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 Biz Break: Apple avoids Google integration, challenges Pandora; E3 opens with bang

   
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1 - Biz Break: Apple avoids Google integration, challenges Pandora; E3 opens with bang
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Today: Apple introduces new offerings at WWDC, with Google and Pandora feeling heat. Also: Microsoft and EA make big noise at E3, but stock doesn't follow suit.

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2 - Shuttered travel agency leaves clients wondering if they'll ever see their money or families back in Vietnam
San Jose police who were called to the shuttered business on Wednesday took down the names and information of dozens of potential victims who continued to show up outside Sunlight Travel on Monday, even though the floor of the office is littered with unopened mail and the glass doors are locked.

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3 - At WWDC, Apple unveils iOS 7, Mac OS Mavericks, iTunes Radio and a new Mac Pro
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More than 5,000 developers feasted on a slideshow smorgasbord of brightly colored displays and gee-whiz features from the new iOS 7 software that will soon power millions of iPhones and iPads around the world. And while this software-centric confab elicited few of the fireworks that accompany Apple product launches, CEO Tim Cook and his blue-jeaned lieutenants wowed the crowd at the 24th annual Worldwide Developers Conference with a steady string of cool new upgrades.


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4 - Cassidy: NSA Prism surveillance program sullies digital relationships
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Whether the National Security Agency’s Prism surveillance program marks a change in the way Americans view their online privacy is yet to be seen. But it can’t help but change the relationship all of us have with the companies that help us live our digital lives.

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5 - Get ready for Apple's OS X Mavericks
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Apple says it has run out of felines to name its OS after, so it's turned to California landmarks. First up is Mavericks, after the surfing spot. And after that: OS X Big Sur?

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6 - Booz Allen Hamilton shares fall
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Booz Allen Hamilton fell on Monday, after the company's employee, Edward Snowden, stepped forward as the person who last week leaked information about secret government surveillance programs to several news media outlets.

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7 - E3: 'Breaking Bad' star, Drake show off Electronic Arts games
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Drake and Aaron Paul are bringing some star power to the Electronic Entertainment Expo, appearing on stage Monday at Electronic Arts' E3 presentation to promote games from the Redwood City video game publisher.

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8 - S&P boosts outlook for U.S. debt to 'stable'
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services upgraded its outlook Monday for the U.S. government's long-term debt. S&P cited the government's strengthened finances, a recovering U.S. economy and some easing of Washington's political gridlock.

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9 - Annie's reports sharply rising profits and sales
Berkeley-based Annie's shrugged off the effects of a voluntary recall of a frozen pizza product and posted sharply higher profits and sales for both its fourth quarter and full fiscal year on Monday.

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10 - Leak highlights key role of private contractors
The U.S. government monitors threats to national security with the help of nearly 500,000 people like Edward Snowden -- employees of private firms who have access to the government's most sensitive secrets

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11 - Xbox One will cost $499, release in November
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Microsoft said on Monday its new Xbox One console would be launched in November at a price of $499 in the United States.

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12 - Video: New 'Halo' and 'Titanfall' previews for Xbox One
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The upcoming Xbox One gaming console's cloud computing capabilities were demonstrated at E3 in Los Angeles on Monday, by fleshing out dense environments in third-person open-world games, such as "Titanfall" and the latest installment of "Halo."

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13 - E3: Xbox One games will be immersed in the cloud, Microsoft says
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Microsoft focused on how cloud computing will make games for its next-generation Xbox One console more immersive during its Monday presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the gaming industry's annual trade show.

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14 - Apple WWDC 2013: Radical new iOS 7, iTunes Radio music-streaming service unveiled
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Apple introduced revamped mobile and desktop operating systems Monday during the keynote address of its Worldwide Developers Conference, and launched a new streaming-music offering called iTunes Radio that will be included in the redesigned iOS 7 for iPhones and iPads.

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15 - Netflix does not infringe Rovi patents, ITC judge says
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Internet video streaming service Netflix does not infringe on Rovi patents for interactive television program guides, an International Trade Commission judge said in a preliminary decision.

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