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Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
HP to invest $1B over two years in OpenStack, integrate its cloud services under HP Helion brand  —  HP Makes $1 Billion Bet on Open Cloud  —  Hewlett-Packard is making its big bet on cloud computing, with a significant change of its own products and business, and the biggest endorsement yet …
Mercury News:
China's Alibaba files for IPO that could be tech industry's biggest ever
Leslie Picker / Bloomberg:
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba files for US IPO, plans to sell 12% stake worth around $20B, say sources
Bob Rosin / Official LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn partners with Evernote to scan business cards, will shut down its CardMunch app  —  Evernote + LinkedIn: Powering Professional Relationships  —  Business cards are one of the many ways people initiate professional relationships, so it is important to us that our members can quickly …
Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon clocked $67.8B in online sales in 2013, more than its next 10 biggest competitors combined  —  Apple Jumps to Second Place in Online Retail … In the crusade to capture clicks and pull in dollars from online sales, Amazon remains the clear frontrunner.
United Nations:
Internet well on way to 3 billion users, UN telecom agency reports  —  Releasing new statistics today, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced that by end 2014, there will be nearly three billion Internet users - two-thirds of them from the developing world …
Ryan Tate / Wired:
Next Big Thing You Missed: Inside Tindie, a Thriving New Marketplace for DIY Gadgets  —  By day, Emile Petrone was a web programmer.  But in his spare time, he would tinker with the Ardruino and the Raspberry Pi, two inexpensive kits that let you build your own hardware devices.
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Liz Gannes / Re/code:
Tech Leaders Call on California to Boost Computer Science  —  High-profile technology executives and investors are asking for a meeting with California Governor Jerry Brown to discuss augmenting computer science education in the state's public schools.  —  In a letter they circulated to the press …
Sean Portnoy / ZDNet:
LG Chromebase all-in-one Chrome PC available on May 26 for $349  —  Summary: Chrome's encroachment on the desktop continues when HP releases its Chromebox in June.  —  Lost amid the hoopla over yesterday's unveiling of numerous new Chromebooks (including models from Asus and Lenovo) …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Former Angry Birds creators raise $3.6M for Boomlagoon game studio  —  Boomlagoon, a Finnish game studio created by former Angry Birds creators, has raised $3.6 million in funding to build mobile games.  —  Helsinki-based Boomlagoon is one in a series of Finnish game startups …
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
US patent office ultimately approved 92% of applications in 2013, up from 68% in 2009  —  Getting patents is preposterously easy under Obama  —  When Apple first tried to patent the “slide to unlock” feature of its forthcoming iPhone in 2005, the US Patent and Trademark Office …
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Maria Konnikova / The Verge:
The Wizard - Meet Alex Pentland, father of the wearable computer  —  Meet Alex Pentland, father of the wearable computer  —  It all started with beavers.  When Alex Pentland was three years into his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, in 1973, he worked part …
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said to Use Qualcomm Chips in Smaller Surface  —  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is planning to introduce a new, smaller version of its Surface that will use Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) processors for the first time, according to people with knowledge of the companies' plans, a move that ends Nvidia …
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal:
Foresighted?  Epson Moverio Smart Glasses Go on Sale for $700 … Google Glass may be the most widely known wearable tech today, but Google isn't the only company trying to convince you that wearing a computer on your face is a good idea.  Epson, best known for its printers and projectors …
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Why the Apple-Samsung trial was a waste of time for all but fanboys and lawyers  —  Apple and Samsung just finished up their third trial in three years and flushed hundreds of millions down a legal rathole.  What do they have to show for it?  Nothing of substance.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google debuts Classroom, a free Apps for Education tool to help teachers create and collect assignments  —  Google today launched a new free tool called Classroom as part of its Google Apps for Education suite.  In short, Classroom helps teachers create and organize assignments …
Dalton Caldwell / App.net:
App.net is “profitable and self-sustaining”, but will no longer have any full-time employees  —  App.net State of the Union  —  As many are aware, the first major round of subscription renewals from the original App.net launch happened a few weeks ago.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC commissioner says FCC “invented” new authority to regulate Internet  —  FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly.  —  The FCC's Michael O'Rielly, one of two Republican commissioners since being sworn into office last November, today warned against the commission using what he called “newly invented authority to regulate the Internet.”
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Secret Is Working On A Private Chat Feature  —  Anonyfish has been the only way to move a Secret conversation offline or somewhere with real names.  But anonymous sharing app Secret plans to release its own native private chat feature, founders David Bytow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler confirmed today on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY.

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Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix wins rights to the Sesame Street movie; Rideback, the production company behind live-action Lilo & Stitch and Aladdin movies, will produce the feature

CNN:
Haberman-Swan book: Trump wanted to make Fox News “beg” for a presidential interview, he almost settled for $3M with ABC instead of $16M, and more

Andrew Cohen / InvestmentNews:
Robinhood plans to shutter the Sherwood News site in favor of newsletters and the Robinhood app; at least three reporters were cut in company layoffs this week

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