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April 8, 2015, 12:55 PM

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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Apple Watch has a steep learning curve but can be a life-changer after apps are streamlined and initial bugs are fixed — Apple Watch Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve — It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple watch is the nicest smartwatch yet, but it has performance issues with apps and locations services, and it costs more than rivals — Apple Watch: the definitive review — The Apple Watch is an extraordinarily small and personal device. It is designed to participate in nearly every moment …

Joshua Topolsky / Bloomberg Business:

Apple Watch Review: You'll Want One, but You Don't Need One … I'm in a meeting with 14 people, in mid-sentence, when I feel a tap-tap-tap on my wrist. I stop talking, tilt my head, and whip my arm aggressively into view to see the source of the agitation.

More: Mashable, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, AppleInsider, Bloomberg Business, Kantar, The Independent, BGR, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, MacRumors, iMore, Seeking Alpha, New York Magazine, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks and Wearable Tech Insider

Katherine Boehret / Re/code:

How Other Smartwatches Stack Up to Apple Watch — Smartwatches are quickly evolving from geeky, ugly devices into user-friendly, stylish wrist computers. Some of the most notable differentiating factors among these watches are battery life and compatibility with more than one operating system.

More: MacRumors, The Verge, CNET, BGR, The Verge and Macworld UK. Tweets: @panzer

Andrew Nusca / Fortune:

Fortune hires six former Gigaom reporters to double down on its technology coverage — Fortune bulks up on technology coverage, hires 6 Gigaom veterans — When technology industry executives visit Fortune's New York City headquarters, one of the things I enjoy most is when they inevitably slow …

More: New York Post, mathewingram.com/work, Om Malik and Poynter

Tweets: @harrymccracken, @rogerwcheng, @gigastacey, @mathewi, @kevinctofel and @jonfortt

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Xbox Wire:

TV on Xbox Gets More Versatile with Over-the-Air Tuner for the U.S. and Canada — At Xbox, we're committed to delivering amazing new gaming and entertainment experiences, and part of that commitment includes giving you the best TV-viewing options, in one place, never more than one step away from your gaming.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, GeekWire, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, The Next Web, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Engadget, Tech Times, Consumerist, Gotta Be Mobile, VG247, gameinformer.com, Polygon and Neowin. See also Mediagazer

Chris Crum / WebProNews:

Twitter confirms it's experimenting with a new search interface with more filtering options — Twitter Confirms It's Messing With Its Search Experience — While covering Google's closure of Google Moderator earlier, I searched Twitter on the desktop to see what people were saying about it …

More: Marketing Land and The Next Web. Thanks:@ccrum237

Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:

The rise and fall of OpenStack startups as venture capital investments in the space dries up — Investors were once tripping over themselves to get into a hot technology called OpenStack. What happened? — Once upon a time, venture capitalists were tripping over themselves to invest …

More: Forbes

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Oyster takes aim at Amazon with new e-book store, lands all ‘Big Five’ publishers … Oyster launched a new version of its e-book platform today that puts it in even closer competition with Amazon. The New York-based startup introduced its own e-book store to augment its existing Netflix-esque e-book subscription service.

More: Wired, Engadget, The Next Web, Macworld, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and New York Times. See also Mediagazer

Brad Heath / USA Today:

US Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration secretly tracked billions of international calls from US for nearly a decade before 9/11 — U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades — Starting in 1992, the Justice Department amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls …

More: SiliconBeat, The Register, The Hill, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Techdirt, The Atlantic Online, Errata Security, RCR Wireless News, Electronic Frontier Foundation, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, hrw.org/rss/news, Gizmodo and Engadget. Tweets: @kurtopsahl

Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:

FCC fines AT&T $25M for failing to protect personal information, including SSNs, of customers — F.C.C. Fines AT&T $25 Million for Privacy Breach — The Federal Communications Commission announced on Wednesday a $25 million fine against AT&T for failing to protect the personal information …

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 With Photos for OS X App, Emoji Updates — As expected, Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, the first significant feature-rich update the operating system has received. OS X 10.10.3 was first seeded to developers in February, and was provided to public beta testers in March.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Sprinklr Buys Get Satsifaction To Add Customer Feedback To Its Social Media Platform — Sprinklr, the social media management company that vaulted into the “unicorn club” last month after it raised $46m on a $1b+ valuation, is making an acquisition to expand into a new area, customer feedback.

