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April 18, 2014, 3:45 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Airbnb Has Closed Its $500M Round Of Funding At A $10B Valuation, Led By TPG — TechCrunch has learned that Airbnb, the fast-growing site that lets people become hoteliers by renting out sofas, rooms or entire private homes, has now closed its latest round of funding: $500 million …

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Mashable and Forbes. Thanks:@alex

Deep Nishar / Official LinkedIn Blog:

LinkedIn hits 300M members, 100M in US, says mobile traffic will overtake desktop later this year — The Next Three Billion [INFOGRAPHIC] — We are excited to announce that we reached a big milestone today: there are now more than 300 million LinkedIn members in the world!

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook's Paper for iOS updated with birthdays, events, photo comments, group updates, and more — Facebook today released the first major update to its Paper for iOS app, adding a slew of new features just 10 weeks after the initial launch. You can download the new version now directly from Apple's App Store.

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Vodafone Social:

HTC hints at DSLR-like optical zoom in the next 18-24 months, “wants to own the selfie market” — HTC talks camera tech: DSLR-destroying optical zooming ‘18 months’ away — The HTC One (M8) is here, and even though we're only in April, it's already a strong contender for phone of the year.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Heartbleed exploits expand to VPN devices: attackers hijack user sessions, bypassing multifactor authentication — Heartbleed maliciously exploited to hack network with multifactor authentication — Demonstrating yet another way the catastrophic Heartbleed vulnerability threatens users …

More: M-unition, New York Times, SecurityWeek, IEEE Spectrum Recent …, ReadWrite and Computerworld

Tweets: @pierre and @dangillmor

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Connected device companies like Nest And Fitbit start side businesses selling data to utilities and health insurers — The Quantified Other: Nest And Fitbit Chase A Lucrative Side Business — The real value in smart gadgets may be not in what they tell you but in what they say to your doctor, insurance company and utilities.

More: Computerworld, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Tweets: @jeffbercovici, @bupbin, @forbestech and @fitbit

Thanks:@parmy

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Trends Debuts Email Notifications For Search Topics, Hot Searches And More — Google Trends, the informative resource that shows you what's currently popular around the web right now in and in the recent past, now offers email subscriptions, Google announced this morning.

More: Inside Search, BetaNews, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, VentureBreak and WebProNews

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Court rules Apple-backed Rockstar must fight case against Google in California, not Texas — Google wins a game of “Escape from East Texas,” linking Rockstar to Apple — A federal judge issued an order today decreeing that Google's court battle against a “patent troll” …

More: Computerworld, Reuters, Electronista, AppleInsider, Softpedia News and Reuters

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Webvan founder Louis Borders is working on a new grocery delivery business — Webvan's Founder Is Back and He's Building Another Grocery Delivery Business — Two years after his high-flying online grocery business collapsed into bankruptcy, Webvan founder Louis Borders was quoted as saying …

More: Valleywag and Business Insider

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Instacart Could Raise A Big New Round Of Funding Valuing It At $400 Million

Tweets: @danprimack. Thanks:@loyalelectron

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

HTC hires former Samsung marketing chief Paul Golden, who helped create the Galaxy brand — HTC Hires Former Samsung Marketing Chief — Paul Golden Helped Create Galaxy Brand at South Korean Company — HTC Corp. is hoping to nab a bit of that Samsung shine, as it has hired …

More: Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Android Central, Businessweek, Phandroid, MobileBurn.com, CNET, Digital Trends, BGR and The Verge

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung hints that Milk Music will ‘soon’ include ads, and offer a $3.99/month premium service — When Samsung introduced its first Internet radio service Milk Music in March, one of the things that stood out was that it was available free and without ads. That may change soon, according to information disclosed by Samsung today.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, PandoDaily, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Engadget, Computerworld, TechSpot, AndroidGuys, Techie News, The Droid Guy, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear and Android Community

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Tech exits in Europe Q1 2014: 49 total, Germany and Israel lead, 43.7% of acquirers from US — Everything you've always wanted to know about tech exits in Europe: Tech.eu M&A report - Q1 2014 — In early March, I stopped to take note of the flurry of (admittedly mostly small-sized) …

Tweets: @robinwauters, @roxannevarza and @tech_eu. Thanks:@tech_eu

Ed Christman / Billboard:

Record Labels Sue Pandora Over Pre-1972 Recordings — As expected, the three major labels, ABKCO, and the RIAA filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York state court against Pandora for playing pre-Feb. 15, 1972 recordings without making any royalty payments.

More: New York Times, Slyck, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Reuters, TheCelebrityCafe.com, Techie News, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, Spokesman.com, CIO.com, Ubergizmo, CNET, Associated Press and hypebot. See also Mediagazer

Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:

Globalfoundries to adopt Samsung's 14nm chip production process as the companies try to woo customers away from TSMC — Samsung, Globalfoundries Agree to Adopt Same Production Process — Unusual Alliance Could Please Chip Customers Such as Apple — Samsung Electronics Co …

More: Bloomberg, EE Times, MacDailyNews, PC World, The Register and Reuters

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

King Resolves Trademark Disputes With Two Independent Developers — Candy Crush Saga maker King has resolved its trademark disputes with the developers of two independent games, The Banner Saga and CandySwipe. — The mobile gaming giant had initially opposed Stoic's attempt to trademark …

More: Pocket Gamer.biz, Engadget, Polygon, VG247, GamePolitics blogs, GamesIndustry International, Gamasutra and Eurogamer.net

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

App Search Engine Quixey Acquires Competing Service Kite.io — Mobile app search engine Quixey, backed by $75 million from Alibaba, Innovation Endeavors, Translink Capital and others, has put some of those dollars to use by acquiring a smaller, competing app search startup, San Francisco-based Kite.io.

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