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April 24, 2014, 3:30 PM

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Moves:

Moves joins Facebook, will continue as standalone app, will not “commingle data with Facebook” — Moves joins Facebook! — 24 April 2014 - Today, we're delighted to announce that Facebook has acquired our company and the Moves app. Since we launched Moves …

More: TechCrunch, Computerworld, ReadWrite, AllFacebook, Inquirer, Marketing Land, Inside Facebook, AppleInsider, VatorNews, Gigaom, TechSpot, The Verge, Re/code, 9to5Mac, Wired, Android Police, Softpedia News, MacStories, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @soopa

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook buys Helsinki-based ProtoGeo Oy, maker of popular fitness tracking app Moves — With App Acquisition, Facebook Enters Fitness Tracking Market — Facebook is leaping into the fitness tracking market by buying a Helsinki-based maker of a mobile app that can track users …

More: Agence France-Presse, Computerworld, MacRumors, The Technology Chronicles, ABC News, PC World, SiliconBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, Engadget, The Next Web and ArcticStartup

Tweets: @bigdata, @dannysullivan, @wsjd, @teroterotero, @movesapp and @qz

Re/code:

Google+ head Vic Gundotra to leave company after 8 years, with VP of engineering David Besbris replacing him — Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company — Vic Gundotra, who aggressively led Google into the social world with the creation of Google+, is leaving the company.

More: Vic Gundotra, Secret, TechCrunch, Larry Page, AppleInsider, ReadWrite, New York Times, Marketing Land, Gigaom, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, GeekWire, Engadget, Business Insider, ZDNet, The Verge, Daring Fireball, BuzzFeed, Ubergizmo, Google Plus Daily, Mashable and Android and Me

Tweets: @rabois, @amir, @sdkstl, @peterlauria3, @dannysullivan, @caseynewton, @monkbent and @selviano

Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog:

FCC chairman to have net neutrality “enforceable rules” by the end of the year, mandate that ISPs “not act in a commercially unreasonable manner” — Setting the Record Straight on the FCC's Open Internet Rules — There has been a great deal of misinformation …

Chris Welch / The Verge:

FCC fails to clarify new net neutrality plans

More: Business Insider, PandoDaily and New York Times. Tweets: @samgustin

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Washington's revolving door: Cellular lobby and FCC have traded leaders

More: TechSpot, Techdirt, Inquirer and isen.blog

Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

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

More: New Yorker, Gigaom, New York Times, Slate, SiliconBeat, Businessweek, TIME, VentureBeat, Freedom to Tinker, Marco.org, Phandroid, Salon, Network World, Daring Fireball, Geek.com, Free Press, Light Reading, ParisLemon and I4U News

Tweets: @sama, @ryan, @nickbilton, @superwuster, @om, @rafat, @cdixon, @nytimesbits and @johnbattelle

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:

FCC chairman says reports of net neutrality's death are ‘flat out wrong’

More: Mashable

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

Tim Cook: nobody's figured out mobile payments yet, and Apple won't rush out new products — Apple's Cook on New Products: ‘Take the Time to Get It Right’ — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said its strong fiscal second-quarter might silence chatter that the company is in decline.

More: The Verge, Forbes, Techvibes Global News, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, Macworld, Ubergizmo, DisplayBlog, 9to5Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @flyosity and @fmanjoo

Andy Mitchell / Facebook:

Facebook partners with Storyful to launch FB Newswire: Facebook and Twitter feeds of newsworthy Facebook content — Announcing FB Newswire, Powered by Storyful — Every day, news is made on Facebook. More than one billion people use our platform to discover, explore and participate in news-making events around the world.

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon accelerates plans for its own delivery network, following last winter's shipping woes — Amazon Tests Its Own Delivery Network — Alternative to FedEx, UPS Could Deliver Goods the Same Day They Are Purchased — The future of Amazon.com Inc. is hiding in plain sight in a San Francisco parking lot.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch and Business Insider

Tweets: @dmac1, @wsjbusiness, @murraymatt and @gregbensinger

Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:

Ex-Anonymous hacker Sabu launched cyberattacks on Iran, Syria, Brazil, and Pakistan while an FBI informant — F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad — WASHINGTON — An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign websites …

More: Ars Technica, The Register and SecurityWeek

Tweets: @nb_chris, @dangillmor, @antloewenstein, @trevortimm, @ashk4n, @jason_healey, @jpbarlow, @mattblaze and @doyle_kevin

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Rumoured Microsoft Surface Mini Tablet Crops Up In Amazon Listings — Although it hasn't happened yet, it's clearly only a matter of time before Microsoft officially unboxes a smaller form-factor version of its Surface tablet. A Surface Mini has been rumoured for well over a year …

More: ZDNet, Computerworld, PC Magazine, The Tech Report, TechSpot and Gotta Be Mobile

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, others pledge $3.9M for open source projects to avoid the next HeartBleed — Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others pledge millions to open source.

