIMM Labs not only gives Google the talent …

Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs:

Standing Together for Greater Transparency — General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart. But today our two companies stand together.

Paul Thurrott / WindowsITPro:

Microsoft, Google Push Forward with Lawsuit Against US Government

Kelli B. Grant / CNBC:

Apple's iPhone trade-in program to add consumer choice — Apple is poised to start offering an in-store trade-in program, but consumers already have plenty of options to turn their old iPhone into cash—enough, in some cases, to get their next one for free.

More: Forbes, Wired, VatorNews, Washington Post, Macworld, The Next Web, The Mac Observer, everythingiCafe, Lifehacker, SlashGear, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, MobileSyrup.com, POPSUGAR and Gizmodo

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple aims for convenience over value as competing iPhone trade-in firms continue to offer better deals — Cook at Palo Alto Apple Store (Getty Images) — Following our reports detailing the new service, Apple today officially kicked off its new Apple Store iPhone trade-in program …

More: San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, LAPTOP Magazine, Digits, MacStories, Bloomberg, The Atlantic Wire and bizjournals. Thanks:@markgurman

@cnbc:

BREAKING: Apple tells @jonfortt that $AAPL's trade-in program to roll out nationwide today; customer must leave store with new contract.

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Apple blocking support personnel vacations from Sept. 15-28 for launch of new iPhones & iOS 7 — AppleCare employees have been restricted from taking time off for a two-week period, from Sept. 15 through 28 — a span during which Apple is expected to launch its new iPhone lineup, as well as the revamped iOS 7 mobile operating system.

More: 9to5Mac, BGR, NYT Bits, GigaOM, Pocket-lint, Tech Trader Daily, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Yahoo! News, SlashGear, Wired, Macgasm, Electronista, MacNN and ValueWalk

Microsoft:

Microsoft and ValueAct Capital sign cooperation agreement — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with ValueAct Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm with $12 billion in assets under management that beneficially owns approximately .8 percent …

More: TechCrunch, The Register, NYT Bits, Business Insider, GigaOM, Bloomberg, bizjournals and Reuters

Tweets: @scottmaustin and @jyarow

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft Opens Board Seat for Activist Shareholder ValueAct — In a first for Microsoft Corp., the company agreed to give an activist shareholder a director post early next year, an announcement that comes a week after Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said he would retire.

More: MoneyBeat

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray to Leave Company — Twitter's free speech defender is leaving the nest. — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's general counsel and chief navigator of its thorny digital First Amendment issues, is departing the company.

More: bricoleur, Guardian, NYT Bits, TechCrunch, SlashGear, ReadWrite, The Verge, GigaOM, Los Angeles Times, Betabeat, bizjournals, Mashable, Hillicon Valley and Digits

Tweets: @vijaya, @reckless, @mcandrew, @trevortimm, @mikeisaac and @sg

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Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Facebook Tests “Trending” Section in News Feed — Two months after rolling out hashtags — key words in posts that are marked by “#” - Facebook is experimenting with new ways to make them useful. — The social network has begun testing a “trending” topics section in the homepage news feed of its website.

More: ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, The Next Web and SlashGear. Tweets: @evelynrusli

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Target Ticket, Target's Video Download & Rental Service, Nears Launch — Target's answer to Walmart's Vudu, Netflix, and iTunes, is preparing to launch. Employees at the Minneapolis-headquartered retailer were told this week that Target Ticket, as the service is called …

More: The Next Web and Business Insider

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Forget 1TB, China's Tencent is giving away 10TB worth of free cloud storage — Yesterday we reported that Chinese tech giants Baidu and Qihoo 360 are currently courting users with 1TB of free space, putting the free space given by Dropbox, Box and Microsoft to shame.

More: The Register, Geek.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, memeburn and Softpedia News. Tweets: @cstromme

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Ready for smartphones with a next-generation chip? They're right around the corner — Next week in Berlin there are sure to be some new smartphone announcements. It's the annual IFA show there, along with some supplemental press events in New York City and elsewhere.

Casey Newton / The Verge:

New faces of Android: the inside story of Google's management shuffle — With Andy Rubin and Hugo Barra out, who's next up to lead Google's biggest platform? — One big loss at the world's most popular smartphone platform has been followed by another. Five months after Android founder Andy Rubin left …

More: AllThingsD. Tweets: @nytimesbits, @caseynewton and @caseynewton

Brian Fung / The Switch:

Obama's intelligence czar vows to release his own transparency report — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will begin releasing annual reports about the National Security Agency's surveillance activity in the coming months, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has confirmed.

More: IC ON THE RECORD, The Atlantic Wire, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Hillicon Valley, CNET, The Verge, Softpedia News, The Daily Caller, GigaOM, Politico, PC World, Techdirt, WebProNews, The Switch, Washington Post and Washington Post

Tweets: @jameeljaffer, @b_fung and @digiphile

Patrick Gray / Wired:

Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance

More: SiliconBeat and Washington Post. Tweets: @jilliancyork and @dangillmor

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