More: Forbes, VentureBeat, Business Wire, The Next Web and bizjournals

CNN:

Russian hackers accessed sensitive White House information, including real-time details of president's schedule, via compromised State Department system — How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion …

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

Microsoft applies to be a Money Services Business and for money transmitter licenses in all 50 states, paves the way for payment platform — “Microsoft Payments” may join Apple, Android, Samsung in pay platforms — Windows 10 for phones supports Host Card Emulation, licensing makes it official.

More: PC World, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear and TechnoBuffalo

Mic Wright / The Next Web:

Popcorn Time launches on iOS through an external installer — Popcorn Time's launched on iOS and that's a big problem for Apple and Netflix — Torrent-streaming platform Popcorn Time has been causing headaches for the movie and TV industries ever since it emerged early last year.

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, 9to5Mac and BGR. Tweets: @boris. See also Mediagazer

Richard Lai / Engadget:

HTC One M9+ launches in China: 5.2" Quad HD screen, fingerprint sensor, MediaTek SoC — HTC's bigger and better One M9+ launches in China — HTC clearly gets China's obsession with large-screen phones. Following the plastic 5.5-inch One E9+, the company is back with the metallic M9+ which …

More: HTC Blog, CNET, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Inquirer, Android Authority, MobileSyrup.com, Tech Times, SlashGear, TechSpot, BGR, BetaNews, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneDog.com and The Verge

Chance Miller / 9to5Google:

Google appears to be developing a teleconferencing tool called GMeet — First noticed by Florian Kiersch on Google+, Google appears to be testing a new meetings service. Google Meetings, also referred to as GMeet, appears to allow users to schedule and join teleconference calls with one click.

More: Phandroid, Fortune, Florian Kiersch, VoIPWatch, Business Insider, Android Beat, Ubergizmo and SlashGear

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

Xiaomi throws parties for fans every few weeks across China, making customers feel part of an exclusive club — Xiaomi: The Secret to the World's Most Valuable Startup — Xiaomi reaches out to customers through parties and social media — HANGZHOU, China—Zhao Ruiping assembles mechanical valves …

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Presidential candidate Rand Paul promises to end warrantless searches of phone, computer records; campaign site sells $15 “NSA spy cam blocker” sticker — Rand Paul sells “NSA spy cam blocker” as Presidential bid fundraiser — Bid announcement video taken off YouTube due to copyright claim over a song.

More: Washington Post, Vox, Techdirt, Vox, The Verge, The Hill, Vanity Fair, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, CNBC, Al Jazeera America, Gizmodo, Nextgov, Business Insider and Politico. See also Mediagazer

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Hillary Clinton hires Stephanie Hannon, Google's director of product management for civic innovation and social impact, as campaign's chief technology officer — Hillary Clinton hires Google executive to be chief technology officer — Hillary Rodham Clinton has hired a longtime Google executive …

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

BlackRock Leads $200 Million Round in Domo at $2 Billion Valuation — Josh James has been promising to start talking about Domo, the secretive business software startup he has been running for about four years, and now he is following through on that pledge. But more on that in a minute.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Insider, Forbes and PE Hub Blog

Selena Larson / The Daily Dot:

Anonymous messaging app After School back in App Store with moderation to combat bullying — After School attempts a comeback with bans on bullying — Wherever there's an anonymous app, there are teens using it to bully each other. — After School, one of the newest applications …

More: Re/code, iLounge, 9to5Mac, MLive.com, AppleInsider and App Advice. Thanks:@selenalarson

John Callaham / Windows Central:

Kabam abandons Windows Phone development after releasing just one game — Windows Central has learned that Kabam, one of the biggest mobile game developers, has decided to stop making titles from the Windows Phone platform. This decision represents a complete reversal of Kabam's original plans …

More: SuperSite for Windows, ZDNet, WinBeta and WMPoweruser

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