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March 24, 2014, 1:00 PM

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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 …

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

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

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple's iTunes Radio Adds NPR News Channel — When iTunes Radio launched last fall, the service was designed for music fans (and music labels). Now it is branching out: National Public Radio is adding the first news channel to Apple's audio streaming service, with more on the way.

More: AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac and iDownloadBlog.com. See also Mediagazer

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Cisco to invest $1B in new “Cisco Cloud Services” effort aimed at large corporate customers — Cisco Joins Race to Offer Cloud Services — Firm to Spend $1 billion in Next Two Years to Enter Market — Cisco Systems Inc. plans to begin offering “cloud” …

More: VentureBeat, Data Center Knowledge, Cisco, InfoWorld, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Light Reading, ZDNet, TechEye and Network World

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 …

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors — As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors — Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising.

More: Business Insider and Marketing Land. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @wsjd and @wsj

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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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Popcorn Time is doing for distribution of pirated movies what the movie industry needs to do for itself — The Sweet Irony Of Popcorn Time — So the big fun story of last week was this streaming movie app called Popcorn Time. Essentially, it aggregated torrent links and packaged …

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Google's new Photowall app turns your Chromecast-connected TV into an interactive photo frame — Adding to the capabilities of the Chromecast HDMI streaming stick, Google is out with a new app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users called Photowall that lets you turn your Chromecast-connected TV into a live, interactive photo frame.

More: Gigaom, The Next Web, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, MacNN, SlashGear, Redmond Pie and Droid Life

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.

More: Vox - Facebook. Tweets: @reckless, @binarybits, @mathewi and @gaberivera. See also Mediagazer

Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:

ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP — End support for XP is prompting them to seek out Windows alternatives — Some financial services companies are looking to migrate their ATM fleets from Windows to Linux in a bid to have better control over hardware and software upgrade cycles.

More: ZDNet and TechCrunch

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