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• Hackers Who Breached Google in 2010 Accessed Company's Surveillance Database May 20, 2013
  Hackers who breached Google's network in 2010 obtained access to the company's system for tracking surveillance requests from law enforcement, according to a news report. […]
  Kim Zetter
• Utah Springs Surprise Tax on Massive NSA Data Center May 20, 2013
  The NSA will spend around $40 million per year on energy bills for the data center, according to one estimate. But those energy costs may be a bit higher than expected, thanks to a new state law that could levy a 6% energy tax on the facility, the Salt Lake City Tribune reports. […]
  Klint Finley
• Yahoo's Past Big Buys Tell a Tale of Mediocrity and Failure May 20, 2013
  Yahoo's narrative arc as a company can be defined by its acquisitions, which taken together also serve as one take on the history of the web itself. In the Yahoo version of that history, founders and backers of overvalued companies enjoy huge exits while the buyer tends to learn too late that its exuberance was irrational. […]
  Marcus Wohlsen
• Flickr Shows Signs of Life With Slick Web Redesign, Killer Android App May 20, 2013
  Flickr wants to remind you that it's a photo site. "Everything that we've done in this new redesign has been about putting the photo front and center," says Flickr VP Brett Wayn. For a photo site, Flickr looks like it was designed in 1997. That ends today with a site redesign that removes all that ... […]
  Roberto Baldwin
• Tumblr Users Have All the Feels About Yahoo Acquisition May 20, 2013
  Tumblr users are fretting over the Yahoo acquisition on -- where else? -- Tumblr. […]
  Angela Watercutter
• The Ultimate Don Draper Pitch Is Don Draper: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads May 20, 2013
  Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of?Mad Men?through the lens of the latest media campaign of?the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. […]
  Sean T. Collins
• Feds Tracked Reporter's Movements, Personal E-Mail in Criminal Conspiracy Investigation May 20, 2013
  In an effort to unmask a leaker who fed a reporter classified information about North Korea, FBI investigators tracked the journalist's movements in and out of a government building, obtained copies of his phone records and personal e-mails and also took the unprecedented step of alleging that the reporter engaged in a criminal conspiracy simply for doi […]
  Kim Zetter
• How Yahoo Will Wring $1.1B Out of Tumblr May 20, 2013
  Yahoo is paying $1.1 billion to acquire the hip blog network Tumblr. Here's exactly how much advertising needs to be sold, across three different categories, to make the deal pencil. […]
  Ryan Tate
• With Tumblr Gone, the Last Great Prize Is Pinterest May 20, 2013
  Pinterest has become that rarest of specimens, at least in the consumer/social world: an independent, massively scaling service that not only bestows the ?cool? factor that every large company seems to crave but, in Pinterest?s case, offers a huge opportunity to turn its "things I want to buy" essence into an e-commerce cash machine. It is the last […]
  Michael V. Copeland
• The App That Puts Google's Music Subscription Service on Your iPhone May 20, 2013
  Google's subscription music service debuted last week as an Android-only affair. But one third-party developer has quickly compiled an iOS app enabling Apple devices to listen in. […]
  Roberto Baldwin