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March 22, 2016, 8:15 PM

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Google renames Chromecast app Google Cast; Vizio P-Series TVs launched with Cast support and a 6-inch Android tablet — Remote, Controlled — How Vizio and Google radically reinvented the TV — Matt McRae is fired up about remote controls. Or, more specifically, about getting rid of them.

Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business:

Google to boost hiring for cloud division, plans 12 new data centers in next 18 months — Google's Greene Hastens Cloud Expansion in Race With Amazon — Company plans 12 new cloud data centers in next 18 months — Cloud division to boost hiring, marketing under Diane Greene

More: Google Cloud Platform Blog, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Investor's Business Daily, Business Insider, Fortune, Petri and WebProNews

Tweets: @googlecloud, @shiraovide and @bradstone

Google Cloud Platform Blog:

Node.js on Google App Engine goes beta

Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:

RIAA report: streaming accounted for more US recorded-music revenue than downloads in 2015, rising from 27% in 2014 to 34% in 2015 — US recorded-music revenues rose slightly in 2015 says RIAA — US music industry body the RIAA has published its figures for 2015, revealing …

More: VatorNews, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, RIAA, Re/code, RIAA, Billboard, Tubefilter, Tech Insider, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, AllAccess.com, Mashable and Music Week. Tweets: @laguarda. Thanks:@stuartdredge. See also Mediagazer

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Sources: Google developing third-party iOS keyboard with gesture-based typing, intergrated web search, and GIF search — Google is making a keyboard for the iPhone — Google has been developing a third-party keyboard for iOS that would put the company's search engine in a highly used part of the interface, The Verge has learned.

More: AppleInsider, The Next Web, 9to5Google, iMore and Phandroid

Jonathan Zdziarski / Zdziarski's Blog of Things:

Why the FBI's alternative method to unlock iPhone may involve NAND mirroring by an external forensics firm to enable brute force guessing of shooter's PIN — My Take on FBI's “Alternative” Method — FBI acknowledged today that there “appears” to be an alternative way into Farook's iPhone 5c …

More: CNET, Washington Post, Gizmodo, Business Insider, BGR, Motherboard, The Verge, ZDNet and Silicon Valley Business …

Tweets: @matthew_d_green and @grahamvsworld

Roberto Baldwin / Engadget:

Judge postpones hearing in Apple/FBI case after DoJ request citing possible new unlocking method, govt must file status report by April 5

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Silicon Valley legend and former Intel CEO Andy Grove passes away at 79 — Intel has announced that the company's former CEO and chairman, Andrew S. Grove, who was born in Hungary as András István Gróf, died today at age 79. — Grove was one of the key figures of the information age …

More: Washington Post, ZDNet, NewCo, Intel Newsroom, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg Business, Silicon Valley Watcher, AnandTech, eWeek, SiliconBeat, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Inquirer, Gizmodo UK, Mashable, CIO.com, Fortune, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Mercury News, silicontap.com, New York Times, CNNMoney, CNET, SiliconANGLE, BBC, TIME, Associated Press, Engadget, TechEye, VentureBeat, Re/code, The Register, TechCrunch, EE Times, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business …, Computerworld, The Next Web, Forbes, GeekWire, NPR, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Mercury News, The Tech Report, Financial Times, Fortune and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @intel, @tim_cook, @pmarca, @zpower, @michaeldell, @billgates, @sundarpichai, @johndoerr, @chamath, @pkedrosky, @om, @muneeb, @harrymccracken, @harrymccracken, @bradstone, @digiphile, @stevecapus, @alexstamos, @deantak, @mdudas, @intelnews, @stevecase, @a16z, @bhorowitz and @shiraovide

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple confirms it considered buying UK chip technology firm Imagination Technologies, but has no plans to make an offer now — Apple confirms it considered buying Imagination Technologies, no plans to buy now — Earlier today a report was published by Ars Technica claiming that Apple …

Brian Solomon / Forbes:

DoorDash announces $127M Series C led by Sequoia Capital, discusses how it raised in a down market — What It's Like To Raise $127 Million As Silicon Valley's Bubble Bursts — When Tony Xu calls 2015 a “blitzkrieg” year, it's hard to disagree. — The 31-year-old cofounder and CEO …

More: DoorDash Blog, VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @danprimack and @mssapone

Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:

Adobe launches Marketing Cloud Device Co-op to help marketers track users across devices, offers opt-out — Adobe has figured out a clever way to track people as they switch between devices — Adobe announced Tuesday it is launching a “cross-device co-op” that will offer marketers …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Adobe, The Stack, The Register, Fortune, AdExchanger, ZDNet, ECPM BLOG, cmo.com.au, Marketing Land and ZDNet. Tweets: @dangillmor

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

HTC's next flagship phone will be unveiled on April 12th — HTC will unveil its next flagship phone three weeks from today, on April 12th. The new phone is believed to be called the HTC 10 and is supposed to be a continuation of the One line, featuring a similar design with improved specs.

More: Phandroid, VentureBeat, Android Police, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, CNET, TrustedReviews, PhoneArena, Featured Articles, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google and PCWorld

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Cisco CEO email to company on reorganization of engineering unit into four new teams: networking, cloud services and platforms, security, applications and IoT — Here's the email Cisco's CEO just sent to the troops to announce a big reorg — On Monday, Cisco's new CEO Chuck Robbins announced …

More: The Register, SiliconBeat, eWeek, ZDNet, FierceCable and ITworld.com. Tweets: @jasonlk. Thanks:@mattrosoff

Dan Primack / Fortune:

SV Angel co-founder David Lee launches Refactor Capital fund, seeking $50M; sources say fund will focus on seed-stage startups on the West Coast — SV Angel Co-Founder David Lee Launches New VC Firm — David Lee, the seed-stage venture capitalist who last year resigned from the firm …

More: TechCrunch

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