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April 9, 2014, 3:50 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 …

More: The Dropbox Blog, ReadWrite, MacRumors, iMore, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Android Beat, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Engadget, MacStories, Phandroid, Mashable and Carousel

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

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, The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Gigaom, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, The Next Web, BGR, Android Central, AndroidGuys and iPhone in Canada Blog

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: Dropbox for Business, PC World, Gigaom, Y Combinator Posthaven, ZDNet, Engadget and The Next Web

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Announces ‘Project Harmony’ To Bring Collaborative Features To Microsoft Office — At a press event this morning in San Francisco, Dropbox unveiled a new feature called “Project Harmony” which brings new collaboration tools for Dropbox users while they're editing documents …

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

Businessweek:

Dropbox builds library of independent apps and enterprise tools as Condi Rice joins board — Dropbox's Next Chapter: Corporate Customers, IPO, Condi Rice, and Eddie Vedder — In November 2012, Drew Houston, co-founder and chief executive officer of Dropbox, the online storage service …

More: TechCrunch and MacStories. Tweets: @benioff. Thanks:@mattlynley

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: SplatF, PC World, PandoDaily, Re/code, The Register, App Advice, MobileSyrup.com and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @calebgarling

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, PadGadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Electronista, FierceMobileIT News, AppleInsider, Street Fight, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice and iLounge

Tweets: @delrey, @sfiegerman, @jyarow and @stevecheney

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: Business Insider, iMore and iLounge. Thanks:@ajorama

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.

Patrick McKenzie / Kalzumeus Software:

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

More: ReadWrite, The Switch, Digital Trends, F-Secure Antivirus …, Business Insider, Forbes, Paste and Telegraph

Tweets: @alexia and @mikeisaac

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Users should change passwords once Heartbleed flaw is fixed on individual sites

More: Re/code, BBC, The Wire, PandoDaily, Globe and Mail, SiliconBeat, Bloomberg, NEWS.com.au, TechCrunch and Poynter

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Quora Raises $80M Led by Tiger Global, Now Valued at $900M — Q&A startup Quora, while not quite the buzzy Silicon Valley startup it was when it first started, has nonetheless joined the club of extremely richly valued startups raising money from big East Coast investment funds.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, VatorNews, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Fortune, I4U News, PE Hub Blog, Gigaom, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal and StrictlyVC

Tweets: @waxpancake, @tedr, @davemcclure, @benpopper, @caseynewton, @kevinroose, @eringriffith and @joshm

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iFixit:

Samsung Gear 2 Teardown — Ring ring! Ring ring! Your cell phone rings. You know you should answer it, but it's all the way in your pocket, and the thought of reaching down, pulling it out, tapping a button, reaching up to your ear, and talking just sounds plain exhausting. But never fear!

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Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Intel closes Costa Rica operation, cuts 1,500 jobs — (Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel, struggling with a shrinking personal computer market, is shutting its assembly and test operation in Costa Rica and eliminating 1,500 jobs, a spokesman said on Tuesday. — The closure of the site …

More: eWeek, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Electronista, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal and Silicon Republic

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Kabbage Gets $270M More To Lend To Small Online Merchants — Kabbage, a platform for online merchants to borrow working capital, is picking up some cabbage of its own: the startup has closed a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners.

More: VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog and Wall Street Journal

Ina Fried / Re/code:

T-Mobile Launches New $40 “Simple Starter” Plan With Unlimited Talk and Text and Half a Gig of Data — T-Mobile on Wednesday introduced a new entry-level $40-per-month plan that includes unlimited talk and text along with 500 megabytes of high-speed data. — Unlike other T-Mobile plans …

More: T-Mobile, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, Digital Trends, Gigaom, iMore, TechCrunch, Engadget, GeekWire and Gizmodo

Troy Wolverton / Mercury News:

Startup Prodea offers operating system for the ‘smart’ home — Imagine a system that unlocks the doors and turns on the lights when your adolescent son arrives home and doesn't allow him to watch anything on the TV until after he watches an educational video and notifies you at your office when he's completed it.

More: PandoDaily, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Computerworld, Digital Journal, SiliconANGLE, Digital Journal, Digital Journal and TWICE

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Intel, SGI team up on proof-of-concept supercomputer using 3M's dielectric Novec coolant — Intel, 3M, SGI eye new data center coolant — Summary: 3M's Novec fluid combined with two-phase immersion cooling could shrink data center footprints and consume a lot less energy.

More: PC World, eWeek, Data Center Knowledge, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Register and Wall Street Journal

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Motorola Mobility promotes former Good, Skype exec to COO — Summary: At press time, there was also a conflict about exactly what Osterloh's new role at Motorola is. — Motorola Mobility looked within for its new chief operating officer and president with the appointment of Rick Osterloh.

More: The Official Motorola Blog, 9to5Google, PC World, Re/code, The Verge, Android Community, Android Central and Droid Life

Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land:

Official: Google Brings “Not Provided” To Ads, Will Withhold Search Query Data From Paid Clicks — As suspected, Google is moving to secure search for clicks on paid search ads. In an announcement posted by Paul Feng, Product Management Director, AdWords on the Ads Developer Blog, the company states,

More: Search Engine Watch, Ghergich & Co., Search Engine Land, Google Ads Developer Blog and the Econsultancy blog

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 …

Thanks:@joshconstine

Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:

Smart-home veteran iControl buys security device Piper to let you play Big Brother — While “smart home” companies such as Nest and SmartThings have been making all the headlines lately, industry veteran iControl Networks is scooping up a company to add to its Big Brother-like arsenal of connected home offerings.

More: Gigaom and TechCrunch

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