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Reiji Murai / Reuters:

Sources: Production of 4.7" iPhone 6 screen to begin in May, 5.5" starting months later — New iPhone 6 screens to enter production as early as May: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc suppliers will begin mass producing displays as early as May for the next iPhone, expected to be launched this autumn …

Harry McCracken / TIME:

How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today … It All Began With Search … Gmail's creator, Paul Buchheit, at his desk at Google in 1999 — Courtesy Paul Buchheit … What Does Google Email Look Like? … Going Public

More: Wired, Business Insider and Pocketables

Tweets: @mat and @hunterwalk

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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Jawbone acquires personalized music service Playground.fm, deal said to be “over 8 figures” — Jawbone Snaps Up Playground.fm — Looks like instead of being acquired, wrist and speaker hardware company Jawbone is doing some acquiring, scooping up social and personalized music …

More: SlashGear and hypebot

Mat Smith / Engadget:

April Fools' 2014 roundup: selfie-taking drones, smartgloves and more — For the last 24 hours (and likely the next 12), excitable company execs have been barraging our inbox, YouTube and your social media networks with their best shenanigans. Love it or loathe it (and you're probably starting …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Pavel Durov Resigns As Head Of Russian Social Network VK.com, Ukraine Conflict Was The Tipping Point — Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte.com, has announced on his VK.com page that he has stepped down as the head of the social network — Russia's largest, with over 100 million users …

More: Gigaom, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, RT, Softpedia News, Global Voices and The Moscow Times

Reuters:

HP agrees to pay $57 million to settle shareholder lawsuit — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to pay $57 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the personal computer maker's former management of defrauding shareholders by abandoning a business model it had long touted.

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Verge, Inquirer, DailyTech and SlashGear

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Marvell patent verdict grows to $1.54 billion — (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered Marvell Technology Group Ltd to pay nearly $1.54 billion for infringing two hard disk drive patents held by Carnegie Mellon University, nearly one-third more than a jury had previously awarded.

More: Fudzilla, Wall Street Journal, Electronista and TechWeekEurope UK

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

Airbnb to collect hotel taxes for San Francisco rentals — Airbnb, the fast-growing website that lets people rent out their homes or rooms to travelers, took a giant step toward legalizing itself in San Francisco with an announcement Monday evening that it will begin paying the city's 14 percent hotel tax by this summer.

More: The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Gigaom and Skift

Lisa Fleisher / Wall Street Journal:

Balderton Raises $305m for European Series A Tech Investments — Venture-capital firm Balderton Capital has opened a $305 million start-up fund, hoping to spread out lots of small investments and have a bigger chance of hitting it big. The company, one of the top venture funds in Europe …

More: StrictlyVC, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, TechCrunch, London News and The Next Web. Tweets: @fredlardieg

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft's Bing expands Snapshot feature to surface doctors, dentists, lawyers, and real estate listings — Microsoft today updated its Bing search engine to show more information via the Snapshot feature, which pulls together connections between people, places, and the “things you care about” …

More: Search Blog, Search Engine Land, WinBeta, Computerworld, TechCrunch and Pulse 2.0

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Yahoo Mulling Plans to Ax Its Shine Women's Site, Opting for More Online Lifestyle “Magazines” — Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is poised to take an ax to its longtime and massive women-focused content site Shine, closing it down by the second quarter, according to numerous sources close to the situation.

More: Skift. Tweets: @joepompeo, @jayrosen_nyu and @jeffjarvis. See also Mediagazer

Matt Brian / Engadget:

Google to focus on portrait shots and effects with improved camera app — We know that Google has been looking to bring more advanced photo features to Android for a while, but it may soon be ready to show off what it's been working on. Sources aware of Google's plans have confirmed to us …

More: 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Pocketnow and Android Central

Colin Campbell / Polygon:

How ‘Game Jam,’ an indie game dev reality show, collapsed on its first day of filming — Game_Jam, a TV-style reality show focused on the efforts of indie game developers, has collapsed in the most publicly acrimoniously way imaginable, participants say. — Touted by its makers as a contest …

More: Indie Statik, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Softpedia News, The Verge, Boing Boing and Kotaku

Tweets: @notquitefrodo and @colincampbellx

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

Supreme Court Skeptical During Software Patent Arguments — Supreme Court justices jumped into the debate about how software patents are enforced Monday, but their questioning suggested a desire to avoid any massive changes to how courts should examine infringement cases.

More: New York Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, EE Times and Ars Technica

Nitesh Dhanjani:

Tesla's website allows weak passwords and brute-force attacks, easing remote unlocking and location tracking for attackers — 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 …

More: CNNMoney.com, Computerworld, Reuters, Engadget, ExtremeTech, TechWeekEurope UK, The Register, PC & Tech Authority, Softpedia News, SecurityWeek, SC Magazine and Autoblog. Tweets: @symantec

Chris Kanaracus / PC World:

Oracle overtakes IBM as second-largest software vendor, Gartner says — Oracle has overtaken rival IBM as the world's second-largest software vendor by pulling in US$29.6 billion in software revenue during 2013, according to analyst firm Gartner. — “Global trends around big data and analytics …

More: The Register and Gigaom. Tweets: @petercoffee

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Surprise, surprise: my online metadata actually reveals where I've been — Here are some of the places that Ars tracked Cyrus Farivar to in February 2014. — In January 2014, documents provided by Edward Snowden showed that a Canadian spy agency used a unique identifier to follow thousands …

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