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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple's iTunes Radio Adds NPR News Channel — When iTunes Radio launched last fall, the service was designed for music fans (and music labels). Now it is branching out: National Public Radio is adding the first news channel to Apple's audio streaming service, with more on the way.

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Box Files For $250M IPO On Full-Year Revenue Of $124M, Net Loss Of $168M — The Box S-1 is out at last. The cloud storage company is looking to raise up $250 million in the flotation. That sum is less than its competitor Dropbox recently raised from the private markets.

More: Box, Inc., Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, ReadWrite, PandoDaily, The Verge, VentureBeat, Gigaom, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, The Next Web, ZDNet, bizjournals, Wall Street Journal, Fortune and Business Insider

Tweets: @boxhq, @levie, @sama, @om, @amir, @evelynrusli, @mattlynley, @katie_roof, @rmac18 and @parmy

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to rebrand ‘Windows Azure’ as ‘Microsoft Azure’ — Summary: Microsoft will rebrand its cloud platform from ‘Windows Azure’ to ‘Microsoft Azure’ as part of the company's push to emphasize its cross-platform services prowess. — Microsoft will announce its rebranding of its …

More: ReadWrite, eWeek, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and WinBeta

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Google's new Photowall app turns your Chromecast-connected TV into an interactive photo frame — Adding to the capabilities of the Chromecast HDMI streaming stick, Google is out with a new app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users called Photowall that lets you turn your Chromecast-connected TV into a live, interactive photo frame.

More: VentureBeat, iMore, Los Angeles Times, Mashable, Cult of Mac, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Google Chrome Blog, TechCrunch, Geek.com, Gigaom, Engadget, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, Electronista, iPhone Hacks, Softpedia News, TechSpot and SlashGear

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Cisco to invest $1B in new “Cisco Cloud Services” effort aimed at large corporate customers — Cisco Joins Race to Offer Cloud Services — Firm to Spend $1 billion in Next Two Years to Enter Market — Cisco Systems Inc. plans to begin offering “cloud” …

More: Cisco, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, StrictlyVC, InfoWorld, Re/code, TechSpot, Reuters, GeekWire, Light Reading, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and TechEye

Wall Street Journal:

Apple in Talks with Comcast About Streaming-TV Service — Companies Discuss Service That Would Try to Bypass Web Congestion — Apple Inc. is in talks with Comcast Corp. about teaming up for a streaming-television service that would use an Apple set-top box and get special treatment …

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Apple wants its own path on Comcast network for video service, WSJ says

More: Digital Trends, Examiner, Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Forbes, TUAW, eWeek, The Switch, OpTe.ch and Guardian. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Now arrives in Chrome for Windows and Mac — Google Now has finally arrived on the desktop. Google today announced Google Now is being pushed to the Chrome stable channel for Windows and Mac “starting today and rolling out over the next few weeks.”

More: Google Chrome, PC World, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Google Chrome, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, TechHive, The Verge, MacRumors, Engadget, Search Engine Land and Lifehacker

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Popcorn Time is doing for distribution of pirated movies what the movie industry needs to do for itself — The Sweet Irony Of Popcorn Time — So the big fun story of last week was this streaming movie app called Popcorn Time. Essentially, it aggregated torrent links and packaged …

More: Forbes

Ronald Grover / Reuters:

Exclusive: Disney to buy YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million — (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co has agreed to buy Maker Studios for $500 million, becoming a major online video distributor through the purchase of one of YouTube's largest networks, according to a person familiar with the deal.

More: TechCrunch, Re/code, Variety and 9to5Google

Tweets: @johnpaczkowski and @hunterwalk

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Wall Street Journal:

Pinterest preparing for Q2 launch of paid promoted pins with select marketers — Pinterest makes play for advertising sales with artful ‘promoted pins’ — Digital scrapbooking site Pinterest is preparing to launch ad sales in the second quarter with a bold pitch.

More: VentureBeat, Marketing Land and SlashGear. Thanks:@malliegator

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Basecamp Becomes Latest Victim Of DDoS Attackers Attempting To Extort Money From Tech Companies — Basecamp, makers of the popular online project management software of the same name (which as of this February became the company's main focus) was hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack …

More: gist.github.com, Signal vs. Noise, The Register, Computerworld, Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, Gizmodo and The Next Web

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft's $7.2B Nokia deal is officially delayed until April — Nokia and Microsoft will have to wait a little longer to press the Start button. — Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business, originally expected to close this quarter …

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Dell acquires StatSoft, adds analytics to software stack — Summary: StatSoft's flagship software is Statistica Enterprise, which filters and analyzes data from multiple repositories. — Dell on Monday said it acquired StatSoft, a company that specializes in analytics and data visualization software.

More: Direct2Dell, eWeek, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Computerworld, SlashGear and WebProNews

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla Appoints JavaScript Creator Brendan Eich As Its New CEO — Last April, Mozilla announced that Gary Kovacs was stepping down as the organization's CEO and that it would start looking for a replacement. At the time, Jay Sullivan took over as acting CEO in the midst of a number of leadership changes at Mozilla.

More: The Mozilla Blog, Brendan Eich, CNET, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Mitchell's Blog, The Register, eWeek, VentureBeat, Engadget, Re/code, SlashGear and BrowserNative

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors — As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors — Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising.

More: Marketing Land and Business Insider. Tweets: @wsj, @wsjd and @dannysullivan

Reuters:

Grubhub's IPO could value online food delivery firm at $1.72 bln — (Reuters) - GrubHub Inc said it expects to price its initial public offering of 7.03 million shares at $20-$22 per share, valuing the largest U.S. online food delivery services provider at up to $1.72 billion.

More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, The Wire and Forbes

Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:

ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP — End support for XP is prompting them to seek out Windows alternatives — Some financial services companies are looking to migrate their ATM fleets from Windows to Linux in a bid to have better control over hardware and software upgrade cycles.

More: Inquirer and ZDNet

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Spotify No Longer Accepting New App Submissions, Plans To Extend Web API And Focus On Mobile SDKs — Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it's no longer accepting new app submissions for App Finder, its own app directory for third-party apps that reside and operate within its desktop client.

More: Spotify DeveloperSpotify …, Engadget, Guardian, Electronista, The Next Web and VentureBeat. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@sohear

Bloomberg:

Facebook's Sandberg Says Declined to Limit Google Hiring — Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said she declined in 2008 to limit the recruitment or hiring of Google Inc. employees after being contacted by two senior officials at the search engine company.

More: CNBC

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Quora Launches Verified Profiles Starting With Obama, Who'll Answer Affordable Care Questions — To boost confidence in answers, host exclusive content, and bring in new audiences, Quora today launched Verified Profiles. First up is President Obama who will answer two Affordable Care Act questions today …

More: The Quora Blog, VatorNews, Gigaom, Los Angeles Times, ReadWrite, Search Engine Land, NBC News and The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine

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