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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: Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, The Verge, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, 9to5Google and Tubefilter

Tweets: @ryanlawler and @hunterwalk

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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

Reuters:

Blackberry wins preliminary injunction against Typo, banning sale of iPhone keyboard case — BlackBerry wins court order against TV host Ryan Seacrest's Typo — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd won a preliminary injunction on Friday to ban Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC from selling …

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

BBM Now At 85M Monthly Active Users, 113M Registered Users, 500,000 Channels — The BlackBerry that's in the process of reinventing itself is an increasingly cross-platform creature — retrenching to serving its enterprise core by seeking to help them manage the bring-your-own-device wave that decimated its previous business.

More: WinBeta, MarketWatch, WMPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, BGR and BGR. Tweets: @marypcbuk

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.

More: Ars Technica, Telegraph, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, OStatic blogs, The Verge, Uncrunched, SiliconBeat, rarebit, ReadWrite, bizjournals and Ars Technica

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Cable's Next Big Threat: Loss of Ad Dollars To YouTube, AOL — It turns out that cord-cutting isn't the only threat facing cable channels. — Several of the big ad-supported online video outlets, including Google's YouTube, AOL and others, plan this upfront season to target some of the ad dollars …

Tweets: @wsj

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Drones vs. balloons: Zuckerberg explains why wings are better for the internet than helium — When Facebook and Internet.org revealed their intentions on Thursday to connect the developing world through aerial drones and satellites, the plans drew the inevitable comparisons to Google's Project Loon …

More: Internet.org, AllFacebook and TechCrunch

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, Newsome.Org, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Macgasm, App Advice, InvestorPlace, TechnoBuffalo, TodaysiPhone.com, TIME, Softpedia News, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, TechEye, Cult of Mac, SlashGear and BGR

Tweets: @monkbent and @asymco

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Roku's Streaming Stick is now shipping from Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and others in the US — Google recently launched its Chromecast streaming dongle in almost a dozen new markets, but now Roku is offering an alternative. The company's new Streaming Stick, which plugs into the back of your TV through …

More: HotHardware.com News, Android Community and TechnoBuffalo

Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters:

Google researchers: 21 of world's top 25 news orgs targeted by hackers, likely state-sponsored — Journalists, media under attack from hackers: Google researchers — (Reuters) - Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organizations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks …

More: Guardian, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, SC Magazine, Lastest ITProPortal news and Inquirer

Joseph Ax / Reuters:

U.S. judge OKs class action status in e-book suit against Apple — (Reuters) - A federal judge in New York granted class certification on Friday to a group of consumers who sued Apple Inc for conspiring with five major publishers to fix e-book prices in violation of antitrust law.

More: App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, TeleRead, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider and MacRumors

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

BeHere app uses iBeacons to automatically take attendance as students enter the classroom — A new app called BeHere aimed at teachers uses Apple's new Bluetooth LE iBeacon technology to recognize students and automatically take attendance as they enter a classroom.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @ahmadnazirafiq. Thanks:@chancehmiller

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 …

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