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March 22, 2014, 4:15 PM

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Hurriyet Daily News:

Turkey blocks Google public DNS, eliminating popular backdoor used to circumvent Twitter ban — Turkey widens Internet censorship … The Turkish government has closed one of the most popular backdoors that Turks use to circumvent the blocking of Twitter.

More: The Next Web, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Re/code, Reuters, Computerworld, VentureBeat, The Verge and The White House

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Wall Street Journal:

Google Refuses Turkey's Requests to Yank YouTube Videos — Move is Latest Sign of Resistance to a Crackdown Against Social Media led by the Prime Minister — Google Inc. has declined Turkish government requests to remove YouTube videos alleging government corruption, people familiar with the matter said …

More: 9to5Google, RT, Forbes, Reuters and Re/code. Tweets: @wsjemre. See also Mediagazer

Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

The White House is ‘deeply concerned’ about Turkey's Twitter ban — White House press secretary Jay Carney (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) — On Thursday night, many Turkish Twitter users found the social media network blocked, just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan decried the platform during a speech.

More: CNET, Reuters, Washington Times, Associated Press, Journal Of Turkish Weekly, Washington Post, Mashable, US Department of State and The Verge. Tweets: @hillaryclinton

Mark Ames / PandoDaily:

Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees … Back in January, I wrote about “The Techtopus” — an illegal agreement between seven tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Intel, to suppress wages for tens of thousands of tech employees.

Tweets: @startupljackson, @kjhealy, @spolsky, @ihnatko, @saramayeux and @paulcarr

Ed Christman / Billboard:

Apple explores Spotify-like streaming service, iTunes app for Android as downloads decline — Apple Mulls Launching Spotify Rival, Android App as Downloads Decline (Sources) — The iPhone maker explores multi-pronged strategy to shore up double-digit drops in iTunes downloads, according to IFPI and RIAA data.

Spiegel Online:

NSA infiltrated network at Huawei's headquarters to access email archives, product source code — NSA Spied on Chinese Government and Networking Firm — According to documents viewed by SPIEGEL, America'a NSA intelligence agency put considerable efforts into spying on Chinese politicians and firms.

More: New York Times, Gigaom and The Verge

Tweets: @binarybits and @mattblaze

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Growing revenues and profits belie the “Haunted Empire” claim that Apple “teeters” — Apple After Jobs: Pretty Much the Same as Ever — You could be forgiven, after reading “Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs,” for concluding that Apple is on the verge of going belly up.

More: ParisLemon and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @evelynrusli, @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo and @karaswisher

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Sources: Credit Card Breach at California DMV — The California Department of Motor Vehicles appears to have suffered a wide-ranging credit card data breach involving online payments for DMV-related services, according to banks in California and elsewhere that received alerts this week …

More: The Verge

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Twitter experimenting with showing how many people saw your tweets — How many people saw your last tweet? A new Twitter experiment is answering that question for some users, adding the number of views a tweet has received underneath every post. Twitter's advertising products …

More: PC Magazine, TechHive, BuzzFeed, Digital Trends, App Advice, Engadget and Marketing Land

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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

About That Time Google Spied On My Gmail — I'm reading about how Microsoft read a blogger's Hotmail (or other Microsoft hosted email) to determine who leaked Microsoft information to that blogger. Microsoft's response is pathetic, stating that “the privacy of our customers is incredibly important to us” …

More: Marketing Land, Valleywag, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, Security Watch, CNNMoney.com, InfoWorld, Business Insider, ITworld.com, Microsoft on the Issues and Business Cloud News

Tweets: @reformedbroker, @stevekovach, @drpizza and @arrington

Alex Hern / Guardian:

Yahoo, Google and Apple also claim right to read user emails

More: Engadget, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Valleywag, TheDomains.com, MacRumors and iPhone in Canada Blog. Thanks:@charlesarthur

Jim Cicconi / AT&T Public Policy Blog:

AT&T: costs caused by Netflix's growth should not be borne by all broadband subscribers — Who Should Pay for Netflix? — I saw Reed Hasting's blog yesterday from Netflix asserting in rather dramatic fashion (with diagrams) that ISPs should build facilities (he said provide …

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Walmart, Best Buy drop Xbox One Titanfall bundle to $450, $50 below console launch price — Another Price Cut for the Xbox One — SEATTLE — Sony's pricing advantage over Microsoft for the latest generation of game consoles didn't last long. — On Friday, Walmart and Best Buy began offering …

More: Softpedia News, BGR, SlashGear, Computerworld, GeekWire, GameSpot, CNET, Ars Technica, WinBeta, Engadget, Windows Phone Central, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine and Forbes

Erica Fink / CNN Money:

“Snoopy” drone uses phones' WiFi to steal usernames and passwords, credit card information — This drone can steal what's on your phone — The next threat to your privacy could be hovering over head while you walk down the street. — Hackers have developed a drone …

More: Geek.com and Android Community. Tweets: @youranonnews

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Obama meets with CEOs of Facebook, Netflix, Dropbox, Box, and others over spy reforms — Obama's move to relieve snooping fears — President Obama and senior administration officials huddled with top technology executives Friday to discuss progress on the president's proposed reforms …

More: Re/code, Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Google, Associated Press, TIME, Business Insider and Politico

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

NSA revelations costing companies billions in lost deals and new investment for circumvention

More: New York Times, Electronic Frontier Foundation and bizjournals

Tweets: @josemurilo, @jpbarlow, @kenroth, @benwizner, @digiphile and @clairecm

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