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April 15, 2014, 4:45 PM

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Zach Epstein / BGR:

Amazon's 4.7-inch 720p smartphone to have glasses-free 3D UI, four head-tracking infrared cameras — This is Amazon's smartphone — BGR gives the world an exclusive first look at the unannounced smartphone Amazon is set to debut in the coming months — After years of development …

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Smartphone To Feature Unique But Limited 3D Effects — TechCrunch has learned that Amazon's upcoming flagship smartphone, running a forked version of Android, will have head-tracking capabilities offering up limited 3D effects. This key feature will be reserved to just a few built-in gestures …

More: VentureBeat, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, Geeky Gadgets and InvestorPlace

Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter acquires social data provider Gnip, plans to offer more sophisticated data sets — Twitter welcomes Gnip to the flock — Every day Twitter users share and discuss their interests and what's happening in the world. These public Tweets can reveal a wide variety of insights …

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

With Gnip Buy, Twitter Starts Taking Its Data Business Seriously

More: Marketing Land, VentureBeat and Business Insider

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @digiphile and @delrey

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

After Apple buys Topsy, Twitter plays defense by acquiring Gnip, one of four Twitter data resellers

More: Forbes. Tweets: @mikeisaac and @eringriffith

Jon Gertner / Fast Company:

Inside Google X: lab reveals it experimented with space elevators and hoverboards — The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors — Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good. At Google X, it's sometimes hard to know the difference.

More: 9to5Google, Quartz, BGR, Business Insider and VentureBreak

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Building blocks: how Project Ara is reinventing the smartphone — A handful of Google engineers and designers are building a phone the DARPA way — In a spare, drab office park in Sunnyvale, California, a bunch of two-by-fours and foamboard have been nailed together into a makeshift model of a shipping container.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, PC World and Daring Fireball

Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:

Google targeting Project Ara modular phone for January 2015

Thijs van As / Gmail Blog:

Gmail makes it easier to email photos automatically backed up from your smartphone — The photos from your phone, now one click away — Unless you're a budding Ansel Adams, odds are you take most of your photos using your phone. And whether it's photos of your hiking trip or a night out …

More: BGR, The Next Web, Android Authority, PC Magazine, Android Central, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gigaom, Phandroid, AndroidGuys, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, Google Plus Daily, Softpedia News and The Verge

Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:

Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when — Ever since the “Heartbleed” flaw in encryption protocol OpenSSL was made public on April 7 in the US there have been various questions about who knew what and when. Fairfax Media has spoken to various people and groups involved and has compiled the below timeline.

More: ProPublica, The Register, SiliconBeat, Digital Trends and Fedor Indutny's blog. Thanks:@bengrubb

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Vicious Heartbleed bug bites millions of Android phones, other devices

More: Guardian, Google Online Security Blog, PandoDaily, TrendLabs Security …, PadGadget, Bloomberg, InfoQ, ZDNet, Washington Post, Gizmodo UK and Softpedia News

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Teardown Shows Samsung's Galaxy S5 Costs About $256 to Build — The Galaxy S5, Samsung's new flagship smartphone, costs about $256 to build according to a teardown analysis by market research firm IHS that will be published later today. — Released over the weekend, and winning praise …

More: TechCrunch, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Community, SamMobile, Gizmodo, Android Community, 9to5Google, CNET, TechSpot, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Geeky Gadgets and SlashGear

Brian Chesky / The Huffington Post:

Airbnb CEO: we could collect $21M per year in taxes for New York if tax laws change — The $21 Million Problem — As New Yorkers prepare to finish their taxes and send checks to New York City and State, it's worth considering a simple fact: my company is legally prohibited from helping collect …

Hunter Walker / Business Insider:

NY state senator: NY Post story on hookers using Airbnb points to gambling, drug activity next

More: New York Post, Valleywag, SiliconBeat, TechHive, nysenate.gov, The Technology Chronicles, Daily Dot and Gothamist

Jack Purcher / Patent Bolt:

