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April 20, 2014, 7:35 PM

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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

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James Temple / Re/code:

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Nick Statt / CNET:

Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook's dedicated unfollow button triples unfollows as users tire of original friend model — Facebook's friend problem — Why can't the social network adapt to how we make (and lose) friends? — When I arrived at the University of Michigan in fall 2007, everybody said “Facebook me.”

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Christina Tynan-Wood / ITworld:

Detroit's tech job growth nearly double the national average, fueled by car industry hires — By the numbers: Detroit offers a bright future for technology professionals — Metro Detroit's tech job growth was nearly 2x the national average in recent years

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

What Does the Recent Tech Stock Downturn Mean? The Truth Is Nobody Knows. — In his new book on high-frequency trading, “Flash Boys,” Michael Lewis opens with the very simple premise he gleaned from watching the stock market crash in October of 1987: — “If you ever needed proof …

More: Trends and Beyond Search. Tweets: @tonyromm and @trengriffin

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Inside Nokia's effort to build a detailed, three-dimensional “HD Map” for self-driving cars — Inside the Nokia HERE HD Maps putting Google on notice — Where exactly am I? That's the question Nokia is facing, not in its position following the Microsoft deal that will see it shed …

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Facebook Launching Mobile Ad Network at F8 Conference — Lots of people have wanted Facebook to build an ad network for a long time. — Here it comes. Facebook will take the wraps off its plans for a mobile ad network at its “F8″ developer conference in San Francisco at the end of the month …

David Auerbach / n+1:

Former MSN Messenger Service developer recounts battle to reverse engineer AIM's chat protocol — Chat Wars — In the summer of 1998 I graduated from college and went to work as a programmer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was put on the group that was building MSN Messenger Service, Microsoft's instant messaging app.

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Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Sony Xperia Z2 review: a big, powerful slab of a phone — It's been nearly three years since I reviewed the Xperia Neo, manufactured by what was then Sony Ericsson. The Neo represented just the second generation of Xperia phones running on Android, from a period when Sony was finding …

More: Forbes, Pocket-lint, Guardian and CNET

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Galaxy S5's finger scanner marks an early milestone in the FIDO Alliance's efforts to eliminate passwords — The plot to kill the password — The world's most powerful companies want you to log in with fingerprints and eyescans — Last Friday, Samsung's new Galaxy S5 arrived with an unexpected and underhyped feature.

Tweets: @mparekh, @hamburger, @mikalfm and @nytimesbits

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Analyst consensus is that quarterly iPad sales might decline slightly compared to last year — How many iPads did Apple sell last quarter? — The analysts' estimates range from 15 million to nearly 22 million. Average: 19.3 million. — FORTUNE —Although the heyday of the iPad …

More: Monday Note, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, TND - The Next Digit, App Advice, MacDailyNews, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider and PadGadget

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