More: The Linux Foundation, New York Times, ZDNet, Washington Post, PC Magazine, PandoDaily, Computerworld, Inquirer, The Register, Help Net Security, 9to5Google, CNET, SecurityWeek, eWeek, Gigaom, RT, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Electronista, Engadget, Softpedia News, InfoWorld, The Verge, Reuters, TechSpot, Mashable and ReadWrite

Tweets: @martinkl and @trevortimm

Matt McGee / Glass Almanac:

Google Releases XE 16.11, Offers To Replace Bricked Glass Units — Google has come up with a two-pronged approach to fixing the woes caused this week by the XE 16 and XE 16.1 software updates. — As you likely know, Explorers began reporting problems with XE 16 shortly after its release last week …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, iMore, Gigaom, IntoMobile and Ben Lang - Google+

Nate Swanner / Android Community:

No, Google Glass is not available for everyone

More: TechCrunch, SiliconBeat and 9to5Google. Thanks:@robertnelson

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Internet Glue Service IFTTT Launches On Android With Deeper Integration Than iOS — The Internet connection and automation service IFTTT is launching on Android today, and it offers a deeper set of integrations with the OS than their iOS offering. This, of course, is due to Android's …

More: The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, BGR, The Next Web, Android Police, Android Community and The Droid Guy

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Lyft Launches In 24 New Markets, Cuts Fares By Another 10% — On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is expanding aggressively in the U.S., announcing the launch of service in 24 new markets today. Along with the expansion, Lyft company will be offering free rides to new users in all launch markets …

More: Gigaom, Computerworld, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Engadget, Ubergizmo and Business Insider. Thanks:@ryanlawler

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:

ShopKeep's Point Of Sale Software Rings Up $25 Million — With its latest $25 million financing, ShopKeep POS has come a long way from being the cobbled together point of sale software service for a single wine shop in Brooklyn's leafy Ft. Greene neighborhood.

More: VentureBeat, Re/code, Gigaom and Mashable. Tweets: @mattstraz

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Feds Beg Supreme Court to Let Them Search Phones Without a Warrant — American law enforcement has long advocated for universal “kill switches” in cellphones to cut down on mobile device thefts. Now the Department of Justice argues that the same remote locking and data-wiping technology represents …

More: Business Insider and Washington Post. Tweets: @wired

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Hulu adds Chromecast-like mobile remote control features to Xbox One, PS3 and PS4 — Hulu is the latest company to go all-out on Chromecast-like multiscreen features: Hulu Plus subscribers can now access the video service through their Android and iOS devices on Microsoft's Xbox One as well as Sony's PS3 and PS4.

More: Hulu Blog, The Next Web, GeekWire, BetaNews, Engadget and Ubergizmo

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Updated: A debit card for bitcoin: Xapo could solve the payment problem with help from banks — Until now, there has been no easy way for people to use bitcoin for everyday transactions. Xapo has solved that by using MasterCard's payment network. — This story was updated at 9:52am PT …

More: Xapo Blog, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Ubergizmo and Wired

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Facebook, Gmail, Skype face Russia ban under ‘anti-terror’ data snooping plan — Summary: The Russian parliament's latest play could see major Western technology firms banned from the country if they don't store data on its soil — a move that would allow Russian authorities to easily snoop on user data.

More: Inquirer, Electronista, Business Insider, Daily Dot, Bloomberg View and hrw.org/rss/news. Tweets: @sicmyp

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

CEO of digital ad platform RadiumOne avoids felony domestic abuse charges after video evidence thrown out — Tech CEO Dodges Felony Charge Despite Horrifying Abuse Video — RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh “G” Chahal pled guilty to two misdemeanors for domestic violence and battery last week.

Tweets: @eileentso and @ajs

Simon Khalaf / Flurry:

A look at the demographics of “mobile addicts” who launch apps over 60 times per day — The Rise of the Mobile Addict — In May of 2013, KPCB's Partner and world-renowned analyst Mary Meeker shared her latest Internet Trends Report. In that report, Ms. Meeker shared an interesting stat …

More: Daily Dot. Tweets: @ldignan

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Square plans major staff expansion in NYC and a new East Coast HQ — Square will open a new New York City satellite headquarters this summer that will house up to 350 employees - and it plans to fill it. Square said on Thursday that it's aggressively hiring engineers, designers …

More: squareup.com, The Technology Chronicles, ZDNet and Mashable

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Moving your apps to the cloud gets easier as Amazon adds Docker support — The biggest public cloud provider is finally waking up to one of the hottest enabling technologies around for shipping applications to the cloud. — Today public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services announced support …

More: Amazon Web Services Blog, InfoWorld and SiliconANGLE

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