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March 31, 2014, 6:05 PM
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Satya Nadella / Microsoft Corporation:
Microsoft CEO promotes Scott Guthrie to EVP of Cloud and Enterprise, names Stephen Elop EVP of Devices, consolidates Xbox teams under Phil Spencer  —  Satya Nadella email to employees on tuning our organization  —  Today marks the start of another big week for Microsoft as we gear up for the Build conference in San Francisco.
Phil Spencer / Xbox Wire:
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer leads Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox Music, Xbox Video, and Microsoft Studios  —  A New Day at Xbox  —  By Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox  —  Our community is at the heart of what we do at Xbox.  Whether it is meeting thousands of fans at the launch of Xbox One …
Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:
Galaxy S5's OLED display is the “best performing smartphone display that we have ever tested”  —  Samsung Galaxy S5 Display Technology Shoot-Out  —  Introduction The Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series of Smartphones are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest …
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
Exclusive: NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought - study  —  (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications …
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
More Exec Departures Hit Payments Startup Clinkle  —  Sooner or later, you'd think the bleeding has to stop at Clinkle.  Not yet, though.  —  Re/code has learned that Chief Service and Operational Officer Andy Rendich has left the startup just a few weeks after COO Barry McCarthy …
More: VentureBeat.  Tweets: @delrey
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
More Wi-Fi is better: FCC expands use of 5GHz spectrum  —  Agency also says it will auction 65MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband.  —  In a unanimous vote, the Federal Communications Commission has agreed to expand the amount of the 5GHz band that Wi-Fi takes up by 100MHz.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft to highlight its ‘One Windows’ progress at Build 2014  —  Summary: What's on tap for Microsoft's Build conference this week?  Here's what we know and what we think we know.  —  While Microsoft execs have made subsstantial progress in the past couple of years toward breaking …
Eat24:
A marketer's amusing “Breakup Letter” to Facebook over News Feed algorithm changes  —  A Breakup Letter to Facebook from Eat24  —  Hey.  It's Eat24.  Look, we need to talk.  This isn't easy to say since we've been together so long, but we need to break up.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Jelly for iOS now lets you ask and answer questions with a location  —  Jelly, the app that helps people from around the world answer each other's questions, today updated its iOS app with new tools for posing and explaining problems.  —  In version 1.1, you can now create a new question using a map and a specific location.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Square Market Partners With Coinbase To Accept Bitcoin  —  In the sci-fi show Almost Human, everyone has a bitcoin wallet.  More and more places to spend bitcoin means that could become a reality, and popular indie merchant mobile payment provider Square is the latest to accept the cryptocurrency.
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube seeks more TV ad dollars, offering audience guarantees and placement on top shows  —  YouTube to Offer Advertisers Some Guarantees  —  YouTube Also Will Reserve Space for Advertisers That Commit to Buying in Top Shows  —  Google Inc. is ramping up its assault on traditional television's advertising business.
Aman Shah / Reuters:
Cisco rival Arista Networks files for IPO  —  (Reuters) - Arista Networks Inc, which makes network switches for large data centers, filed for an initial public offering on Monday, the latest in a string of cloud computing firms tapping investor enthusiasm around the technology.
Joseph Czikk / BetaKit:
PasswordBox Will Now Use Bionym's ECG-Sensing Tech for Authentification  —  PasswordBox has inked a partnership with Toronto-based wearable tech startup Bionym (the startup everyone loves), to add ECG-sensing biometric technology to PasswordBox's security features.

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The Guardian:
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