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May 7, 2014, 3:55 PM

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John Paczkowski / Re/code:
Apple's worldwide communications VP Katie Cotton retiring after nearly two decades at the company  —  Code/red: Apple PR Impresario Katie Cotton to Retire  —  // HAPPENING TODAY  — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will drop by TechCrunch Disrupt to dodge some questions.  — AOL will be hammered following an earnings miss.
Bob Rosin / Official LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn partners with Evernote to scan business cards, will shut down its CardMunch app  —  Evernote + LinkedIn: Powering Professional Relationships  —  Business cards are one of the many ways people initiate professional relationships, so it is important to us that our members can quickly …
United Nations:
UN telecom agency predicts 3B Internet users, 2.3B mobile broadband subscriptions by end of 2014  —  Internet well on way to 3 billion users, UN telecom agency reports  —  Releasing new statistics today, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced that by end 2014 …
Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
HP to invest $1B over two years in OpenStack, integrate its cloud services under HP Helion brand  —  HP Makes $1 Billion Bet on Open Cloud  —  Hewlett-Packard is making its big bet on cloud computing, with a significant change of its own products and business, and the biggest endorsement yet …
Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Andy Baio crowdfunds $30,000 in 90 minutes to relaunch community event site Upcoming  —  Serial co-founder Andy Baio re-introduced Upcoming, the collaborative events site.  Purchased by Yahoo in 2005 and shutdown last year, Baio is relaunching the site via Kickstarter.
Ryan Tate / Wired:
Next Big Thing You Missed: Inside Tindie, a Thriving New Marketplace for DIY Gadgets  —  By day, Emile Petrone was a web programmer.  But in his spare time, he would tinker with the Ardruino and the Raspberry Pi, two inexpensive kits that let you build your own hardware devices.
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Rich Trenholm / CNET News:
Samsung Knox 2.0 makes Galaxy S5 safe for work with split billing  —  Samsung has updated its business-focused Knox with a dedicated app store and split billing so you can pay for work and personal calls separately.  —  Samsung gets down to business with Knox 2.0 on the S5  —  Samsung
Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:
‘Unparalleled Ruthlessness’ Awaits: Jack Ma's Letter to Alibaba Employees.  —  One element missing from Alibaba's initial public offering prospectus - weighing in at 248 pages before notes and exhibits - was a letter from founder Jack Ma.  —  People familiar with the matter had said that some missive …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer Explains Why Yahoo Is Undervalued  —  On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pushed against the narrative that Yahoo is worth nothing.  The company has a market capitalization in the tens of billions, but it's been pointed out that if you add …
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Nintendo reports third consecutive annual loss as Wii U sales fizzle out  —  Nintendo made an annual operating loss for the third consecutive year in 2013, ending up ¥46.4 billion ($457 million) in the red as Wii U sales failed to pick up following the holiday season.
Erin McCarthy / Wall Street Journal:
Pandora tests Promoted Stations native ad product with 10% of users  —  Pandora Launches Promoted Stations  —  Internet Radio Service Seeks to Boost Advertising Revenue  —  Pandora Media Inc. continued its push to boost advertising revenue Wednesday, launching so-called promoted stations that partner with advertisers.
Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
SAP Fires Cloud Chief Shawn Price and Realigns Company  —  Days after a weekend re-shuffling of its executive board, SAP, the German business software giant, has fired the head of its cloud business unit Shawn Price, sources familiar with the move tell Re/code.
Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon clocked $67.8B in online sales in 2013, more than its next 10 biggest competitors combined  —  Apple Jumps to Second Place in Online Retail … In the crusade to capture clicks and pull in dollars from online sales, Amazon remains the clear frontrunner.
Liz Gannes / Re/code:
Tech Leaders Call on California to Boost Computer Science  —  High-profile technology executives and investors are asking for a meeting with California Governor Jerry Brown to discuss augmenting computer science education in the state's public schools.  —  In a letter they circulated to the press …
David Talbot / MIT Technology Review:
VCs say net neutrality proposal hurts startups that need fast connections or lots of bandwidth  —  Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups  —  Some VCs say the FCC's latest net neutrality proposal will raise costs for startups that need fast connections or use a lot of bandwidth.

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