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April 17, 2014, 11:50 AM

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Kelton Lynn / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter launches mobile app install ads, integrates MoPub ad-buying — A new way to promote mobile apps to 1 billion devices, both on and off-Twitter — We are excited to announce new ways for marketers and developers to drive app installs and app engagements using our new mobile app promotion suite …

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Marketing Land, The Next Web, AdExchanger, 9to5Mac, Re/code, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, AdAge, ECPM BLOG and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @kateherbert, @nafisjamal, @adambain, @stephenpmc, @ralfonsi, @sacca, @kirstinestewart and @mopub

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Twitter Goes After a Facebook Cash Cow — Sometimes the rivalry between Twitter and Facebook is like a children's game of copycat. Facebook copied Twitter's hashtags and trending topics. Twitter copied Facebook's profile page design and automatic display of images in the feed.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @betajames

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Marissa Mayer's Secret Plan to Get Apple to Dump Google and Default to Yahoo Mobile Search — Wall Street gave Yahoo stock a big boost today — largely due to the stellar quarterly performance of China's Alibaba, in which the Silicon Valley Internet giant has a big stake.

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Why Yahoo's Not Going To Steal The Search Default For iPhone Away From Google — Apparently Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to be the default search for Apple's Safari browser on iPhone and iPad and has been preparing to make a solid pitch. Well, we all want things we can't have …

More: Business Insider and Good E-Reader. Tweets: @jyarow

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple is planning to integrate song-identification into iOS 8, in partnership with Shazam — Apple Said to Prepare Song-ID Feature for IPhone Software — Apple Inc. (AAPL) wants to help you name that tune. — The company is planning to unveil a song-discovery feature in an update …

Wall Street Journal:

Drop in Tech Stocks Hits Startup Funding — Venture Capital, IPO Investors Get Cautious About Silicon Valley — Tech stocks have taken a pounding over the past month, putting pressure on the ecosystem for financing startups and taking them public. — The market's recent downturn …

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Confirmed: Nasty Heartbleed bug exposes OpenVPN private keys, too — Private encryption keys have been successfully extracted multiple times from a virtual private network server running the widely used OpenVPN application with a vulnerable version of OpenSSL, adding yet more urgency to the call …

More: PC World, Washington Post, Computerworld and Softpedia News

Tweets: @markloman and @virusbtn

Carlos Hernández / Google Research Blog:

How the Lens Blur mode in Google's new Camera app simulates shallow depth of field — Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app — One of the biggest advantages of SLR cameras over camera phones is the ability to achieve shallow depth of field effects (also known as bokeh).

More: htxt.africa, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Phandroid and Geek.com. Tweets: @ghoseb

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google's new Android Camera app arrives on Google Play Store

More: Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Android - Google+, Android Police, Electronista, Research at Google, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget and Ars Technica

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Amazon and Google are in an epic battle to dominate the cloud—and Amazon may already have won — In technology, it's sometimes good to let a pioneer figure out the pitfalls of a new market. Apple's iPod transformed music listening after countless lesser MP3 players failed to make a real dent.

Tweets: @mcwellons

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Nokia suspends Lumia 2520 tablet sales in Europe due to safety concerns over faulty charger — Nokia suspends Lumia 2520 tablet sales due to electric shock risk — Nokia has suspended sales of its Lumia 2520 tablet in the UK, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland after discovering a fault with its charger.

Russ Garland / Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Venture Capital Investment Highest Since 2001 — Venture capital investment continued to trend upwards in the first quarter of 2014 with $10.74 billion raised by U.S. based companies, up 18% from the fourth quarter of last year and the most raised since the first three months of 2001.

More: VatorNews. Tweets: @alexdc

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Eye-Fi Cloud backs up every photo, no matter what you use to take it — The SD card maker branches out into cloud storage — Seamlessly backing up your photos and making them easily shareable seems to be the dream for cloud storage services. Dropbox and Google have put a lot of effort …

More: Computerworld, iMore, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Electronista, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Engadget and The Next Web

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Google I/O To Elevate Focus On Design — For Google to win, it needs to attract the best designers to its team and get beautiful third-party apps built for its platforms. Yet right now it's Google's rival Apple and the iOS ecosystem that are known for their style.

