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May 8, 2014, 6:45 AM

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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Samsung's head of mobile design resigns amid lukewarm Galaxy S5 reception — Samsung Electronics replaces mobile design head — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's biggest handset maker, has replaced the head of its mobile design team amid criticism of the latest Galaxy S smartphone.

More: Inquirer, Digital Trends, Android Central, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Verge, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, The Register, Pocketnow, Android Beat, Geeky Gadgets, SamMobile, 9to5Google, Neowin, SlashGear and Engadget. Tweets: @fmanjoo

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 — Katie Cotton, Communications VP Who Helped Shape Apple's Story, Retiring — Big news out of Apple today.

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Coalition uniting Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, eBay, others voice support for net neutrality in letter to FCC — Amazon, Netflix and tech giants defend net neutrality in letter to FCC — In a rare public stand for the internet retailer, Amazon has come …

More: FCC.gov, The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google, BetaNews, iMore, NationalJournal.com and New York Times. Tweets: @ronwyden. See also Mediagazer

David Talbot / MIT Technology Review:

VCs say net neutrality proposal hurts startups that need fast connections or lots of bandwidth

More: AVC, Guardian, BGR, ITworld.com, PC Magazine and Ars Technica. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

Nintendo Plans to Sell New Consoles for Emerging Markets in 2015 — Nintendo Co. (7974), the Japanese video-game company struggling to win over consumers with its latest generation of consoles, plans to expand in emerging markets with new gaming devices starting next year.

More: Reuters, VG247, The Verge, Kotaku, The Next Web, CNET News, Gamasutra, Joystiq, SlashGear, Engadget and Polygon

Timothy Hay / Wall Street Journal:

Google Ventures Leads $130M Round For Big Data Medical Software Company Flatiron Health — Google Ventures has made its largest medical software investment yet, providing the bulk of a $130 million financing for Flatiron Health Inc., which aggregates cancer-patient data from a wide variety …

More: PE Hub Blog, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Register and silicontap.com. Tweets: @joshk. Thanks:@mkakav

Clare O'Connor / Forbes:

Jeff Bezos quietly attacks the $7.2 trillion B2B wholesale market with AmazonSupply — Amazon's Wholesale Slaughter: Jeff Bezos' $8 Trillion B2B Bet — In recent months global Internet retail behemoth Amazon.com has green-lit six new original TV shows, announced an online streaming deal …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @forbes and @tonythomas

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple publishes new legal process guidelines for law enforcement information requests — Earlier this month Apple announced its decision to notify customers of law enforcement requests for user information. Today the company also published a new set of guidelines for law enforcement officials regarding …

More: ZDNet, iMore, CNET News, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacNN, Cult of Mac and App Advice

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Yahoo News Digest arrives on Android and launches an international edition — Four months after bringing its unconventional news app to iOS, Yahoo News Digest arrives on Android today along with international editions that bring a global perspective to currents.

More: Yahoo, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Android Central and Softpedia News

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Marissa Mayer Explains Why Yahoo Is Undervalued — On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pushed against the narrative that Yahoo is worth nothing. The company has a market capitalization in the tens of billions, but it's been pointed out that if you add …

More: VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Associated Press, Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily and Re/code

Tweets: @delrey and @dmac1

New York Times:

The Unlikely Ascent of Jack Ma, Alibaba's Founder — HONG KONG — The first time Jack Ma used the Internet, in 1995, he searched for “beer” and “China” but found no results. Intrigued, he created a basic web page for a Chinese translation service with a friend.

More: Bloomberg, Washington Post, Business Insider, TechSpot and TechCrunch

Tweets: @ravmattu, @jennydeluxe and @chinafile

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Layer Raises $14.5M From Homebrew, Jerry Yang To Be The Communications Platform For Mobile And Web Apps — Communications platform for mobile and web apps and Disrupt SF 2013 winner Layer has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding from Homebrew, AME Cloud Ventures (Jerry Yang's investment vehicle) …

David Pogue / Yahoo:

Adobe Voice, a free iPad app that lets you make ‘explainer’ videos — Adobe Voice: A Happy App for Making Explainer Videos — You know Adobe, right? — This is the company that makes extremely complex software for professionals. This is the company whose flagship product, Photoshop, has over 500 menu commands.

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, The Next Web, iMore, Geeky Gadgets, Mashable, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and MacRumors. Tweets: @pogue

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Supply chained: Apple's sapphire production will be hard to copy — Apple opened the door to machined-aluminum electronics, will it do the same for sapphire glass? — Though abundant in nature and everyday items like soda cans, aluminum didn't figure prominently in modern electronics until just a few years ago.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors and MacDailyNews. Thanks:@srikardr

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

SAP Fires Cloud Chief Shawn Price and Realigns Company — SAP has fired the head of its cloud business unit Shawn Price, sources familiar with the move tell Re/code, in what appears to be a significant strategic realignment of the German business software giant.

More: SiliconANGLE, Forbes and Business Insider

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Whisper CEO Crashes and Burns Over Questions About Gwyneth Paltrow — Michael Arrington is a man who would prefer to keep the things people whisper about him out of the public eye. So the blogging-capitalist, whose “conflicts of interests” run longer than his resume (literally) …

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch and Medium

Tweets: @michaelheywire, @arrington, @akovacs and @nitashatiku

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Japanese chat giant Line reports revenues of $143M this quarter, up 223% vs. last year — Chat app Line's increasing revenues show Twitter how it could develop DMs — Mobile messaging service Line is continuing to grow its revenues at an impressive rate, after the company revealed …

More: LINE Corporation. Tweets: @serkantoto

Brian Cohen / Medium:

Western Union granted patent for “exchanging alternative currencies”; 2009 filing didn't cite Bitcoin — AltCoin Alert: Western Union Obtains Alternative Currency Exchange System Patent from USPTO — Alternative value exchange systems and methods — Alternative value exchange systems and methods

More: Techdirt

Molly Wood / New York Times:

Snapchat's recent update lets you save chats, which may not match some users' expectations — With Update, Snapchats Get a Little Less Private — Snapchat just released a major update that's been getting a lot of attention. But one less publicized aspect of this update is that Snapchat …

Tweets: @kashhill, @mollywood, @pdxmobile and @kristenvbrown

Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed:

Pinterest designer Jason Wilson on how the company built Guided Search — How Pinterest Developed Its New Search Engine — Jason Wilson, Pinterest's lead designer, tells BuzzFeed in an interview how the social network's visual search engine was born. — SAN FRANCISCO — As a student …

Thanks:@mattlynley

Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:

USA Freedom Act unanimously clears House Judiciary Committee — Surveillance reform bill designed to prevent collection of US phone data in bulk and is first to proceed onto the House floor — Six months after it was written to restrain the National Security Agency's sweeping domestic surveillance …

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Shares in mobile ad network Millennial Media drop over 40% in after-hours trading following worse than expected earnings — A Once-Hot Mobile Ad Network Is Crashing After Horrible Earnings — This is an eye-popper: Millennial Media is down 45% in after-hours trading following an earnings report that was worse than expected.

More: Tech Trader Daily and Millennial Media

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

On average, Americans get 189 cable TV channels and only watch 17 — In a blog post on Tuesday, Nielsen reported that on average, US homes receive 189.1 TV channels, but viewers only watch 17.5 of those channels. — The news will appear in Nielsen's forthcoming “Advertising & Audiences Report …

More: Nielsen, Digital Trends, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and DSLreports. Tweets: @qthrul

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