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March 9, 2014, 3:10 PM

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Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Google to launch Android developer SDK for wearable tech in 2 weeks — At SXSW today, Sundar Pichai, Google's SVP of Android, Apps and Chrome, announced that the company will soon release an Android developer SDK specifically designed for use with wearable devices.

More: The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, ReadWrite, TechHive, TechnoBuffalo and Pocket-lint

Casey Newton / The Verge:

In the wake of Zite's sale, it's time to take a more skeptical look at news personalization by algorithms — The smarter news apps are, the dumber they get — A curiously hot category with little to show for it — In August 2011, CNN bought the newsreading app Zite for $20 million.

More: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com. Tweets: @timobrien and @mathewi

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Future of gaming microconsoles in question as Ouya pivots to become a software platform — The indie game console may already be dead — Last year, I predicted that the rising tide of Android gaming would raise all boats — that indie game consoles like the Ouya, the Shield …

More: PC Magazine, Slashdot, Business Wire, Forbes, Polygon, Eurogamer.net, VentureBeat, Joystiq, Engadget, Ars Technica, Re/code, Kotaku and The Next Web

Primavera De Filippi / Wired:

Tomorrow's Apps Will Come From Brilliant (And Risky) Bitcoin Code — For many, bitcoin — the distributed, worldwide, decentralized crypto-currency — is all about money. Or, as recent events show, about who invented it. Yet the actual innovation brought about by bitcoin is not the currency itself …

Tweets: @bitcoinmom

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Three years later, Facebook is bringing back its F8 developer conference to San Francisco on April 30 — At SXSW today, Parse co-founder and CEO Ilya Sukhar announced Facebook's F8 conference will be held this year on April 30 at the San Francisco Design Concourse.

More: PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CNET, ReadWrite, Facebook Developers, Mashable, The Technology Chronicles, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Re/code

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Apple's new product process is a giant checklist covering all steps in product's life cycle — Any company can copy the keystone of Apple's design process — It turns out that the key to Apple's creativity, speed, and adaptability is, on its surface, the exact opposite of the kind of free-wheeling creativity one might expect.

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Austin Police Department Warns SXSW Attendees Not To Use Uber — Here's something you might not have noticed if you were partying it up at SXSW and using Uber to get around: Uber is not legal in Austin, and the police department wants you to know that. — In a post on the Austin government page …

More: PC Magazine, AustinTexas.gov, bizjournals, Daily Dot and Gigaom

Tweets: @austin_police, @kashhill and @joshuabaer

Wall Street Journal:

SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son Pushes Sprint to Shed ‘Loser’ Mindset in Mobile-Phone Industry — SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son Pushes Sprint to Shed ‘Loser’ Mindset in Mobile-Phone Industry — At a meeting with Sprint Corp. executives in October, the chief executive …

More: DSLreports, Computerworld and BGR

Tweets: @danamattioli and @jessicalessin

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Lyft Funding Official: Documents Filed for New $150 Million Round — Lyft, the ride-sharing app that is locked in an expensive competition with rival Uber, is at least part of the way to its next round of funding. — The company filed a document associated with a Series D round worth $150 million …

More: The Verge, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Reuters:

Suspected Russian spyware Turla targets Europe, United States — (Reuters) - A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyber espionage programs uncovered to date.

More: Financial Times, The Register, G Data, Graham Cluley, CIO.com, Tech News Plus, Techworld.com, Tom's Guide, SC Magazine and Slashdot. Tweets: @zandarvts

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

CloudBees Raises $11.2M Series C Led By Verizon Ventures To Expand Its Java-Centric Enterprise PaaS — CloudBees, a Java-centric Enterprise platform as a service we've covered a few times in the past, today announced that it has raised an $11.2 million Series C funding round led by Verizon Ventures.

More: VentureBeat, bizjournals, Gigaom, CruxialCIO, Talkin' Cloud, Virtualization Review, Computerworld, CITEworld, Pulse 2.0, Xconomy, Network World, The Register, theWHIR.com, BetaBoston, SiliconANGLE and VatorNews

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Aereo's internet TV service in Denver and Salt Lake City shuts down today — Aereo's streams in Denver and Salt Lake City hung on for a while after the US District Court of Utah granted its opponents a preliminary injunction on February 20th, but today they're shutting off.

More: PC World, PC Magazine, Deadline.com, Softpedia News, Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Salt Lake Tribune

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