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March 27, 2015, 5:40 AM

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Reuters:

Tim Cook plans to donate most of his estimated $785M fortune to charity — Apple's Tim Cook will give away all his money: Fortune — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich who are giving away their wealth.

More: Guardian, Telegraph, CNET and Business Insider. Tweets: @tim

Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Profile: since replacing the legendary Jobs, Tim Cook has led Apple to even greater financial success and changed the culture of the company — Apple's Tim Cook leads different — Tim Cook assumed he was ready for the harsh glare that shines on Apple's AAPL CEO.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Watch launch retail stock to be limited for many models, reservations favored — If you want to buy the Apple Watch model of your choice at an Apple Store at launch, you should consider pre-ordering online or through an Apple Store reservation, sources have told 9to5Mac.

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple begins releasing the first set of third-party Watch apps from AliPay, Evernote, Expedia, Line, NYT, Target, WeChat, WSJ, more — Apple begins releasing the first set of third-party Apple Watch apps — The Apple Watch is still almost a month away from shipping and 15 days away …

More: MacRumors, Medium, Cult of Mac, Digiday, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider and App Advice. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@bzamayo

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Sources: Magic Is Raising $12M From Sequoia At A $40M Valuation — Magic, an SMS-based on-demand delivery service that started as a YC company's weekend project, is raising $12 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia, according to sources. Sources also say that the company …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @zsims, @evelynrusli and @zpower

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook's solar-powered Internet drone, dubbed Aquila, with a wingspan of a Boeing 737 to begin testing this summer — Facebook, Moving Ahead with Drone, Plans Test This Summer — Facebook plans to test a version of its solar-powered drone this summer, a step in its efforts …

More: New York Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, GeekWire, CBS San Francisco, memeburn, Mashable, Engadget, Tech Times, Fox News, Seeking Alpha, The Drum, Popular Mechanics, The Next Web and Business Insider

Tom Dotan / The Information:

Google partners with Mummy producer Sean Daniel Co. to make its augmented reality game Ingress into a TV show — Google Takes Its Web Game to TV — When Google launched a gaming studio five years ago, it was largely an effort to keep a valued employee. Now, the first game developed by the studio …

More: The Verge, Android Police, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, TrustedReviews, Pocket-lint, Engadget and CNET

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

On-demand food delivery service DoorDash raises $40M in a KPCB led Series B round — DoorDash Raises $40 Million for On-Demand Delivery — In what we've called the instant gratification economy, a mess of on-demand delivery companies are now sorting themselves out.

More: DoorDash Blog, ABC News and bizjournals

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Slack's next funding round of up to $160M will value company at $2.8B, to include new investors IVP, Horizons Ventures, Index Ventures, DST Global — Slack's Valuation More Than Doubles to $2.8 Billion in Five Months — The growing popularity of workplace collaboration tool Slack …

More: VatorNews, Techvibes Global News, StrictlyVC, Business Insider and VentureBeat

Tweets: @scottmaustin, @collisionhq, @howardlindzon and @wsjd

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Salesforce cancels Indiana events to protest anti-gay law — Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says he has canceled all his company's events in the state of Indiana after its governor signed into law a bill that makes it legal for individuals to use religious grounds as a defense when they are sued …

More: CNN, CBS San Francisco, Ars Technica, Polygon, Business Insider, Fortune, The Technology Chronicles, Raw Story, FierceCIO News, GeekWire, bizjournals and Entrepreneur

Tweets: @benioff, @msuster and @bconoley

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft buys Office collaboration tool maker LiveLoop: Sources — Summary:Microsoft has bought another productivity company. This time it's LiveLoop, a vendor of collaboration plug-ins and tools for Microsoft Office. — Microsoft has purchased San Francisco-based LiveLoop for an undisclosed amount, according to sources.

More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, GeekWire and Windows Central. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Rich Edmonds / Android Central:

LG Watch Urbane LTE will be available in South Korea March 27 for $590 — LG Watch Urbane LTE to launch in South Korea on March 27 — The LG Watch Urbane LTE is set to go on sale in South Korea on March 27. Priced at 650,000 KRW ($590), the company will use its premium range of watches to compete directly with the Apple Watch.

More: ReadWrite, ConnectedArena and Electronista

Nate Hoffelder / Ink, Bits, & Pixels:

Instapaper 6.2 for iOS adds speed reading, ability to share text as an image via Twitter, more — Instapaper Adds Speed Reading Option to its iPad App — No one has enough time to read all of the articles they come across in a given day, but Instapaper has a solution.

More: Instapaper, Slate, TechCrunch and MacStories

Alex Konrad / Forbes:

How Super Angel Chris Sacca Made Billions, Burned Bridges And Crafted The Best Seed Portfolio Ever — Between the parade of wet suits and abundant seafood and yoga joints, Manhattan Beach, just south of Los Angeles, tries to cling fast to its surf town roots. It's a tough battle.

Tweets: @alexiskold, @reformedbroker, @sacca, @getwired and @danprimack

Tom Occhino / Facebook Code:

Facebook open sources React Native framework for building native apps for iOS with JavaScript, Android support coming soon — React Native: Bringing modern web techniques to mobile — If you're new to React, you can read more about it on the React website.

More: GitHub, TechCrunch, Facebook, ITworld.com, Business Insider, ReadWrite, SlashGear, TechCrunch, The Next Web, InfoQ, InfoWorld and React

Spencer Woodman / The Verge:

Exclusive: Amazon makes even temporary warehouse workers sign 18-month non-competes — Contract says it can limit jobs across the globe — Amazon is the country's largest and most sophisticated online retailer, but it still runs largely on manual labor. Scattered around the country …

More: Tech Times, Gizmodo, PandoDaily and Consumerist. Tweets: @aworkinglibrary

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Cloud Launcher Lets Developers Quickly Deploy Over 120 Popular Open-Source Packages — Google and Bitnami are launching a new feature for Google's Cloud Platform today that makes it easier for developers to deploy over 120 popular open-source applications to its Cloud Platform.

More: Google Cloud Platform Blog, InfoQ, SiliconANGLE, eWeek, The Register, The Next Web, ZDNet and GeekWire

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Microsoft requiring its 2K contractors to provide 15 paid days of sick leave and vacation — Corporate Peer Pressure: From Microsoft, a Novel Way to Mandate Sick Leave — From Microsoft, a Novel Way to Mandate Sick Leave — The company announced that many of its 2,000 contractors …

More: Microsoft on the Issues, bizjournals, GeekWire, Fortune and Wall Street Journal

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