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March 22, 2014, 9:55 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: Bloomberg, CNET, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Verge, Webrazzi, Computerworld, VentureBreak, Re/code and The White House

Tweets: @ekizilkaya, @dermecatma and @davidu

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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: TechCrunch, 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: Reuters, Washington Times, Journal Of Turkish Weekly, Associated Press, Washington Post, CNET, 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: @paulcarr, @saramayeux, @kjhealy, @startupljackson, @ihnatko and @spolsky

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, Ars Technica, The Verge, Gizmodo, Gigaom and Mashable

Tweets: @mattblaze, @csoghoian, @binarybits and @csoghoian

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. Tweets: @briankrebs

Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:

Sony buys rights to NYT's profile of security blogger Brian Krebs “Reporting From the Web's Underbelly” — Man Who Exposed Target Security Breach Is Focus of Sony Movie Deal (Exclusive) — Richard Wenk is on board to write the screenplay adapted from the New York Times article “Reporting From the Web's Underbelly.”

More: Mashable, The Verge, Krebs on Security, Ars Technica and SlashGear. Tweets: @nicoleperlroth

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: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @mims, @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo, @jyarow, @evelynrusli, @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo and @karaswisher

Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:

Marc Andreessen, “unfazed” by setbacks, plans to invest hundreds of millions more in Bitcoin companies — Marc Andreessen Is Betting on Wide Adoption of Digital Currency Bitcoin — Marc Andreessen Is Betting on Wide Adoption of Digital Currency Bitcoin

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.

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

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

Tweets: @digiphile and @anthonyha

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