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Microsoft Corporation:
Surface Pro 3 starts at $799 for Core i3 SKU, i5 SKUs start shipping first to US and Canada on June 20, other configurations in August  —  Microsoft introduces Surface Pro 3: the tablet that can replace your laptop  —  Pre-order beginning 12:01 a.m. EDT May 21.  —  Surface Pro 3
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Microsoft announces its biggest tablet yet, the 12-inch Surface Pro 3  —  When Microsoft invited us to a “small gathering” here in New York City, we thought that meant a smaller-screened Surface Mini was in order.  Instead, the company just announced a larger Surface, the 12-inch Surface Pro 3.
Panos Panay / Surface Blog:
Surface Pro 3: “The tablet that can replace your laptop”  —  Announcing Surface Pro 3  —  Today we announced Surface Pro 3.  It's the tablet that can replace your laptop.  It is the most powerful, thinnest, and lightest Surface Pro yet.  It is a full PC and a brilliant tablet.
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Adobe is working on a touch-friendly, full-powered version of Photoshop CC  —  Microsoft is breaking out the big guns for the launch Surface Pro 3.  It trotted out creative software powerhouse Adobe to show off a new version of Photoshop CC it's got in the works.
The Verge:
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 hands-on: bigger, thinner, faster  —  Microsoft made one thing clear: it wants its new Surface Pro 3 to be able to replace replace your laptop.  It's a bold goal, but Microsoft thinks it has the right combination of power and portability to make it work.
Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Apple Negotiating Paid Interconnect Deals With ISPs For Their Own CDN  —  In February I blogged about a new group formed inside of Apple last year, tasked with building out their own CDN to deliver Apple software updates, apps and other Apple related content.
Ladar Levison / Guardian:
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit  —  For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place
More: Techdirt
Reuters:
China bans use of Microsoft's Windows 8 on government computers  —  (Reuters) - China has banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft Corp's latest operating system (OS), in a blow to the U.S. technology company which has long been plagued by sales woes in the country.
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:
Investors Back Jibe With $20 Million To Fix The Mobile Hiring Process  —  Jibe Inc. has raised $20 million from a clutch of new investors as it looks to expand its business helping employers fix their hiring processes.  —  The New York-based company has its roots in the TechCrunch DemoPit circa 2009, when it was known as LocalBacon.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Survey says: Comcast, Time Warner Cable customers are still the angriest  —  Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.  —  Comcast  —  Comcast and Time Warner Cable are the most hated companies in each of the three “triple play” markets where they operate, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report being released Tuesday.
Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:
Google to take over former Palm HQ in Sunnyvale  —  Google Inc. has leased the former headquarters of Palm Computing Inc. in Sunnyvale , demonstrating that the No. 1 search advertising company's appetite for real estate showing no signs of abating — and showing again how the technology industry recycles …
More: 9to5Google.  Tweets: @svbiznate.  Thanks:@svbiznate
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
IBM Watson Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup Cognea  —  IBM's Watson group has announced a new acquisition today — artificial intelligence company Cognea.  IBM confirmed the acquisition via a blog post.  —  Cognea developed a cognitive computing and conversational artificial intelligence platform.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Netflix's Neil Hunt Says Personalized Recommendations Will Replace The Navigation Grid  —  Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt said today that the streaming video service will eventually evolve beyond its current navigation scheme, where users have to browse a seemingly endless grid of movies and TV shows.
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Lending Startup Earnest Raises $15 Million to Replace FICO Scores  —  In 2009, Louis Beryl applied for a private loan to help pay for his tuition at Harvard Business School.  Even though he had a good credit score and a resume that included stints as a quant options trader at Morgan Stanley …
More: PE Hub Blog.  Tweets: @wsjd
Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
IPO-bound Centrify raises $42M from strategics, hints at upcoming enterprise mobile products from Samsung  —  When it comes to security, simplicity is often the best approach.  The more endpoints a company must secure the harder the task.  The same could be said about user credentials.
Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
Apple, Samsung Blame Each Other for Lack of Settlement  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) blamed each another for blocking progress toward a settlement of their patent disputes in a report to the judge who has presided over their two U.S. trials.

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New York Times:
Sources: Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo discussed a joint all-cash offer for Paramount, which is still in an exclusive negotiation window with Skydance

David Ingram / NBC News:
Hyundai says it is pausing ads on X, after one ad appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi content; the ad appeared on a user profile that had 55K+ followers

New York Times:
The judge in Trump's NY criminal trial ordered reporters on April 18 to not disclose jurors' job info and warned against sharing jurors' physical descriptions

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Katherine Boehret / Re/code:
Google+ rolls out Stories feature that generates interactive albums from photos and videos
Rhiannon Williams / Telegraph:
Facebook introduces ‘ask’ button for relationship statuses
Matt Haughey / MetaTalk:
Pioneering web forum MetaFilter lays off 3 moderators, says revenues peaked before plunge in Google referrals

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