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March 24, 2014, 2:05 PM

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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.

More: NPR, The Verge, The Next Web, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Engadget, iMore, MacStories, Apple Bitch, App Advice, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com and Electronista. Tweets: @abbieruzicka. See also Mediagazer

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 …

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

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: PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Google Chrome Blog, Gigaom, Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, MacNN, Redmond Pie, SlashGear and Droid Life

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 …

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

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, ZDNet and TechCrunch

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 …

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, ReadWrite, The Quora Blog, The Next Web, The Verge and Forbes. Tweets: @joshconstine

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:

The Brutal Ageism of Tech — Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete — “I have more botox in me than any ten people,” Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February. He is a reality-show producer's idea of a cosmetic surgeon—his demeanor brash, his bone structure preposterous.

More: AVC, Global Nerdy, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat and Business Insider

Tweets: @cindygallop, @noamscheiber, @sullivanamy, @saschasegan, @johnbattelle, @dkthomp, @franklinfoer, @carnage4life, @clarajeffery, @noamscheiber, @nytimesbits, @franklinfoer and @dangillmor

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.

Thanks:@malliegator

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 …, VentureBeat, Guardian, The Next Web, Music Machinery and hypebot. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@sohear

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