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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 …

More: The Dropbox Blog, TechCrunch, Android Beat, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, MacStories, MacRumors, Laughing Squid, Mashable, Business Insider, The Next Web, Carousel, San Francisco Chronicle, ReadWrite and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @panzer, @caseynewton, @mattlynley and @tim

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, Android Central, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, AndroidGuys, TechCrunch, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web and VentureBeat

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: The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, I4U News, SplatF, Ars Technica, TUAW, The Register, SlashGear, PC World, Los Angeles Times, MobileSyrup.com, VatorNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, ITworld.com, 9to5Google, Re/code, App Advice and PandoDaily

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: POPSUGAR, TechnoBuffalo, iMore, Phandroid, Computerworld, It's a Gadget, Cult of Mac, MacStories and App Advice

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Hits 275M Users And Launches New Business Product To All

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

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

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

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

Businessweek:

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

More: Valleywag, The Dropbox Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Boing Boing, Tech Chronicles, Mashable, ZDNet and ReadWrite

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, AppleInsider, Reuters, Ars Technica, PC World, The Register, Re/code, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, Engadget, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, DailyTech, The Mac Observer, Pocketnow, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, TUAW, MobileSyrup.com, BGR, iMore and App Advice. 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, blogs.ft.com and iPhone in Canada Blog. 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: The Verge, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Re/code, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, Mashable, Gizmodo, Windows Phone Central, Business Insider, ReadWrite, TechSpot, VentureBeat and Engadget

Tweets: @hamburger and @joshconstine

Thanks:@joshconstine

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

KGI forecast: iWatch at multiple price points, two iPhone models, 12" high resolution MacBook Air, 12.9" iPad Pro, more — Apple's 2014 Product Roadmap: New iWatch, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, and MacBooks Coming — Apple is set to release a slew of new products during the third quarter …

Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal:

Canada shuts down its online tax-filing services citing Heartbleed bug, services expected to resume over weekend — Canada Halts Online Tax-Filing Services — ‘Heartbleed’ Bug Could Expose Masses of Personal Information; Services Seen Resuming This Weekend

More: The LastPass Blog, Washington Post, CBC News, The Switch, GlobalPost, ctvnews.ca, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

The Real Threat From The Heartbleed Security Flaw Is The NSA

Tweets: @jsvine, @hunterschwarz and @felixsalmon

Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security:

Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL, on a scale of 1 to 10, it is an 11

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

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: DSLreports, Free Press, Engadget and TIME. See also Mediagazer

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Analyzing Comcast's argument for taking over Time Warner Cable

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

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, FierceMobileIT News, iPhone in Canada Blog, PadGadget, TechnoBuffalo and Softpedia News

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 and internetretailer.com

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Mingleton Is Tinder For Strangers In The Room With You — A startup called Mingleton is introducing a new mobile dating application that uses iBeacon technology to help you connect only with people you can see around you, or, as one of the founders puts it, it's like Tinder “for the people in your immediate vicinity.”

More: Daily Dot and Business Insider. Tweets: @thestalwart

Shane Cole / AppleInsider:

Apple nabs senior RF engineers from Broadcom amid rumors of new in-house baseband team — At least two high-level baseband hardware engineers have left wireless semiconductor company Broadcom for new positions at Apple this year, adding weight to speculation that the iPhone maker is planning …

More: Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, InvestorPlace, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice

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, TechCrunch and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Reuters:

BlackBerry may consider exiting handsets, eyes investments — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd would consider exiting its handset business if it remains unprofitable, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday, as the technology company looks to expand its corporate reach with investments, acquisitions and partnerships.

More: Engadget, Bloomberg and CrackBerry.com

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