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Satya Nadella / Microsoft Corporation:

Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees on integration of Nokia Devices and Services — Starting to Evolve Our Organization and Culture — Last week in my email to you I synthesized our strategic direction as a productivity and platform company. Having a clear focus is the start of the journey, not the end.

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Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Microsoft to Shutter Xbox Entertainment Studios (Updated) — Microsoft will shut down the Xbox Entertainment Studios, ending an ambitious foray into original video programming. — The Santa Monica studio, with its estimated 200 employees, will be shuttered as Microsoft focuses on strengthening its core videogame business.

More: The Verge, Variety, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, CNET, Gigaom, Neowin, Windows Phone Central, Deadline.com, Polygon, Joystiq and GamesIndustry International

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Microsoft cutting up to 18,000 jobs by next year, 13000 starting now; a total of 12,500 from Nokia — Ax Falls at Microsoft as Company Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs — Microsoft on Thursday announced it plans to cut 18,000 jobs this year-its deepest-ever cuts-as the company looked …

More: GeekWire, TechCrunch, CITEworld, PandoDaily, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, 9to5Google and Geek.com

Tweets: @jcenters, @dinabass, @tomwarren and @inafried

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft is killing off Nokia's feature phones in favor of Windows Phone — Nokia might have been famous for its feature phones, but Microsoft is planning to wind that business down over the course of the next 18 months. In an internal memo sent to Microsoft employees, Jo Harlow …

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft cuts to affect nearly all groups; OS Group restructuring to become more startup-like — Beyond 12,500 former Nokia employees, who else is Microsoft laying off? — Summary: The former Nokia employees who joined Microsoft in April are bearing the brunt of Microsoft's just-announced layoffs.

More: Business Insider, Softpedia News and Windows Phone Central

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Nokia X Android Devices To Run Windows Phone

CNBC:

US Copyright Office says Aereo not a cable company under terms of Copyright Act — US copyright officials have told Aereo that they do not consider it a “cable company” under the terms of copyright law, according to a letter obtained by CNBC. Aereo, which lost a key Supreme Court ruling …

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Facebook launches Mentions iPhone app, intended for use by public figures with verified Pages — You Can't Use Facebook's New iPhone App — Unless You're Famous — Stars aren't just like us. They need a special app to post on Facebook. — That's the thinking behind Mentions …

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Wall Street Journal:

EU Regulators Invite Google, Microsoft to Discuss ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ — Ruling Has Become Latest Battleground Over Freedom of Speech and the Right to Online Privacy — European Union privacy watchdogs plan to raise concerns about the implementation by Google Inc. of the bloc's new …

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John Ribeiro / PC World:

Bing follows Google in offering Europeans the ‘right to be forgotten’

Michael Riley / Businessweek:

Russian hackers planted malware on poorly-defended NASDAQ servers in 2010, possibly to clone the exchange's technology — How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq — In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.

More: Ars Technica and The Verge. Tweets: @csoghoian, @jimaley, @20committee, @dannyyadron, @kevinroose, @bw, @mims and @tomgara

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook starts testing Buy button on News Feed ads and Page posts, currently limited to select US businesses — Facebook today announced it is testing a new feature with ‘a few’ small and medium-sized businesses in the US: a Buy button. The goal is to help businesses drive sales directly …

More: Facebook, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Network World, Bloomberg and Mashable

Tweets: @sarahfrier and @anthonyha

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

No signal? GoTenna has a messaging gadget that will work in the middle of nowhere — For all of our dependency on mobile phones, there are still quite a few places in this world you can't get a wireless signal, from mountaintops to national parks to rural highways and even the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

More: 9to5Mac, PandoDaily, CNET, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, TechHive, Engadget, Pocketnow, TUAW, Yahoo Tech and Thisisgoingtobebig.com

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Flayvr pivots to MyRoll, an intelligent mobile gallery app that displays all your best photos — We last caught up with Flayvr way back in May last year, just as the startup finally shook off its iOS-only roots with an Android incarnation. — The idea behind Flayvr has always been simple …

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, TechHive, Gigaom and BroadwayWorld.com. Thanks:@tallkp

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Google planning to support Android Wear custom watch faces with new API — When Android Wear first launched, it was unclear whether Google was going to be offering official support for third-party watch faces. This uncertainty definitely didn't stop developers from just going ahead and making some …

More: VentureBeat, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Phandroid

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford's SherpaVentures Closes $150 Million For Its First Fund — SherpaVentures, the venture firm founded by former Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and former Goldman Sachs banker Scott Stanford, is finally ready to be less vague about what it's doing.

More: Forbes, VentureBeat, Businessweek, PandoDaily and New York Times

Simon Parkin / Eurogamer.net:

YouTubers are running advertorials, paid promotions, and product placement without disclosures — Blurred lines: Are YouTubers breaking the law? — From unmarked advertorial to paid social network promotion, Simon Parkin investigates the ethics and legality of YouTube.

More: Gamasutra, The Tech Report, PC Gamer, Marketing Land, Softpedia News, Guardian, Kotaku, Pocket Gamer.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, CraveOnline and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Product Hunt, The Popular Tech Product Discovery Site, Is In Current Y Combinator Batch — Much-buzzed-about startup Product Hunt has another trick up its sleeve — it turns out the startup is in the current Y Combinator batch. As a reminder, Product Hunt is a community-powered news website for tech product launches.

More: Y Combinator Posthaven, Gigaom, VentureBeat and The Next Web. Tweets: @fromedome

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

New iTunes Pass credit refill service now available in United States (update: Australia, too) — Yesterday Apple rolled out its new iTunes Pass service to Japan, allowing users to use a Passbook card to add credit to an iTunes account from an Apple Retail Store. Starting today, the offer is also available in the United States.

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