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April 29, 2014, 5:50 AM

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Dom Esposito / 9to5Mac:

Apple's MacBook Air lineup updated with new Haswell processors, now starts at $899 — In line with our recent reporting, Apple has updated its Macbook Air lineup. The refresh features Intel's Haswell processor and is now $100 less than the previous model.

More: The Verge, MacRumors, BetaNews, ZDNet, CNET, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets and Neowin

Chris Urmson / The Official Google Blog:

Google's self-driving cars get smarter at handling city driving conditions, log 700K miles — The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving — Jaywalking pedestrians. Cars lurching out of hidden driveways. Double-parked delivery trucks blocking your lane and your view.

More: VentureBeat, Skift, eWeek, TechnoBuffalo, Android Central, InfoWorld, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Associated Press, Computerworld, TechSpot, BGR and Phandroid

Eric Jaffe / The Atlantic Cities:

The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets

More: Brad Ideas. Tweets: @atlanticcities

Ina Fried / Re/code:

With Microsoft Deal Done, Nokia Names Rajeev Suri CEO, $6.9 Billion in Buybacks, Dividends and Debt Cuts — Nokia late Monday said it was naming former networking unit head Rajeev Suri as its new chief executive. — With the sale of its flagship device business to Microsoft …

More: Nokia, Gigaom, ZDNet, BBC, WinBeta, Geeky Gadgets, CNET News, New York Times, MediaNama, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, Reuters and Reuters

Tweets: @asymco and @inafried

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Nokia's Devices Unit Lost $452M In Q1 Before The Microsoft Hand-Off

More: Nokia, ZDNet and Engadget

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Plastic HTC ‘M8 Ace’ aims at Galaxy S5 with same specs, lower price — HTC may have poked fun at its competitors' plastic flagship devices in the past, but it looks like the Taiwanese company will soon be offering one as well. And no, we're not talking about the Butterfly line here.

More: Gizmodo, SamMobile, Phones Review, BGR, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidOS.in, Android Beat, Unwired View, Phandroid, Pocketnow, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Gigaom, DailyTech, The Droid Guy, Android and Me, LAPTOP Magazine and IntoMobile

Chris Wanstrath / GitHub:

GitHub CEO apologizes for lack of transparency, details findings of independent investigator — Follow up to the investigation results — Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. — We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I'm sorry.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, CNET News, VentureBeat, The Verge, Gigaom, ReadWrite and Re/code

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Fortune:

Disney tried to buy Buzzfeed but talks broke down over price; Buzzfeed sought more than $1B — Disney tried to buy BuzzFeed — The merger conversations happened several months ago, but fell apart over price. — FORTUNE - The Walt Disney Co. was in talks to acquire online content …

More: memeburn, The Wrap, New York Times, Business Insider and Mashable

Tweets: @thestalwart, @pkafka and @cnbcnow

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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Despite Big Ambitions, New York's Tech Scene Is Still Starting Up — Predicting that your city will be the next Silicon Valley is simple. But actually making it the next Silicon Valley is something else entirely — as New York is slowly finding out. — A few years ago …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @katiefehren and @benpopper

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo to Stream a Daily Concert From Live Nation — Ad-Supported Web Channel Is Part of Plan to Compete With YouTube — Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are unveiling plans to let couch potatoes watch live concerts every day, without a ticket.

More: CNET News, The Verge, New York Times, VentureBeat, Variety, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, SlashGear, ABC News and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Yahoo Unveils Two Half-Hour Series to Compete for TV Ad Dollars

More: Yahoo, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

Steven Musil / CNET News:

Samsung posts $8.2B profit; second straight quarterly drop — South Korean electronics giant posts an operating profit of $8.2 billion for the first quarter, a 3.3 percent decline from the year-ago period. — Samsung's Galaxy S4. — Samsung — Samsung reported its second consecutive quarter …

More: The Verge, The Register, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes, Reuters, AppleInsider, PC World, Gigaom Research, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Android Central, Electronista, Reuters and Bloomberg

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple patches another major security hole in its website that allowed access to all developer personal information — Imagine our surprise when an email from a complete stranger showed up in our tips box containing the personal contact information—including cell phone numbers …

More: iMore, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, App Advice and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @llsethj. Thanks:@ajorama

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft increases OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user, including for Office 365 ProPlus — Microsoft today announced it is increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. This also affects all Office 365 ProPlus customers: they will now get 1TB …

More: Office Blogs, The Box Blog, SiliconANGLE, Business Cloud News, OneDrive Blog, gHacks Technology News, Trakin' the india …, ZDNet, GeekWire, The Register, Gigaom, BetaNews and Neowin

Ina Fried / Re/code:

FreedomPop to Sell First Apple Devices, Offering iPhone 5 With Its Free and Low-Cost Plans — Upstart mobile carrier FreedomPop is announcing this week its first support for the iPhone, offering a variety of free and low-cost plans in conjunction with Apple phones that work on Sprint's network.

