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April 27, 2015, 12:10 PM
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Jaimee Minney / Slice Intelligence:
Only 376K or 22% of 1.7M ordered Apple Watches shipped on the first weekend  —  Watching and Waiting: Only 22 Percent Apple Watches Shipped First Weekend  —  Most people who pre-ordered an Apple Watch did not receive one in the first wave of shipments, with Slice Intelligence reporting …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Engineering Director Lars Rasmussen Leaving Facebook To Co-Found A Music Startup  —  Facebook at Work, Facebook's first move to turn its social network into an enterprise tool, has remained in closed beta since its launch in January this year.  But as the product continues to inch …
Allen Lo / Google Public Policy Blog:
Google announces Patent Purchase Promotion, experimental marketplace to sell patents to the company, open from May 8 to 22  —  Announcing the Patent Purchase Promotion  —  We invite you to sell us your patents.  The Patent Purchase Promotion is an experimental marketplace for patents that's simple, easy to use, and fast.
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
The promise—and massive challenge—of making games for the Apple Watch  —  How to make 15-second microgames with targets “the size of salad bar ham cubes”  —  When the iPhone was first announced in 2007, Apple didn't sell the pocket computer as a gaming device.
Wall Street Journal:
Qualcomm Launches Unit to Help Chinese Smartphone Makers Sell Overseas  —  Chip maker aims to prove itself a valuable partner as Beijing looks to reduce its reliance on foreign technology  —  Qualcomm Inc. has launched a unit to help Chinese smartphone makers sell overseas …
Philip Levinson / Business Insider:
How CloudFlare, now handling 5% of all web traffic and valued at around $1B in late 2013, got started during Harvard class field trip to Silicon Valley  —  How two Harvard Business School students turned a class trip into a billion-dollar company  —  See Also
Wall Street Journal:
Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron cancel $9.3B merger plans over antitrust concerns  —  Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron Cancel Merger Plan  —  Deal collapses after firms give up on winning antitrust approval  —  TOKYO—A multibillion-dollar merger that would have created …
Jon Christian / Slate:
Ancestry.com's data export tool for shuttered social networking site MyFamily didn't save the discussions of former users, erasing family memories of avid users  —  Deleting the Family Tree  —  When Ancestry.com shuttered its social network for relatives, it erased 10 years' worth of my family's correspondence and memories.
More: ResearchBuzz.  Tweets: @thomashawk
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Analysts expect record Apple Q2 results, estimate revenues up 23% YoY to $55.96B, iPhone sales up 33% to 58.1M units, and iPad down 17% to 13.6M units  —  All signs point to Apple announcing a monster earnings report  —  Apple reports earnings for the quarter that ended in March after the market closes on Monday, April 27.

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The New York Times says it will continue to cover Biden “fully and fairly” regardless of whether he gives the paper a sit-down interview

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount and Skydance move closer to a deal, but Paramount's renewal agreement with Charter, which has an April 30 deadline, is a significant hurdle

Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

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