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April 25, 2014, 7:25 AM

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TechCrunch:

Google+ to become more a platform than product, with key staff members moving to Android team, and fewer product integrations — Google+ Is Walking Dead — Today, Google's Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years. The first obvious question …

More: Inquirer, Beyond Search, 9to5Google, Robert Scoble, Android Community, TechSpot and Slate

Tweets: @joshelman, @jbruin, @novaspivack, @startupljackson, @roddrury and @dangillmor

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.

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Focusing on single-purpose social apps could be the key to Google's social future — What Would Happen If Google Really Did Kill Google+? — News is leaking out that Google might be planning to kill Google+, or at least put it into a Walking Dead-like “zombie” mode, as TechCrunch characterizes it — and something Google denies.

More: Financial Times and ClickZ. Tweets: @dannysullivan and @caseynewton

Suzanne Choney / Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft, Nokia Devices and Services business aim to remake mobile market — The completion of the Nokia Devices and Services business acquisition April 25 will enable Microsoft to accelerate its share of smartphones and feature phones in developed and emerging markets, and increase its role as a devices and services company.

More: Microsoft Corporation and The Official Microsoft Blog. Tweets: @msftnews

Nokia:

Nokia completes sale of substantially all of its Devices & Services business to Microsoft — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that it has completed the sale of substantially all of its Devices & Services business to Microsoft. — The transaction, which also includes an agreement …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web and Nokia Conversations. Tweets: @nokia

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft morphs into a hardware giant with Nokia deal completion — Microsoft is no longer just a software giant, it's now a hardware giant. — Nearly eight months after its original announcement, Microsoft has completed its deal to purchase Nokia's devices and services unit today.

More: Nokia Conversations

Jennifer Khoury / Comcast Voices Blog:

Comcast: Neflix degraded its Comcast streams, seeks to shift its costs onto all Internet users — Comcast Response to Netflix — Netflix's argument is a House of Cards. But there is no need for us to engage in a point-counterpoint with Netflix to demonstrate the continued distortions and inaccuracies on which it relies.

More: Softpedia News. Tweets: @thestalwart, @michaelpryor, @comcast, @jmcduling, @om, @jyarow and @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Comcast Says Netflix Slowed Down Its Own Streams

More: Gizmodo. Tweets: @dangillmor

Ken Florance / Netflix US & Canada Blog:

Netflix says it opposes Comcast/TWC merger because Comcast charges both Netflix and its customers to connect to each other

More: Al Franken, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, TheHill, Mashable, Engadget, PC Magazine, Business Insider and ZDNet

Tweets: @pkafka, @drewfitzgerald, @matthewkeyslive, @adrianweckler, @pkafka, @pornelski and @ddayen

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Dan Levine / Reuters:

Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe agree to pay $324M to settle hiring conspiracy lawsuit — Exclusive: Apple, Google agree to pay over $300 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit — (Reuters) - Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle …

More: PandoDaily, PC World, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Techdirt, Mercury News, Cult of Mac, Washington Post, BGR, Re/code, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, Electronista, MacRumors, iMore, bit-tech.net, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Mashable, The Verge, Engadget and TechCrunch

Tweets: @harrisonweber and @dangillmor

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

FCC's position on Net neutrality conflicts directly with what it warned against in 2010 — The FCC's “fast lane” rule is awful for the Internet—just ask the FCC — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is in damage-control mode today after word leaked that potential new “net neutrality” rules are anything but neutral.

More: Daily Dot, New Yorker and TelecompetitorTelecompetitor

Tweets: @erichippeau, @rsingel and @mollywood

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

Calm down: the FCC's position on Net neutrality hasn't changed

More: Free Press Blog, Slate, Bloomberg View and Freedom to Tinker. Tweets: @jbrodkin

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”

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

The FCC doesn't want to destroy net neutrality, but it's going to anyway

More: Free Press Blog, Gigaom Research and Marco.org. Tweets: @mcandrew. See also Mediagazer

Ina Fried / Re/code:

CEO Nadella Promises Microsoft Will Deliver “Courage in the Face of Reality” — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella praised his company's recent efforts to both grow where it is strong, but also to bulk up in areas where it has been weaker. — “I sum up this quarter in two words, execution and transition,” Nadella said.

More: GeekWire and Wall Street Journal

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's FQ3 Earnings Beat With Revenue Of $20.40B, EPS Of $0.68, Surface Top Line Of $500 Million

More: VentureBeat

Microsoft:

Microsoft Cloud Momentum Helps Drive Third-Quarter Results

More: Inquirer, Digital Trends, HEXUS.net Latest Content, Re/code, CITEworld, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, GeekWire, ZDNet, WebProNews, Tech Trader Daily and Forbes

Tweets: @mvisser and @dinabass

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: Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo and AppleInsider

Tweets: @wsjasia and @fmanjoo

TechCrunch:

Pinterest Hits 30 Billion Total Pins, Up 50% In 6 Months — Tonight at an event in the company's San Francisco headquarters, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann announced that users had contributed more than 30 billion Pins since the service was founded, a number that has grown by nearly 50 percent in the past six months alone.

More: PC World, TIME, ReadWrite and Wall Street Journal

Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom:

Pinterest debuts Guided Search, Custom Categories, improved Related Pins

More: Oh, How Pinteresting!, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, Re/code, Mashable, VentureBeat, The Technology Chronicles, iMore, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge and ZDNet

Martyn Williams / Computerworld:

Google tells 34 candidate cities for Google Fiber that it's considering deploying Wi-Fi as well — Exclusive: Google may offer Wi-Fi for cities with its Google Fiber — Cities getting gigabit-speed fiber Internet could also gain Wi-Fi networks — Google is considering deploying Wi-Fi networks …

More: Macworld, Gizmodo, Engadget, Electronista, Computerworld and SlashGear

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Amazon reports $19.7B in quarterly revenue, earnings in line with expectations at 23 cents a share — Amazon reported today that it made in $19.74 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2014, up almost 23 percent from almost $16.1 billion in the year-ago quarter.

More: internetretailer.com, ABC News, Digital Book World and Electronista

Amazon:

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 23% to $19.74 Billion

More: ZDNet, GSMArena Blog, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, VatorNews, Forbes, Bloomberg, TechnoBuffalo, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Gigaom, Business Insider, Quartz and WebProNews

Tweets: @gregbensinger and @curtwoodward

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