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April 23, 2014, 4:41 PM

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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

iOS 7.1 code indicates Apple working on Siri for Apple TV — Code found within the iOS 7.1 SDK suggests that Siri is headed to the Apple TV in future. Pierre Blazquez first found the reference on Friday. 9to5Mac has since confirmed that the code does exist in both iOS 7.1 and iOS 7.1.1′s files.

More: Gigaom, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, GeekWire, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Apple Bitch, WebProNews, IntoMobile, iMore, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, VentureBreak, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, BGR and Electronista. Tweets: @bp_unicorn. Thanks:@jordankahn

Facebook:

Facebook Reports First Quarter 2014 Results - Revenue was $2.50 billion, up 72% vs Q1 2013 - Revenue from advertising was $2.27 billion, up 82% vs Q1 2013 - CFO David Ebersman stepping down later this year; will be succeeded by David Wehner — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) …

More: Gigaom and Forbes. Tweets: @willoremus and @hamburger

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Facebook CFO Ebersman to Depart Social Networking Giant — Will Likely Focus on Health Care Space — David Ebersman — the CFO who took Facebook public and attracted some level of scrutiny for its rocky initial ride — is departing the company later this year.

More: GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Business Insider and Tech Trader Daily

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Beats In Q1 With $2.5B In Revenue, 59% Of Ad Revenue From Mobile, 1.28B Users

More: SiliconBeat

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple reports $45.6 billion revenue for Q2 2014: 43.7m iPhones, 16.3m iPads, 4.1m Macs, 2.7m iPods — Apple just announced its second quarter results for 2014 with revenue for the quarter coming in at $45.6 billion. That's compared to the guidance it previously provided of $42 …

More: Business Insider and Gigaom

Apple:

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Strong iPhone Sales Drive Record March Quarter Revenue and 15 Percent EPS Growth — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended March 29, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $45.6 billion …

More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Verge, BGR, 9to5Mac and 9to5Mac

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Apple Beats In Q2 2014 With $45.6B Revenue, $10.2B Profit And $11.62 EPS

More: TechCrunch, Forbes and App Advice

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Etsy buys Grand St. — The handmade marketplace has acquired Grand St., a marketplace for indie electronics. — FORTUNE — Etsy, the operator of a handmade marketplaces, has acquired Grand St. — Grand St., which sells indie electronics online, had raised $1.3 million in seed funding …

More: Etsy News Blog, Grand St. Blog, TechCrunch, Business Insider, VentureBeat and New York Times. Tweets: @eringriffith

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Etsy Paid Less Than $10 Million for Online Gadget Marketplace Grand St.

More: WebProNews

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Mark Pincus Steps Down From All Operational Roles at Zynga: “Ultimately a Ship Is Better With One Captain” — Mark Pincus is stepping down from all operational duties at Zynga, the social gaming company that he founded in 2007. As part of the change, he will shift to non-executive chairman …

More: GeekWire, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Zynga, TechCrunch and Zynga Company Blog. Tweets: @dmac1

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

Zynga Touts New Leadership and Mobile Growth

More: TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Meet the One, OnePlus' $299 Nexus killer — Rarely do we see a tech startup spending five months actively hyping up an unborn product; and when we do, most of them end up being vaporware. Luckily, that's not the case with OnePlus. Today, the Shenzhen-based company has finally unveiled …

More: OnePlus.net, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, The Next Web, DailyTech, The Verge, TechSpot, Android Authority, Gotta Be Mobile, Gigaom, SlashGear, BetaNews, ZDNet, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Pocketnow, IntoMobile, Android Beat, AnandTech, Technology Personalized, Inquirer, Softpedia News and BGR

Tweets: @oneplus, @oneplus and @jyarbrough

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

FCC to Release Draft Net Neutrality Rules in May — Federal regulators are expected to release draft net neutrality rules in mid-May as part of an ongoing effort to craft rules for Internet traffic that might actually hold up in court. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler …

More: Engadget, Ars Technica, BGR and Reuters. See also Mediagazer

Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

FCC to propose net neutrality rules on Thursday that would let broadband providers give some traffic preferential treatment

More: The Verge

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal:

Google Maps ‘Time Machine’ Lets You Stroll the Streets of the Past — Ever wish you could travel back in time? A new feature on Google Maps Street View, rolling out world-wide today, lets users zip through imagery dating back to Street View's beginning in 2007.

