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May 7, 2014, 3:15 PM

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John Paczkowski / Re/code:

Apple's worldwide communications VP Katie Cotton retiring after nearly two decades at the company — Code/red: Apple PR Impresario Katie Cotton to Retire — // HAPPENING TODAY — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will drop by TechCrunch Disrupt to dodge some questions. — AOL will be hammered following an earnings miss.

More: The Verge, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, TechCrunch, iMore, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, MacNN, MACé" blog, App Advice and iLounge

Tweets: @ldignan, @johnpaczkowski, @fromedome, @kevinroose, @tcarmody and @fxshaw

Writankar Mukherjee / The Times Of India:

Apple reportedly stops selling the iPhone 4 in India less than three months after relaunch — Apple withdraws iPhone 4 from Indian market — KOLKATA: Less than four months after relaunching iPhone 4, Apple decided to once again withdraw its only phone below Rs 20,000 …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, iMore, BGR, InvestorPlace, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac and Electronista

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants — Google today made one more acquisition that points to its interest in building up its relationship with local businesses, and particularly in the restaurant vertical to compete better against the likes of Yelp.

More: Appetas, Engadget, ZDNet, GeekWire, 9to5Google, The Next Web, SlashGear and WebProNews

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

Google snaps up Stackdriver and its cloud analysis expertise — Another small, smart Boston-area startup has been acquired by a Silicon Valley superpower. Google is buying Stackdriver, which specializes in monitoring and honing cloud workload performance.

More: Google Cloud Platform Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, BetaBoston, VentureBreak and WebProNews

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 …

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United Nations:

UN telecom agency predicts 3B Internet users, 2.3B mobile broadband subscriptions by end of 2014 — 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 …

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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:

Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’ — MOSCOW — Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with the government, a measure that lawyers …

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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 …

More: Data Center Knowledge, ZDNet, CITEworld, Wall Street Journal, The Technology Chronicles, Re/code, ZDNet, Inquirer, The Register, BetaNews, Reuters, CRN, Gigaom, GeekWire and Electronista. Tweets: @qhardy

Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:

‘Unparalleled Ruthlessness’ Awaits: Jack Ma's Letter to Alibaba Employees. — One element missing from Alibaba's initial public offering prospectus - weighing in at 248 pages before notes and exhibits - was a letter from founder Jack Ma. — People familiar with the matter had said that some missive …

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Tweets: @jonrussell, @paulmozur, @joshchin, @gerrymcgovern and @wsjd

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Alibaba's IPO Means Consumer Tech Innovations From Asia Can't Be Ignored Anymore

More: SEC, TechSpot, The Next Web, The Next Web, TheDomains.com and Re/code

Rich Trenholm / CNET News:

Samsung Knox 2.0 makes Galaxy S5 safe for work with split billing — Samsung has updated its business-focused Knox with a dedicated app store and split billing so you can pay for work and personal calls separately. — Samsung gets down to business with Knox 2.0 on the S5 — Samsung

More: Samsung Tomorrow, 9to5Google, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Android Central, Geeky Gadgets, Inquirer, IntoMobile, ZDNet and Pocketnow

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.

More: PandoDaily

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Tech Stocks Crumble As The Market Demands What They Can't Deliver — It's a nasty day for technology companies in the public markets, as aging giants like AOL are falling right alongside upstarts with larger market caps like Twitter and Groupon that are popping negative. — Forget your IPO window.

More: Tech Trader Daily, Seeking Alpha, Associated Press, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Valleywag, Forbes and Business Insider. Tweets: @jyarow

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Nintendo reports third consecutive annual loss as Wii U sales fizzle out — Nintendo made an annual operating loss for the third consecutive year in 2013, ending up ¥46.4 billion ($457 million) in the red as Wii U sales failed to pick up following the holiday season.

More: Re/code, GeekWire, Engadget, Bloomberg, CNET News, PandoDaily, ParisLemon, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Mashable, AppleInsider, Gamasutra, Softpedia News and BGR

Tweets: @benjamincousins, @benkuchera, @tim_stevens and @campster

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

Andy Baio wants to crowdfund $30,000 to relaunch community event site Upcoming — Serial co-founder Andy Baio re-introduced Upcoming, the collaborative events site. Purchased by Yahoo in 2005 and shutdown last year, Baio is relaunching the site via Kickstarter. — The site was a collaborative calendar of art and tech events.

More: Waxy.org and Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @waxpancake, @waxpancake and @waxpancake

Erin McCarthy / Wall Street Journal:

Pandora tests Promoted Stations native ad product with 10% of users — Pandora Launches Promoted Stations — Internet Radio Service Seeks to Boost Advertising Revenue — Pandora Media Inc. continued its push to boost advertising revenue Wednesday, launching so-called promoted stations that partner with advertisers.

More: CNET News, The Next Web and Pandora

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

ARM Expects ~1B Entry Level Smartphones in 2018, $20 Smartphones Coming This Year — When we first started covering mobile, nearly every silicon vendor I spoke with issued the same statement: eventually, all phones are smartphones. Continued scaling on process technology …

More: Marketing Land, Neowin, Geeky Gadgets, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, dailywireless.org, Pocketnow, Greenbot, Ars Technica, SlashGear and BGR

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Hands-on Huawei's new flagship Android phone, Ascend P7: 1.8GHz quad-core, 5-inch, 1080p — Huawei's Ascend P7 wants to be the LTE phone of the people — With the Ascend P6, Huawei looked to build a smartphone that emphasized design and material quality over performance.

More: CNET News, The Register, 9to5Google, The Next Web, SlashGear, CNET, SlashGear, CNET and BGR

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 …

More: VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, Bloomberg, San Francisco Chronicle and bizjournals

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.

More: Fortune, Wired, Marketing Land, dailywireless.org, TUAW, Cult of Mac, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @wsj and @taos

TechCrunch:

Restaurant Reservation Service LaFourchette Gobbled Up By TripAdvisor For ~$140M — European restaurant reservation service LaFourchette — the so-called OpenTable of France — has entered into agreement to be acquired by NASDAQ-listed travel site TripAdvisor, with whom it already had a partnership.

More: PR Newswire, Webrazzi, bizjournals, GlobalPost, PE Hub Blog and Tnooz. Tweets: @joshconstine

David Talbot / MIT Technology Review:

VCs say net neutrality proposal hurts startups that need fast connections or lots of bandwidth — Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups — Some VCs say the FCC's latest net neutrality proposal will raise costs for startups that need fast connections or use a lot of bandwidth.

More: Guardian, BGR and InfoWorld. See also Mediagazer

Nicole Lee / Engadget:

TuneIn tries reinventing itself as a social network for audio — What do you do to improve a service with over 50 million active users? Why, totally revamp it of course. It sounds crazy, but that's exactly what TuneIn, an audio service that lets you listen to podcasts and radio stations from around the world, did.

More: VentureBeat, Gigaom and Re/code

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Down 24% As Q1 Earnings Beat On Sales Of $583M But Miss EPS On $22M Of Charges — AOL is trading down almost 24% on the day that it reported its first quarter earnings. It posted revenue of $583.1 million but had startlingly low earnings per share of $0.11 and a 66% drop in net income to $8.7 million.

More: CNET News, Softpedia News, Bloomberg, AdExchanger, Mashable and Reuters. Tweets: @ingridlunden. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Candy Crush Maker King Digital Has More Players, Fewer Payers — King Digital took its time handing out it first earnings report today. But when it got around to it, the company behind Candy Crush delivered good news: Revenue, which had been declining in advance of its IPO this year, has ticked up again.

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