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March 24, 2014, 7:35 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Apple in Talks with Comcast About Streaming-TV Service — Companies Discuss Service That Would Try to Bypass Web Congestion — Apple Inc. is in talks with Comcast Corp. about teaming up for a streaming-television service that would use an Apple set-top box and get special treatment …

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Apple wants its own path on Comcast network for video service, WSJ says

More: ZDNet and CNNMoney.com

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft's $7.2B Nokia deal is officially delayed until April — Nokia and Microsoft will have to wait a little longer to press the Start button. — Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business, originally expected to close this quarter …

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:

The Brutal Ageism of Tech — Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete — “I have more botox in me than any ten people,” Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February. He is a reality-show producer's idea of a cosmetic surgeon—his demeanor brash, his bone structure preposterous.

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Mike Elgan / Cult of Mac:

iOS 7's Multipeer Connectivity enables network creation and expansion in unconnected locations — How an Under-Appreciated iOS 7 Feature Will Change the World — A curious download hit Apple's app store this week: a messaging app called FireChat. — It's a new kind of app because it uses …

More: NEWS.com.au, iPhone Hacks and Mashable

Tweets: @maguay and @benedictevans

Mat Honan / Wired:

The Next Big Health App Needs to Do More Than Just Track Our Numbers — I don't want to die. And so I exercise regularly and eat lots of vegetables and track just about every damn thing I do. I step on a scale every morning. I can tell you exactly how many steps I took on any given day …

Tweets: @hopestreetgroup, @joshuaswartz, @hash and @smunson

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

‘HealthPatch’ biosensor coming soon to consumer products shows what's possible for Healthbook hardware

Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Nilay Patel, No Longer Managing Editor of The Verge, Moves to Vox.com — Nilay Patel, the well-known and highly regarded managing editor of The Verge, which he founded with editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky, has left that high-profile job, according to several sources.

Tweets: @gaberivera

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Sound familiar? Bitcoin exchange Vircurex freezes customer accounts as it battles insolvency — The implosion of Mt. Gox has been widely heralded as a sign of a new era of Bitcoin companies, but there are still examples of the unpredictable and shady side of the cryptocurrency world, as developments at Vircurex demonstrate.

More: Vircurex, ZDNet, Gigaom, Tech.pinions, Softpedia News, SocialTimes, Electronista, VentureBeat, TechHive, CoinDesk and TheDomains.com. Tweets: @jonrussell

Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:

Link Bubble loads web pages in the background, represents them with chat head-like bubble icon — [New App] Chris Lacy's Link Bubble Makes Browsing The Web On A Mobile Device Suck A Lot Less (Hands-On) — We're lucky to have capable mobile browsers on Android these days …

More: Computerworld, PC Magazine, Lifehacker, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web and Droid Life. Tweets: @whatthebit

Dan Kaplan / TechCrunch:

Real Engines Of Growth Have Nothing To Do With Growth Hacking — Imagine you're a 17-year-old girl at a well-to-do high school in Los Angeles and you just discovered Snapchat. Until that moment, every time you thought about sending risqué photos to your romantic interest …

Tweets: @gerrymcgovern, @tomskitomski, @arainert, @rakeshlobster, @sravish and @semil

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Change In UK Tax Law Could Raise The Price Of Music And Apps In The Country — A change in UK tax law that may take force at the start of 2015 would push the price of apps, music and other downloads and “e-services” higher in the United Kingdom. — The legal shift would see downloads …

More: Guardian, iMore, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Android Central, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, App Advice and 9to5Google

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

AOL brings its video-on-demand platform, AOL On, to the UK — AOL has launched its on-demand video platform, AOL ON, for UK audiences. — In a nutshell, ‘On’ brings all the company's premium video content together under one digital roof, and features a mix of curated and original content.

More: Telegraph and TechCrunch

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