More: Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Next Web, Geeky Gadgets, Gigaom, AppleInsider and iMore

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Most websites patched Heartbleed, but tens of thousands of connected devices remain vulnerable — It's Crazy What Can Be Hacked Thanks to Heartbleed — Western Digital makes a tiny box where you can store all your photos and other digital stuff. It's called My Cloud, and you've probably seen the TV ads hawking the thing.

Gerry Conway / Comicbook.com:

Comic book writer: Amazon sabotaged Comixology's near-perfect venue for discovering new comics — The ComiXology Outrage — Known forever to fandom as “the man who killed Gwen Stacy,” Conway is also the co-creator of The Punisher, Firestorm, Power Girl, Man-Thing, Werewolf-by-Night …

More: Marco.org. Tweets: @ja2ke and @gerryconway

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung's Galaxy K Zoom smartphone packs a 20 megapixel camera and 10x zoom lens — Samsung made the leap into high-end camera smartphones when it launched the Galaxy S4 Zoom last year, and now it is adding to that range after it announced the Galaxy K Zoom, a smartphone that sports …

More: Samsung Tomorrow, Re/code, Ubergizmo, Gearburn, Pocketnow, Geeky Gadgets, Mashable, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, Engadget, CNET News, Business Insider and Pocket-lint

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia ‘Superman’ expected later this year is a 4.7" phone with a 5 megapixel front camera — Nokia ‘Superman’ will be the best Windows Phone for selfies — One of the first Windows Phone 8.1 devices due for release after Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's phone business …

More: Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, DailyTech, Lastest ITProPortal news, MobileSyrup.com and BGR

David E. Sanger / New York Times:

White House details interagency decision-making process on zero-day vulnerability disclosures — White House Details Thinking on Cybersecurity Flaws — WASHINGTON — In a rare insight into the government's thinking on the use of cyberweapons, the White House on Monday published a series …

More: White House.gov Blog, Daily Dot, CNET and ZDNet

Tweets: @eastdakota, @evacide and @csoghoian

Ina Fried / Re/code:

AT&T to Take On Gogo With In-Flight LTE Service — AT&T on Monday said it plans to get into the in-flight Internet access business by building a new air-to-ground technology based on its LTE wireless service. — “Everyone wants access to high-speed, reliable mobile Internet wherever they are …

More: AT&T, Business Insider, CNET News, Electronista, New York Times, Forbes, TechSpot, The Verge, Gigaom, Gizmodo and BGR

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Consolidation looms in business intelligence, as TIBCO buys Jaspersoft for $185M — Enterprise software vendor TIBCO has acquired Jaspersoft, an open source business intelligence company, for approximately $185 million. It's not an earth-shaking deal, but it could be a sign of things to come …

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, Seeking Alpha, Wall Street Journal and bizjournals. Tweets: @qthrul

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft Research Special Projects group tipped to take on Google X — Summary: Microsoft is building a Special Projects team expected to be headed by former DARPA innovation boss Norman Whitaker, which will focus on ‘disruptive next-generation technologies.’

More: The Register, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Geek.com, Neowin, Pocketnow, Windows Phone Central and Wall Street Journal. Thanks:@zackwhittaker

Alexander Howard / E Pluribus Unum:

U.S. House passes historic open government bill, sending it on to the White House — This afternoon, the United States House of Representatives passed the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA) of 2013, voting to send S.994, the bill that enjoyed unanimous support in the U.S. Senate earlier …

More: Sunlight Foundation Blog, Accounting Today and federaltimes.com

Tweets: @epluribusunum and @digiphile

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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Wins Antitrust Case as Top Court Rejects Novell — The U.S. Supreme Court ended a lawsuit that accused Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) of illegally protecting its Windows computer operating system from competition 20 years ago by undercutting a rival word-processing program.

More: ABC News, Reuters, WinBeta and VentureBeat. Tweets: @monkbent

Xbox Wire:

Xbox Originals launching in June on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and other Microsoft devices — Xbox Originals: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You — Starting this June, you'll have more reasons to love your Xbox: Xbox Originals - premium dramas, comedies, documentaries, animation, unscripted shows, and live events.

More: Hollywood Reporter, Re/code, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, eWeek, Eurogamer.net, CNET News, PC World, Laughing Squid, bit-tech.net, SlashGear, USA Today, Fortune, Neowin and Joystiq. Tweets: @lukeplunkett. See also Mediagazer

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