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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Marketing Exec Ivy Ross Is The New Head Of Google Glass  —  Some significant HR changes at Google Glass we're hearing.  First off is the departure of lead electrical engineer Adrian Wong, to competing facecomputer Oculus.  Second off is the bringing on of Art.com's Chief Marketing Officer Ivy Ross to head the division.
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Dr. Dre, Beats sued for $20M by MOG founder David Hyman  —  Dr. Dre's Beats Electronics Hit With $20 Million-Plus Lawsuit  —  MOG founder claims he was hired and deliberately fired before he could collect his equity grant  —  Dr. Dre has hit a bum note with a man who claims that he was hired …
Lauren Orsini / ReadWrite:
Pinterest Raises A $200 Million Warchest To Do Battle With Google  —  Pinterest has raised $200 million from investors in a deal that values the company at $5 billion, a source close to the company told ReadWrite.  (Update: The company is now confirming its financing.)
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 to be rebranded as “Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5” for two weeks  —  Samsung rebranding Heathrow's busiest hub to ‘Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5’  —  Two weeks of S5 overload for British fliers  —  Samsung's marketing juggernaut is reaching …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Airbnb Experiments With ‘Experiences,’ Offering Everything From Bike Tours To Home-Cooked Meals  —  Traditionally, we've come to know Airbnb as a place where guests find accommodations in unique spaces, and as a platform for hosts to make extra money by opening their homes up to strangers.
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Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Diapers.com Founder Could Raise $50 Million or More for New Startup  —  Marc Lore is plotting his next thing.  —  Less than a year after the former CEO of Diapers.com parent company, Quidsi, left Amazon along with his co-founder Vinit Bharara, he has spoken with investors about raising funds …
Sam Ro / Business Insider:
Dan Loeb's Third Point hedge fund sells all 8M of its Yahoo shares in Q1  —  Dan Loeb Dumped Yahoo  —  Third Point, the hedge fund run by Dan Loeb, dumped all 8 million of its shares of Yahoo! in Q1.  —  This is according to a new 13-F regulatory filing.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Circle lets you purchase, store and send bitcoins without fees, launches today, still invitation only  —  Circle wants to be your friendly neighborhood bitcoin bank  —  The implosion and subsequent liquidation of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox last month played to the worst fears about digital currencies.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Yahoo Mail for Android updated with news, search, weather, sports, Flickr photos and videos  —  Less than a month after the iOS release, Yahoo today updated its Yahoo Mail app for Android with a slew of non-email features.  You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.
Ry Crist / CNET:
Microsoft gets into the home automation game with Insteon partnership  —  The tech giant's set to make its first foray into the smart home next month.  —  Microsoft announced a partnership with Insteon today, along with some big plans to fully incorporate the popular home automation network into its ecosystem.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Stealthy Timeful Raises $7M From Khosla To Help You Manage Your Time  —  A few months ago, we reported on the pending launch of Timeful, a new startup that wants to be an intelligent time manager.  Although still in stealth, the company is revealing a Series A round of funding ($6.8 million) …

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Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump

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Uber Said to Be in Funding Talks for More Than $10B Value
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Most tech giants now score well in EFF's first post-Snowden “Who Has Your Back?” report
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