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David Bellona / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter web gets new timeline filtering options, new profile design features pinned and best tweets — Coming soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile — Moment by moment, your Twitter profile shows the world who you are. Starting today, it will be even easier (and, we think …

More: Gigaom, Guardian, USA Today, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Inquirer, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, VentureBeat, The Verge, Electronista, AndroidGuys, VentureBreak, Softpedia News, BGR, Mashable, Silicon Republic and memeburn

Tweets: @thestalwart and @twitter

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Amazon A9′s VP of Search heads to Apple to fix up Maps search — Benoit Dupin, Vice President of Amazon A9′s Search Technology group, has left the high-profile search technology firm to take up a job with Apple. Dupin's profile from Amazon A9′s executive management website disappeared …

More: MacRumors, Gigaom, BGR, Beyond Search, iDownloadBlog.com and Electronista. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@mikebeas

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:

Galaxy S5 Review: More a refinement than a significant upgrade, waterproofing the only new good feature — Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: Watertight Yet Still Not Quite Right — A Water-Resistant Phone That Doesn't Make a Splash — Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler took …

More: 9to5Google, Gigaom, BGR, AnandTech, TechRadar.com, Business Insider, Re/code, TIME, Mashable and Tech.pinions. Tweets: @parislemon

AnandTech:

Galaxy S5 Review: Hardware upgrades and polished software make a solid replacement to GS4

More: Guardian, Telegraph and CNET. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Google launches Glass at Work program for businesses, courts enterprise developers — At Google, Bid to Put Its Glasses To Work — SAN FRANCISCO — At the 500 Club bar in the heart of the Mission district here, patrons are banned from wearing Google Glass.

More: Gigaom, Google Glass, Computerworld, PC World, USA Today, Softpedia News, CNET and Marketing Land. Tweets: @nyike

Chris Dixon / chris dixon's blog:

Mobile app dominance vs. web will hurt long-term innovation, likely make web a niche product — The decline of the mobile web — People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: — And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: — This is a worrisome trend for the web.

More: AVC, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider

Tweets: @qhardy, @nitashatiku and @joshconstine

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Collaborative-writing platform Wattpad gets $46M in financing for global expansion — Wattpad, a collaborative-writing community that helps new authors connect with a community of fans and fellow writers, has closed a new round of financing worth $46 million that co-founder and CEO Allen Lau …

More: Techvibes Global News, BetaKit, VentureBeat, Re/code, TechCrunch and Mashable

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

S.F. cracks down on Airbnb rentals — Jeffrey Katz felt nauseous. — The special-ed teacher makes ends meet by hosting Airbnb guests in the living room of his San Francisco apartment. But last week, Katz found an eviction notice on his front door. — “You are illegally using the premises …

More: The Switch, PandoDaily and CNNMoney.com

Tweets: @cjam, @fmanjoo and @raypride

Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel:

Netflix Starts To Stream In 4K — Offers ‘House Of Cards’ Season Two, Selection Of Nature Documentaries In Ultra HD — Netflix confirmed Sunday that the second season of House of Cards and “some nature documentaries” are now available for streaming in the 4K/Ultra HD format.

More: TechCrunch, HDTV News, The Verge, Gizmodo, SlashGear, DSLreports and Digital Trends

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Adobe debuts Lightroom Mobile for iPad with powerful, on-the-go photo editing — After briefly leaking earlier this year, Adobe is finally ready to show off its Lightroom Mobile for iPad software for photographers and photo editors. The iPad application borrows many of the essential features …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's $7.2BN Deal To Buy Nokia's Devices Business Gets The Nod In China — Chinese regulators have approved Nokia's planned sale of its devices business to Microsoft, taking the $7.2 billion deal one step closer to closing. — Nokia said today it has received regulatory approval …

More: Nokia, The Official Microsoft Blog, Re/code, Inquirer, GeekWire, VentureBeat, PC World, The Register, Bloomberg, DailyTech, Pulse 2.0, Reuters, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Electronista and Engadget

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Everything to know about iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Roundup + New Details) — While Apple only officially announced its 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last week, we have been reporting all of the known information about what Apple plans to unveil at the event over the course of the past few months.

More: SiliconANGLE, Los Angeles Times, Gotta Be Mobile, I4U News, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider and iPhone Hacks

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Hackers are breaching corporate networks increasingly via third-party devices and software — Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines — SAN FRANCISCO — They came in through the Chinese takeout menu. — Unable to breach the computer network at a big oil company …

Tweets: @nicoleperlroth

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

The technology behind Android TV: how Google wants to reinvent apps for the living room — Google is working on yet another platform for the living room, and it doesn't just want to compete on looks alone: The company has come up with a novel way to develop TV apps and make use of their data.

More: Forbes, Inferse.com, Gigaom Research, The Verge, The Tech Report and Light Reading. Tweets: @monkbent

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

WhatsApp, E-Plus Launch A €10 SIM In Germany With Free WhatsApp Usage Included — Back in February, Jan Koum, CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, hinted that the company would soon be unveiling a new way of working with carriers, first in Germany, with special tariffs to access the app.

More: iMore, IntoMobile and Silicon Republic. Tweets: @tceurope. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Build 2014: A very different Microsoft takes aim at the future — Microsoft's Build conference last week was Satya Nadella's first developer conference as CEO. It showed a Microsoft very different from the one we've seen before. For the first time in many years, this is a Microsoft poised to take on the future.

More: The Verge and Nokia Conversations. Tweets: @stevecla

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Comcast files to start the TWC merger process. Here's how regulators should view the deal. — The federal review process for Comcast's $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable kicked off today with a mammoth blog post and a 180 page regulatory filing to the Federal Communications Commission.

More: Comcast, Re/code, The Verge, The Switch and Politico. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts. See also Mediagazer

Jan Strupczewski / Reuters:

EU court rules against requirement to keep data of telecom users — (Reuters) - The European Union's highest court ruled on Tuesday that an EU directive requiring telecoms companies to store the communications data of EU citizens for up to two years was invalid.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, Ars Technica, Guardian, The Register, Wall Street Journal, DW.DE and Associated Press

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Intel's new reporting structure sheds light on Internet of things, mobile — Summary: It should be easier to see progress in Intel's Internet of things and mobile businesses as the chip giant changes its financial reporting structure. — Intel is changing its financial reporting structure …

More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Tech Trader Daily

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Google I/O 2014 registration dates pushed back by a week — now open April 15-18 — Google was scheduled to open the ‘lottery’ for tickets to its upcoming Google I/O event in the early hours of today - April 8 — but it has pushed the dates back to make things “even easier” for those wanting to attend.

More: Google Developers, 9to5Google, Google Developers, The Verge, Android Police, Electronista and TechCrunch

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

After Raising $250 Million, Lyft Cuts Prices By Up To 20% In All Markets — Last week, Lyft announced that it had raised a massive $250 million round of funding as part of its effort to compete against other on-demand ride services. Now the company is going on the offensive against its competitors …

More: GeekWire and Engadget. Tweets: @stilenius. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Mark Hachman / PC World:

Obituary: Windows XP passes away, leaving behind millions of mourning supporters — Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.'s beloved seventh major operating system and arguably the company's most successful, was left to perish on Tuesday at its creators' hands. It was 12 years, seven months old.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:

Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed — Summary: A new OpenSSL vulnerability has shown up and some companies are annoyed that the bug was revealed before patches could be delivered for it. — New security holes are always showing up.

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