More: The Official Google Blog, Re/code, TechCrunch, PC World, The Verge, GeekWire, Inquirer, PC Magazine, Pulse 2.0, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Slate, AndroidGuys, Engadget, Electronista and Softpedia News

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8 Start Menu set to return in August — Microsoft revealed earlier this month that the Start Menu will return to Windows 8. While Microsoft is keeping the timing for its return vague, sources familiar with the company's plans tell The Verge that the Start Menu will likely be available …

More: BetaNews, Engadget, TechCrunch, BGR, Electronista, Inquirer, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, InfoWorld, Network World and Pureinfotech

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon adds HBO shows to Prime Instant Video; HBO Go coming to Fire TV at some point — Amazon now has streaming rights to a number of HBO series and will make them available through Prime Instant Video starting May 21, the company said Wednesday. — In addition, Amazon said that it will add HBO …

Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:

Study: Samsung's Apps Are Ubiquitous but Unloved — As Samsung Electronics's best-selling smartphones face increasing competition from a horde of Chinese lookalikes, one of the South Korean giant's key goals has been to translate demand for its devices into interest for Samsung's homegrown software and services.

More: The Verge, PandoDaily, TechHive, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Inquirer, 9to5Google, Engadget, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, BGR and Android Community. Tweets: @hamburger

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Glass marketing head addresses criticism from Scoble, others: backlash is a sign of disruption — Does Google Glass Have An Optics Problem? And Does Google Care? — It's hard to judge the success of a product launch before the product is even really out in the market.

More: Forbes, ZDNet, Robert Scoble, 9to5Google, WebProNews and Business Insider

Tweets: @dskendall, @jeffbercovici, @kashhill and @davewiner

Todd Spangler / Variety:

AOL Launches Free Streaming Movies in Pact with Miramax — AOL is now playing in the movie biz. — The Internet media company inked a deal with Miramax to deliver a selection of its full-length films to U.S. users, available to watch for free (with ads) across a range of devices.

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, VentureBeat, The Verge and FierceOnlineVideo News. See also Mediagazer

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Xiaomi simplifies its Web domain to Mi.com to appeal to an international audience — Popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has ambitious plans to expand beyond Asia, and as part of its efforts to do so, it has simplified its website domain to Mi.com.

More: TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Quartz, Wired.co.uk, Business Insider, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Business Insider Australia, TheDomains.com, TheDomains.com, Gizchina.com and MobileBurn.com. Tweets: @whatthebit

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google is testing a feature that lets Chrome users save, share and organize their favorite Web content — Google is testing a new favoriting service for its Chrome browser. Called Google Stars (although the Google Collections name has also been used in the past), the new option appears …

More: Florian Kiersch, 9to5Google, The Verge and Android Community. Tweets: @marshallk. Thanks:@epro

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Microsoft unleashes ‘Bing in the Classroom’ ad-free search — The tech giant looks to get an A+ with the roll out of a student-friendly version of its search engine, which has zero ads, privacy controls, and filters that block adult content and ad targeting. — Microsoft

More: Search Blog, The Verge, Associated Press, GeekWire, PC World, Computerworld, Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Neowin, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and ZDNet

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

IBM Opens Chip Architecture, in Strategy of Sharing and Self-Interest — IBM's chip business needs help. So the company has opened up the technology of its Power microprocessors, inviting others to modify and manufacture Power-based designs pretty much as they see fit.

More: ZDNet, Re/code, The Register, Forbes, VentureBeat and Gigaom

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 WiFi models arrive May 1 in US, preorders tomorrow, LTE this summer — Samsung announced today that its WiFi-only models of the new Galaxy Tab 4 lineup will arrive in the U.S. on May 1. That includes the 7-inch, 8-inch, and 10.1-inch models in both black and white …

More: Samsung Mobile US Press, Gigaom, Re/code, Engadget, Computerworld, TWICE, Pocketnow, HotHardware.com News, AndroidGuys and IntoMobile

Diane Bartz / Reuters:

Facebook gets U.S. antitrust approval to buy Oculus — (Reuters) - Social network giant Facebook Inc has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Oculus VR Inc, a two-year-old maker of virtual reality goggles, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. — Facebook said on March 25 …

More: Engadget, Re/code, TechCrunch, AllFacebook, WebProNews, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and GamesIndustry International. See also Mediagazer

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