Google Invents Micro Camera System for Future Contact Lenses — Last month Google surprised the market with a new wearable Glass off-shoot project relating to future smart contact lenses. Our report that was titled “Google Takes their Glass Vision to Smart Contact Lenses,” …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, NY Daily News, PetaPixel, ExtremeTech, Wearable World News, CNET, Digital Trends, Wired.co.uk, Android Police, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile and Yahoo

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

AngelList's Newest Experiment: a $25 Million Fund to Invest in Angel Investors — A new experiment in startup funding could have widespread ramifications for the way venture capitalists place bets on young companies. — On Tuesday, crowdsourced fundraising site AngelList unveiled a new fund …

More: The Technology Chronicles. Tweets: @kevinroose

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF's Housing Crisis Explained) — A hearse rolls up to a Yahoo bus at the BART MacArthur Station in Oakland. A protester who had climbed on top of the bus later vomited on the vehicle. (From Indybay) — The Santa Clara Valley …

More: The Verge and Global Nerdy. Tweets: @joshelman, @jedkolko, @kevinroose, @davemcclure and @jeffjarvis

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Yahoo's Q1 Earnings as Meh as Expected, But China's Alibaba Doing Great! — Yahoo pretty much came in on target in the first quarter with what Wall Street had been expecting, earning 38 cents a share on $1.087 billion in revenue. Minus traffic acquisition costs, that meant a pretty weak one percent increase in revenue.

More: Marketing Land, The Verge, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Announces New Tools Bringing The Cloud To The Internet Of Things, Uniting Hadoop And SQL — This morning in San Francisco, Microsoft announced several new data-focused tools in front of a cadre of customers and partners, not to mention a decent-sized grouping of press.

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Reuters, GeekWire, MSDN Blogs, Virtual-Strategy Magazine and Neowin

Tweets: @maryjofoley and @levie

Thanks:@_trendspotter

Tom Lavell / Bloomberg:

Zebra Technologies to buy Motorola's enterprise business for $3.45B — Zebra to Buy Motorola Solutions Unit for $3.45 Billion — Zebra Technologies Corp. (ZBRA) will acquire the enterprise business of Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) for $3.45 billion, adding mobile computing …

More: MotorolaSolutions, Reuters, TechCrunch, Forbes, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, VatorNews and New York Times. Tweets: @bloombergtech

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Zebra's $3.45 billion enterprise Internet of things play: Cloud software will be the glue

More: Re/code, TechCrunch and PE Hub Blog

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Twitter Taps Google Maps Director Daniel Graf for Product VP Role — Twitter announced Tuesday it had named Daniel Graf as its new vice president of consumer product. — Graf most recently comes from Google, where had he led efforts on the company's Google Maps project since 2012.

More: Gigaom and Business 2 Community. Tweets: @danielgraf, @jyarow and @caseynewton

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches Office 365 Personal subscription: One PC/Mac and one tablet for $69.99/year or $6.99/month — Microsoft today launched its Office 365 Personal subscription, a cheaper alternative that is limited to just two devices: one PC or Mac and one tablet.

More: Office Blogs, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, MacRumors, BGR, Geeky Gadgets, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Gigaom, Windows Phone Central, Mashable and Neowin

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Website-Building Platform Squarespace Raises Another $40M — Squarespace, which offers tools for individuals and small businesses to build websites and online stores, just announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. — The funding comes from growth equity firm General Atlantic.

More: The Official Squarespace Blog, PandoDaily, Re/code, PR Newswire and PE Hub Blog

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Intel Meets In Q1 With Revenue Of $12.8B, EPS Of $0.38 On Back Of Recovering PC Market — Following the bell today, Intel reported its first quarter results, including revenue of $12.764 billion, and earnings per share of $0.38. The results roughly match analyst expectations that the company …

More: Intel, Engadget, ZDNet, Re/code, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Mobile Control In The Cloud: ItsOn Raises $12.5M From Tenaya And Andreessen Horowitz — ItsOn, startup founded by alums from Qualcomm, Nokia and Yahoo that has developed a cloud-based mobile services platform that it sells as both a B2B and B2C product, is today confirming that it has raised …

More: Re/code, PR Newswire, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog and bizjournals

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