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April 30, 2014, 7:30 AM

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Twitter Beats In Q1 With $250M In Revenue And Picks Up 14M New Monthly Active Users — Twitter released its first quarter financial performance this afternoon, reporting revenue of $250 million in the period, and earnings per share of $0.00 on a non-GAAP basis.

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Twitter faces decelerating growth in active users and timeline views — Twitter Adds More Users, but Wall Street Wants More — Twitter is still growing — but hardly fast enough for Wall Street. — Twitter reported 255 million monthly active users as of the end of March …

More: Guardian and VatorNews. Tweets: @amir. See also Mediagazer

Sam Ro / Business Insider:

Twitter stock drops over 10% to all-time low in after hours trading

More: Haywire, Forbes, Gawker, PandoDaily, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @alex, @sacca and @mikeisaac

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Twitter passes 255m monthly active users, 198m mobile users, and sees 80% of advertising revenue from mobile

More: TechCrunch, memeburn, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Pocket-lint, Marketing Land, AllTwitter and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @twitterir

Yusuf Mehdi / Xbox Wire:

BesTV and Microsoft to bring Xbox One to China in September — By Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Marketing, Strategy and Business, Xbox — Today marks a monumental day for Xbox, as together with our partner BesTV New Media Co., we announced we will bring Xbox One to China in September of this year.

More: BetaNews, New York Times, CNET News, Tech in Asia, Gearburn, Geeky Gadgets, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Official Microsoft Blog and GamesIndustry International. Tweets: @yusuf_i_mehdi

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

EBay to take $3B tax charge to bring $9B overseas cash back to US — EBay to Take $3 Billion Tax Charge — Shares Fall as Retailer Takes Hefty Tax Charge, Issues Disappointing Outlook — After successfully fending off investor Carl Icahn, eBay Inc. saw continued growth in its PayPal payments unit …

More: Geeky Gadgets, Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, BBC, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Reuters and Forbes

CNBC:

Steve Jobs tops CNBC list of leaders with greatest impact on business and finance since 1989, ahead of Gates, Brin, Page, Schmidt, Bezos, and more — 1. Steve Jobs — Apple's iVisionary “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

More: CNBC, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, WebProNews and CNBC

Tweets: @cnbc25 and @walterisaacson

Casey Newton / The Verge:

‘Sign in with Google’ button could send Google+ to oblivion — The abrupt departure of Google+ creator Vic Gundotra from the beleaguered social network led to immediate speculation that its days as a competitor to Facebook and Twitter are numbered. Indeed, media reports have asserted …

More: Beyond Search, social media and Network World. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog:

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler defends net neutrality approach, seeks path to avoid years in court — Finding the Best Path Forward to Protect the Open Internet — I am a strong believer in the importance of an Open Internet. As President Obama has explained, “Preserving an Open Internet …

More: DSLreports, Guardian, CNET News, Slate, Softpedia News, Re/code, Los Angeles Times, Gotta Be Mobile, SiliconBeat, The Register, DSLreports, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch and Ars Technica

Tweets: @techmss, @anarchival, @karlbode and @rafat

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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Inside Motorola's new office, where Moto 360 is being designed to save a company in transition — The future of Motorola is on this man's wrist … A few months ago, this meeting would've taken place at a sprawling campus of anonymous office buildings in Libertyville, Illinois, about an hour's drive north of Chicago.

