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April 9, 2014, 10:15 PM

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

Dropbox unveils Carousel for organizing your photos and videos — Dropbox today announced Carousel, a product to store and manage your photos and videos. It incorporates features from Snapjoy, a photo startup that Dropbox acquired in December 2012. The launch of Carousel represents a bid …

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Dropbox brings the popular Mailbox email app to Android and desktop — Dropbox is proclaiming that it's ready to launch “a new chapter,” but what exactly does that mean for the cloud storage king? In addition to its ability to combine business and personal storage accounts …

More: Mailbox, TechCrunch, Android Central, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Next Web, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, AndroidGuys, Gigaom, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat and ReadWrite

The Dropbox Blog:

Dropbox Chapter 2: the “magic folder” is now “a home for life” accessed with a family of apps — A home for life — Technology should ‘just work’ and make us happy. But with all the different apps, devices, and data out there, things gets complicated pretty quickly.

More: VatorNews, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, SplatF, TechCrunch, TUAW, Computerworld, The Register, SlashGear, MacStories, PandoDaily, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Google and Re/code

Tweets: @caseynewton, @calebgarling, @ricmac and @soleio

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Mailbox's Auto-swipe feature intelligently predicts which messages to archive and snooze — Inbox hero: inside Mailbox's master plan to make email suck less — Mailbox introduced the world to snoozing messages for later. Now it's introducing a way to predict what you'll archive next

More: Digital Trends, It's a Gadget, AndroidHeadlines.com, Computerworld, POPSUGAR, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac and MacStories

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Hits 275M Users And Launches New Business Product To All — This morning in San Francisco, Dropbox announced that its updated enterprise-facing Dropbox for Business product is now available for all. Dropbox for Business competes with a cadre of competing services like OneDrive for Business and Box's product set.

More: eWeek, ZDNet, Y Combinator Posthaven, ITworld.com, Engadget, Inc.com, Gigaom and CITEworld

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Announces ‘Project Harmony’ To Bring Collaborative Features To Microsoft Office

More: Gigaom Research, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup.com and TechSpot. Tweets: @dropboxatwork

Businessweek:

Dropbox builds library of independent apps and enterprise tools as Condoleezza Rice joins board

More: Valleywag, TechCrunch, The Dropbox Blog and Boing Boing

Tweets: @migueldeicaza, @edbott, @janl, @trevortimm and @benioff

Thanks:@mattlynley

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Jony Ive shakes up Apple's software design group, iPhone interface creator Greg Christie departing — Following friction between top Apple Human Interface Vice President Greg Christie and Senior Vice President Jony Ive, Apple's hardware and software design is being dramatically shaken up, according to sources familiar with the matter.

More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Verge, PC World, The Register, Re/code, Engadget, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, TUAW, DailyTech, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, The Mac Observer, Pocketnow, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Electronista, MobileSyrup.com, BGR and iMore. Tweets: @kfury. Thanks:@ajorama

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Jony Ive Expands Role in Software Design; Apple Confirms Greg Christie's Retirement

More: Wall Street Journal and blogs.ft.com. Tweets: @kbaxter

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps — Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to an extreme new level today. It's starting to notify users they'll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Android …

More: AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, TechHive, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Mashable, Gizmodo, Windows Phone Central, Business Insider, ReadWrite, TechSpot, VentureBeat and Engadget

Tweets: @joshconstine and @hamburger

Thanks:@joshconstine

Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security:

Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL, on a scale of 1 to 10, it is an 11 — Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: … Basically, an attacker can grab 64K of memory from a server. The attack leaves no trace, and can be done multiple times to grab a different random 64K of memory.

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

The Real Threat From The Heartbleed Security Flaw Is The NSA

Tweets: @hunterschwarz, @jsvine and @felixsalmon

Patrick McKenzie / Kalzumeus Software:

Lessons in software bug marketing: Heartbleed's evocative branding, dedicated web presence clearly communicate need for action

More: Globe and Mail, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Inc.com, Los Angeles Times, Geek.com, Open Source Delivers, The Official Rackspace Blog, Paste, Business Insider and Forbes. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Sources: Apple not interested in acquiring Square, Jack Dorsey not keen on selling it to Google — A Sale or IPO or More Funding? Here's What Might Be Next for Square. — Of all the many high-profile Internet companies, perhaps none has attracted more speculation than Square. It makes sense.

More: GeekWire, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, PadGadget, FierceMobileIT News, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, MacRumors, App Advice and Street Fight

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Franken: Comcast called Time Warner Cable a competitor until they wanted to merge — Comcast has repeatedly said the biggest reason US regulators should approve its $45.2 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable (TWC) is that the two companies do not compete against each other.

More: Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Analyzing Comcast's argument for taking over Time Warner Cable

More: Washington Post, corporate.comcast.com and Techdirt. See also Mediagazer

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

Senate Committee Begins Its Review of Comcast Deal

More: DSLreports, Free Press, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Politico, Wall Street Journal and Tech Trader Daily. See also Mediagazer

Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Google is testing new UI and features for Google Calendar — Much in the same way that Google is currently testing features out for Gmail, we are now seeing updated UI and new features for the Google Calendar Android app. — Like many other companies, Google tests a lot of their software internally …

More: Engadget, Android Community, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, Phandroid, MobileSyrup.com, Android and Me, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys, The Verge and Android Police

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

One Kings Lane CEO Doug Mack Departs to Run Fanatics — According to an internal memo just sent out at online home decor site One Kings Lane, CEO Doug Mack is departing the company to become CEO of Fanatics, a sports site. The interim CEO will be Dinesh Lathi, who has been CFO and COO.

More: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and internetretailer.com

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Automattic, Steward of Wordpress, Snaps up Longreads — In the desert of short news bites and unsatisfying blog posts, the website and weekly email Longreads is a refreshing anomaly. Since 2009, the small Oakland-based company has been linking to stories of over 1,500 words …

More: Longreads, WordPress Blog, VentureBeat, Gigaom, The Verge and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Steve Johnson / Mercury News:

Hewlett-Packard to pay $108 million fine for foreign bribes — PALO ALTO — Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay a $108 million fine to resolve allegations that its subsidiaries bribed officials in Poland, Russia and Mexico to win business contracts, the company and federal investigators announced Wednesday.

More: SiliconBeat, Computerworld, Electronista, TheHill, Associated Press, Fox Business, Bloomberg and USA Today

Richard Padilla / MacRumors:

Apple Testing Maps Notifications to Inform Users of Fixed Problems — Apple seems to be testing a new notification feature in its Maps application, based on a report and screenshots captured by a MacRumors reader. — The user reported an error to Apple in the Maps app on April 6 and was given …

More: PadGadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, Softpedia News, iPhone and Ubergizmo

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

With new profile page design, Twitter tries to establish itself as your main Internet profile — The Real Beauty Of Twitter's New Profile Page — Twitter's new profile page — more photos, featuring your best tweets, etc. — isn't really about copying Facebook or making a simple service more cumbersome.

More: Poynter and hypebot. Tweets: @rsarver

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Wi-Fi Protected Setup now supports NFC for tap-to-connect access to work, home networks — Summary: Connecting to a wireless network just got that little bit easier, thanks to NFC support. No, that's doesn't include you, iPhone users. — And they said NFC was limited in what it could do …

More: Re/code

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