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March 4, 2014, 7:15 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, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Mac, BGR, iMore, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, everythingiCafe, Cult of Mac, Apple Bitch, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com … and MobileSyrup.com

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, WMPoweruser, Search Engine Land, Computerworld, BGR, Engadget, Salon, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, xda-developers, MobileBurn.com, WinBeta and SlashGear

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

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 …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Why Would Titan Aerospace Sell To Facebook? Because Investors Weren't Biting

More: Forbes

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, Computerworld, Techvibes Global News, EE Times, Inquirer, VatorNews, TheStreet.com, Electronista, Gizmodo UK, eWeek, PadGadget, CNET, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, Gigaom and dailywireless.org

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: The Official Roku Blog, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Re/code, MacRumors, TechHive, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Gigaom, The Next Web, TechCrunch and dailywireless.org. See also Mediagazer

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping — Hundreds of open source packages, including the Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions of Linux, are susceptible to attacks that circumvent the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet …

More: InfoWorld, Daring Fireball and ZDNet

Tweets: @jbrodkin, @sirsean and @vowe

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

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.

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Yahoo Tests App Install Ads In Hopes of Jump Starting Mobile Business — How to Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Strategy … Yahoo hopes to jump-start its mobile ad business the same way Facebook did. — The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based portal has begun testing new mobile ads …

More: Marketing Pilgrim, ExchangeWire.com, Business Insider and Gigaom Research. Tweets: @mattlynley

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 and ValueWalk. Tweets: @kashhill

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, Gizmodo, Reuters, VentureBeat, Business Insider, CNBC, Engadget, CoinDesk, The Register, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, SC Magazine, CBC News, Ars Technica, GeekWire, NBC News and TheDomains.com

Tweets: @carnage4life and @robinwauters

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

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

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

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

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, AllFacebook, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com …. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Scoop: Spotify hires Beats Music former head of product — Fredric Vinna, part of Beats Music's early team of creators, recently left the streaming music service and will soon begin work at its main rival, Spotify. — The rivalry between Spotify and Beats Music, two key streaming music services, is deepening.

More: Topspin Tumblr, Wall Street Journal and Engadget

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Comcast expands its low-cost internet program to 1.2M people — In hopes of making it's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable sweeter for regulators to swallow, Comcast is extending its low-cost broadband access program and announcing that 300,000 households have signed up.

More: CNET, New York Times, Comcast Voices Blog, Light Reading and The Verge

Greg Avery / TechFlash:

Dish Network wins all wireless Internet licenses in FCC auction — Dish Network Corp. won the bidding for wireless broadband frequencies in all 176 U.S. markets auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission last month. — Results from the FCC's H Block auction showed …

More: Re/code and Trefis

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

HBO Go is coming to the PlayStation 3 today — After a very long wait, PlayStation 3 owners will finally be able to stream HBO shows on their consoles. The console is getting its very own HBO Go app starting today, according to an announcement on the official PlayStation Blog.

More: PlayStation.Blog, CNET, Polygon, Forbes, Engadget, VG247, TechCrunch, Kotaku, The Next Web and IntoMobile. See also Mediagazer

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