More: Softpedia News and BGR. Thanks:@aashutoshvatsa

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Looks Like Facebook Will Make Ecommerce And User Testing Announcements At f8 — What exactly is Facebook launching tomorrow? It's hard to say. But we know it's planning coordinated announcements with at least one ecommerce platform and one product testing service, as these companies reached …

More: AdExchanger and Gigaom. Tweets: @joshconstine

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Study: Google Chrome blocks less than 3% of Heartbleed-compromised sites by default — Google Chrome protection for Heartbleed-hacked sites called “completely broken” — Update: A few hours after this article went live, Google engineer Adam Langley published a blog post taking issue …

More: ImperialViolet, Gibson Research Corporation, Softpedia News and SlashGear. Tweets: @stshank

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Cloudera and MongoDB enter into a deep product partnership — There are a lot of Hadoop deployments out there. A lot of MongoDB ones, too. And on Tuesday, Hadoop specialist Cloudera and the eponymous MongoDB announced a multi-faceted partnership they claim will significantly improve …

More: VentureBeat, CIO.com, InformationWeek, SiliconANGLE, bizjournals and The Register

Derek Khanna / InsideSources:

Outbox vs. USPS: How the Post Office Killed Digital Mail — Evan Baehr and Will Davis, were summoned to Washington for a meeting with the Postmaster General. Evan and Will wondered what it could be, “They must have seen the recent coverage in CNBC, maybe they'll help our company expand?”

Tweets: @hunterwalk and @balajis

Klint Finley / Wired:

OK Cupid founders launch Keybase, an online directory that aims to make PGP easier to use — OkCupid's Founders Want to Bring Encrypted Email to the Masses — Email is a bad place to keep secrets. — Edward Snowden's revealations that the National Security Agency has many means …

Tweets: @wired and @joehardly

Vlad Bobleanta / Unwired View:

LG France says LG's G Watch will be available in June for €199 — LG G Watch will be available in June for €199 — LG's first smartwatch will use Android Wear, Google's new software platform for wearables. The Korean company has been teasing the G Watch here and there for a few weeks now …

More: PhoneArena, Electronista, SlashGear, GSMArena Blog, Mobile Bloom News, Phandroid, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, Phones Review, BGR and Geeky Gadgets

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

San Francisco group pushing ballot initiative that would severely limit Airbnb's operations — S.F. ballot measure would severely limit short-term rentals — A trio of well-connected San Franciscans is backing a ballot initiative this fall that would severely curb Airbnb's operations in the city, The Chronicle has learned.

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @dgouldin and @radleybalko

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Apple blasts Samsung over originality, bravery in closing trial arguments — Apple wrapped up its side of a wide-ranging case against Samsung in court today, accusing it one last time of copying five features that it says ended up in millions of phones sold to US consumers. — “Let's remember how we got here.”

More: Mercury News, Wall Street Journal, CNET News, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog and Ars Technica

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Samsung once again leans on Google's Android for help in closing argument

More: CNET News. Tweets: @danieleran, @kfury and @josh

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

RadiumOne's New CEO's Memo on Chahal Firing: “We Cannot Know for Certain What Gurbaksh Will Do” — Here's a memo that new RadiumOne CEO Bill Lonergan sent out late last night to the employees of the advertising tech company in the wake of the firing of Gurbaksh Chahal, its founder and CEO.

More: Washington Post, bizjournals, Valleywag, VatorNews and Business Insider

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Stung by data breach, Target speeds switch to chip-and-PIN card readers — New Mastercard-provided chip-and-PIN cards will debut at all Target stores by early 2015. That must be cold comfort for First M. Lastname, whose account has already been compromised in this image here.

More: Computerworld, New York Times, Softpedia News, Wired, Wall Street Journal, The Register, CNET News, Businessweek and ZDNet

Brad Chacos / PC World:

Canonical's audacious Ubuntu for Android project isn't quite dead, but it is in limbo — The idea was audacious: Combine Android, the most popular mobile version of Linux, with Ubuntu, the leading Linux desktop operating system, on a single smartphone that swapped between the two depending on whether the device was docked.

More: Pocketnow. Thanks:@bradchacos

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Justices Appear Divided on Cellphone Warrants — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed torn as it considered a pair of cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest. — Some justices seemed inclined to apply precedents strictly limiting …

More: Law, Politico, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, CNN, TIME, NY Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Reuters, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Associated Press, Politico and RT

Tweets: @parislemon, @csoghoian and @csoghoian

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