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March 27, 2014, 7:55 AM

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César Puerta / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter rolls out photo tagging, ability to share up to four photos in a tweet — Photos just got more social — We're rolling out two new mobile features that make photos on Twitter more social. One is photo tagging, which lets you tag the people in your photo; the other is the ability to include up to four photos in a Tweet.

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Twitter is experimenting with replacing its sacred retweet button with a ‘share’ button — Twitter has been busy making Facebook-like changes today — adding multiple photo upload and tagging, and experimenting with a profile change on iOS — but it isn't stopping there.

More: Engadget

Wall Street Journal:

Twitter rolling out new music strategy centered on music conversations and content this week

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @caseynewton, @mikeisaac, @wsjd and @mikeisaac

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Twitter is testing a profile redesign for its iOS app, just like on the Web

More: Pocket-lint and TechCrunch

Nathaniel Mott / PandoDaily:

Twitter updates mobile app: More proof of importance of photos

More: Computerworld and Mashable. Tweets: @dannysullivan and @katie_roof

Lev Grossman / TIME:

The Inside Story of How Facebook Got Oculus VR — A 19-year-old hacker set out to invent a gaming headset. He ended up reviving a dead technology and creating an idea worth $2 billion — To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is.

More: VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider. Tweets: @parislemon

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Fund My Kickstarter Project-But Don't Get Angry If I Sell to Facebook — Only on Kickstarter could a $2 billion acquisition be considered an abject failure. — On Tuesday, Facebook announced it had purchased Oculus, the virtual reality headset maker and darling of Kickstarter.

More: New York Times, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, SlashGear, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider and IntoMobile

Tweets: @iansherr, @eringriffith and @evelynrusli

Fred Wilson / AVC:

With acquisitions like Oculus and Nest, big tech companies race to find the next platform after mobile — The Search For The Next Platform — I found this part of Mark Zuckerberg's post on the Oculus acquisition most revealing: … Facebook was a bit slow to get aboard the mobile train.

More: Felix Salmon, New Yorker, CNNMoney.com, the build, Haywire, AndroidGuys, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Wired.co.uk, Gigaom, Nerdcore, Cult of Mac, Inc.com, Forbes, New World Notes and Re/code

Tweets: @cdixon, @michaelpilla and @panzer

Raph Koster / Raph's Website:

Oculus provides the big leap to immersive augmented reality; Facebook provides the populace

More: Mobile Opportunity, Wired.co.uk, The Verge, Consumerist and Re/code

Tweets: @hunterwalk, @sw, @parislemon, @mdudas, @bdickason, @dingstweets, @markpinc, @loydcase and @id_aa_carmack

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technologies — It's official: the once-controversial social scoring startup has been scooped up. — FORTUNE — Social score startup Klout has been acquired by Lithium Technologies, a provider of social customer experience solutions for the enterprise …

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom Research, memeburn, tech.co, MediaPost, VentureBeat, Forbes, The Verge, I4U News and Adotas

Tweets: @caseynewton, @kevinliu, @pmarca, @karaswisher, @alexismadrigal and @novaspivack

Thanks:@jpmanga

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

In Response to Google, Amazon Drops EC2 And RDS Prices by 40%, S3 Storage Costs By 36% To 65% — Amazon today announced a new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache …

More: Amazon Web Services Blog and InfoWorld. Tweets: @davidmarcus

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

Amazon launches WorkSpaces, new government certifications and (finally) price cuts!

More: Reuters, Amazon Web Services Blog, The Register, ReadWrite, SiliconANGLE, CITEworld, GeekWire, GeekWire, TechCrunch and ZDNet

David Cohen / AllFacebook:

Pew Report: 30% of US adults get news from Facebook, 10% from YouTube, 8% from Twitter — STUDY: Facebook's Role In Pew Research Center's ‘State Of The News Media 2014’ — Facebook and other social networks continue to become further intertwined with the media, as the State of the News Media 2014 report …

More: Journalism.org, Journalism.org, Gigaom, Beyond Search, VatorNews, Marketing Land, Associated Press, Poynter, Journalism.org, Nieman Journalism Lab and Mediashift

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Intel to ditch its Hadoop software and support Cloudera instead — How can big data and smart analytics tools ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco. There are only 20 tickets left at the lowest rate! — Intel is set to cause a tremor in the big data market tomorrow.

