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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

AT&T claims common carrier rules would ruin the whole Internet — AT&T today urged the Federal Communications Commission to avoid reclassifying broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service, which is something network neutrality advocates are asking the FCC to do.

More: eWeek, New York Times and SlashGear

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest — Lots of people are angry about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's Internet “fast lane” proposal that would let Internet service providers charge Web services for priority access to consumers. But one Web hosting service called NeoCities …

More: Neocities, The Verge, PandoDaily, Mashable, Daily Dot, Re/code, Techdirt, theWHIR.com, Digital Trends, Softpedia News and GamePolitics blogs. Thanks:@brianmcc. See also Mediagazer

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

FCC's Wheeler Denies Trying to Divide Internet Into “Haves” and “Have Nots”

More: Washington Post and The Verge. Tweets: @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine expected to take on senior roles at Apple as part of Beats acquisition — Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Would Both Join Apple in Beats Deal — Duo Could Help Tim Cook Broker Deals in Music Industry — Music mogul Jimmy Iovine gravitates to the limelight in a way that previously might …

More: BuzzFeed, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog and SlashGear

Tweets: @mattlynley, @briansolis, @tim, @ethanwsj and @jyarow

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Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook has pulled Poke and Facebook Camera from the App Store — Facebook Poke is dead — To Facebook, Poke was always “more of a joke” than anything else — so why did the company leave it in the App Store for more than a year after its troubled debut? We may never know, but today, Facebook finally put an end to Poke.

More: CNET News, MacRumors, PC World, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, The Register, The Next Web, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, iMore, Gigaom and MacStories. Tweets: @craigmod

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple trade-in promotion begins: up to $99 for iPhone 4, $199 for 4s towards purchase of 5s, 5c — Apple kicks off its big in-store iPhone upgrade event — In line with our earlier report, Apple has just kicked off a big iPhone trade-in event at its U.S. retail stores …

More: MacRumors, Softpedia News, App Advice, iLounge, Electronista, BGR, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, BBY and everythingiCafe

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Appeals Court Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Software And An API; Declares APIs Copyrightable — We sort of expected this to happen after the appeals court for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) held its oral arguments back in December, but CAFC has now spit at basic common sense and has declared that you can copyright an API.

More: Gigaom

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Oracle wins Android-Java copyright appeal: API code copyrightable, new trial on fair use

More: madisonian.net, ZDNet, Re/code, Guardian, 9to5Google, SiliconBeat, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Business Insider, ReadWrite, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Ars Technica, xda-developers, The Verge, Electronista and CNET

Tweets: @grimmelm, @grimmelm, @mmasnick, @drnic, @ejnaughton, @sarahjeong, @binarybits, @binarybits, @fosspatents, @codinghorror and @dalmaer

Thanks:@fosspatents

Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven:

Quora, now valued at $900M, to join YC's summer batch, “a new experiment for us” — Quora in the next YC batch — This month, YC will be participating in Quora's most recent investment round and Quora will be joining this summer's YC batch. This is a new experiment for us …

More: Quora, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Gigaom

Tweets: @startupljackson, @caseynewton, @besvinick, @amir, @mathewi, @schlaf, @eringriffith and @eringriffith

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Samsung Won't Be Launching Any New Products at May 28 Health Care Tech Event — A lot of people assumed when they saw a teaser invite from Samsung for a May 28 event that the company was looking to launch some new health-care product just ahead of Apple's developer conference the following week.

More: TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo and SlashGear

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba's IPO puts more pressure on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to deliver results — Is Marissa Mayer's time in the sun coming to an end? — Yahoo Chief Will Have to Show Results Ahead of Expected Alibaba IPO — The clock is now ticking for Marissa Mayer.

More: Re/code and New York Times. Tweets: @shiraovide and @willmarlow

Gwynn Guilford / Quartz:

All the Western companies you'd have to combine to get something like Alibaba — Alibaba, which filed for its IPO on May 6, isn't just the “Amazon of China”—it's also the Dropbox, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, ING Direct, and more. Though Google has its fingers in a similarly high volume of pies …

More: Tech City News

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple Store employees switching from iPod touch to iPhone 5s for EasyPay POS system — Apple is in the process of updating the iPod touch units used by Apple Store employees as a mobile point-of-sale system to the iPhone 5s, according to sources familiar with the roll out.

More: Forbes, App Advice, MacNN, AppleInsider, ifoAppleStore and iMore

Tweets: @markgurman and @ifostore

Thanks:@jordankahn

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Kik introduces a virtual currency to encourage engagement and (potentially) make money — Messaging apps are the flavor of this year, as evidenced by Facebook's $19 billion WhatsApp deal, but lately we've barely heard from Kik, the Canadian startup that beats WhatsApp, Snapchat and others in the US market.

More: Electronista. Thanks:@jonrussell

Stephen Lawson / InfoWorld:

Cisco's Internet of things chief resigns — Guido Jouret led Cisco's efforts to link sensors, machines, and other equipment — a trend predicted to generate $19 trillion in value over the next 10 years — Cisco Systems' point man on the Internet of things (IoT) has resigned just as industries start …

More: BradReese.Com, Business Insider, ZDNet, Pulse 2.0 and eWeek

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon is delaying delivery of some books “for reasons of their own”, says publisher Hachette — Hachette Says Amazon Is Delaying Delivery of Some Books — Amazon has begun discouraging customers from buying books by Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Colbert, J. D. Salinger and other popular writers …

More: Salon, Re/code, Good E-Reader, GeekWire, Business Insider, The Awl, Digital Book World and SlashGear. Tweets: @eileen_gunn. See also Mediagazer

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