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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 …

More: VentureBeat, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, DailyTech, TechnologyTell, GeekWire, IGN, gameinformer.com, Eurogamer.net, GameSpot, TechnoBuffalo, Giant Bomb, Kotaku, WinBeta, Ubergizmo, Polygon, VG247, destructoid, Joystiq and VideoGamer.com

Tweets: @xboxp3, @therealcliffyb, @tomwarren and @albertpenello

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 …

More: Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, The Droid Guy, Android Authority, SamMobile, iClarified, Android Central, Droid Life, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup.com, BGR, Android Beat, ExtremeTech, TechnoBuffalo, Phones Review, SlashGear, 9to5Google and MobileBurn.com

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed — The most challenging part of last year's iPhone 5s review was piecing together details about Apple's A7 without any internal Apple assistance. I had less than a week to turn the review around and limited access to tools (much less time to develop …

More: MacRumors, iMore, ExtremeTech, iPhone in Canada Blog and AppleInsider. Tweets: @panzer

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Cloudera raises $900 million, plots expansion — With virtualized servers and private clouds gaining popularity, your power and cooling requirements have probably changed. Check out this white paper to learn more about optimizing your power and cooling systems. — Customers are changing.

More: Cloudera, Reuters, bizjournals, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, ReadWrite and Silicon Republic

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Intel takes 18% stake in Cloudera with $740M investment, valuing company at $4.1B

More: SiliconANGLE

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 …

More: Ars Technica, Techdirt, DSLreports, Engadget and Gigaom

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo in talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for close to $300M — Yahoo in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN — Sources — Deal Would Help Yahoo Compete With Google's YouTube — Yahoo Inc. is in preliminary talks to acquire online-video service News …

Tweets: @xpangler, @dmac1 and @karaswisher. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: FCC, ZDNet, ReadWrite, Re/code, Gigaom, Gigaom and The Verge

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 …

More: Windows Phone Central, Business Insider and Computerworld

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.

More: blog.jelly.co, Tnooz, TechCrunch and VentureBreak

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.

More: The Corner, The Next Web, CoinDesk, Mashable, CryptoCoinsNews and newsBTC. Tweets: @carlmartin

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.

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan and @digitalshields

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Buys France's Mesagraph And UK's SecondSync To Ramp Up Social TV Efforts In Europe — Twitter is adding more global firepower to its ambitions to cosy up to broadcasters and TV advertisers: it is buying France's Mesagraph, and it is also acquiring SecondSync in the UK.

More: Mesagraph, The Twitter Blog, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Adweek, VentureBeat, The Next Web, KANTAR and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: bizjournals, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Light Reading, Data Center Knowledge and Gigaom. Thanks:@daniel_levine

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

OKCupid shows Firefox users a full-page interstitial suggesting alternate browsers in protest of Mozilla's CEO — OKCupid asks users to boycott Firefox because of CEO's gay rights stance — Anyone accessing the popular dating site OKCupid with Firefox today is in for a surprise.

More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, cir.ca, TechWeekEurope UK, TechSpot, The Register and HotHardware.com News. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

ClearStory Raises $21M From DAG Ventures, KPCB, A16Z To Bring Data Intelligence To The Masses — ClearStory Data, a company that wants to bring data intelligence to the masses, has raised $21 million in Series B funding led by DAG Ventures with Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures …

More: Gigaom, PE Hub Blog, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and silicontap.com

Zac Hall / 9to5Google:

Rdio, Crackle, & Vudu add Chromecast support for music, movie, and TV show streaming — Adding to the catalog of Chromecast-supported content, Rdio and Crackle are both adding the ability to play more content from your smartphone, tablet, or browser to your TV today.

More: Rdio Blog, VUDU Blog, PC Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Alibaba Will Pay $692M For 35% Stake In Retail Operator Intime — Alibaba has agreed to pay $692 million for a 35% stake in Intime Retail, which operates department stores throughout China. The two companies will form a joint initiative to focus on offline-to-online retail opportunities.

More: PC World, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, internetretailer.com, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, The Next Web, VatorNews, BBC and Reuters

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.

More: TechCrunch and Techvibes Global News

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