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April 19, 2014, 4:55 AM

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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.

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Certificate Revocation Lists increase sharply in size 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 …

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

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

Tweets: @sucuri_security and @virusbtn

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Heartbleed exploits expand to VPN devices: attackers hijack user sessions, bypassing multifactor authentication

More: M-unition, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, SecurityWeek and ReadWrite

Tweets: @dangillmor and @pierre

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Beats Bites the Bullet, and Starts Selling Subscriptions From Apple's App — Apple has a crazily powerful digital store, used by hundreds of millions of customers. But if you want to sell something there it will cost you: In almost every case, Apple keeps 30 percent of the purchase price on whatever its users buy.

More: Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and MacRumors

Tweets: @pkafka and @pkafka

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, Mashable, VatorNews, Skift, Re/code, PandoDaily, Business Insider and Forbes. Thanks:@alex

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: App Advice, iMore, MacRumors, CNET and SlashGear

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

Carla Marinucci / SFGate:

Sam Altman and Marissa Mayer co-hosting Obama fundraiser for DNC at Y Combinator HQ on May 8 — New! Obama to hit Y Combinator headquarters in Mt. View on May 8 — President Obama will hit the Mt. View headquarters of Y Combinator, the hot Silicon Valley start-up funder and incubator …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Hands-on with Ubuntu Touch 14.04: Coming along, but miles to go — We install it so you don't have to. Seriously, you probably shouldn't. — The last time we installed Ubuntu Touch on anything was about a year ago, shortly after the release of Ubuntu 13.04.

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: TechSpot, Marketing Pilgrim, Techie Buzz, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, ZDNet, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Gigaom, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Re/code, Softpedia News 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.

Les Shu / Digital Trends:

Toshiba's U3 MicroSD cards are fast enough to handle 4K video, still tiny and easy to lose — MicroSD cards have become so ubiquitous that even some digital cameras are now using it. That's fine and dandy if speed isn't a concern, but if you're snapping lots of photos and you need your camera to keep up …

More: Toshiba America Inc, Gizmodo, Maximum PC, TechSpot, PetaPixel, Electronista, Ubergizmo, TechEye, Engadget and I4U News

Issie Lapowsky / Wired:

How carriers' greed for additional revenue streams almost sabotaged the smartphone kill switch — How Greed Almost Sabotaged the Smartphone Kill Switch — About one third of robberies in major cities across the country involve the theft of a mobile phone, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

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