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Zach Epstein / BGR:

Amazon's phone requires tilt gestures to navigate apps and menus, can capture notes with OCR — EXCLUSIVE — BGR reveals everything you could possibly want to know about Amazon's smartphone! — An exclusive in-depth look at the unique software that will power Amazon's upcoming smartphones

More: Engadget, Business Insider, CITEworld, 9to5Google, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, ParisLemon, TechSpot, Pocketnow, Softpedia News, Neowin, Phones Review, Android and Me, SlashGear, Android Community and FierceDeveloper. Tweets: @jbenton

David Pierce / The Verge:

Lytro's new Illum light-field camera targets professional photographers, costs $1599 — Lytro changed photography. Now can it get anyone to care? — An exclusive look at the company's new Illum camera — “Okay, can I take it out of the box now?” — Lytro product director Colvin Pitts wants …

More: Engadget, AppleInsider, TIME, Wired, Computerworld, GeekWire, Re/code, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, The Next Web, blogs.ft.com, VentureBeat, CNET, Fortune, TechCrunch, Electronista, TechSpot, Softpedia News, PC Pro, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Imaging Insider, Gizmodo and Co.Design

Tweets: @mattbuchanan, @jasonrosenthal and @joshuatopolsky

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Apple is like a movie studio: blockbuster franchise products followed by sequels — Why Apple Is Like a Movie Studio — Steve Jobs has been dead for about two and a half years now, and it's hard not to notice that the regular parade of game-changing Apple products for which he was famous seems to have disappeared with him.

More: LIVEdigitally, 9to5Mac and BGR

Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @bajarin and @monkbent

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Study: households spent 10% less at Amazon in states where online sales tax introduced — Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is taking a hit in states that are collecting an online sales tax. — In one of the first efforts to quantify the impact …

More: Business Insider, USA Today, SlashGear and WebProNews

Tweets: @bloombergnews, @maudnewton and @puiwingtam

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Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

AT&T creates $500M joint venture for a Netflix-style TV service — AT&T, the nation's second largest broadband provider and wireless company, is getting into the streaming business with a $500 million joint venture created to acquire, invest in and launch a Netflix-style video streaming service.

More: AT&T, Engadget, BGR, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, The Verge, Variety, TechCrunch, TorrentFreak, CNET, Plagiarism Today, Mashable, Bloomberg, dailywireless.org and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @bfeld. See also Mediagazer

BBC:

Reddit removes r/Technology from high-exposure “default subreddits” list after censorship row — Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship — Technology is no longer listed at the top of new Reddit members' screens — Social news site Reddit has downgraded the status of its …

More: Wall Street Journal, memeburn, Daily Dot, Engadget, Network World, Mashable, NEWS.com.au, Lastest ITProPortal news, SiliconBeat, Boing Boing and Washington Post

Tweets: @anjiecast and @rj_gallagher

Cassandra Khaw / The Verge:

LG's G Watch is always-on and water resistant — LG revealed more information about the upcoming G Watch on its new website. The smartwatch will come in two colors: stealth black and champagne gold. On top of having what is being described as an always-on screen, the G Watch will purportedly be both water and dust resistant.

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Verizon's data breach report: Point-of-sale, Web app attacks take center stage — Summary: Hotels, retailers and restaurants really need to lock down their point-of-sale systems, but don't have to sweat Web app attacks as much as financial services companies do.

More: Re/code, Fortune, The Register, PC World, We Live Security, Softpedia News, SecurityWeek, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Inquirer, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Cisco, Netgear router patch for backdoor vulnerability merely hides it, does not fix it — Easter egg: DSL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it — Just what you wanted for Easter: a re-gifted backdoor from Christmas. — First, DSL router owners got an unwelcome Christmas present.

More: PC World and TechEye. Tweets: @fkarlitschek

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google To Offer Targeted Mobile App Install Ads In Search And YouTube; Expands App Deep Linking To AdWords — Google is announcing today its plans to offer app install ads on mobile search and YouTube, following moves made by other tech industry companies, including Facebook and more recently Yahoo and Twitter.

More: Search Engine Land, Inside AdWords, VentureBeat, Search Engine Watch, The Next Web, 9to5Google and Mashable

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's new, new Windows cadence: Once a year is not enough — Summary: What comes after Windows 8.1 Update? Sources say a second update is on its way, and that Microsoft's unified OS group is picking up the delivery pace. — Just a year ago, Microsoft officials were crowing about Windows' much improved delivery cadence.

More: BetaNews, PC Pro, WinBeta, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin, InfoWorld and ITworld.com

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Weebly raises $35M from Tencent and Sequoia Capital at a valuation of $455M — Weebly Valued at $455 Million Amid Website-Building Boom — Weebly has been valued at $455 million in a new round of funding from investors eager to cash in on a recent boom in website-creation services.

