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HBO GO & WatchESPN Come to Apple TV — iTunes Viewers Now Purchasing Over 800,000 TV Episodes & Over 350,000 Movies Per Day — Apple® today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV® joining the great lineup of programming offered to customers. iTunes® users …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

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More: Macworld, iMore, CNET and GigaOM

Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:

L.A. school board OKs $30 million for Apple iPads — L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy stepped out of a Tuesday Board of Education meeting during a vote to spend $30 million on iPads because, he said, he owns a small amount of stock in Apple. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times / March 13, 2012)

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Husain Sumra / MacRumors:

Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video — EverySteveJobsVideo (via The Loop) today released a never-before-seen video of Steve Jobs in 1994, while he was at NeXT, pondering his legacy in the personal computer field and whether he thought he would be remembered for his work in the future.

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Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

As Fab Raises Another $150 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation, E-Commerce Industry Looks On Warily — Here's an interesting exercise I tried recently when talking with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists involved in e-commerce: “I say ‘Fab’; you say?” — “Inspiring.” — “Ballsy.” — “Ambitious.”

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Wall Street Journal:

Tencent-Led Funding Values Fab at Over $1 Billion

More: TechCrunch and CNET

Michael Lee / ZDNet:

Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords — Summary: Although iOS generates seemingly random passwords for its hotspots to eliminate the use of ‘default’ passwords, researchers at a German university have found that they are able to break these passwords in under a minute.

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Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft-Nokia Advanced Talks Recently Broke Down — Microsoft Corp. was recently in advanced discussions with Nokia Corp. about a purchase of the Finnish company's device business, according to people familiar with the matter, in a marriage that could have reshaped the mobile-phone industry.

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process — Obama and other NSA defenders insist there are robust limitations on surveillance but the documents show otherwise — Since we began began publishing stories about the NSA's massive domestic spying apparatus, various NSA defenders …

More: Quartz and Forbes. Tweets: @csoghoian

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Leaseweb Wipes All Megaupload User Data, Dotcom Outraged — Ever since the raids in January last year, the fate of Megaupload users' personal files has remained uncertain. — It's been a frustrating situation for the millions of affected users and one that has taken a turn for the worst today …

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft Said to Add Qualcomm as Surface RT Supplier — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), seeking to break into the market for tablet computers, will update its Surface RT using chips from Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), people with knowledge of the company's plans said. — Some new versions of Surface …

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Wired Editor Michael Copeland Joins Andreessen Horowitz To Lead New ‘Content Strategy’ — Wired Senior Editor Michael Copeland is joining venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. We've confirmed with the VC firm that Copeland will be leading Andreessen's new ‘content strategy.’

Tweets: @mvc, @qhardy and @markmilian

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Facebook rolling out ability to insert images natively into comments, starting with Web — Is Facebook making a move to allow users to reply to their friend's status updates with images? According to a screenshot from devianART's Product Marketing Manager Dan Leveille, it appears so.

More: The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, Inside Facebook, Engadget and Macgasm. Tweets: @matthewkeyslive

Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:

LG to mass-produce flexible displays — Firm releases displays with bendable screens — LG Display is expected to solidify its leadership in the display market as it will mass-produce a new flexible smartphone panel for major clients from the fourth quarter of this year.

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Mat Smith / Engadget:

HTC Butterfly s revealed: 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, UltraPixel camera sensor (video) — HTC's just pulled back the proverbial curtains on the Butterfly s at its Taiwan launch event. It'll arrive boasting an identical-sounding 5-inch 1080p display, front-facing BoomSound stereo speakers and Sense 5 as expected.

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

TripAdvisor Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys GateGuru Mobile App For Real-Time Travel Info — Travel portal TripAdvisor continues to push ahead with its mobile and social acquisitions: today the company announced that it has acquired GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time information on airports, weather, and flights.

More: PR Newswire, CNET, Tnooz, PE Hub Blog, The Next Web and Skift. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:

Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome Gets Gmail Clipping — Web Clipping is one of our favorite Evernote features. With a simple click of our browser extension, you can save just about anything you see online into your Evernote account for permanent safekeeping. Today, we're taking this one step further.

More: The Next Web, Engadget, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Insanely Great Mac, Business Insider and SlashGear

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry — Today Stratasys announced that it has acquired MakerBot in a deal the terms of which were not disclosed. The combination of the companies brings together a leader in 3D industrial printing and manufacturing …

More: GigaOM and Stratasys

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Feedly Cloud Goes Live To Replace Google Reader's Backend, Power New Web Version Of Feedly's App — In 10 days, Google's RSS feed-reading service Google Reader will shut down for good. In its wake, developers working on products in the RSS ecosystem have been stepping up to deliver apps, tools and other services to fill the void.

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Steven M. Davidoff / DealBook:

Google's Effort to Skirt Regulation May Invite More Scrutiny — Google's motto is “don't be evil.” But its recent acquisition of Waze, reportedly for $1 billion in cash, shows that just because you're not evil, it doesn't mean you can't be aggressive in pushing the boundaries of the law.

More: 9to5Google, Venture Capital Dispatch and Skift

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Bath salts and booty: watch a drug-fueled John McAfee uninstall his antivirus software — The strange tale of John McAfee keeps getting stranger. In a video posted to YouTube last night, the antivirus software founder and part-time fugitive callously sends up the program he helped create.

More: VentureBeat, Graham Cluley, Examiner, The Register, Mashable, Betabeat, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Geek.com, Yahoo! News and Softpedia News

Ryan Tate / Wired:

The Price to Pay for Facebook's Free Wi-Fi? A Scrap of Privacy — The idea of offering people free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates began at Facebook as a one-off experiment, a project by two engineers during an all-nighter in May 2012. Since then, Facebook has gradually spread …

More: CNET, dailywireless.org, SiliconANGLE and Marketing Pilgrim

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Viacom joins Twitter Amplify program to pump up second-screen volume (and insert more ads) — Movie and TV giant Viacom hopped on the Twitter Amplify program to pump up the second-screen volume, starting with its 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on August 25.

More: TechCrunch, CNET and GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

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