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April 15, 2014, 11:45 AM

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Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter acquires social data provider Gnip, plans to offer more sophisticated data sets  —  Twitter welcomes Gnip to the flock  —  Every day Twitter users share and discuss their interests and what's happening in the world.  These public Tweets can reveal a wide variety of insights …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Report: Amazon's 4.7-inch 720p smartphone to have glasses-free 3D UI, 2GB RAM, 13MP camera  —  This is Amazon's smartphone  —  BGR gives the world an exclusive first look at the unannounced smartphone Amazon is set to debut in the coming months  —  After years of development …
Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:
Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when  —  Ever since the “Heartbleed” flaw in encryption protocol OpenSSL was made public on April 7 in the US there have been various questions about who knew what and when.  Fairfax Media has spoken to various people and groups involved and has compiled the below timeline.
More: Digital Trends and The RegisterTweets: @stshankThanks:@bengrubb
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Vicious Heartbleed bug bites millions of Android phones, other devices  —  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library via Wikipedia  —  The catastrophic Heartbleed security bug that has already bitten Yahoo Mail, the Canada Revenue Agency …
Thijs van As / Gmail Blog:
Gmail makes it easier to email photos automatically backed up from your smartphone  —  The photos from your phone, now one click away  —  Unless you're a budding Ansel Adams, odds are you take most of your photos using your phone.  And whether it's photos of your hiking trip or a night out …
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF's Housing Crisis Explained)  —  A hearse rolls up to a Yahoo bus at the BART MacArthur Station in Oakland.  A protester who had climbed on top of the bus later vomited on the vehicle.  (From Indybay)  —  The Santa Clara Valley …
Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
Teardown Shows Samsung's Galaxy S5 Costs About $256 to Build  —  The Galaxy S5, Samsung's new flagship smartphone, costs about $256 to build according to a teardown analysis by market research firm IHS that will be published later today.  —  Released over the weekend, and winning praise …
Tom Lavell / Bloomberg:
Zebra Technologies to buy Motorola's enterprise business for $3.45B  —  Zebra to Buy Motorola Solutions Unit for $3.45 Billion  —  Zebra Technologies Corp. (ZBRA) will acquire the enterprise business of Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) for $3.45 billion, adding mobile computing …
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Google's updated terms of service clarifies how emails are analyzed for targeting ads  —  Google unveils email scanning practices in new terms of service  —  (Reuters) - Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails …
Liz Gannes / Re/code:
Samsung exec at trial: marketing drove our sales; designer denies influence of slide-to-unlock  —  Samsung Designer Denies Apple Influence: “Absolutely Not”  —  Did Samsung steal its slide-to-unlock feature from Apple's smartphone software?  —  “Absolutely not,” said Samsung senior UI designer Youngmi Kim …
Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo:
Anyone Can Buy Google Glass Today, Starting Now  —  If you've long lusted over a pair of the world's geekiest glasses, today all your Christmases come at once.  For one day only, Google is allowing any United States resident to buy Glass.  —  The folks at Mountain View still expect …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Xbox One update rolling out with Kinect improvements and friend notifications  —  Microsoft seems to be improving its Xbox One software on a monthly basis, and April is no different.  Starting today, the software maker is rolling out its latest update to Xbox One consoles, bringing some new features and improvements along the way.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
YouTube using traditional advertising to promote star content creators  —  Exclusive Interview: Susan Wojcicki's Plan to Make YouTube ‘Stars’ Real-Life Famous  —  And Guaranteeing Audiences In Bid to Pry More TV Dollars Away In the Upfront  —  How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World
Colleen Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Red Hat Announces OpenShift Marketplace  —  Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), a leading provider of open source solutions, announced at its conference this week OpenShift Marketplace, a one-stop shop that will enable customers of all sizes to find and try solutions for their cloud applications.
Devika Krishna Kumar / Reuters:
Mt. Gox founder won't appear in U.S. for questions about bankruptcy case  —  (Reuters) - Mark Karpeles, the founder of Mt. Gox, said he would not come to the United States to answer questions about the Japanese bitcoin exchange's U.S. bankruptcy case, Mt. Gox lawyers told a federal judge on Monday.
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
FCC plans to reserve up to a third of licenses for small wireless carriers in spectrum auction  —  Bidding Rules Becoming Clearer for Upcoming Airwaves Auction  —  Federal officials plan to reserve up to a third of licenses sold in a TV airwaves auction next year for smaller wireless carriers under …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Mobile Control In The Cloud: ItsOn Raises $12.5M From Tenaya And Andreessen Horowitz  —  ItsOn, startup founded by alums from Qualcomm, Nokia and Yahoo that has developed a cloud-based mobile services platform that it sells as both a B2B and B2C product, is today confirming that it has raised …

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