Tweets: @vambenepe

iFixit:

HTC One (M8) Teardown — Spring has sprung and HTC has hatched a new One. Join us as we take a closer look at this season's newest sprout, the HTC One (M8). After all, it's our job to weed out the irreparable, and the best way to do that is through destruction—er, precise analysis.

More: TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Pocketnow, BGR, SlashGear, Phandroid, Softpedia News, Droid Life, HTC Source, Geek.com, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, GSMArena Blog, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @ifixit

Reuters:

Yahoo Japan says to buy eAccess from SoftBank for $3.2 billion — (Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp said on Thursday that it would buy mobile and broadband provider eAccess Ltd from its parent SoftBank Corp for 324 billion yen ($3.17 billion) in a bid to expand its services for tablets and smartphones.

More: TheStreet.com, TechCrunch and Bloomberg. Tweets: @jonrussell

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

UK ad watchdog clears Microsoft ad campaign attacking Gmail privacy standards — Microsoft wins battle over ads attacking Google privacy standards — Advertising Standards Authority agrees Gmail's scanning of email contents to target ads sets it apart from Outlook.com

More: BGR, TechRadar.com, ZDNet, Inquirer and WinBeta

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to unveil Enterprise Mobility Suite alongside Office for iPad — Summary: Microsoft is readying a new Enterprise Mobility Suite bundle to help enterprise users better manage Windows, Android and iOS devices, sources say. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to unveil …

More: iMore, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily and WPDang

Dawn C. Chmielewski / Re/code:

The Other Facebook News: One Billion Mobile Users — Facebook followers could be forgiven for being fixated by the $2 billion deal to acquire the virtual reality company Oculus. — But another disclosure from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday is also worthy of attention …

More: PandoDaily

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft and Dell sign Android, Chrome OS patent agreement — Summary: Microsoft and Dell have renewed their patent cross-licensing agreement, with Dell agreeing to pay Microsoft royalties for Dell's products running Android and Chrome OS. — Microsoft has signed a patent-licensing agreement …

More: Microsoft Corporation, Reuters, BetaNews, Engadget, The Register, GeekWire, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web and FOSS Patents

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

Hackonomics: Stolen Twitter accounts ‘more valuable’ than credit cards — Summary: According to a new report, the value of Twitter accounts on the black market for hacked wares has eclipsed the value of stolen credit card data. — Violet Blue — Stolen Twitter accounts now fetch …

More: SocialTimes and bizjournals

Leigh Gallagher / Fortune:

Airbnb partners with Portland on “Shared City” initiative to collect tax, support local causes, more — Airbnb cozies up to cities — The “sharing economy” pioneer launches an ambitious new partnership with Portland, Ore.—and a new model for enriching the cities in which it operates.

More: Medium, Willamette Week and Oregonian

Tweets: @nytimesbits and @jessiwrites

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Google Play Music finally lets you upload songs through the browser — Google Play Music has long been a solid option for uploading and accessing your music collection wherever you are, but using the Music Manager app to actually get your songs into the cloud wasn't always the smoothest or most intuitive process.

More: Google Play, Gigaom, SlashGear, TIME, TechHive, Droid Life, AndroidHeadlines.com, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, Android Central, Lifehacker, Ubergizmo, Android Police, Engadget, 9to5Google and The Next Web

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google I/O site goes live, new random registration system open from April 8-10 — Update: Registration is open April 8-10. Google's first draft of its blog post mistakenly said April 7-9. — After briefly announcing some details earlier this month, a website for the upcoming Google …

More: Google Developers Blog, Android Central, Ubergizmo, Geek.com, Business Insider, ReadWrite, Gigaom, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Electronista. Thanks:@jordankahn

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

King, The Maker Of Candy Crush, Had The Worst IPO Debut This Year — King, the maker of hit game Candy Crush Saga, officially debuted on the New York Public Stock Exchange today. — King's stock closed down 15.56% from its IPO price of $22.50 a share. — It was one of the biggest …

More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, VG247, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, AllFacebook, Businessweek, TheDomains.com, Schumpeter, MarketWatch, Reuters, Joystiq and PandoDaily. Tweets: @pgeuder

William Alden / New York Times:

Candy Crush maker King Digital ends first day of trading more than 15% below IPO price

More: Re/code, CNBC, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, broadstuff, Gawker, Mashable, Polygon and Re/code

Tweets: @_alastair and @fmanjoo

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