More: Re/code. Tweets: @paulg

Kif Leswing / Gigaom:

Why can Nike dump the Fuelband? With friends like Apple, it doesn't need its own hardware — If you want to track your fitness with Nike software, you're probably going to have to use Apple products. — The news that Nike had laid off a majority of its digital sport hardware engineering team …

More: GeekTime, eWeek, CNN, MacRumors, BGR, dailywireless.org, Telegraph, Wired, Digiday and Geek Beat

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Aol Mail Hacked With Spoofed Accounts Sending Spam — It's not just you. Aol Mail was hacked affecting an untold amount of accounts that were seemingly spoofed. The Twitter hashtag #aolhacked is filled with first-hand accounts of spam being sent from either the hacked email account …

More: Associated Press, Computerworld, AOL Help, Gigaom, Los Angeles Times and Brian Alvey. Thanks:@brianalvey

Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:

Danny Boyle in Talks to Direct Steve Jobs Movie, Leonardo DiCaprio Eyed to Star (Exclusive) — Danny Boyle, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio — “The Beach” director is said to want to reteam with DiCaprio on the Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic of the iconic Apple co-founder.

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Exclusive: YouTube Product Head Shishir Mehrotra Likely to Depart — Moving to Advisory Role — Shishir Mehrotra, YouTube's head of product and a longtime Google exec, is likely to depart the company, and has moved to an advisory role at the premium online video powerhouse.

William Launder / Wall Street Journal:

Discovery Is Selling HowStuffWorks.com for $45 Million, About 20% What it Paid for the Site in 2007 — For Discovery Communications Inc., the website HowStuffWorks.com proved to be one investment in digital media that didn't work. — Discovery said Monday it would sell the site …

More: GeekWire, ABC News, Variety, VentureBeat, Bloomberg and bizjournals

Dan Levy / Bloomberg:

LinkedIn to fully lease 26-floor tower in San Francisco with about 450K sq. ft. office space — LinkedIn Said to Fully Lease Tishman's San Francisco Tower — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) has agreed to fully lease a San Francisco office tower being built by Tishman Speyer Properties LP …

More: The Technology Chronicles. Tweets: @percival

Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed:

CEO Of “Russian Facebook” Says He Was Fired And That The Social Network Is Now In The Hands Of Putin Allies — So ends the slow unravelling of independence at VKontakte, Russia's most popular social network. — VKontakte founder Pavel Durov in 2012. — Nadine Rupp / Getty Images

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Verge, BBC, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg View, Softpedia News, The Province, Phys.org, Lastest ITProPortal news, RT, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Salon and TheHill

Mark Hearn / 9to5Google:

Nest Thermostat now available from Google Play — Yesterday, Google's newly acquired thermostat system made an appearance on a Play Store support page. This led many to believe that the search giant would soon offer its smart climate controller at its online marketplace, alongside its other in-house products.

More: TechCrunch, BGR, The Verge, Android Police, Droid Life and Android Central

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter Says Native Ads Will Be Available To All MoPub Publishers Tomorrow — MoPub is making native ads available to all of its publishers tomorrow, according to blog posts from MoPub and Twitter (which acquired MoPub last year). — This follows an announcement in December that MoPub …

More: MoPub, The Twitter Blog, AdExchanger, VatorNews, VentureBeat, The Next Web and AllTwitter

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Julie Ann Horvath and Theresa Preston-Werner respond as GitHub announces founder's resignation — A Beloved Silicon Valley Startup Is Under Fire For The Way A Female Employee Was Treated — The GitHub Fiasco, Explained — Last year, GitHub appeared to be the perfect Silicon Valley startup.

More: Medium and Slate. Tweets: @nrrrdcore and @nrrrdcore

Chris Wanstrath / GitHub:

GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner resigns after investigation finds errors of judgment but no gender-based harassment

More: Softpedia News, Wired, Re/code, Business Insider, Ars Technica, CNET, Computerworld and Re/code

Tweets: @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @beijingdou and @shanedingman

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Netflix opposes Comcast-TWC merger over ‘anticompetitive’ concerns — Netflix has come out in opposition of Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable, writing in a letter to shareholders that the merger would give the combined service provider “even more anticompetitive leverage” …

More: BGR, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor and Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Comcast: Netflix's Opposition to Time Warner Cable Deal Is About Shifting Costs to All Broadband Users

More: Comcast Voices, Washington Post, TechCrunch, ZDNet, New York Times, Dan Rayburn, Re/code and VentureBeat

Tweets: @startupljackson, @ceciliakang and @pkafka

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