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April 18, 2014, 8:00 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Airbnb closes TPG-led $450M-500M funding round valuing company at $10B — 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 …

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Re/code, VentureBeat, VatorNews, PandoDaily, Mashable, Skift, Business Insider and Forbes. Thanks:@alex

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Certificate Revocations Lists increase sharply in the wake of Heartbleed, hogging bandwidth — Heartbleed Bug Sends Bandwidth Costs Skyrocketing — The exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability last week had a number of repercussions, one of which was to set off a mad scramble by companies …

More: CloudFlare Blog. Tweets: @xor

Daniel Cid / Sucuri Blog:

Heartbleed status scan: 0.52% of top 10K sites, 2% of top 1M sites still vulnerable — HeartBleed in the Wild — As most of you probably already know, ten days ago security Researchers disclosed a very serious vulnerability in the OpenSSL library, which is used to power HTTPS on most websites nowadays.

More: PC Magazine, PandoDaily, Re/code, Business Insider, Neowin and Guardian

Tweets: @virusbtn and @sucuri_security

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, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, SecurityWeek, IEEE Spectrum Recent …, ReadWrite and Computerworld

Tweets: @dangillmor and @pierre

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!

More: TechCrunch, TechSpot, Simply Measured, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Marketing Pilgrim, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, VatorNews, Re/code, The Next Web, The Tell, Gigaom and WebProNews

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.

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: GeekWire, Valleywag and Business Insider

Tweets: @ericries and @pmarca

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.

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple reaching out to developers who didn't win WWDC lottery, offering chance to buy unclaimed tickets — If you didn't get a chance to buy a WWDC ticket in the lottery last week, you might just get another chance soon. Developers who won were given until April 14 to buy a slot at the conference …

More: MacRumors, iMore, CNET, SlashGear and iPhone Hacks

Sam Altman:

YC's new president suggests several solutions to key issues in employee stock compensation — Employee Equity — Startup employees often do not get treated very well when it comes to stock compensation. New ideas float around occasionally, but lawyers are usually averse to trying new things …

Tweets: @davetisch, @vlgreen, @jbrewer, @tensafefrogs, @karlnieb, @cw, @sparty_legal and @cdixon

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, The Official Google Blog, The Next Web, PC Magazine, BetaNews, Search Engine Land, Marketing Pilgrim, 9to5Google and VentureBreak

Nick Statt / CNET:

Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware — The sportswear company has decided that only software has a future in the company's technology vision. That means cutting the FuelBand, and those who helped make it.

Thanks:@coopeydoop

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

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, Bloomberg, Slyck, TheCelebrityCafe.com, Spokesman.com, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, GlobalPost, Techie News, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, PC World, CNET, Associated Press and hypebot. See also Mediagazer

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