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April 24, 2015, 11:00 AM

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Comcast Corporation:
Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement  —  COMCAST / TIME WARNER CABLE / CHARTER TRANSACTIONS TERMINATED  —  Comcast Corporation announced this morning that its merger agreement with Time Warner Cable and its transactions agreement with Charter Communications, Inc. have been terminated.
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Comcast and TWC combined would have controlled 57% of national broadband market, too high a threshold for FCC and DoJ  —  Comcast Confirms End of Deal With Time Warner Cable  —  Comcast confirmed Friday that it had called off its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Analysts predict Charter Communications will renew attempts to buy Time Warner Cable  —  It's Official: Comcast Drops Time Warner Cable Deal  —  Comcast made it official on Friday morning, formally withdrawing its plans to acquire Time Warner Cable in a $45 billion deal.
iFixit:
Apple Watch teardown reveals 205mAh battery, Apple S1 CPU, inside view of Taptic Engine and Digital Crown  —  Apple Watch Teardown  —  Time flies: it's been eight months since Apple announced its (digital) crowning achievement: the Apple Watch.  Join us as we make time stand still by tearing …
Wall Street Journal:
Filings: Kleiner Perkins offers to waive nearly $1M in legal fees if Ellen Pao doesn't appeal, offered $965K settlement last year  —  Kleiner Perkins Is Seeking Nearly $1 Million in Legal Fees From Ellen Pao  —  Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers filed legal …
Davey Alba / Wired:
Reproductive health app Glow now allows men to track factors affecting their fertility and link with partners' accounts  —  An App for Hacking Fertility Now Also Works for Men  —  In our culture, reproduction is often seen as women's work.  From pregnancy to childbirth through nursing a newborn child …
JP Mangalindan / Mashable:
Facebook testing new notifications tab that acts as news hub, includes birthdays, events, local news, nearby friends, and more  —  Facebook's new notifications tab is a robust mini-news hub  —  Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations.
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Rachel King / ZDNet:
Amazon Web Services generated $5.16B in revenue last year, $1.57B in revenue last quarter, up from $1.1B in the same quarter last year  —  Amazon breaks out cloud results for first time on Q1 earnings report  —  Summary:Analysts and shareholders have been waiting many moons for Amazon …
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Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed:
Apple shares list of must-have apps for Watch, including Twitter, Instagram, New York Times, Mint, Citymapper, Strava, and more, as Watch App Store goes live  —  Apple Thinks You Should Use These Apps On The Apple Watch  —  As the App Store for the Apple Watch goes live today, Apple reveals which apps it thinks are must-haves.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority:
Acer unveils a new 15-inch Chromebook, Iconia One 8 tablet and gaming-centric Predator tablet  —  At a press event held in New York earlier today, Acer announced a slew of new products that will all be available sometime this year.  The company announced a very budget-friendly Chromebook and tablet …
Alex Dobie / Android Central:
Samsung reveals next-gen Gear smartwatch will have round face while announcing SDK release  —  Samsung's next Gear smartwatch will have a round screen  —  Samsung has announced that it'll release the SDK for its next smartwatch to developers before the product launch itself — and in so doing …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Victorious Launches Its First Apps For Online Stars And Their “Superfans”  —  Victorious is launching mobile apps today built for Internet video stars Ryan Higa and The Young Turks.  —  I assume this is good news if you're a fan of Higa or The Young Turks, but even if you're not …
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