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March 30, 2014, 1:00 AM

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Spiegel Online:

GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies — Documents show that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America's NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database.

More: The Intercept, The Verge, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Engadget, Guardian, TheHill and Mashable

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Paul Graham / Y Combinator Posthaven:

Paul Graham steps away from Hacker News, handing control to five Y Combinator staffers — Meet the People Taking over Hacker News — I did several different things while I was working on Hacker News, and these will now be taken over by different people. — Kevin Hale (HN id kevin) will be in charge of design.

More: Re/code and TechCrunch

Threes:

Frustrated by popular fast following rip-offs like 2048, creators of Threes tout advantages of their 14-month development process — The Rip-offs & Making Our Original Game — It's been a weird and awesome couple of months. Our expectations for our tiny game were well, fairly tiny.

More: Los Angeles Times, Geekosystem, Tech2, Business Insider, Polygon, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Community, Business Insider and Los Angeles Times

Tweets: @ashervo, @aeiowu and @gruber

Julie Zhuo / Medium:

Facebook designer defends scaled-back News Feed redesign, noting low-res monitors are too common for big photos — Whatever's Best For The People, That's What We Do — Earlier today, Dustin Curtis wrote a post about the recent Facebook desktop redesign.

More: Dustin Curtis. Tweets: @marcusf, @joulee, @mat, @dcurtis, @mikeisaac and @digitalmash

George Anders / Forbes:

Sequoia Capital profiled as a feisty, decisive, luxury-eschewing band of outsiders — Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory — When Doug Leone arrived in Mount Vernon, N.Y. in 1968, the 11-year-old Italian immigrant didn't have a clue.

More: StrictlyVC. Tweets: @alexia, @sequoia_capital, @joyce, @furrier, @katiefehren, @alexrkonrad, @jeremysliew, @pmarca and @abrams

Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Google claims Turkey intercepts their DNS — Summary: Apparently in order to enforce a government ban on certain services, Turkish ISPs are intercepting access of Google's public DNS service. — Google is claiming that ISPs in Turkey are intercepting their DNS service.

More: Google Online Security Blog, Blog de Sté, BetaNews, pcsupport.about.com, SecurityWeek and Naked Security

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

BBM Now At 85M Monthly Active Users, 113M Registered Users, 500,000 Channels — The BlackBerry that's in the process of reinventing itself is an increasingly cross-platform creature — retrenching to serving its enterprise core by seeking to help them manage the bring-your-own-device wave that decimated its previous business.

More: Softpedia News, Phones Review, WinBeta, WMPoweruser, MarketWatch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, BGR and BGR. Tweets: @marypcbuk

Reuters:

BlackBerry wins preliminary injunction against Typo, banning sale of iPhone keyboard case — BlackBerry wins court order against TV host Ryan Seacrest's Typo — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd won a preliminary injunction on Friday to ban Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC from selling …

More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Re/code, Computerworld, PhoneNews.com, TechnoBuffalo, TodaysiPhone.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, Engadget, I4U News, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @inafried, @inafried and @inafried

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Cable's Next Big Threat: Loss of Ad Dollars To YouTube, AOL — It turns out that cord-cutting isn't the only threat facing cable channels. — Several of the big ad-supported online video outlets, including Google's YouTube, AOL and others, plan this upfront season to target some of the ad dollars …

Tweets: @wsj

Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters:

Google researchers: 21 of world's top 25 news orgs targeted by hackers, likely state-sponsored — Journalists, media under attack from hackers: Google researchers — (Reuters) - Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organizations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks …

More: Guardian, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, SC Magazine, Lastest ITProPortal news and Inquirer

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Roku's Streaming Stick is now shipping from Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and others in the US — Google recently launched its Chromecast streaming dongle in almost a dozen new markets, but now Roku is offering an alternative. The company's new Streaming Stick, which plugs into the back of your TV through …

More: HotHardware.com News

Jonathan Feist / Android Authority:

Google Play Developer Program Policies get updated, user experience and security take focus — Google is pushing out an update to the Play Developer Program Policies in an effort to protect users and help shape the user experience. The update contains some new policies and some updated wording …

More: TechCrunch, Softpedia News, AndroidOS.in, Phandroid, AndroidHeadlines.com and Android Police

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