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March 4, 2014, 4:40 PM

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

iOS 7.1 to ship in time for next week's iTunes Festival, will be needed to stream event — iOS 7.1 and the iTunes Festival at SXSW — Apple's first iTunes Festival in the U.S. starts a week from today at SXSW in Austin. Apple is going to stream the performances to iOS devices using an app …

More: GeekWire, 9to5Mac, BGR, iMore, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, Apple Bitch, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com …, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac and Network World

Alvin Wong / UnleashThePhones:

Video shows setup process for Cortana on leaked build of Windows Phone 8.1 — Exclusive: Cortana Voice Assistant on Windows Phone 8.1 [VIDEO] — Building on the videos showing off various brand-new features in the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update that we have brought you …

More: YouTube, The Next Web, The Verge, Search Engine Land, PC World, BGR, WMPoweruser, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, xda-developers, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear, WinBeta, Phones Review and My Nokia Blog

TechCrunch:

Facebook in talks to buy Titan Aerospace for $60M, plans to use solar drone tech for providing internet access — Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace — Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Intel buying health-tracking wristwatch maker Basis for around $100M — Basis Goes To Intel For Around $100M — With $96.7M In Funding, Powa Technologies Debuts PowaTag For Mobile And Audio-Triggered Commerce — Intel has won the Basis auction, we're hearing, at a price of around $100 million according to one source.

More: BetaKit, Techvibes Global News, Computerworld, EE Times, Inquirer, PadGadget, eWeek, TheStreet.com, bizjournals, CNET, SlashGear, VatorNews, Ubergizmo, Electronista, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo UK, App Advice, Digital Trends and iDownloadBlog.com …

Matt Brian / Engadget:

Hands-on with Apple's CarPlay: when Siri met Ferrari (video) — Apple's in-car infotainment system has been a long time coming. After it was announced at the company's annual WWDC conference in June last year, “iOS in the Car” flew under the radar, only to undergo a rebrand and launch publicly yesterday under a new moniker: CarPlay.

More: Computerworld, eWeek, TechCrunch, New York Times, BGR, iMore, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com …, Cult of Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Mac and MacStories

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Roku's new Streaming Stick works with most TVs, drops price to $50 — When Roku released its first Streaming Stick in late 2012, it was a tough sell. It cost $99 (as much as the highest-end Roku box), only worked with TVs that were certified as “Roku Ready,” and it didn't even ship with a remote.

More: Re/code, TechHive, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Gigaom, The Next Web, TechCrunch and The Official Roku Blog

Nikkei:

Japan to regulate Bitcoin trades, impose taxes — TOKYO — The Japanese government will set rules for trading bitcoins, defining the virtual tender not as a currency but as a commodity akin to gold. — Gains from trading bitcoins on online exchanges, and purchases made with them will be subject to Japanese tax.

More: Gigaom, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Next Web and ValueWalk. Tweets: @kashhill

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer retiring after 18 years, to be replaced by VP of finance Luca Maestri — Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer retiring after 18 years — Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer will retire at the end of September, after 18 years at the company.

Wall Street Journal:

DocuSign Raises $85 Million at $1.6 Billion Valuation — DocuSign, an electronic-signature software company, has raised $85 million from institutional investors, according to two people briefed on the matter. The fundraising values the company at roughly $1.6 billion, another person briefed on the matter said.

More: Re/code, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Gigaom, PE Hub Blog, GeekWire, Xconomy, TechCrunch and bizjournals

Alex Hern / Guardian:

Bitcoin bank Flexcoin closes after hackers steal 896 bitcoin worth £365,000, Poloniex loses 12.3% of reserves in separate hack — Bitcoin bank Flexcoin closes after hack attack — Bank admits it does not have resources to cover loss of 896 bitcoin worth £365,000 stolen in raid

More: Flexcoin, bitcointalk.org, SlashGear, Engadget, The Register, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Re/code, CNBC, CoinDesk, Business Insider, GeekWire, USA Today, TheDomains.com, The Verge, Digital Trends, CBC News, Softpedia News, Ars Technica and NBC News

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Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Belgian judge considers forcing ISPs to block Apple websites over ‘misleading’ product warranties — A Belgian magistrate is reportedly considering forcing ISPs to block Apple websites in the country, following a complaint about the company ‘misleading’ consumers on EU-wide product warranty …

