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April 21, 2014, 7:25 PM

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Chris Wanstrath / GitHub:

GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner resigns after investigation finds errors of judgment but no gender-based harassment — Results of the GitHub Investigation — Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner.

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Tweets: @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @beijingdou, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @katyetc, @aworkinglibrary, @mattrosoff, @shanley, @shanedingman, @markjaquith and @aliciatweet

Tom Preston-Werner:

Tom Preston-Werner moving on to an immersive computing startup, warns of action against “further false claims” — Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing — Today is my last day at GitHub. Recent events have given me a lot of time to reflect on what's important to me …

More: Medium, Medium, The Verge, Re/code, VentureBeat and Business Insider

Tweets: @pmarca, @0xabad1dea, @evelynrusli, @mikeisaac and @shanley

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Apple Interviewing Job Candidates for Mobile Payments Push — Apple has been interviewing senior payments industry executives to push ahead on a plan to build an electronic payments business, according to two people familiar with the process. — The company has been meeting with potential applicants …

More: MacRumors, iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, Ubergizmo, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice

Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft to complete acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business on Friday — The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date — The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft.

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix to raise prices for new members $1-2 this quarter, existing members will stay at current pricing “for a generous time period” — Netflix will raise streaming prices for new members this quarter — New Netflix subscribers could soon be forced to pay a bit …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, BGR, iMore, TechHive, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, DSLreports, Engadget, Re/code, TechCrunch, internetretailer.com, Electronista and NBC Bay Area. See also Mediagazer

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Netflix opposes Comcast-TWC merger over ‘anticompetitive’ concerns

More: Gigaom and Re/code. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix Beats Expectations With 4M New Subscribers, Earnings Of 86 Cents Per Share

More: Gigaom, ABC News, BGR, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile and PR Newswire. Tweets: @pkafka. Thanks:@mjburnsy. See also Mediagazer

Steven Levy / Wired:

Apple Aims to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint With New Data Centers — On a stunning cloudless day in the Nevada desert, Lisa Jackson stands with her back to an array of advanced solar cells, peering across a low chain link fence at NV Energy's Fort Churchill Power Generating plant just a few hundred yards away.

More: PandoDaily, Business Insider, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks, Gigaom, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iMore, MacNN, TUAW and Macworld

Tweets: @pschiller, @bryanrwalsh and @stevenlevy

Thanks:@emilydreyfuss

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

Apple campaign touts progress on reducing environmental impact

More: AppleInsider, YouTube, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Register, MacRumors, Computerworld, AppleInsider, Re/code, The Verge and App Advice

Wall Street Journal:

Apple and Google offer promotional boost to games in exchange for exclusivity — Apple, Google Vie to Offer Exclusive Game Apps — The Battle for Mobile Dominance Is Spreading to the Most Lucrative Genre of Apps: Videogames — A long-running battle between Apple Inc. and Google Inc …

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

AT&T copies Google, names 100 cities where it could offer gigabit fiber — Two months after Google announced that it will try to bring fiber Internet to 34 cities in nine metro areas, AT&T today said it will “expand its ultra-fast fiber network to up to 100 candidate cities and municipalities nationwide …

More: AT&T, ZDNet, ReadWrite, PC World, Computerworld, Engadget, DSLreports, The Verge, Neowin, Gizmodo, Gigaom, Associated Press, BGR, CNET, VentureBeat, SlashGear, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, Stop the Cap! and Bloomberg

Wall Street Journal:

Square discussed possible sale to Google, Apple, and PayPal, recorded loss of $100M in 2013 — Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale — Company Faces Wider Loss, Less Cash; Google Considered Potential Acquisition — With losses widening and cash shrinking …

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Google is researching ways to make encryption easier to use in Gmail — Above: A photo composition of National Security Agency headquarters in Maryland, U.S. — In response to Edward Snowden's mass surveillance revelations, Google is working to make complex encryption tools, such as PGP, easier to use in Gmail.

More: Ubergizmo, TechSpot, 9to5Google, The Verge, SC Magazine and Android Central. Thanks:@harrisonweber

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AdRoll Raises $70M Led By Foundation As Ad Tech And Retargeting Hit The Big Time — AdRoll, a pioneer of online advertising retargeting (the technology that pushes you ads for products that you have viewed online previously), is today announcing a major round of funding: $70 million …

More: Fortune, PE Hub Blog, AdExchanger, silicontap.com and Adotas. Thanks:@anthonyha

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Ahead Of NY Subpoena Hearing, Airbnb Scrubs Thousands Of Listings From ‘Bad Actor’ Hosts — In preparation for oral arguments being held in its New York subpoena case tomorrow, Airbnb is eliminating dozens of listings on its site from hosts who have been accused of being bad actors and running illegal hotel operations on the platform.

More: The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, New York Post, Re/code, The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, Business Insider, Fortune, Guardian, Reuters, New York Times and NYConvergence.com

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Birchbox raises $60M in Series B round, values beauty e-commerce company at $485M — Exclusive: Birchbox banks $60 million — The Series B round values the beauty ecommerce company at $485 million. — FORTUNE — Two years ago, “stuff in a box” was all the rage among startups.

More: TechCrunch, Mashable, VentureBeat, Re/code, PE Hub Blog, VatorNews and internetretailer.com. Tweets: @fortunemagazine

Billboard:

Beats Music raising another $60-100M; sources estimate subscriber count is “low six figures” — Beats Music's First 100 Days: A Bumpy Start — As Spotify allies with Sprint, labels say Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre's streaming service is off to a slow start.

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, socalTECH.com and Gigaom. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

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