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Satya Nadella / Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft CEO promotes Scott Guthrie to EVP of Cloud and Enterprise, names Stephen Elop EVP of Devices, consolidates Xbox teams under Phil Spencer — Satya Nadella email to employees on tuning our organization — Today marks the start of another big week for Microsoft as we gear up for the Build conference in San Francisco.

Phil Spencer / Xbox Wire:

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer leads Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox Music, Xbox Video, and Microsoft Studios — A New Day at Xbox — By Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox — Our community is at the heart of what we do at Xbox. Whether it is meeting thousands of fans at the launch of Xbox One …

More: Engadget, BGR, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Kotaku, DailyTech, IGN, gameinformer.com, Eurogamer.net, GeekWire, VentureBeat, GameSpot, TechnologyTell, TechnoBuffalo, Giant Bomb, WinBeta, Ubergizmo, Polygon, destructoid, VG247, Joystiq and VideoGamer.com

Tweets: @xboxp3, @therealcliffyb, @tomwarren and @albertpenello

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed — The most challenging part of last year's iPhone 5s review was piecing together details about Apple's A7 without any internal Apple assistance. I had less than a week to turn the review around and limited access to tools (much less time to develop …

More: MacRumors, ExtremeTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider and iMore

Tweets: @fmanjoo and @panzer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple launches TD-LTE iPad Air and Retina iPad mini models in China

More: Apple, MacRumors, AppleInsider and iMore

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

OKCupid shows Firefox users a full-page interstitial suggesting alternate browsers in protest of Mozilla's CEO — OKCupid asks users to boycott Firefox because of CEO's gay rights stance — Anyone accessing the popular dating site OKCupid with Firefox today is in for a surprise.

More: Digital Trends, Gigaom, Engadget, Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, cir.ca, LGBTQ Nation, LGBTQ Nation, BuzzFeed, CBS San Francisco, BetaBoston, Mediaite, Gawker, TechWeekEurope UK, TechSpot and The Register

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @dannysullivan and @dannysullivan

Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:

Galaxy S5's OLED display is the “best performing smartphone display that we have ever tested” — Samsung Galaxy S5 Display Technology Shoot-Out — Introduction The Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series of Smartphones are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest …

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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Cloudera raises $900 million, plots expansion — With virtualized servers and private clouds gaining popularity, your power and cooling requirements have probably changed. Check out this white paper to learn more about optimizing your power and cooling systems. — Customers are changing.

More: Cloudera, Reuters, bizjournals, Gigaom, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, ReadWrite and Silicon Republic

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Intel takes 18% stake in Cloudera with $740M investment, valuing company at $4.1B

More: SiliconANGLE

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo in talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for close to $300M — Yahoo in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN — Sources — Deal Would Help Yahoo Compete With Google's YouTube — Yahoo Inc. is in preliminary talks to acquire online-video service News …

More: Business Insider, Beet.TV and Deadline.com

Tweets: @xpangler, @dmac1 and @karaswisher

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Joseph Menn / Reuters:

Exclusive: NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought - study — (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications …

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, DSLreports, Techdirt and Gigaom

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to highlight its ‘One Windows’ progress at Build 2014 — Summary: What's on tap for Microsoft's Build conference this week? Here's what we know and what we think we know. — While Microsoft execs have made subsstantial progress in the past couple of years toward breaking …

More: Windows Phone Central, Computerworld, Business Insider and Softpedia News

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

More Wi-Fi is better: FCC expands use of 5GHz spectrum — Agency also says it will auction 65MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband. — In a unanimous vote, the Federal Communications Commission has agreed to expand the amount of the 5GHz band that Wi-Fi takes up by 100MHz.

More: FCC, Gigaom, ZDNet, PC World, ReadWrite, Re/code, Gigaom and The Verge

Nitesh Dhanjani:

Tesla allows weak passwords and brute-force attacks, letting attackers unlock cars and more — Cursory Evaluation of the Tesla Model S: We Can't Protect Our Cars Like We Protect Our Workstations — The innovation behind Tesla's electric vehicles has set us in the right direction towards a more sustainable future.

More: Reuters, Softpedia News, Computerworld, SecurityWeek, Ubergizmo, SC Magazine, Autoblog, NBC News, Graham Cluley, I4U News and The Daily Caller. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

More Exec Departures Hit Payments Startup Clinkle — Sooner or later, you'd think the bleeding has to stop at Clinkle. Not yet, though. — Re/code has learned that Chief Service and Operational Officer Andy Rendich has left the startup just a few weeks after COO Barry McCarthy …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @delrey

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft chops Azure prices to match Amazon's latest reductions — Summary: Microsoft is cutting prices for a number of its Azure services to match (and in some cases, beat) Amazon's latest pricing. — The cloud price wars are continuing to wage on. — A week after Amazon axed prices across …

More: MSDN Blogs, The Register, GeekWire, ReadWrite, TechCrunch and Forbes

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Jelly for iOS now lets you ask and answer questions with a location — Jelly, the app that helps people from around the world answer each other's questions, today updated its iOS app with new tools for posing and explaining problems. — In version 1.1, you can now create a new question using a map and a specific location.

More: blog.jelly.co, Tnooz, TechCrunch and VentureBreak

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Square Market Partners With Coinbase To Accept Bitcoin — In the sci-fi show Almost Human, everyone has a bitcoin wallet. More and more places to spend bitcoin means that could become a reality, and popular indie merchant mobile payment provider Square is the latest to accept the cryptocurrency.

More: The Corner, Gigaom, Re/code, The Next Web, CryptoCoinsNews, Mashable, CoinDesk and newsBTC. Tweets: @carlmartin

Michael Calia / Wall Street Journal:

OpenText Seeks $268 Million in Patent Claims From Box — Firm Seeks to Block Online Storage Company From Selling Infringing Products — OpenText Corp. on Monday said it is seeking $268 million in damages from online storage company Box Inc. over 200 claims of alleged patent infringement.

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google+ now shows the total number of profile, post and photo views on pages — In an effort to shrug off its “ghost town” reputation, Google today updated Google+ with total content views for profiles and pages. — On any page, you'll notice the new figure underneath the user's profile photo …

More: Forrester Blogs, Eddie Kessler, TechCrunch and Marketing Land

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Machinima Hires TV Executive Chad Gutstein as CEO — Machinima raised new funding earlier this month. Now it has a new CEO as well. — The giant YouTube network has hired Chad Gutstein, the former chief operating officer of niche cable network Ovation, according to people familiar with the decision.

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews, Wall Street Journal, Variety and Joystiq. See also Mediagazer

Aman Shah / Reuters:

Cisco rival Arista Networks files for IPO — (Reuters) - Arista Networks Inc, which makes network switches for large data centers, filed for an initial public offering on Monday, the latest in a string of cloud computing firms tapping investor enthusiasm around the technology.

More: VentureBeat, bizjournals, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Light Reading, Data Center Knowledge, SiliconANGLE and Gigaom. Thanks:@daniel_levine

Zac Hall / 9to5Google:

Rdio, Crackle, & Vudu add Chromecast support for music, movie, and TV show streaming — Adding to the catalog of Chromecast-supported content, Rdio and Crackle are both adding the ability to play more content from your smartphone, tablet, or browser to your TV today.

More: Rdio Blog, VUDU Blog, The Next Web, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, The Verge and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

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