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March 27, 2014, 1:15 PM

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Microsoft Corporation:

Satya Nadella press briefing webcast — Return at 10 a.m. PT to watch the live webcast of Microsoft's CEO discussing the intersection of cloud and mobile from San Francisco.

More: BGR, LiveSide.net, GeekWire, Mashable, Engadget and App Advice

Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @fmanjoo and @chrispirillo

The Verge:

Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's first press briefing

More: Re/code

Bob Moczydlowsky / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter and Billboard announce Real-Time Charts, lists of music that is being talked about and shared on Twitter in the US — ComingSoon: Billboard Twitter Real-Time Chart — Today Billboard is announcing a partnership with us to create the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Chart …

More: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web and New York Times. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

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

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Digital Trends, InvestorPlace, Electronista, hypebot, VatorNews, The Next Web and VentureBreak

Tweets: @brokencool, @caseynewton, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac and @wsjd

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Mark DeCambre / Quartz:

Spotify is planning an IPO for this fall — Spotify could take itself public some time in the fall of 2014. — The popular music-streaming company has participated in informal chats with some of the investment banks likely to fight for a role in a potential IPO, sources familiar with the process said.

More: PandoDaily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Guardian, Business Insider, Ubergizmo and USA Today. Tweets: @reneeschultes. See also Mediagazer

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: @balajis, @cdixon, @cheeky_geeky, @bhorowitz and @parislemon

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Fund My Kickstarter Project — but Don't Get Angry if I Sell to Facebook

More: New York Times, SiliconANGLE, SiliconBeat, Forbes, New York Times, Softpedia News, Singularity Hub, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Haywire, SlashGear, CNN, Wired.co.uk and Gigaom

Tweets: @iansherr, @eringriffith and @evelynrusli

Raph Koster / Raph's Website:

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

More: Mobile Opportunity and Wired.co.uk. Tweets: @parislemon, @dingstweets, @markpinc, @mdudas, @sw, @bdickason, @loydcase, @hunterwalk and @id_aa_carmack

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

More: Business Insider, Marketing Land, USA Today, Engadget and Daily Dot

Nathaniel Mott / PandoDaily:

Twitter updates mobile app: More proof of importance of photos

More: internetretailer.com, ReadWrite, Mashable and Gizmodo

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @katie_roof

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

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

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Guardian, Pocket-lint and TechCrunch

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency — Researchers said they have uncovered two apps that were downloaded from the official Google Play market more than one million times that use Android devices to mine the Litecoin and Dogecoin cryptocurrencies without explicitly informing end users.

More: TrendLabs Security …, The Official Lookout Blog, Inquirer, Business Insider, Guardian, BBC, BGR, Help Net Security, Redmond Pie, Mashable, Softpedia News, CoinDesk, Wired, PC World and Electronista

Tweets: @ashk4n, @gmillard and @csoghoian

Daniel Rubino / Windows Phone Central:

New images reveal an overhauled Store for Windows Phone 8.1, includes automatic app updates and more — The Windows Phone 8.1 core has been finished today, so it seems appropriate to take a look at an area that is need of some improvement: the Windows Phone Store.

More: Engadget, Electronista, TechSpot, WinBeta, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News, Softpedia News and Pocketnow

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Intel to ditch its Hadoop software and support Cloudera instead — Intel is set to cause a tremor in the big data market tomorrow. — The chip maker will announce tomorrow that it will stop pushing its own distribution of open-source Hadoop software for storing and processing lots …

More: Re/code, Gigaom and New York Times. Tweets: @vambenepe

Hurriyet Daily News:

Turkey blocks access to YouTube after alleged leak of recordings of key security meeting — Turkey blocks access to YouTube after leak recordings of key security meeting — Less than a week after a notorious ban on Twitter went into effect, the Turkish government blocked access to YouTube on March 27.

More: Webrazzi, Reuters, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Re/code, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Mashable, Engadget, 9to5Google, BBC, Wall Street Journal, International Business Times and Electronista

Tweets: @achristiemiller, @mathewi, @antderosa, @esrad, @mikeisaac and @nycjim

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AFP:

Russian government officials switch from iPads to Samsung tablets over spying fears — Russian officials dump iPads over spy fears — Moscow — Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies on Wednesday.

More: Fortune, App Advice, Ubergizmo, PadGadget, Geeky Gadgets, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, The Register and 9to5Mac

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Amazon to launch set-top box in April 2 event — Amazon Launching Video Box Next Week — Amazon's entry into the set top box world, which has been delayed for months, is coming next week, according to people familiar with the company's plans. — The e-commerce giant has invited reporters …

More: 9to5Google, The Verge, TheStreet.com, MacRumors, BGR, 9to5Mac, Engadget and TechnoBuffalo. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Paid Up To $150M To Buy Wearable Computing IP From The Osterhout Design Group — Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion, and it turns out that this isn't the only recent piece of M&A in the category of head-mounted wearable computing.

More: The Technology Chronicles

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Government requests to Google have more than doubled in the past four years — Google released its latest transparency report today, revealing tens of thousands of law enforcement requests from across the world. In the second half of 2013, the report lists more than 27,000 requests …

More: The Official Google Blog, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Engadget, Guardian, Gigaom, The Next Web, Threatpost and SlashGear

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: bizjournals and PandoDaily. Tweets: @waltmossberg

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 and Journalism.org

Eric Thayer / Reuters:

Judge tosses lawsuit against Facebook over use of minors' photos — (Reuters) - A California federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against Facebook Inc that had accused the company of misappropriating the names and likenesses of minors who use the social network.

More: The Register

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: The Klout Blog, TechCrunch, Business Insider, VatorNews, The Next Web, Mashable, memeburn, Inc.com, Gigaom Research, I4U News, MediaPost, The Verge, VentureBeat, Forbes, tech.co and Adotas

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

Thanks:@jpmanga

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter launch WebScaleSQL, a custom version of MySQL for massive databases — Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter today announced WebScaleSQL, a collaborative project bringing the engineers from these companies together to solve challenges working with massive databases.

More: Facebook Code, Gigaom and WebProNews

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

Reuters:

Yahoo Japan buys SoftBank's eAccess for $3.2B to set up new mobile Internet service — Yahoo Japan buys SoftBank's eAccess to set up new mobile Internet service — (Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp said on Thursday that it would buy mobile and broadband provider eAccess Ltd from its parent SoftBank Corp …

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

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: Daily Dot, SocialTimes and bizjournals

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