More: The Register, iDownloadBlog.com …, VentureBeat, Inquirer, I4U News, MacRumors, Geek.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, 9to5Mac and Gigaom

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Aether's $399 Cone is a speaker that knows exactly what you want to hear next — It's a Saturday night and you're cooking dinner before some friends come over. You hit a button on the speaker in your kitchen and it starts playing Daft Punk. You didn't ask for Daft Punk …

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechSpot, New York Times, USA Today, Quartz, Wired, SlashGear and Marketwired

Reuters:

Ukraine hit by cyberattacks: head of Ukraine security service — (Reuters) - Ukraine's telecommunications system has come under attack, with equipment installed in Russian-controlled Crimea used to interfere with the mobile phones of members of parliament, the head of Ukraine's SBU security service said on Tuesday.

More: CNET, Mocana DeviceLine Blog, Foreign Policy, Gizmodo UK, The Register, TechPresident, Gizmodo and Quartz

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Inside The Facebook-WhatsApp Megadeal: The Courtship, The Secret Meetings, The $19 Billion Poker Game — “Get together?” — The subject line of the e-mail was like every other come-on that hit Jan Koum's in-box in the spring of 2012. He was pounded daily by investors who wanted a piece of his company, WhatsApp.

Tweets: @parmy, @sarahfrier, @jonfortt and @sfiegerman. Thanks:@parmy

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

ServiceMax, Managing Service Teams in the Cloud, Lands $71 Million — We've all been there. A household appliance — a refrigerator, say — breaks down, and when the repair guy shows up to diagnose the problem, he realizes he doesn't have a needed replacement part.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, bizjournals, Bloomberg and Reuters

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Paper Update Pushes Virality By Sending Download Links With Articles You Privately Share — Lifesaver iPhone Case Gives Your Smartphone A Dedicated Hardware Panic Button — Facebook's hoping to get more people downloading Paper by adding new options to share articles by text message …

More: CNET, Inside Facebook, TechHive, 9to5Mac, AllFacebook and iDownloadBlog.com …. Tweets: @joshconstine

IDC:

IDC Expects PC Shipments to Fall by -6% in 2014 and Decline Through 2018 — Worldwide PC shipments fell by -9.8% in 2013, slightly better than a projected decline of -10.1%, but still the most severe contraction on record, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.

More: CITEworld, CNET, PC World, Business Insider, Engadget, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and Wall Street Journal

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Apple's voracious appetite for acquisitions outspent Google in 2013 — Apple is quietly investing far more money to acquire talent, technology and production capacity than the market appears to realize, having liberally outspent even Google over the past year. — Apple's acquisition investments over the past quarter

More: SiliconBeat

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Blockchain acquires RTBTC, adds real-time trading, data, and news offering to become “the Bloomberg of bitcoin” — Blockchain CEO Nic Cary announced the bitcoin wallet company's second acquisition in 10 weeks this morning on Bloomberg TV, revealing that the company has acquired real-time charting …

More: The Next Web, Blockchain Blog, newsBTC, Wall Street Journal and CoinDesk. Tweets: @zeroblock

Om Malik / Fast Company:

Today's tech companies must build what they can't buy or risk losing control of their fate — Masters of Their Own Destiny — Like clockwork, apple introduces an upgrade to its iconic iPhone each year. Sometimes it's thinner or less curved, but much like a new Porsche, you can look at it and think nothing's changed.

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches Skype for Outlook.com worldwide, adds Safari for Mac support and HD video calling for PCs — Microsoft today launched Skype for Outlook.com worldwide, expanding the service that was previously only available to a select few countries. At the same time …

More: Skype Blogs, Office Blogs, PC Magazine, LiveSide.net, Inquirer, Computerworld, Softpedia News, The Verge, SlashGear, Engadget, TechCrunch, GeekWire and ZDNet

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Nuance announces Dragon Dictate 4, with pre-recorded transcription features and Gmail integration — Nuance has just announced the next major version of its Mac dictation software, Dragon Dictate 4. The new version improves recognition accuracy as well as several new features …

More: BGR, MacRumors, Breaking Apple News … and Softpedia News

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Twitter Snafu Triggers Mass Reset of User Passwords — If you're a Twitter user, you may have an email sitting in your inbox telling you to change your password right now. — You aren't alone. — A number of Twitter users received password reset request emails from the microblogging service …

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