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April 17, 2014, 9:50 AM

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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: Good E-Reader and Ubergizmo. 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 …

More: ZDNet, DailyTech, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, App Advice, PhoneArena, MacNN, everythingiCafe, Phones Review, The Next Web, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, CNET, iMore, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget and SlashGear. Tweets: @sarahfrier

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: AdExchanger, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, TechCrunch, AdAge, ECPM BLOG and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @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.

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.

More: Nokia, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Computerworld, The Next Web, Engadget, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Phones Review, Electronista, Pocket-lint, SlashGear and Nokia Conversations

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: Washington Post, Computerworld and Softpedia News

Tweets: @markloman and @virusbtn

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, Mercury News, Electronista, 9to5Google, AdExchanger, VentureBeat, GeekWire, WebProNews and Business Insider

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google Says Buying Nest Bogged Down First-Quarter Earnings

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

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: TechnoBuffalo, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Phandroid, Geek.com, Lifehacker, The Next Web and dailywireless.org. Tweets: @ghoseb

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

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

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

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, TechCrunch, DailyTech, Softpedia News, ExtremeTech, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Gigaom and BetaNews

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

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 …

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: Marco.org, Google Developers Blog, eWeek, 9to5Google and Android Authority

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

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network — When Spotify launched its first beta in the fall of 2008, we branded it “an alternative to music piracy.” — With the option to stream millions of tracks supported by an occasional ad, or free of ads for a small subscription fee …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, SlashGear and Gigaom

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: @amir and @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

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 …

Tweets: @gigaom. Thanks:@kfitchard

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Campaign Monitor, a decade-old Australian email marketing startup, raises $250M from Insight — Australia's Campaign Monitor Raises $250 Million from Insight … A 10-year-old “startup” in Australia is joining the rarefied strata of buzzy young companies like Uber and Dropbox.

More: Campaign Monitor Blog, PE Hub Blog and Business Insider Australia

Tweets: @davegreiner and @danprimack

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, Geek.com, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com and Patently Apple

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

AT&T Threatens Boycott if TV Airwaves Auction Rules Aren't Changed — At least one of the largest wireless carriers in the U.S. is unhappy about the Federal Communications Commission's new proposed rules for an upcoming auction of TV airwaves, which would reserve some licenses for smaller companies.

More: Reuters, TheHill, Ars Technica, FierceWireless, Bloomberg, CNET, PC Magazine and TechCrunch. Tweets: @zpower

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

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

LG G3 launching this summer with 2560 x 1440 screen resolution, golden hue — LG will launch golden G3 with crazy resolution this summer — 2560 x 1440 pixels in your front pocket — A third of the way into 2014, we already have new flagship phones from almost all the big Android handset makers …

More: PhoneArena, Softpedia News, The Korea Heald, Ubergizmo, Android Beat, Phones Review, DailyTech, TechnoBuffalo, Gizchina.com, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, 9to5Google and SlashGear

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

IBM's Q1 revenue disappoints, hardware whacked again — Summary: IBM is a work in progress for sure as only the software division delivered any growth. Hardware remains a problem for Big Blue. — IBM's first quarter results highlighted how the company is still at the beginning point …

More: IBM, DailyFinance.com, InfoWorld, eWeek, The Register, Re/code, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily and Business Insider

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