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March 17, 2014, 4:50 AM

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Chris Wanstrath / GitHub:

GitHub begins full investigation, puts founder on leave after Julie Horvath's departure — Update on Julie Horvath's Departure — This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation.

More: Re/code and TechCrunch. Tweets: @johnj77, @anildash, @fmanjoo, @nrrrdcore, @glennf, @danadanger, @glennf, @mm, @nrrrdcore, @carnage4life, @nrrrdcore, @fmanjoo, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @joshelman, @ashleymayer and @nrrrdcore

TechCrunch:

Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit — The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal culture …

More: Re/code, The Verge, ReadWrite and Business Insider

Tweets: @paulg, @fmanjoo, @nrrrdcore, @cbracy, @aredridel, @nrrrdcore, @mims, @pchap10k and @zedshaw

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Before He Died, Steve Jobs Told Top Executives Apple Would Not Be Making A TV — Ever since Apple released the iPad, people have been speculating about what Apple would do next. — After revolutionizing the mobile phone with the iPhone, and the PC with the iPad, many expect Apple to revolutionize the TV.

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, Webomatica, The Verge, SlashGear, CNET and Pocket-lint

Tweets: @markgurman, @benbajarin, @arnoldkim, @stroughtonsmith, @markgurman, @bryfitz, @reckless, @sammywalrusiv, @stroughtonsmith, @monkbent and @panzer

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Yahoo to Release New Flickr App and Web Design, Replacing Previous New One — In December of 2012, just six months after Marissa Mayer was hired as CEO of Yahoo, the company released version 2.0 of its Apple iPhone and iPad app for its photo-sharing Flickr with bigger, crisper photos, a cleaner design, filters and easier sharing.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog

Austin Hill / Medium:

A broad examination of the technical and social issues surrounding anonymity apps — On your permanent record — Anonymity, pseudonymity, ephemerality & bears omfg! — Anonymity seems to be all the rage in Silicon Valley and startups lately. — Recently Whisper raised another $30 million …

Tweets: @austinhill, @moot and @mathewi

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Investors Debate The Ethics Of Anonymity Apps

More: Both Sides of the Table, Chris Saad, TechCrunch, Re/code, Hunter Walk and Medium

Tweets: @parislemon, @msquinn, @nrrrdcore, @msuster, @ginab, @lauraglu, @mikeisaac, @tolles, @mm, @samfbiddle, @pmarca, @pmarca and @davidbyttow

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Secret Now Warning Users Not To “Defame” Others

More: PC Magazine. Tweets: @davidbyttow

Richard Padilla / MacRumors:

Jony Ive Discusses Design Philosophy, Relationship with Steve Jobs, and Future of Apple in New Interview — In a lengthy interview with The Sunday Times (via 9To5Mac), Apple's Senior Vice President of Design Jonathan Ive discussed a number of topics including his philosophy on design and collaboration …

More: The Sunday Times, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pulse 2.0, Cult of Mac and SlashGear. Tweets: @ia

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Popcorn Time service for pirated movies refuses to stay shut down — Last week, a movie-watching service called Popcorn Time hit the internet — it promised a Netflix-like experience for any movie you might want to watch, but used the expansive network of pirated BitTorrent movies to deliver content to users.

More: TorrentFreak, GitHub, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Engadget and Daily Dot. Tweets: @zseward

Enda Curran / Wall Street Journal:

How Hong Kong Lost the Alibaba IPO — Exchange, Chinese E-Commerce Giant Fell Out Over a Rule — HONG KONG—Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s planned listing in New York is a blow to Hong Kong's stock exchange, which failed in an effort to change its rules so as to accommodate …

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:

Alibaba Confirms It Will Begin I.P.O. Process in U.S.

More: Alizila, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, CNET, Fox Business, TechNode, BBC and brecorder.com. See also Mediagazer

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Inside The IPO Of Candy Crush Maker King Digital — The company behind the wildly popular mobile game Candy Crush, King Digital Entertainment, is going public. An updated F-1 filing indicates that it wants to raise up to $532.8 million at a valuation of $7.6 billion. The flotation is no small event.

More: Mercury News, Forbes, Fox Business and Wall Street Journal

David Román / Wall Street Journal:

Vodafone to pay just over €7 billion for Ono after Ono shareholders agree to sell — MADRID— Vodafone Group PLC has reached an agreement with shareholders of Ono SA to buy the Spanish cable company for just over seven billion euros ($9.73 billion) including debt, people with knowledge of the deal said Sunday.

More: ZDNet, The Register, Reuters and Bloomberg

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Ukrainian hackers claim they took down NATO websites ahead of secession vote — Ukrainian hackers are claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that brought down a pair of NATO websites today, in an act of protest against Western powers on the eve of a major vote that could see a portion of Ukraine handed over to Russia.

More: Motherboard, Reuters, ZDNet, CNN, Reuters, RT, SecurityWeek, SlashGear and thedrum.com

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Dick Costolo's first visit to China fuels speculation on Twitter's interest in the market — Twitter CEO Costolo to make first China visit — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc CEO Dick Costolo will meet Shanghai government officials, academics and students in his first visit to China …

More: Engadget and The Next Web

Jesse Lichtenstein / Atlanta Magazine:

A profile of Glass tech lead Thad Starner, who built his first head-mounted computer in 1993 — Magnifying glass — Thad Starner has been wearing some kind of computer on his head for twenty years. Now the Georgia Tech professor and Google Glass pioneer wants the world to join him.

More: Quartz and Glass Almanac. Tweets: @tdechant and @tsimonite

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