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March 5, 2014, 12:50 PM

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Laurie Segall / CNNMoney.com:

CNN sells Zite to Flipboard, teams up to launch custom magazines for CNN shows, in deal valued at up to $60M — CNN sells Zite to Flipboard — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) CNN has sold its news reader app, Zite, to Flipboard, a social magazine application. As part of the deal …

More: Inside Flipboard, CNET, ReadWrite, Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, The Verge, iMore, Marketing Land, Engadget, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Forbes, Business Insider, App Advice, Electronista, Cult of Mac, WebProNews, SlashGear and Poynter

Tweets: @mathewi, @om, @davidbauer, @mathewi and @antderosa

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TechCrunch:

Flipboard Is Buying Zite From CNN For $60M, After CNN Bought It For $20M Three Years Ago — This just in: Flipboard is buying Zite from CNN, which acquired the service three years ago for around $20 million. As part of the deal, it will integrate CNN content on to Flipboard, covering over 300 feeds.

More: TechCrunch, ReadWrite, Inquirer and MacStories

Bloomberg:

Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Tony Bates and Microsoft's board all initially opposed Ballmer's plan for Nokia acquisition — Microsoft's Nadella Manages Legacy of Ballmer-Board Split — New Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella is seeking to reshape a company whose main businesses are losing steam …

More: GeekWire, Computerworld, CNET, Business Insider, Microsoft News, Softpedia News, SlashGear and Bloomberg

Tweets: @bloombergnews, @manan, @edbott and @tomwarren

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Steven Ballmer Reflects on Missteps and Ponders the Future of Microsoft — OXFORD, England — A month after stepping down as Microsoft's chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer hasn't lost any of his energy. — In front of a packed crowd at the University of Oxford, Mr. Ballmer hooted …

More: Wall Street Journal, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Softpedia News, VentureBeat and CNET. Tweets: @pkedrosky

Cam Bunton / TmoNews:

94% of T-Mobile Blackberry promo participants switched to other smartphones — 94% of BlackBerry trade-ins switched to other platforms during promo … Tomorrow, March 5th, the $200 trade-in for an old BlackBerry device offer is ending. We've already heard from T-Mobile's CMO …

More: Gigaom, Los Angeles Times, Examiner, CNET, BGR, DailyTech, Re/code, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, App Advice, PhoneDog.com, Electronista, MobileBurn.com and CrackBerry.com. Tweets: @dcseifert

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Yahoo to stop user access of services with Facebook, Google IDs — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will stop letting consumers access its various online services, including Fantasy Sports and photo-sharing site Flickr, by signing-in with their Facebook Inc or Google Inc credentials.

More: PC Magazine, BetaNews, AllFacebook, Re/code, PC World, VentureBeat, The Register, Computerworld, Quartz, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, Marketing Land, SiliconANGLE, IntoMobile, bizjournals, Inquirer, Gizmodo UK, Android Community, ZDNet, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Electronista, SlashGear, Android Central and WebProNews

Tweets: @amir, @mims and @lexnfx

Julia Angwin / New York Times:

In era of free services where we pay with our personal data, privacy is becoming a luxury good — Has Privacy Become a Luxury Good? — LAST year, I spent more than $2,200 and countless hours trying to protect my privacy. — Some of the items I bought — a $230 service that encrypted …

More: BGR. Tweets: @dataprivacyday, @_nomap and @juliaangwin

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

OnLive is reborn with IGN founder as chief and two new cloud-based gaming services — Above: OnLive leaders Rick Sanchez, Mark Jung, and Gary Lauder. — Image Credit: Dean Takahashi — OnLive has announced that former IGN chief Mark Jung is its new executive chairman …

More: PC World, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Re/code and TechCrunch

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Corning exec: sapphire crystal displays are expensive, heavy, and environmentally unfriendly — Corning exec slams sapphire —rumored for Apple device — A Corning executive launched a blistering critique of sapphire crystal, used as a protective material for displays, on Tuesday.

