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March 9, 2014, 8:55 PM

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Hackers Hit Mt. Gox Exchange's CEO, Claim To Publish Evidence Of Fraud — The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has described as a massive hacker attack that stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its users' bitcoins and left the company bankrupt.

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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: ZDNet, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Re/code, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, ReadWrite, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com …, Droid Life and TechHive

Rachel King / TechRepublic:

How Aaron Levie and his childhood friends built Box into a $2 billion business, without stabbing each other in the back — “Water,” says Aaron Levie. It's 11:00 AM on a bright October morning in Silicon Valley. Levie, the bright-eyed young chief executive with patches of grey hair …

More: ZDNet, Bloomberg and CNET

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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

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Vendors using Instagram as an unofficial e-commerce platform worry it will become official — On Instagram, a Bazaar Where You Least Expect It — Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is my favorite place to skim through pictures of friends.

Tweets: @cschweitz

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.

Tweets: @dalmaer

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Neil Young's high-fidelity iPod competitor will cost $399 — The age of the iPod might be over, but music artist Neil Young doesn't believe portable media players are dead. On March 15th, he'll offer pre-orders on Kickstarter for the PonoPlayer, a $399 triangular digital music player designed to sound worlds better.

More: Computer Audiophile, Engadget, Pitchfork, Evolver.fm, Fuse, Exclaim!, Vanyaland and Guardian. Tweets: @davezatz

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

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: Wall Street Journal, The Technology Chronicles, The Verge, TechCrunch, Mashable and VentureBeat

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Pinterest's first transparency report: 12 government requests for data on 13 accounts in second half of 2013 — Pinterest today published its first transparency report, with the promise to release a new edition every six months. The company revealed it only received seven warrants …

More: Re/code, VentureBeat, Oh, How Pinteresting!, Mashable, Softpedia News and Pulse 2.0

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

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