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May 1, 2015, 8:40 AM

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Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Satya Nadella envisions a Microsoft that is more willing to favor big bets on new technologies over protecting legacy cash cows — Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft) Has a Far-Out Vision — Last June, in the basement of the Microsoft visitor center in Redmond, Wash., Todd Holmdahl …

More: Engadget, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central and Business Insider

Tweets: @nickwingfield, @nytimesbits, @waldojaquith, @josephplambeck, @fxshaw, @digiphile, @zephoria, @inafried and @fmanjoo

Thanks:@tonyimperati

Todd Holmdahl / Conversations:

Microsoft details HoloLens: spatial sound, inertial measurement unit with accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and Holographic Processing Unit — BUILD 2015: A closer look at the Microsoft HoloLens hardware — This week, at the Microsoft Build Developer Conference …

More: Pocketnow, PCWorld, The Verge, WinBeta, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Digital Trends, MSDN Blogs and Marketing Land

Business Insider:

We tried Microsoft HoloLens: This is going to be much bigger than Google Glass — We just tried the company's new hologram gadget HoloLens. — It was a demonstration that was equal parts really awesome and really weird. — We were struck right away by how different this device is from Google Glass.

More: GeekWire, Computing, WinBeta, Tom's Hardware Guide, The Register, Mashable, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch and Bloomberg Business

Scott Flynn / Unity Technologies Blog:

Unity announces full support for Microsoft HoloLens

More: The Official NVIDIA Blog, MediaNama, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Wired, The Huffington Post, Wired.co.uk, eWeek, Road to VR, Neowin, Blogging Windows, MCV: Home Stream, MSDN Blogs, Building Apps for Windows, Pocket Gamer.biz, The Next Web and MS Open Tech. Tweets: @ssomasegar

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Grooveshark ceases operations as a result of settlement with major record companies, offers apology — Grooveshark, the Free Music Service That Used to Scare the Big Labels, Gives Up — Remember Grooveshark? — At one time, the music startup — which promised 35 million users they could …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 10 won't launch on phones this summer — While Microsoft is planning to launch Windows 10 on PCs this summer, the phone part of the operating system will debut at a later date. Speaking at a media event at Build in San Francisco today, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore explained the company's plans for the launch of Windows 10.

More: BGR, Digital Trends, TechEye, BetaNews, Engadget, VentureBeat, Thurrott.com, Gizmodo, SlashGear, PhoneNews.com, ZDNet, PCWorld, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneDog.com and Liliputing

Chris Kohler / Wired:

Tweets viewed on the web can now embed playable emulations from Internet Archive's collection of classic MS-DOS games — Turns Out You Can Embed Playable MS-DOS Games in Tweets — Embedding playable DOS games into tweets? Why not? — The post Turns Out You Can Embed Playable MS-DOS Games in Tweets appeared first on WIRED.

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Mobile news app Circa seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture funding — Exclusive: News app Circa is seeking a buyer — Mobile news app Circa is seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune has learned.

More: Wall Street Journal and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @mathewi, @craigmod, @mikeisaac, @adamlashinsky and @vkopytoff. See also Mediagazer

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

A long-winded case for replacing Dick Costolo — Twitter Needs New Leadership — Yesterday Twitter released very disappointing quarterly results, with misses on both user and revenue growth. From the Wall Street Journal: … The symbolism of the leak was appropriate …

More: Wall Street Journal, mathewingram.com/work, Slate and New York Times

Tweets: @jyarow, @joshdickson40, @jayrosen_nyu, @hunterwalk, @joshconstine, @mathewi, @rjonesy and @benthompson

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

IHS: 38mm Apple Watch Sport component and manufacturing costs are $83.70, about 24% of retail price — Apple Watch Sport Component Costs Estimated at $83.70, Which Won't Sit Well With Tim Cook — IHS iSuppli often tears down devices to estimate component costs, and today …

More: Business Wire, iMore, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Macworld, Inquirer, Geek.com, Tech Times, Re/code, SiliconANGLE, The Overspill, Ubergizmo, BGR, bizjournals, InvestorPlace, CNET and WatchAware

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Teardown of Apple's S1 Watch chip reveals custom CPU, 512MB RAM, 8GB flash storage, components from ADI and IDT

More: ABI Research, 9to5Mac, eWeek, BGR, Fone Arena, MacNN, Ars Technica, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, SlashGear, Cult of Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @marcoarment

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Rocket Internet's Foodpanda Gobbles Up $100M More Led By Goldman Sachs — Less than two months after raising $110 million, Foodpanda — the Rocket Internet-backed food delivery service — is back at the table gobbling down an additional $100 million serving from investors.

More: VentureBeat

John Callaham / Windows Central:

The full SDK for the Microsoft Band is now available for developers — Microsoft has now released the full version of their SDK tools for the Microsoft Band, allowing Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android app developers to start making full-featured third-party apps for the fitness wearable.

More: Conversations and Neowin

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Uber's SOS button will send live GPS updates to police in India — Uber added an “SOS” button to its app in India following the alleged rape of a passenger last year, and today Uber has announced plans to start improving that button in a significant way. Starting in the city Kolkata …

More: Uber Blog, The Next Web, CityLab, PC Magazine, Wired, Engadget, PandoDaily, WebProNews, TIME, The Daily Dot, Tech in Asia and CBS San Francisco

Jeff Beck / Android Police:

Custom Voice Actions Launch On Android, Allow You To Control Selected 3rd Party Apps — Over on the Android Developer's Google+ page an awesome new feature for Google's voice search was just announced. A small selection of applications will now open directly when using certain voice commands.

More: Android Authority, Search Engine Roundtable, Android Developers, 9to5Google, Fone Arena, Droid Life, BetaNews, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Engadget, PhoneDog.com, ZDNet, AndroidHeadlines.com, AndroidHeadlines.com and hypebot

Wall Street Journal:

Image sensors in iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6 generate as much as $20 per unit for Sony — How Sony Makes Money Off Apple's iPhone — Image sensors for Apple, Samsung fuel Japanese consumer-electronics giant's turnaround strategy — TOKYO—Sony Corp. lost the smartphone war but rings up a sale …

Wall Street Journal:

After years of restructuring, Sony predicts operating profit will quadruple to $2.7B this year on strong PS4 and image sensor sales

More: The Verge, Reuters, IGN, Bloomberg Business, CNET, USA Today, Ars Technica, Reuters and Seeking Alpha

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