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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple trade-in promotion begins: up to $99 for iPhone 4, $199 for 4s towards purchase of 5s, 5c  —  Apple kicks off its big in-store iPhone upgrade event  —  In line with our earlier report, Apple has just kicked off a big iPhone trade-in event at its U.S. retail stores …
Wall Street Journal:
Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine expected to take on senior roles at Apple as part of Beats acquisition  —  Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Would Both Join Apple in Beats Deal  —  Duo Could Help Tim Cook Broker Deals in Music Industry  —  Music mogul Jimmy Iovine gravitates to the limelight in a way that previously might …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Why Tim Cook might be interested in Beats
Jon Maples:
Apple buying Beats is an affordable bet on streaming to hedge against the decline of downloads
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
AT&T claims common carrier rules would ruin the whole Internet  —  AT&T today urged the Federal Communications Commission to avoid reclassifying broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service, which is something network neutrality advocates are asking the FCC to do.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
The Wayback Machine passes 400 billion indexed webpages, covering the Web from late 1996 to a few hours ago  —  The Internet Archive today announced a massive milestone for its Wayback Machine: 400 billion indexed webpages.  The data encompasses the Web as it looked anytime from late 1996 up until a few hours ago.
Brittany Hillen / SlashGear:
Moto E surfaces in press shots on retailer website  —  A shot of a handset said to be the Moto E appeared earlier today in a photograph next to the Moto X's smaller sibling, the Moto G. Following this, Twitter user Hudson Martins has tweeted a press shot of what is said to be the Moto E. Update …
Gwynn Guilford / Quartz:
All the Western companies you'd have to combine to get something like Alibaba  —  Alibaba, which filed for its IPO on May 6, isn't just the “Amazon of China”—it's also the Dropbox, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, ING Direct, and more.  Though Google has its fingers in a similarly high volume of pies …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Kik introduces a virtual currency to encourage engagement and (potentially) make money  —  Messaging apps are the flavor of this year, as evidenced by Facebook's $19 billion WhatsApp deal, but lately we've barely heard from Kik, the Canadian startup that beats WhatsApp, Snapchat and others in the US market.
More: Electronista.  Thanks:@jonrussell
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla abandons plan for ads on Firefox's new-tab page  —  The nonprofit organization loses its taste for ads, saying, “That's not who we are at Mozilla” and indicating reconciliation with the advertising industry won't be easy.  —  Mozilla has scrapped a plan to put ads on the windows …
Ina Fried / Re/code:
Samsung Won't Be Launching Any New Products at May 28 Health Care Tech Event  —  A lot of people assumed when they saw a teaser invite from Samsung for a May 28 event that the company was looking to launch some new health-care product just ahead of Apple's developer conference the following week.
Rob Platzer / bitly blog:
Bitly details breach of offsite database backup, accelerates development of security features  —  More Detail  —  While we continue working through our response to the compromise we reported yesterday, we wanted to provide some more insight into the question of how this happened and what we have done to ensure security going forward.
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Facebook has pulled Poke and Facebook Camera from the App Store  —  Facebook Poke is dead  —  To Facebook, Poke was always “more of a joke” than anything else — so why did the company leave it in the App Store for more than a year after its troubled debut?  We may never know, but today, Facebook finally put an end to Poke.
Stephen Lawson / InfoWorld:
Cisco's Internet of things chief resigns  —  Guido Jouret led Cisco's efforts to link sensors, machines, and other equipment — a trend predicted to generate $19 trillion in value over the next 10 years  —  Cisco Systems' point man on the Internet of things (IoT) has resigned just as industries start …

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