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May 11, 2014, 3:30 PM

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Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Google testing complete redesign, new features for web Gmail similar to leaked test on Android — Google is testing new web-based Gmail features — Google's products are constantly tested behind the scenes for potential new features, and since Gmail is just about as high as you can get on that list …

More: Ars Technica, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, TechHive, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Electronista, Neowin, SlashGear, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Central, Phandroid and Softpedia News

Tweets: @roddrury and @caseynewton

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Apple buying Beats could radically transform the digital music business — There are still many unknowns about Apple's reported acquisition of headphone maker Beats Audio, but one thing is already certain: The deal, if it goes through as reported, is going to be a game changer for digital music.

More: CB Insights, The Verge, DSN Blog, Re/code, Business Insider, Neowin, New York Times, Doc Searls WeblogDoc …, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Mercury News, TechHive and JonMaples.com. Tweets: @ulihegge. See also Mediagazer

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

The history of Beats Electronics: from inception to Apple — Image Credit: Flickr / Twang Photography — Before Apple makes its Beats acquisition truly official, join us for a trip down context lane. — Sure, every tech pundit with Internet access has weighed in on why the $3.2 billion deal …

Thanks:@harrisonweber

Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee hospitalized after heart attack, now in stable condition — Chairman of Samsung Lee Kun-hee Hospitalized After Heart Attack — Lee Kun-hee Had Trouble Breathing and Was Sent to an Emergency Room, Is Now in Stable Condition

More: CNET, Bloomberg, TechSpot, thedrum.com, The Korea Times, Reuters, NZweek, The Korea Heald, Times of India, GlobalPost, bgr.in and BBC

Wall Street Journal:

Samsung Plans to Launch Tizen Smartphone in Russia, India — Company Aiming to Compete More Directly With Google and Apple — Samsung Electronics Co. is preparing to launch a new smartphone in Russia and India based on its homegrown operating system Tizen, people familiar with the matter say …

More: CNET, Engadget and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @jchengwsj

Kyle VanHemert / Wired:

Threes: how iterative design and a slow, steady grind produced a masterpiece mobile game — Design Is Why 2048 Sucks, and Threes Is a Masterpiece — It's hard to overstate just how good Threes really is. Touch Arcade's review deemed it a “perfect mobile game.”

Tweets: @teddydief, @ashervo, @ashervo and @a_greenberg

Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

Interview with Adam Stiles, the developer who created the first tabbed web browser in 1998 — Meet The Man Who Invented The Browser Tab — Adam Stiles recalls “the first tab” and how he came to create the atomic unit of internet navigation. — In the summer of 1997 …

Kyle Russell / Business Insider:

Google Glass' first public sales display is a booth at a prestigious Florida golf tournament — Google Secretly Tried Selling Glass To Wealthy Golfers — Three weeks after putting Google Glass on sale for one day only, the search giant is trying out another tactic for getting …

More: Glass Almanac, Marketing Land, Google Glass and SlashGear

Tweets: @triple_r73, @kylebrussell, @triple_r73 and @triple_r73

Thanks:@kylebrussell

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Snapchat's 20-year agreement to be monitored by the FTC probably won't improve users' privacy — Another Tech Company Finds the F.T.C. Looking Over Its Shoulder — Snapchat just joined the F.T.C. club. — The company that makes the popular messaging app agreed on Thursday to a settlement …

Henn Idan / GeekTime:

Report: Qualcomm in talks to purchase Israeli Wilocity for $300 million — Israeli start-up Wilocity, which develops chipsets for wireless communications, is in talks with American giant Qualcomm for a potential sale, according to a report published on Marker.

More: Electronista, Haaretz and Reuters

David Barboza / New York Times:

Red-Hot Web in China Richly Rewards Foreign Investors — SHENZHEN, China -It is one of the best investments of the digital age. — In June 2001, a South African media company called Naspers paid $34 million to acquire a big stake in a struggling Chinese start-up.

Gwynn Guilford / Quartz:

All the Western companies you'd have to combine to get something like Alibaba

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @wdbthree

Mat Honan / Wired:

Square could capitalize on the aggregate transaction data it has collected for years — Square Turned Dollars Into Data. Now It'll Turn That Data Into Gold — If you want to build a sports stadium that generates lots of money not just for the team, but also for local businesses in the surrounding area …

More: Engadget

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