More: BGR, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, GSMArena Blog, Softpedia News, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com … and App Advice

Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:

Yielding to Pressure, Facebook Restricts Gun Promotion on Social Network … Facebook announced Wednesday new restrictions on promoting guns on the social network, amid pressure from groups favoring gun control. — In a blog post, Facebook said it will remove offers to sell guns without background checks …

More: Facebook, VentureBeat and New York Times

Anne d'Innocenzio / Associated Press:

Target tech chief resigns as it overhauls security — Target says tech chief resigns as part of security overhaul following data breach — NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp. Chief Information Officer Beth Jacob is resigning effective Wednesday as the retailer overhauls its information security …

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Verge, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Reuters, CNBC, Wall Street Journal and Consumerist. Tweets: @briankrebs

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Working On More Third-Party Integrations For Siri With iWatch In Mind, Report Claims — Canary Smart Home Security System Nabs $10 Million Series A From Khosla Ventures — Apple is working to make Siri play nice with more third-party apps and services, according to a new report from The Information.

More: MacRumors, BGR, The Information, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com … and iLounge

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Samsung devices with Kitkat update no longer showing dubiously high benchmark scores — Samsung's KitKat update seems to remove benchmark-boosting “shenanigans” — Samsung's Android 4.4.2 update appears to correct the boosting behavior we encountered in 4.3.

More: Gigaom, The Next Web, Android Police, Sammy Hub, Android and Me, MobileSyrup.com, I4U News, Engadget, Pocketnow and ExtremeTech

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Google Capital Pours $50M Into Real Estate Marketplace Auction.com At A $1.2B Valuation — Fresh of its public debut last week, Google Capital is putting more money to work this week with the announcement of a $50 million investment in real estate marketplace Auction.com.

More: Re/code, Gigaom, Domain Name Wire, Wall Street Journal, CNET, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, GeekWire, Re/code and silicontap.com

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Because screw innovation: Uber already deemed illegal in Brussels, two (private) vehicles seized so far — The Brussels government really wants to make it impossible for Uber to operate in the city, even with a P2P ride-sharing service. Two private cars driven by UberPOP drivers were seized this morning.

Tweets: @lsrgt and @jowyang

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Yahoo acquires social media visualization startup Vizify — Vizify, a Portland-based startup that turns your social media chatter into visualizations, today was acquired by Yahoo. — Vizify, founded by Todd Silverstein, Jeff Cutler-Stamm, and Eli Tucker in 2011, is all about helping individuals make great first impressions.

More: Vizify and The Next Web. Thanks:@toddbishop

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Pitching Security, FreedomPop to Offer Modified Galaxy S II With Encrypted Calling and Texting — With all the attention on the vulnerability of cellphone communications to snooping, a number of players are pitching more secure options. — They range from messaging app Wickr to Silent Circle …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Electronista, Android Community, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web and Engadget

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Facebook Messenger arrives for Windows Phone sans voice features — Microsoft was clearly being cautious when it said Facebook Messenger would be available for Windows Phone within a few weeks of Mobile World Congress — it's already here, just over a week later.

Danny O'Brien / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Mexican Protest Site Censored by GoDaddy — with the U.S. Embassy's Help — The Mexican website 1dmx.org (mirror here), was set up in the wake of a set of controversial December 1st 2012 protests against the inauguration of the new President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto.

More: Techdirt and SlashGear. Tweets: @wikileaks and @danielnazer

Jared Newman / PC World:

MetroTwit vanishes as Twitter restrictions claim another victim — MetroTwit, a popular Twitter client for Windows, is going away, and the reason is not at all surprising. — In a blog post, MetroTwit explained that it ran into Twitter's “ access token limit,” which is Twitter's …

More: MetroTwit, The Verge, WindowsITPro, Fashion Times, The Next Web, WinBeta and Softpedia News. Tweets: @monkbent

Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:

Evernote for Windows Gets Image Annotation and Faster Sync — Evernote for Windows gets two significant enhancements today. First, you can now annotate images inside of your notes. Second, you'll notice that sync is way faster. Let's take a look at both. — Get Evernote for Windows Desktop »

More: Softpedia News, The Next Web, Lifehacker, Engadget, VentureBeat and WinBeta

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