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May 10, 2014, 12:50 PM

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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, Redmond Pie, I4U News, Geeky Gadgets, Softpedia News, App Advice, iLounge, Electronista, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, everythingiCafe and BBY

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

Kate Tummarello / The Hill:

FCC chair to hold May 15 vote on proposed net neutrality changes, despite calls for a delay

More: The Verge, Politico, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Gigaom Research and Washington Post

Tweets: @reckless, @reckless, @reckless and @reckless

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest

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

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

The Wayback Machine passes 400 billion indexed webpages, covering the Web from late 1996 to a few hours ago — The Internet Archive today announced a massive milestone for its Wayback Machine: 400 billion indexed webpages. The data encompasses the Web as it looked anytime from late 1996 up until a few hours ago.

More: Internet Archive Blogs

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: New York Times and Tech City News

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: Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, SlashGear, TMZ.com, AppleInsider, BuzzFeed, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, TIME and Wall Street Journal

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

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

Brittany Hillen / SlashGear:

Moto E surfaces in press shots on retailer website — A shot of a handset said to be the Moto E appeared earlier today in a photograph next to the Moto X's smaller sibling, the Moto G. Following this, Twitter user Hudson Martins has tweeted a press shot of what is said to be the Moto E. Update …

More: Engadget, AndroidOS.in, Android Police, Android Central, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Technology Personalized, Phones Review, Geeky Gadgets and Redmond Pie

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

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: Geeky Gadgets, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo and SlashGear

Rob Platzer / bitly blog:

Bitly details breach of offsite database backup, accelerates development of security features — More Detail — While we continue working through our response to the compromise we reported yesterday, we wanted to provide some more insight into the question of how this happened and what we have done to ensure security going forward.

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, eWeek and Wall Street Journal

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: New York Times. Tweets: @shiraovide and @willmarlow

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