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April 2, 2015, 10:05 AM

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David Pierce / Wired:
iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch  —  The inside story of the Apple Watch: the people who made it, why it's important, and just how much the world's largest company has riding on it.  —  The post iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch appeared first on WIRED.
Wall Street Journal:
European Commission seeks permission to publish confidentially filed antitrust complaints from shopping, local, and travel firms against Google  —  EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google  —  Regulator seeks permission to publish complaints against Internet giant in long-running probe
Financial Times:
European regulators scrutinise Apple over music streaming plans  —  Matthew Garrahan in New York and Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco  —  European regulators are scrutinising Apple's dealings with record labels, amid an intensifying battle over the future of free, ad-supported music streaming services such as Spotify.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple wants TV networks to handle infrastructure and costs of streaming for its video service  —  Apple Asks TV Programmers to Supply Their Own Streams for Apple's TV Service  —  Apple wants the TV guys to provide their shows for its proposed streaming video service.
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Google's ARC now runs Android apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux  —  “App Runtime for Chrome” takes a big step toward making Android a universal binary.  —  The ARC Welder is a Chrome app that makes Chrome apps.  It shows up in the app list.
Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business:
Airbnb now offers about 1,000 listings in Cuba, limited to US travelers  —  The online lodgings marketplace offers about 1,000 listings for U.S. travelers  —  Airbnb operates in 190 countries and 34,000 cities around the world, but its latest addition could be a momentous one.
Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:
Survey: 64% of US adults own a smartphone, 10% of whom do not have broadband at home  —  U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015  —  The traditional notion of “going online” often evokes images of a desktop or laptop computer with a full complement of features, such as a large screen, mouse, keyboard …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Comcast offering 2Gbps broadband service starting in Atlanta next month, twice as fast as Google Fiber  —  Comcast leapfrogs Google Fiber with new 2Gbps internet service  —  One way to answer critics and competitors alike is to simply do better, and for once Comcast is doing exactly that.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Google Chrome will banish Chinese certificate authority for breach of trust  —  Draconian move follows the issuance of certificates masquerading as Google domains.  —  Google's Chrome browser will stop trusting all digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center following …
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Groupon Quietly Launches Groupon Stores, a Marketplace for Its $2 Billion Goods Business  —  If Groupon's history was as a virtual coupon shop, it's future is starting to look more like a traditional online store.  —  Case in point: The Chicago-based company has quietly started testing …
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
N64 and Nintendo DS games available on Wii U Virtual Console from today  —  Nintendo has announced that it's bringing Nintendo 64 and DS games to the Wii U via its virtual console service beginning today.  —  The virtual game service will allow you to configure your Wii U controller …

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