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Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO — Bill Gates steps up to new role as Technology Advisor; John Thompson assumes role as Chairman of Board of Directors. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member …

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Microsoft Corporation:

Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO — Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came here because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the world.

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Tweets: @karaswisher, @toddbishop, @raheelk and @shiraovide

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's Bill Gates “Steps Up” To New Role As Technology Advisor: Was He Pushed Or Did He Jump? — Along with the news today that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO of Microsoft, another big change in the executive ranks: Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, is leaving his role as chairman …

More: CNN, eWeek, Digits, The Switch, Tech Trader Daily, IntoMobile, GeekWire, WinBeta and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @karaswisher

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

With Nadella's Appointment, The “Search CEOs” Now Run Google, Yahoo & Microsoft — Satya Nadella being named CEO of Microsoft isn't just big news for Microsoft. It's big news for search. For the first time in ages, the three major search companies in the US are all run by CEOs who either came …

More: Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @pmarca

Microsoft Corporation:

Steve Ballmer email to employees on new CEO

More: Computerworld, The Verge, PC Magazine, PhoneNews.com, Geek.com, Digital Trends, Business ETC, Pocketnow, Mobile Marketing Watch, Forbes, SlashGear, TechSpot, Los Angeles Times and SiliconANGLE

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Ready for Their Close-Ups: Nadella, Gates, Ballmer and Thompson Do YouTube on CEO Pick (Video)

More: Computerworld, Valleywag, Guardian and Forbes

Bloomberg:

Thompson Replacing Gates as Microsoft Chairman in Revamp

More: ZDNet and Bloomberg

Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:

Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary. — It's been an amazing journey so far, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. It's rare to be able to touch so many people's lives, and I try to remind myself to make the most of every day and have the biggest impact I can.

More: eWeek, Guardian, Forbes, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, TIME, CNN, Techvibes, TechnoBuffalo, LinkedIn Pulse, ZDNet, TechSpot, Gigaom, AllFacebook, Los Angeles Times, Mashable and PetaPixel. Tweets: @marshallk

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook celebrates 10-year anniversary with personalized ‘Look Back’ videos just for you — As Mark Zuckerberg reflects upon Facebook's first ten years as a company today, he's encouraging the community he built to do the same. Starting this morning, hundreds of millions of Facebook users …

More: Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, ABC News, Engadget, Digits, NYT Bits, Motherboard, The Next Web, SiliconBeat, Slate, iDownloadBlog.com, Digits, CNBC, ZDNet, USA Today and TechCrunch. Tweets: @ranjanxroy

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Microsoft Injects $15M Into Foursquare, Strikes Licensing Deal For Location Data — The big news from Microsoft this week isn't only about its new CEO Satya Nadella. — Today, the company announced that it has made a $15 million strategic investment in Foursquare, the New York-based startup focused …

More: Digits, The Foursquare Blog, NYT Bits, Bloomberg, Re/code and ReadWrite

Tweets: @danprimack, @sarahfrier and @alex

Thanks:@austincarr

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

YouTube founders' startup Avos is laying off 80% of staff & killing video app Mixbit — Avos Systems, the company created by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, is laying off a significant portion of its workforce, sources close to the company told VentureBeat.

More: Gigaom, The Next Web and Valleywag. Thanks:@tched

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper” — Yesterday, as Facebook launched its news reader app Paper, design-focused startup FiftyThree called out Facebook publicly for using their brand name. Facebook declined to change the name of their brand new reader app. — But FiftyThree has taken action to protect its brand name.

More: Daring Fireball, Examiner, VatorNews, SlashGear, Notes from Figure 53, MacRumors, GeekWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web and Pocketnow

Tweets: @viticci and @fiftythree

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires sleep research expert Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips for iWatch team — Joining a longlist of Apple executives and new hires thought to be working on Apple's highly anticipated iWatch project, the company has recently picked up Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips Research …

More: MacRumors, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@llsethj

Martyn Williams / Computerworld:

North Korea goes OSX-like with new operating system — The latest version of the software dumps a Windows-like interface for a Mac-style desktop — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, might the folks in Cupertino be pleased when they see the latest version of North Korea's home-grown operating system?

More: AppleInsider, Computerworld, MacRumors and Gizmodo

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Apple and Microsoft join US carriers in $750 million commitment to education — iPads, MacBooks, Windows 2-in-1s, teacher training, and wireless broadband have all been promised as part of a wide-ranging commitment from US companies to support Barack Obama's ConnectED plan.

Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:

RadioShack to Close About 500 Stores Within Months—Sources — Electronics Retailer, Advisers Continue to Work on Restructuring — RadioShack Corp. is planning to close around 500 stores in the coming months as the electronics retailer continues working with advisers to restructure the company …

More: Business Insider, BuzzFeed and Reuters

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Target works on security-heavy credit cards, after breach — Target is still reeling from the massive security breach, which affected as many as 110 million customers. Now, as the retailer gets back on its feet, it's becoming more security focused. — Target Chief Financial Officer John …

More: The Hill, Re/code, Geek Beat Technology News, The Verge, Softpedia News, NBCNews, Pulse 2.0 and Help Net Security

Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal:

Target Data Breach Went On Longer Than Thought

Shane Cole / AppleInsider:

Flash flaw could allow attackers to remotely control Macs and PCs, Adobe issues critical update — Adobe on Tuesday released a security update for their Flash Player to address a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of users' computers, an exploit that the company says has been documented in the wild.

More: helpx.adobe.com, Securelist / Blog, Krebs on Security, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, MacRumors, Adobe Product Security …, http://www.tottenhamnews.org, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, Naked Security, iPhone Hacks, Graham Cluley, The Next Web, Electronista, SecurityWeek and Threatpost

Washington Post:

Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures — The message broadcast in several states last winter was equal parts alarming and absurd: “Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. .

More: Techdirt, ZDNet, Gizmodo and Federal Computer Week

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix to Raise $400 Mil in Additional Debt to Fund Original Content, Euro Expansion — Netflix formally announced it is seeking to offer $400 million aggregate principal amount of 10-year senior notes due 2024 to institutional investors, coin it expects to use for acquiring original content and expanding into Europe.

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Verge, VatorNews, VentureBeat and PR Newswire. See also Mediagazer

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

DFJ Raises $325M For Eleventh Early Stage-Fund, Tim Draper And John Fisher Will Not be Investing Partners In Fund — DFJ is announcing the raise of DFJ Venture XI, a $325 million early-stage venture fund. For background, DFJ Fund X was $350 million, closed in 2010.

More: Inside DFJ, PandoDaily, Re/code and PE Hub Blog

Bloomberg:

IBM Uses Dutch Tax Haven to Boost Profits as Sales Slide — International Business Machines Corp. has reduced its tax rate to a two-decade low with help from a tax strategy that sends profits through a Dutch subsidiary. — The approach, which involves routing almost all sales in Europe …

More: Ars Technica and The Register. Tweets: @fmanjoo

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