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March 27, 2014, 1:40 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

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: New Yorker, CNNMoney.com, Om Malik, Haywire, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, PandoDaily, Cult of Mac, Gigaom, AndroidGuys, Wired.co.uk, Inc.com, OpTe.ch, Forbes and gHacks Technology News

Tweets: @cdixon, @michaelpilla and @panzer

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: TechCrunch, CNN, SlashGear, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, The Daily Caller and IntoMobile

Tweets: @eringriffith, @evelynrusli and @iansherr

Raph Koster / Raph's Website:

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

More: Wired.co.uk, The Verge and Consumerist

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

Lev Grossman / TIME:

The Inside Story of How Facebook Got Oculus VR

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

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Will Facebook ruin Oculus? Kickstarter backers voice concerns

More: New York Times, Kotaku, Fortune, Businessweek, Salon, ReadWrite, The Tell, VG247 and Network World

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

In Google's Shadow, Facebook's Zuckerberg Pursued Oculus Over Several Months, Ending in Weekend Marathon of Dealmaking

More: Ubergizmo, Guardian and GeekWire

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Facebook Denies Oculus Hardware Redesign

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Forbes, Ubergizmo, AllFacebook and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @mikeisaac

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, VentureBeat, Forbes, tech.co, MediaPost, Adotas and The Verge

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

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

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

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

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

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

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

William Alden / New York Times:

Candy Crush maker King Digital ends first day of trading more than 15% below IPO price — Candy Crush Maker King Falls in Trading Debut — King Digital Entertainment, the game maker behind the addictive Candy Crush Saga, had a muted debut on Wednesday as it began life as a public company.

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

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

King, The Maker Of Candy Crush, Had The Worst IPO Debut This Year

More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Inside Mobile Apps, Schumpeter, AllFacebook, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, VG247, Businessweek, MarketWatch, Reuters, PandoDaily and Joystiq. Tweets: @pgeuder

John Cook / GeekWire:

Redfin co-founder and ex-CTO sue company, allege scheme to cancel shares as IPO nears — Redfin is facing a lawsuit in King County Superior Court from two of its earliest employees who allege that the Seattle online real estate company is attempting to wipe out their shares as it preps for an initial public offering.

Thanks:@taylor_soper

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, Oregonian and Willamette Week

Tweets: @nytimesbits and @jessiwrites

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, Engadget, BetaNews, Reuters, The Register, The Next Web, FOSS Patents, The Verge, TechCrunch and GeekWire

Tom Dotan / The Information:

Maker Studios was losing $2-3M per month leading up to Disney sale — With Maker Acquisition, Disney Takes on a Tough Challenge — Walt Disney Co.'s $500 million buyout of Maker Studios has been described as many things: An endorsement of the YouTube economy, an admission by a media giant …

Tweets: @cityofthetown and @weberwest. See also Mediagazer

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

TV Commercials Vault Games to Top Tier of App Store Rankings — Analytics firm App Annie has released its February data (via AppleInsider) on top-performing apps on iOS and Android for the month of February, highlighting how large developers have increasingly been able to leverage television commercials to help boost their rankings.

More: App Annie Blog, AppleInsider and MacNN

TechCrunch:

TubeMogul Files For $75M IPO, With $57M In Revenue And A $7M Net Loss For 2013 — Video ad platform TubeMogul has filed its S-1, declaring its plans to go public with an offering of up to $75 million. And it's doing so with what appears to be pretty healthy gross margins, though with an overall net loss.

More: Gigaom, Trends, VentureBeat, AdExchanger and Re/code. Tweets: @kcw3rd. See also Mediagazer

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, The Next Web, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Geek.com, ReadWrite, Gigaom, VentureBeat and Electronista. Thanks:@jordankahn

Derek Kessler / iMore:

Apple hires BlackBerry's top software VP, BlackBerry wins court battle over departure — Sebastien Marineau-Mes, BlackBerry's SVP of Software, is leaving the ailing smartphone manufacturer for brighter and warmer pastures: Apple. Or at least that's what he's trying to do, if it weren't for those pesky contracts.

More: Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, CrackBerry.com, 9to5Mac, DailyTech, BGR and Business Insider

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