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March 15, 2014, 12:05 PM

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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

US Commerce Department prepares to give up oversight of ICANN — U.S. Plans to Give Up Oversight of Web Domain Manager — Move Seen in Response to International Concern About Country's Control Over Internet Structure — The U.S. government is preparing to relinquish oversight of a key body …

Jillian C. York / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Reporters Without Borders includes US and UK in its 2014 “Enemies of the Internet” index — A Short Guide to the Internet's Biggest Enemies — Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual “Enemies of the Internet” index this week—a ranking first launched in 2006 intended …

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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Refinements, additions, and un-breaking stuff: iOS 7.1 reviewed — Time to update! iOS 7.1 is here, and it fixes a lot of iOS 7.0's biggest problems. — Aurich Lawson — There were about six months between the ouster of Scott Forstall from Apple in late October of 2012 and the unveiling of iOS 7.0 in June of 2013.

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Fred Wilson / AVC:

Are we in a bubble? Valuations of high growth tech companies will remain high as long as interest rates stay low — The Bubble Question — Everywhere I go, everywhere I speak, I get asked this question. Are we in a bubble? — I've been getting asked that question for at least four years now.

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Motorola Had Plans For A Super-Powered Google Phone, But Larry Page Refused To Make It Happen — When Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion in 2011, there was lots of talk that Google would revamp its Android division in the image of Apple. — Many people, including people at both companies …

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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Oculus VR, EA, Avegant and others join to form ‘Immersive Technology Alliance’ — Well, this is certainly a motley crew: a variety of companies in the virtual reality space are teaming up to create the “Immersive Technology Alliance.” The group is an evolution of an earlier consortium …

More: computerandvideogames.com, Tom's Hardware Guide and VG247. Thanks:@realbengilbert

Ed Christman / Billboard:

Rate Court Judge Rules Pandora Will Pay ASCAP 1.85% Annual Revenue — In what is being viewed as a defeat for songwriters, the ASCAP/Pandora rate court judge has decided that Pandora will pay the performance rights organization a rate of 1.85% of annual revenue.

More: New York Times, SlashGear, Associated Press and Bloomberg. Tweets: @edchristman. See also Mediagazer

Juan Carlos Torres / Android Community:

Google Play Store update lets you require a password for every purchase — Google has just started rolling out an update to the Play Store app on Android that, among other things, now offers more fine-grained control when making purchases. This change could very well be related to the class action suit that the company is now facing.

More: Android Police, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, Droid Life, PC Magazine, MobileSyrup.com, AndroidGuys, Electronista and Engadget

Suchitra Mohanty / Reuters:

India court rejects Nokia appeal over asset transfer to Microsoft — (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Friday ordered Nokia to give a 35 billion rupees ($572.5 million) guarantee before it transfers one of its biggest mobile phone plants and other assets in the country to Microsoft Corp.

More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, International Business Times, Business Standard, The Economic Times, The Financial Express, thehindubusinessline.com, bgr.in, Quartz, India & World and bgr.in

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Mozilla scraps Firefox's Windows Metro version, cites less than 1K active daily users for beta — Mozilla scraps Metro version of Firefox, citing low interest — After more than two years of work, Mozilla has scrapped its effort to build a Metro-specific version of Firefox for Windows 8 …

More: Mozilla Future Releases, VentureBeat, Computerworld, TechCrunch, LiveSino, SlashGear, gHacks Technology News, Engadget and The Next Web

The Asahi Shimbun:

Toshiba sues South Korean rival SK Hynix over corporate espionage — Asahi Asia Antenna - — THE ASAHI SHIMBUN — Toshiba Corp. has filed a lawsuit against South Korean rival SK Hynix Inc. for compensatory damages, citing the theft of its technological secrets.

More: Wall Street Journal, Computerworld and Reuters

Wall Street Journal:

GoDaddy Prepares for IPO — Company to Interview Underwriters in Coming Weeks — GoDaddy Group Inc., the Internet company that helps individuals and businesses create websites, is preparing for an initial public share offering, said people familiar with the matter.

More: Reuters, New York Times, Domain Name Wire, GeekWire, MarketWatch, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

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