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February 28, 2014, 1:10 PM

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Wall Street Journal:
Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy protection with $63.6M in outstanding debt; loses 750K customers' bitcoins, 100K of its own, worth in total $473M  —  Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection  —  A lawyer for Mt. Gox announced at a news conference at the Tokyo District Court that the embattled bitcoin exchange …
Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac:
Apple Stores discounting Apple TV w/ $25 iTunes card ahead of new hardware rumored for spring  —  Update: Apple has confirmed the promo, and according to the T&C online orders are also eligible.  —  According to our sources, Apple retail employees were informed this morning that beginning today …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft experimenting with free version of Windows 8.1  —  Microsoft is currently experimenting with a free version of Windows 8.1 that could boost the number of people using the operating system.  Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed to The Verge that the company is building …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
IPCom's $2.2 billion lawsuit against Apple thrown out by German court: no infringement found  —  Two different chambers (panels of judges) of the Mannheim Regional Court just announced a total of three rulings on standard-essential patent (SEP) infringement cases brought by IPCom …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo's project “Touchdown” will turn part of its homepage into an app promotion platform  —  Yahoo Sporty Project Codenames Continue With “Touchdown”  —  Being one of the more sports-impaired people I know, I now have concluded that there is a plot on the part of Yahoo execs …
More: WebProNews
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Amazon Talks to Music Labels About a Streaming Service  —  Amazon gives away movies and TV shows to people who join its Amazon Prime subscription service.  When will it start giving away music, too?  —  Maybe this year.  People have been predicting that Amazon would offer a Spotify …
Patrick Howell O'Neill / Daily Dot:
Tor is building an anonymous instant messenger  —  Forget the $16 billion romance between Facebook and WhatsApp.  There's a new messaging tool worth watching.  —  Tor, the team behind the world's leading online anonymity service, is developing a new anonymous instant messenger client …
More: SlashGear and Social News DailyTweets: @m0zilla
Rene Ritchie / iMore:
Apple posts design guides and resources to help developers make better apps  —  Apple has added a new Design Guides and Resources section to their developer center.  It includes videos and documentation on user interface design for apps and games, overviews of what's new in iOS 7, best practices …
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Fab's CFO and Chief People Officer Are Latest Exits  —  The executive departures at troubled design e-commerce company Fab keep coming.  Fab's chief financial officer David Lapter and chief people officer Allison Rutledge-Parisi are leaving the company.
More: Re/code
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Redesigns Hangouts For iOS, Adds Video Messages And Animated Stickers  —  Google today launched a new version of its Google+ Hangouts for iOS app.  This new version is the first to be fully optimized for iOS 7, with a new loading screen and menus, cleaner look, different typography and a couple of new features, too.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Adobe, Prezi contribute $400M in software licenses to Obama's ConnectED initiative to modernize classrooms  —  Prezi And Adobe Join Obama's ConnectED Tech Initiative For US Classrooms  —  Prezi, the cloud-based startup which competes with Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote …
Mark Ward / BBC:
UK power companies denied cyberattack insurance because their defences are too weak  —  Energy firm cyber-defence is ‘too weak’, insurers say  —  Energy bosses are getting increasingly worried about the risks posed by cyber attack  —  Power companies are being refused insurance cover …
More: Slate and The RegisterTweets: @interpol_cyber
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Now Serving 4M Downloads Daily, The Windows Store Has Grown 135% Since October  —  Buried in its MWC slides, Microsoft announced that it now serves 4 million application downloads daily from the Windows Store, the application marketplace for Windows 8.x.  —  Four million downloads per …
Bonnie Cha / Re/code:
Dude, Where's My Phone?  Lenovo, Ashton Kutcher to Launch Line of Phones This Year.  —  Yes, you read that right.  —  The star of “Two and Half Men” and “Jobs” is designing a line of special edition phones for Lenovo to be launched later this year, according to Lenovo Chief Marketing Officer David Roman.
Associated Press:
California Court: Drivers Can Read Cellphone Maps … FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Drivers in California can legally read a map on their hand-held cellphones while behind the wheel, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.  —  The 5th District Court of Appeal reversed the case of a Fresno man …

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