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March 16, 2015, 11:30 AM

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Facebook:
Explaining Our Community Standards and Approach to Government Requests  —  By Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Chris Sonderby, Deputy General Counsel  —  Every day, people around the world use Facebook to connect with family and friends, share information and express themselves.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Government Requests For Facebook Data Decrease In U.S. And UK, But Rise In India  —  Facebook's latest report on government requests shows a decrease in requests from many Western countries in the second half of 2014, but that's offset by increases from India, Turkey and Russia.
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Bill Gurley amps up bubble talk, predicting “dead unicorns” this year and a Facebook revenue hit  —  Bill Gurley predicts ‘dead unicorns’ in startup-land this year  —  A crash would affect more than just startups.  Bill Gurley, the prominent investor behind Uber and Snapchat …
Martin Robinson / Eurogamer.net:
Xbox head Phil Spencer on Xbox One's future and its unification with PCs through Windows 10  —  Phil Spencer's new vision for the Xbox One  —  The Xbox chief on the change of direction that will help Xbox in its fight against PlayStation.  —  Things have been looking up for the Xbox One …
More: VG247
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Office 2016 and Skype for Business previews  —  A leaked version of Office 2016 gave us an early look at a new colorful theme early today, and now Microsoft is ready to let anyone test its upcoming Office client.  Starting today, the software maker is launching …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft: malware removal tools have eliminated Superfish adware from 250K Lenovo PCs by March 4  —  Joint effort guts Superfish  —  Microsoft earlier this week said that search-and-destroy work by it, Lenovo and other software makers has reduced the daily number of Lenovo PCs found infected with the Superfish adware to below 1,000.
More: PC World
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Facebook to announce ad performance measurement tool on its own and third party apps next week  —  Mobile Ad World Braces for Facebook's Move Into Measurement  —  Facebook next week is expected to announce a tool to help mobile app developers measure whether an ad caused people to download an app …
Charles Clover / Financial Times:
China wants to harness the economic potential of the Internet while still censoring content  —  Chinese internet: Commerce and control  —  Beijing wants to harness the economic potential of online services while still censoring content  —  Grumbling about China's slow internet speeds …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Cheetah Mobile Buys MobPartner For $58M As Ad Tech Consolidates  —  Cheetah Mobile, a software company based out of China and best known for products like the Clean Master security and storage optimizer for Android devices, has made an acquisition to move deeper into the world of ad tech.
John Pavlus / Medium:
While apps and search made URLs less important, URLs will remain the best way to uniquely label places on the web  —  Why Won't URLs Die?  —  The Uniform Resource Locator has been the user-interface lingua franca of the internet for decades.  A browser window just wouldn't look right without it up there at the top.

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