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April 7, 2014, 1:25 PM

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft to launch Xbox original TV shows in June, has six series lined up, with more than a dozen projects in development — Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is going Hollywood with a cast including comedians Sarah Silverman and Seth Green …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Acquires Android Lockscreen App Cover, Moves Deeper Into Mobile Services — A very interesting acquisition announcement from Twitter today: it's buying Cover, an Android lockscreen app that lets you customise what apps you see and when. For now, Cover will remain live in the Play store.

More: Cover, The Verge, Re/code, 9to5Google, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, AndroidGuys and Android Community. Tweets: @rsarver

Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:

Seagate releases 6TB hard drive, its fastest yet — Seagate has released its first 6TB hard drive, saying that it was able to reach that capacity without using helium like rival Western Digital. — Seagate has released its first 6TB, enterprise-class hard disk drive …

More: eWeek, TechCrunch, Inquirer, PC Magazine, The Register, BetaNews, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Geek.com, Electronista, Electronista, Softpedia News, TechSpot and HotHardware.com News. Tweets: @qthrul

Michael Crider / Android Police:

#1 new paid app in Play Store “Virus Shield” has no functionality, later removed by Google — The #1 New Paid App In The Play Store Costs $4, Has Over 10,000 Downloads, A 4.7-Star Rating... And It's A Total Scam [Updated] — Computer security is important, even if the computer in question fits in your hand.

More: BGR, Network World, Business Insider, We Live Security, Tech2 and GSMArena Blog

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

The Six Juiciest Documents From the Apple-Samsung Trial This Week — Internal Apple document provided by Samsung — You'd think a corporate patent infringement battle would be boring — and you'd usually be right, even during the high-profile Round Two of Samsung versus Apple.

More: AppleInsider, Gigaom, MacRumors, BGR, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Mac, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, PadGadget, TechnoBuffalo, iLounge, Guardian, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Ubergizmo, iPhone, Tech.pinions, Softpedia News, Engadget and App Advice

Tweets: @jyarow and @jyarow

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Internal slides show why Apple needs a big iPhone: no growth for 4-inch phones costing $300+

More: iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, TechSpot, everythingiCafe, Business Insider, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo and MacRumors

Tweets: @arix and @antrod

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo, like Netflix and Amazon, looks to produce full half-hour TV comedies — Yahoo Makes New Push Into Video Production — Internet Company Hunts for Original Web-Series Programming — Yahoo Inc. is raising its ambitions in online video, with plans to acquire the kind of original programming …

More: Telegraph, VideoNuze Analysis, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Valleywag, Digital Trends, CNET, DailyTech, Gizmodo, Engadget, Softpedia News, SlashGear, The Verge, The Next Web, Vulture, The Huffington Post and TIME

Tweets: @amolsharmawsj, @carr2n and @dmac1

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Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

How Techmeme Became The Must-Read News Site For Everyone In The Multibillion-Dollar Tech Industry — Over the past 10 years, the technology industry has evolved from photo-sharing websites like Flickr to photo-sharing apps like Instagram. — And, we suppose, there's been a few other changes along the way.

Tweets: @zpower, @tcarmody, @nikcub, @laughingstoic, @dmac1, @jtemple, @mikeisaac, @caseynewton, @hunterwalk, @rafat, @gaberivera, @parislemon and @qthrul. Thanks:@matthewmspace. See also Mediagazer

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808/810: 20nm High-End 64-bit SoCs with LTE Category 6/7 Support in 2015 — Today Qualcomm is rounding out its 64-bit family with the Snapdragon 808 and 810. Like the previous 64-bit announcements (Snapdragon 410, 610 and 615), the 808 and 810 leverage ARM's own CPU IP …

More: Qualcomm, Engadget, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Reuters, MobileSyrup.com, dailywireless.org, Technology Personalized, Gizmodo, AndroidGuys, Geek.com, CNET, MobileBurn.com, Re/code, Android Authority, Xperia Blog and SlashGear. Thanks:@srikardr

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Appoints William Pence From WebMD As New CTO; Curtis Brown Steps Down — AOL's ongoing push to turn its business around and focus on more ad-tech fuelled media plays continues apace: today the company (which owns TechCrunch) appointed a new CTO, William Pence, who it's hired away from WebMD, where he was also CTO as well as EVP.

More: ZDNet, Softpedia News and Wall Street Journal. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Square Also Just Got Hundreds of Millions in Credit — So What's Up With Debt Financing? — Late-stage Internet startups are developing a taste for a different flavor of money: Debt financing. Just like Dropbox, Square has secured a revolving credit facility worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

More: CNBC

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Dropbox Secures More Than $500 Million in Credit Financing

More: Financial Times, Gigaom Research and TechCrunch

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's open sourcing of .Net: The back story — Summary: Microsoft's decision to open source more of its .Net platform didn't happen overnight, or even in the past few weeks. It was a move years in the making. — Microsoft's move to open source key chunks of its .Net platform …

More: Windows Phone Central

Bloomberg:

HTC Posts Second Loss in Three Quarters Ahead of M8 Smartphone — HTC Corp. (2498) posted its second loss in three quarters after sales at the Taiwanese maker of smartphones slowed ahead of the release of a new version of its mainstay One device. — First-quarter loss was NT$1.88 billion …

More: Reuters, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, Gigaom, Inquirer, 9to5Google, Wall Street Journal, BGR, SiliconANGLE, BBC, ZDNet, Android Central and Electronista

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Organizers of demonstration at Kevin Rose's home demand $3B from Google for an anarchist utopia — Anarchists Picket Digg Founder's House And Demand $3 Billion For Anti-Capitalist Housing — Anarchists staged a protest outside the San Francisco house of Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose today.

More: SiliconBeat, The Technology Chronicles and Indybay newswire

Tweets: @melodymcc, @christinelu and @thestalwart

Kevin Rose / Instagram:

Anti-tech protesters visit Kevin Rose's SF home, distribute leaflets calling him a “parasite”

More: Inquirer, bizjournals, TechCrunch, Gawker, VatorNews, TechSpot, CNET, Re/code, Mashable and VentureBeat

Tweets: @kevinrose, @kevinrose, @startupljackson, @tolles, @kevinrose, @linecook, @davidmarcus, @kevinrose, @ferenstein, @hemeon, @rstephens and @startupljackson

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