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Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO — Bill Gates steps up to new role as Technology Advisor; John Thompson assumes role as Chairman of Board of Directors. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member …

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Microsoft Corporation:

Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO — Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came here because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the world.

More: TechCrunch, Re/code, Quartz, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Forbes, Salon, PC Magazine, It's a Gadget, Gigaom, Marketing Land, CNET, Dice News, TechWeekEurope UK, The Switch, LiveSide.net, VentureBeat, ExtremeTech, Engadget, SiliconBeat and Financial Post

Tweets: @karaswisher, @raheelk, @toddbishop and @shiraovide

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's Bill Gates “Steps Up” To New Role As Technology Advisor: Was He Pushed Or Did He Jump? — Along with the news today that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO of Microsoft, another big change in the executive ranks: Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, is leaving his role as chairman …

More: eWeek, Digits, The Switch, IntoMobile, WinBeta, GeekWire and Guardian. Tweets: @karaswisher

Microsoft Corporation:

Steve Ballmer email to employees on new CEO — Today is an incredibly exciting day as we announce Satya Nadella as the new CEO of Microsoft. Satya will be a great CEO, and I am pumped for the future of Microsoft. You can read the full announcement here. — Satya is a proven leader.

More: The Verge, Computerworld, Forbes, Digital Trends, PhoneNews.com, Geek.com, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Business ETC, Pocketnow, SlashGear, TechSpot and SiliconANGLE

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Ready for Their Close-Ups: Nadella, Gates, Ballmer and Thompson Do YouTube on CEO Pick (Video)

More: Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch and Guardian

Bloomberg:

Thompson Replacing Gates as Microsoft Chairman in Revamp

More: ZDNet and Bloomberg

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

Nadella's the one: Microsoft names new CEO, Gates stays on board, Thompson is chairman

More: The Verge, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Re/code, Los Angeles Times, Daring Fireball, Forbes, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint and BBC

Tweets: @anildash and @tim_stevens

Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:

Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary. — It's been an amazing journey so far, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. It's rare to be able to touch so many people's lives, and I try to remind myself to make the most of every day and have the biggest impact I can.

More: Guardian, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, CNN, ZDNet, TechnoBuffalo, Gigaom, PetaPixel, TIME, Los Angeles Times, Techvibes, LinkedIn Pulse, AllFacebook, TechSpot, Mashable and The Next Web. Tweets: @marshallk

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook celebrates 10-year anniversary with personalized ‘Look Back’ videos just for you — As Mark Zuckerberg reflects upon Facebook's first ten years as a company today, he's encouraging the community he built to do the same. Starting this morning, hundreds of millions of Facebook users …

More: Los Angeles Times, ABC News, SiliconBeat, Engadget, Digits, NYT Bits, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, Slate, TechCrunch, Digits, CNBC, ZDNet, The Register, Washington Post and BBC. Tweets: @ranjanxroy

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper” — Yesterday, as Facebook launched its news reader app Paper, design-focused startup FiftyThree called out Facebook publicly for using their brand name. Facebook declined to change the name of their brand new reader app. — But FiftyThree has taken action to protect its brand name.

More: MacRumors, GeekWire, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Microsoft Injects $15M Into Foursquare, Strikes Licensing Deal For Location Data — The big news from Microsoft this week isn't only about its new CEO Satya Nadella. — Today, the company announced that it has made a $15 million strategic investment in Foursquare, the New York-based startup focused …

More: Digits, NYT Bits, TechCrunch, The Foursquare Blog, The Next Web, Bloomberg, ReadWrite and ZDNet

Tweets: @sarahfrier, @danprimack and @alex

Thanks:@austincarr

Martyn Williams / Computerworld:

North Korea goes OSX-like with new operating system — The latest version of the software dumps a Windows-like interface for a Mac-style desktop — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, might the folks in Cupertino be pleased when they see the latest version of North Korea's home-grown operating system?

More: Computerworld, Gizmodo and MacRumors

Erica Klarreich / Wired:

Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable — As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a “zero-knowledge” proof, a type of mathematical protocol for convincing someone that something …

More: ExtremeTech

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

DFJ Raises $325M For Eleventh Early Stage-Fund, Tim Draper And John Fisher Will Not be Investing Partners In Fund — DFJ is announcing the raise of DFJ Venture XI, a $325 million early-stage venture fund. For background, DFJ Fund X was $350 million, closed in 2010.

More: Inside DFJ, PandoDaily, Re/code and PE Hub Blog

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Target works on security-heavy credit cards, after breach — Target is still reeling from the massive security breach, which affected as many as 110 million customers. Now, as the retailer gets back on its feet, it's becoming more security focused. — Target Chief Financial Officer John …

More: The Hill, Help Net Security, The Verge, Softpedia News, NBCNews, Pulse 2.0 and ZDNet

Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal:

Target Data Breach Went On Longer Than Thought

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix to Raise $400 Mil in Additional Debt to Fund Original Content, Euro Expansion — Netflix formally announced it is seeking to offer $400 million aggregate principal amount of 10-year senior notes due 2024 to institutional investors, coin it expects to use for acquiring original content and expanding into Europe.

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, VatorNews, VentureBeat, PR Newswire and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

IBM Uses Dutch Tax Haven to Boost Profits as Sales Slide — International Business Machines Corp. has reduced its tax rate to a two-decade low with help from a tax strategy that sends profits through a Dutch subsidiary. — The approach, which involves routing almost all sales in Europe …

More: Ars Technica and The Register. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

AllCast works with Chromecast again, streams local media from Android to TV — With Google releasing the official Chromecast SDK to developers on Monday, we can expect an influx of Chromecast apps to follow. And among the first is AllCast, which actually had and later lost Chromecast support …

More: Koushik Dutta, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Android Developers Blog, Android Police, Engadget, Betabeat, Phandroid, BGR, GoAndroid and AndroidGuys

John Ebbert / AdExchanger:

Rubicon Project Revealed: Files S-1, Looks To Raise $100 Million — At long last, sell-side platform (or do you say “ad exchange” or “marketplace”?) Rubicon Project has filed it's S-1 Registration Statement with the Securities And Exchange Commission in preparation for an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

More: Business Insider

Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:

RadioShack to Close About 500 Stores Within Months—Sources — Electronics Retailer, Advisers Continue to Work on Restructuring — RadioShack Corp. is planning to close around 500 stores in the coming months as the electronics retailer continues working with advisers to restructure the company …

More: Business Insider, BuzzFeed and Reuters

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers — Over the past year, there has been speculation of when or if Apple would build out their own content delivery network for the purpose of delivering content to consumers. To date, all of the CDN deployments done by Apple …

More: Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Gigaom Research, Data Center Knowledge, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, Softpedia News and App Advice. Thanks:@danrayburn

Washington Post:

Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures — The message broadcast in several states last winter was equal parts alarming and absurd: “Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. .

More: Techdirt, Gizmodo and Federal Computer Week

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Apple and Microsoft join US carriers in $750 million commitment to education — iPads, MacBooks, Windows 2-in-1s, teacher training, and wireless broadband have all been promised as part of a wide-ranging commitment from US companies to support Barack Obama's ConnectED plan.

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