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March 31, 2015, 10:40 AM

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's new Atom-based Surface 3, starting at $499, to hit in May  —  Summary:Microsoft's coming Surface 3, an Intel Atom x7-based Surface, is the new little sister to the Surface Pro 3.  —  Microsoft is adding a new Surface tablet to its line-up — one aimed at students …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft's Surface 3 is a $499 tablet that could be a full Windows laptop  —  Microsoft is back with a brand new Surface 3 tablet, but this time things are a little different.  While the original Surface RT and Surface 2 tablets didn't let you run traditional Windows applications …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Jay-Z relaunches Tidal with $9.99/month standard and $19.99/month high-quality tiers, with top artists as co-owners  —  Jay Z relaunches Tidal with music's biggest artists as his co-owners  —  At a press conference in New York City this afternoon, Jay Z and a huge group of musical stars took …
Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter:
Tidal is dead on arrival because listeners are cheap, it lacks a critical mass of both users and musicians, and the market is crowded  —  Tidal  —  Now let me get this straight...piracy can be eradicated if artists just band together in the name of money?  That's what this is all about, cash.
Régis Décamps / Gmail Blog:
Gmail for Android updated with unified inbox view, conversation view for non-Gmail accounts, smarter search  —  All your mail, together in one place  —  These days, many of us have more than one email address.  If you're a student, you may have one account for school, one for a campus group you lead, and one for your blog.
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Belgian data regulator finds Facebook tracks logged out, explicitly opted out, and unregistered users, thus breaching EU privacy law  —  Facebook ‘tracks all visitors, breaching EU law’  —  Exclusive: Social network even sets a new cookie to track untracked EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking, report says
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft rolls out first Windows 10 preview with ‘Spartan’ browser  —  Summary:Microsoft has released to testers a new Windows 10 Desktop preview build, the first to include the coming new ‘Project Spartan’ browser.  —  Microsoft is making available to its Windows Insiders testers …
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
Handy raises $15M and hires CTO Ken Little, former VP of product at Tumblr  —  Handy sweeps up $15M to grow its home maintenance platform, hires Tumblr VP as new CTO  —  On-demand house cleaning service Handy just raised another $15 million in funding and hired a new chief technology officer to grow its platform.
Kim Zetter / Wired:
US Used Zero-Day Exploits Before It Had Policies for Them  —  Around the same time the US and Israel were already developing and unleashing Stuxnet on computers in Iran, using five zero-day exploits to get the digital weapon onto machines there, the government realized it needed a policy …
J.J. McCorvey / Fast Company:
How Drew Houston ensures that Dropbox keeps thriving while competing with Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Tencent  —  Dropbox versus the world  —  The new tech war is a battle to own your digital data.  Dropbox's 32-year-old CEO thinks he can thwart the world's most formidable titans.
Josh Hudgins / Google Drive Blog:
Google makes photos and videos from Google+ Photos available in Drive  —  Your photos and files, together in Drive  —  We take all kinds of photos, from pics of friends and family to snapshots of a scenic view.  We also use photos for more practical purposes, like planning a wedding …
Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:
SEC filing shows Fitbit likely paid at least $17.8M to acquire Fitstar  —  Fitbit likely paid at least $17.8M to acquire Fitstar (updated)  —  Correction 6:15PM PST: This story has been significantly updated to clarify the intent and terms of the Fitbit SEC filing.
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