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March 15, 2015, 12:10 AM

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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Twitter confirms it's limiting Meerkat's ability to access its social graph  —  Twitter Chokes Off Meerkat's Access To Its Social Network  —  Twitter cut off Meerkat's viral lifeline—the social graph  —  Twitter is cutting off Meerkat's ability to port people's social networks …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin on Twitter cutting off access to social graph, competition, and future of live video  —  Meerkat's Ben Rubin on Twitter, Competition and the Future of Live Video  —  Ben Rubin, the guy behind app-of-the-moment Meerkat, says he's not surprised that Twitter gave …
David Kushner / Rolling Stone:
Chris Poole hopes to sell 4chan, says Fappening and Gamergate stress triggered his departure  —  4chan's Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away  —  His website made him an unlikely teenage celebrity — then it spun out of control  —  At 11 a.m. on January 21st …
More: The Verge
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
A week on the Dark Web: drugs, child pornography, guns, and stolen accounts are everywhere  —  I Spent A Week With The Scammers, Drug Dealers, And Endearing Dorks Inside The Dark Web  —  I spent a week with the scammers, drug dealers, and endearing dorks inside the Dark Web.  Here's what I learned.
More: BGR
Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal:
BlackBerry unveils SecuTablet, based on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 and incorporating Secusmart encryption technology, plans summer rollout  —  BlackBerry Unveils New Security-Focused Tablet  —  Device developed together with Samsung and IBM  —  TORONTO—BlackBerry Ltd. unveiled …
Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Android Central:
Google Flight Search now provides amenity data through partnership with Routehappy  —  Making a decision on which flight to take is about to get a tad easier, as Google Flight Search results will soon display amenity information for each flight.  —  The new information is the result …
Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:
Ellen Pao Says She Is Suing Kleiner Because It Wasn't Going to Change  —  Friday's session ends sex-discrimination trial's third week; venture-capital firm to call its witnesses  —  Ellen Pao testified on Friday that she filed a sex-discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers …
TechCrunch:
Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Launch Sound Ventures, The Successor To A-Grade Investments  —  Most people probably know Ashton Kutcher for his success in television and film, but he's not-so-quietly also become a pretty successful investor in startups as well.
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