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April 23, 2014, 3:55 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: Los Angeles Times, Engadget, MacRumors, VentureBeat, iMore, Business Insider, WebProNews, IntoMobile, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, Redmond Pie, Ubergizmo, VentureBreak, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo and Electronista. Tweets: @bp_unicorn. Thanks:@jordankahn

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

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, The Next Web, The Verge, Android Authority, Gigaom, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Android Beat, Inquirer, SlashGear, BetaNews, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AnandTech, Technology Personalized, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Pocketnow, IntoMobile, Softpedia News and BGR

Tweets: @oneplus, @oneplus, @jyarbrough and @m4tt

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

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 …

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

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, @kashhill, @jeffbercovici and @davewiner

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, TechHive, Inquirer, 9to5Google, Engadget, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, SlashGear, BGR and Android Community. Tweets: @hamburger

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, TheDomains.com, TheDomains.com, Gizchina.com, Business Insider Australia and MobileBurn.com. Tweets: @whatthebit

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, VentureBeat, Gigaom and Forbes

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

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: The Verge, BGR, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

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

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Apple expected to post flat year over year revenue as iPhone and iPad sales plateau — Why Apple has stopped growing — Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer predicted in January that Apple will generate the same amount of revenue this past quarter—the company releases its financials today—as it did a year ago.

More: AppleInsider, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune and bizjournals

Diane Bartz / CNBC:

Facebook gets U.S. antitrust approval to buy Oculus — 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 that it planned …

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

Daniel P. / PhoneArena:

Alleged Galaxy K cameraphone pictures appear, with the 10x zoom lens all the way out — We had the first claimed sample from Samsung's Galaxy K (S5 Zoom) not long ago, and even got a glimpse of the alleged faux-leather front of the device before that. In the meantime, rumors swirled …

More: IntoMobile, ZDNet, SamMobile, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, Phones Review, Pocketnow, Technabob, Electronista, Softpedia News, Unwired View, Android Police, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, CNET, Android Central, Android and Me and Phandroid

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Pure Storage Raises $225 Million at a $3 Billion Valuation — Pure Storage, the company shaking up the enterprise storage market with a data storage array based solely on flash memory, has raised $225 million in a late-stage round of venture capital funding at pre-money valuation of more than $3 billion.

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, VentureBeat, The Register, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, PE Hub Blog, Data Center Knowledge, ZDNet and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @eghosao

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

David Einhorn warns of “second tech bubble in 15 years”, shorts undisclosed tech stocks — David Einhorn Just Cried Bubble And Let Slip The Shorts Of War — David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager worth north of a billion dollars, isn't bullish on technology stocks.

More: Valleywag, Salon, Bloomberg and Trends

Tweets: @bfeld, @cnbc, @thestalwart, @evelynrusli, @pmarca, @howardlindzon and @pmarca

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, Computerworld, Search Engine Watch, PC World, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Neowin, SlashGear and Ubergizmo

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, Engadget, Re/code, Computerworld, IntoMobile, TWICE, Pocketnow, HotHardware.com News and AndroidGuys

Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:

PSA: Sprint Is Planning To Make All Its Devices From February 11, 2015 Onward Domestically Unlockable — The US mobile market is weird in that almost all the phones floating around here are locked to one carrier or another. You can usually request an unlock code from the carrier …

More: Electronista, Engadget, 9to5Google, MacRumors, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, DSLreports and PandoDaily

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Google Agreed to Pay Some of Samsung's Costs, Assume Some Liability in Latest Apple Case — A Google lawyer testified on Tuesday that the software maker, pursuant to its contractual obligations, agreed to take over defense of some of the claims in Apple's current patent lawsuit …

More: AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, Computerworld, BGR, Pocketnow, bizjournals, iPhone, Electronista, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, TechEye, Softpedia News, SamMobile and ZDNet

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

At trial, Samsung accuses Apple of infringing two patents with iOS FaceTime and Photos apps

More: 9to5Mac

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