More: Google Developers Blog, Android Beat, Phandroid and Marco.org. Tweets: @joshconstine

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Google Misses in Q1 With Revenue Of $15.42B, EPS Of $6.27 As Its Cost-Per-Click Fell 9% — Following the bell, Google reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $12.20 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC), $15.42 billion including those costs, and earnings per share of $6.27.

More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Register, internetretailer.com, 9to5Google and VentureBeat

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google Says Buying Nest Bogged Down First-Quarter Earnings

More: New York Times, CNET, MediaNama, Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney.com and BuzzFeed

Bobby Burch / bizjournals:

Google Fiber picks Kansas City to test Internet service for small businesses — Google Fiber picks KC to test business service — The Google Fiber bunny is finally hopping closer to Kansas City businesses. — After nearly two years of insisting they “hang in there,” …

More: BGR, Ars Technica, SlashGear and DSLreports

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

RunKeeper's new Breeze app tracks every step you take — RunKeeper is one of the most popular run-tracking apps for the iPhone, and today it's launching a new app called Breeze to take count of how much you're walking around too. The app works only on the iPhone 5S and is based around …

More: AppleInsider, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, TechCrunch and TUAW

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Samsung And Amazon Team Up For Custom Galaxy Kindle E-Book App — So much for trashing the Kindle. Today Samsung is announcing a new app, Kindle for Samsung, created in partnership with Amazon, that will let Galaxy device users using Android 4.0 and up, starting with the Galaxy S5 …

More: Samsung Tomorrow, PC Magazine, Engadget, Gigaom, BGR, Electronista, Computerworld, Android Community, Gotta Be Mobile, MobileBurn.com, Gizmodo, SlashGear, ZDNet, The Next Web and SamMobile

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Time Warner Cable bets big on easy and secure Wi-Fi, rolling out Hotspot 2.0 networkwide — Time Warner Cable has turned on the Hotspot 2. capabilities across its public Wi-Fi network, letting customers with newer smartphones or tablets connect to its 33,000-node wireless network without entering passwords …

More: PC World. Tweets: @gigaom. Thanks:@kfitchard

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Line opens its ‘creators market’ to let you sell your own stickers on its messaging service — Few companies have done more to pioneer the concept of stickers than Line, and now the Japanese company is democratizing sticker production after it opened a marketplace where anyone can upload packs to sell via its messaging app.

More: LINE official blog and TechCrunch. Tweets: @jonrussell

Reuters:

Weibo cuts IPO size amid selloff in technology stocks — (Reuters) - China's Weibo Corp, a Twitter-like messaging service company, raised a less-than-expected $286 million after it cut the size of its U.S. initial public offering amid a selloff in technology shares and concerns about slowing user growth.

More: PandoDaily, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, New York Times, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wired, The Next Web, Quartz, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Acquisitions Power Flickr's New Object Recognition Search, Editing And Video Capture — Today, Yahoo launches new Flickr app for Android (and iOS coming soon.) They include the ability to shoot video in the apps, or upload it directly. There is also better search …

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Flickr Blog, Engadget, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Yahoo Tech and Lifehacker. Tweets: @faris

Vinay Shet / Google Online Security Blog:

Google's latest street number recognition algorithm can solve 99% of its own reCAPTCHA puzzles — Street View and reCAPTCHA technology just got smarter — Have you ever wondered how Google Maps knows the exact location of your neighborhood coffee shop? Or of the hotel you're staying at next month?

More: Engadget, The Atlantic Online, BGR, DailyTech, TechCrunch, Wired.co.uk, Softpedia News, ExtremeTech, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Gizmodo and 9to5Google

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Google's ‘Project Tango’ Smartphone Uses Apple's PrimeSense Technology — Earlier this year, Google unveiled “Project Tango,” an experimental smartphone that incorporates 3D sensors to allow users to map indoor and outdoor environments. — Reports suggested that the smartphone's 3D capabilities …

More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geek.com, Cult of Mac and iPhone Hacks

Tom Dotan / The Information:

Last-minute cancellation of flagship original series raises questions in Hollywood about Hulu's stability — Hollywood Questions Hulu as Video Landscape Shifts — When the owners of the online video site Hulu pulled the company off the auction block for the second time last summer …

More: BGR. Tweets: @pkafka and @amir. See also Mediagazer

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