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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.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Hotshot CEO Aaron Levie Will Only Own 4.1% Of Box When It IPOs, Investor DFJ Owns 25.5% — Box CEO Aaron Levie is credited with bringing sexy back to enterprise startups, but the big suprise in Box's S-1 IPO document filed today is that Levie only owns 4.1% of the company.

More: Both Sides of the Table and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @sacca, @dgildeh and @joshconstine

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, Gigaom, 9to5Google and Tubefilter

Tweets: @steepdecline, @johnpaczkowski and @hunterwalk

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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.

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: The Register, 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.

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

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, Data Center Knowledge, Reuters, TechSpot, InfoWorld, GeekWire, Re/code, StrictlyVC, Light Reading, Tech Trader Daily, TechEye, ZDNet and Network World

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Coursera Brings In Longtime Yale President Rick Levin as CEO — Coursera, the massive-open-online-course provider with the most funding and the most students in the space, is shaking up its leadership. — The company has named Rick Levin, formerly president of Yale University for two decades, as CEO.

More: Wall Street Journal, bizjournals, Inc.com, Yale Alumni Magazine, New Haven Independent and EdSurge

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

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, ITworld.com, WebProNews, SlashGear and VentureBreak

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Gets More Secure With Addition Of Two-Factor Authentication — Tumblr today added a very important security feature to its service, with the addition of two-factor authentication - an option available within the blogging service's “Settings” section as of now.

More: Tumblr Staff, ZDNet, Business Insider, iMore, Engadget, gHacks Technology News, The Next Web and Pocket-lint. Thanks:@alex

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, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Help Net Security, Gizmodo and The Next Web

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Google Deal With Luxottica Will Bring Glass to Ray-Ban, Oakley — Google Inc. has won a powerful ally in its fight to make Google Glass cool. — Italian eyewear maker Luxottica Group SpA, owner of the Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglass brands, said Monday it had agreed to design …

More: Google Glass, Engadget, TechCrunch and Pocket-lint

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

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

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Justice Department lands first ever convictions against mobile app pirates — Two men accused of operating a popular Android piracy website have pleaded guilty to charges filed by the Department of Justice. It's the first time the US government has secured convictions for the distribution of counterfeit smartphone apps.

More: The United States Department …, TheHill, Ars Technica and Mashable

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Malicious apps can hose Android phones, erase data, researchers warn — Security researchers said they have uncovered bugs in Google's Android operating system that could allow malicious apps to send vulnerable devices into a spiral of endlessly looping crashes and possibly delete all data stored on them.

More: TrendLabs Security …, Computerworld and Inquirer

David Plunkert / Wall Street Journal:

A ‘Crisis’ in Online Ads: One-Third of Traffic Is Bogus — As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors — Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising. But marketers also are confronting an uncomfortable reality: rampant fraud.

More: Gigaom, Marketing Land, Business Insider and The Switch

Tweets: @wsj, @wsjd and @dannysullivan

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