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May 25, 2015, 6:50 PM

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Stephen Fry / Telegraph:

Stephen Fry talks to Jony Ive about his new role as Apple's chief design officer as he relinquishes management duties to Richard Howarth and Alan Dye — When Stephen Fry met Jony Ive: the self-confessed tech geek talks to Apple's newly promoted chief design officer

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, Re/code, AppleInsider, The Next Web, iMore, Business Insider, Official site of Stephen Fry, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, TodaysiPhone.com and Mashable

Tweets: @bhaggs, @ericjackson, @st_eppel, @martinsfp, @jeffrey903 and @bzamayo

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Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Jony Ive to remain responsible for design overall, but Alan Dye moves to VP of UI design and Richard Howarth to VP of industrial design, beginning July 1 — Jony Ive promoted to ‘Chief Design Officer’, handing off managerial duties July 1st [Tim Cook Memo] — Alan Dye, Jony Ive, and Richard Howarth

More: Fortune, The Verge, Pocketnow and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @reckless, @dangillmor, @mattgarrahan and @markgurman

Bloomberg Business:

Sources: Charter may announce it is buying Time Warner Cable for $55.1B tomorrow, Bright House Networks will also be merged into the combined company — Charter Near Deal for Time Warner Cable at $195 a Share — Charter Communications Inc. is near an agreement to buy Time Warner Cable Inc …

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

An exclusive early look at the new standalone Google Photos app on Android — An Exclusive Early Look At The New Google Photos App — We've been hearing for a very long time - virtually ever since Vic Gundotra left Google+, with more rumors springing up recently - that Photos …

More: BGR, VentureBeat, TechSpot, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Tech Times, Digital Trends, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Fone Arena, Android and Me, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com and Engadget. Tweets: @chrismlacy

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

What could launch at Google I/O 2015: Android M, Chromecast 2, standalone photos product, more — Google Tracker 2015 (I/O edition): Android M, Chromecast 2, and lots more — SPOILER ALERT! We recap upcoming Google projects that could launch at I/O 2015.

More: Business Insider, BGR and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @chrismlacy

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram sends “Highlights” email digests to re-engage users, its first promotional emails — An Aging Instagram Tries To Win Us Back With Email “Highlights” — Four and a half years is a lot of pretty pictures. Instagram isn't as young as it used to be, and it doesn't want long-time users to slip away from its app.

More: Telegraph, Fone Arena, Guardian, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, PC Magazine and The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Sources: Twitter has held talks to acquire Flipboard in an all-stock deal valued at over $1B, but talks are now stalled — Twitter Has Held Talks to Acquire Flipboard — Twitter has been engaged in an ongoing series of talks to acquire Flipboard, according to multiple sources with knowledge …

More: The Next Web and VentureBeat. Tweets: @rafat, @caseynewton and @stephenhall_. See also Mediagazer

Juliette Garside / Guardian:

Philip Zimmermann moves his mobile encryption startup Silent Circle from US to Switzerland to avoid surveillance — Philip Zimmermann: king of encryption reveals his fears for privacy — The creator of PGP has moved his mobile-encryption firm Silent Circle to Switzerland to be free of US mass surveillance.

Tweets: @dtunkelang, @privacyprof, @alex, @vmosco and @adamhrv

Chance Miller / 9to5Google:

Google Hangouts Chrome app updated w/ redesigned interface, OS X support — Google today updated its Hangouts Chrome app with an entirely new interface. Perhaps more notably than that, the app has support for Mac OS X users in addition to the trio of Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS.

More: Mayur Kamat, Bidness Etc, Android Authority, TechSpot, The Next Web, Lifehacker, Droid Life, Android Police and Digital Spy

Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune:

Alarm.com, a security and home automation cloud service provider with 2.3M customers, files for $75M IPO — Alarm.com files to raise $75 million through initial public offering — Security and home automation company Alarm.com, riding the interest in the smart home …

More: RTTNews, Greentech Media, Wall Street Journal and Seeking Alpha

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Amazon to stop funneling Europe sales through Luxembourg amid pressure from regulators, increasing its tax burden — Amazon to Stop Funneling European Sales Through Low-Tax Haven — In the continuing battle between European and American tech companies, score one for Europe.

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

The science behind Netflix's first major redesign in four years — Back in March, a developer named Renan Cakirerk wrote a small piece of code that made a big impact on Netflix. Cheekily named “god mode,” it addressed one of the most annoying aspects of trying to use Netflix in your browser …

Tweets: @caseynewton

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