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March 28, 2014, 6:50 PM

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Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:

Microsoft changes stance, won't inspect customer data in stolen IP cases, referring instead to law enforcement — We're listening: Additional steps to protect your privacy — General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft

Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Google mandates ‘Powered by Android’ branding on new devices — HTC and Samsung have something new popping up on their smartphones every time you boot them up, and apparently the feature was mandated by Google. — Android is not a household brand. Google is but, despite having …

More: Android Police, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, Liliputing, MobileBurn.com, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Gigaom Research, MobileSyrup.com, Phandroid and Android Central

Tweets: @lauren_dugan, @dannysullivan and @dannysullivan

Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Gary Kovacs, John Lilly, Ellen Siminoff resign from Mozilla board after appointment of new CEO — Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO — Mozilla named a new chief executive this week to lead the non-profit Web organization as it tries to keep its Firefox browser relevant in the mobile age.

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Mozilla employees ask new CEO Brendan Eich to step down for his support of anti-gay initiative

More: Guardian, Telegraph, Uncrunched, Computerworld, Los Angeles Times, SiliconBeat, ReadWrite, The Next Web and bizjournals

Tweets: @chmcavoy, @bevangelist, @sydneymoyer, @iamjessklein, @varelidi, @davewiner and @soletelee

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Y Combinator's new investment vehicle may not include any VC firms as limited partners — Y Combinator's YC VC may lose the actual VCs — Influential startup program Y Combinator is making a major change. — FORTUNE — For several years, a group of venture capital firms has committed …

More: VentureBeat and bizjournals. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple planning expansion at Arizona sapphire plant to boost output — Apple and sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced Technologies are looking to expand operations at the companies' Mesa, Ariz., facility, possibly to accommodate higher yields for an as-yet-unknown component, AppleInsider has learned.

More: TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, PFhub.com ™, TechCrunch, Gigaom, BGR, Electronista and App Advice. Thanks:@tipappleinsider

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Valve's Michael Abrash Joins Oculus As Chief Scientist — After Facebook's acquisition of Oculus, many were worried that Oculus' top talent — many of whom are industry pioneers — would leave out of spite. Seems quite the opposite is happening. — Michael Abrash — the man largely responsible …

More: Oculus VR, VentureBeat, Re/code, The Verge, The Next Web, GeekWire, TechSpot, VG247 and Blue's News

Tweets: @mogwai_poet, @danstapleton, @cdixon and @scottlowe

Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors:

Swiss Watchmakers Rebuff Apple's Partnership and Hiring Advances — Apple allegedly is trying to tap Swiss watchmakers for their technical and metallurgy expertise as the company works to brings its rumored iWatch to the market, reports the Financial Times.

More: Financial Times, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, iMore, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear and Electronista

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Roku CEO: Apple TV is a money-loser — Roku has long argued that bigger rivals end up helping Roku when they release streaming-video boxes. CEO Anthony Wood allows that Apple TV does result in lost money — for Apple.

More: Re/code, Digital Trends, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, App Advice, TIME, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Ubergizmo, TechEye, SlashGear, Business Insider, AppleInsider and InvestorPlace. See also Mediagazer

Euan Rocha / Reuters:

New Blackberry phones to cater to keyboard enthusiasts, BBM for desktop getting “serious look” — New BlackBerry phones to cater to keyboard aficionados: CEO — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd plans to introduce high-end smartphones that cater to keyboard aficionados in the coming 18 months …

More: The Verge, CrackBerry.com, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, N4BB, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Gigaom, HotHardware.com News, BGR and Engadget. Tweets: @blackberrynews

Brad Reed / BGR:

BlackBerry Q4 loss much narrower than expected but revenue sinks below $1 billion

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer — To most consumers it is common sense that they can make a backup copy of media they own, but in the UK this is currently illegal. — After a public consultation and a thorough inspection of local copyright legislation …

More: TechSpot, Techdirt, GamePolitics blogs, BetaNews, I4U News, Electronista, SlashGear and Geeky Gadgets. See also Mediagazer

Re/code:

Yahoo tries to lure YouTube stars with better ad rates for new video service — Ready for Marissa's Closeup? Yahoo Is Considering Creating Its Own YouTube (and Poaching YouTube Stars) — Google-owned YouTube hasn't had a serious competitor for years. But Yahoo would like to try …

More: 9to5Google. Tweets: @hunterwalk. See also Mediagazer

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella points to Office for iPad's early App Store success — Sure, you could argue that Microsoft's shiny new Office apps for iPad are only ranking so well because they're freemium apps since they're listed for free but require a subscription to fully function …

More: Wall Street Journal, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and WinBeta

Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:

Microsoft Office for iPad review: rich apps, strong cloud ties, but no way to print documents

More: ZDNet, InfoWorld, SuperSite for Windows, TechCrunch and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @marksweeney

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Cloud-managed Wi-Fi firm Aerohive goes public, raising $75M — Enterprise Wi-Fi vendor Aerohive Networks debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the ticker HIVE after pricing its shares at $10 last night. The company raised its original target of $75 million through the initial public offering.

More: bizjournals, MarketWatch and silicontap.com

Daniel Rubino / Windows Phone Central:

New Windows Phone 8.1 video reveals Start screen backgrounds, parallax view — As we reported earlier, the leaks for Windows Phone 8.1 are coming in at a steady pace now. Following up on this morning's video that showed off the new OS is one focusing on the new Start screen options.

More: The Verge, ZDNet, Electronista, Pocketnow and Engadget

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

Crittercism study: Google cloud services have fastest response, iOS 7.1 apps are most stable — Smartphones, the Disappointing Miracle — Smartphone users are frustrated and deprived by bad service, including slow application load times and frequent service crashes.

More: Fortune, Engadget, Android Central, TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Next Web, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gearburn, Android Community, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, MobileSyrup.com, FierceMobileIT News and BroadwayWorld.com

Brad Linder / Liliputing:

Sony 13 inch Digital Paper E Ink slate coming to America... for $1100 — Sony introduced a 13 inch slate for reading and writing on documents last year. The company calls it Digital Paper, and it's kind of a Kindle on crack with a big high-resolution, high-contrast display and a pen for taking notes or scribbling doodles.

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, ExtremeTech, HEXUS.net Latest Content, TechSpot, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Press Articles, Ubergizmo, Pulse 2.0, Geeky Gadgets and EBOOK MAGAZINE. Tweets: @monkbent

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Dropbox acquires reading platform Readmill, will close it on 1 July — Readmill has been acquired by Dropbox and is now in the process of closing its reading platform. In a blog post, the Berlin-based startup said it was joining Dropbox to work on “new ways to read together” …

More: Readmill, VentureBeat, Gigaom and TechCrunch. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer

James Temple / Re/code:

Everyday Health Raises $100 Million in IPO, but Shares Dip in Early Trading — Everyday Health Inc. raised more than $100 million in its initial public offering on Friday, but shares fell after its premiere on the New York Stock Exchange. — “The IPO is an opportunity to raise some capital …

More: TechCrunch and PR Newswire

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Huawei on NSA: If foreign spies attacked a US firm, there'd be “outrage” — Chinese tech company still trying to track down NSA infiltration. — It's been a week since revelations that the National Security Agency infiltrated the systems of Huawei, and the Chinese technology company …

More: Wired

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