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May 12, 2014, 7:40 PM

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Yinka Adegoke / Billboard:

Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre could be unveiled as Apple executives at WWDC, deal to be announced later this week — Apple May Unveil Iovine, Dr. Dre Exec Appointments at June Conference — Apple could unveil Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre as its latest recruits at its Worldwide Developers' Conference in June …

More: The Lefsetz Letter, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Electronista, Gizmodo and App Advice

Tweets: @jyarow and @tim

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple interested in Beats for paid streaming conversion rate, plans to improve its headphones — Apple's Deep Ties With Iovine Key Driver of Beats Deal — When news spread last week that Apple Inc. (AAPL) was near an acquisition of Beats Electronics LLC for $3.2 billion …

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Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Square Finally Gives Up on Square Wallet and Bets on New Order-Ahead App — The grand Square Wallet experiment is over. As of today, Square has pulled the app from the Apple and Google app stores. At the same time, it is introducing Square Order, an app that lets shoppers place pick-up orders from …

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Gigaom, Computerworld, The Verge, Mashable, Business Insider, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Cult of Mac, GadgeTell, App Advice, VatorNews, TechnoBuffalo, Laughing Squid, Android Central, MacNN, SlashGear, TechSpot, PandoDaily, CNET, InvestorPlace, Pulse 2.0, Gizmodo, WebProNews and The Next Web

Tweets: @counternotions, @caseynewton and @tim

Thanks:@delrey

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

With New Food App Square Order, Square Wants A Bigger Bite Of The Restaurant Industry

More: Engadget and The Technology Chronicles. Tweets: @ingridlunden

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

NSA routinely receives or intercepts US-made routers and servers to implant backdoors before international shipping — how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers — The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas - even though the US government …

More: Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Daily Dot, SlashGear and dailywireless.org. Tweets: @mattblaze. See also Mediagazer

Paul Rosania / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter's new mute feature lets you hide users from your home timeline — Another way to edit your Twitter experience: with mute — Today we're beginning to introduce a new account feature called mute to people who use our iPhone and Android apps and twitter.com.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's ‘Mohoro’ Windows-as-a-service released as a public preview — Summary: Microsoft is entering the desktop-as-a-service space with its new Azure Remote App service, which is available as a free public preview. — Microsoft is releasing its desktop-as-a-service, codenamd 'Mohoro," in public preview form as of today, May 12.

More: CITEworld and ZDNet

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Visual Studio goes cross platform with Cordova integration from Microsoft

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Azure Gets New Tools For Hybrid Clouds And Simplified Cloud Storage Service For Businesses

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, eWeek, Microsoft Corporation, PC World, ZDNet, ScottGu's Blog, Ars Technica, Trend Micro Simply Security, CITEworld, Computerworld, Gigaom and CITEworld

Serdar Yegulalp / InfoWorld:

Apple working on a JavaScript accelerator for WebKit which doesn't require the use of asm.js — Apple has its own JavaScript accelerator in the works — Apple's FTLJIT project aims to give JavaScript a boost, and it doesn't require the use of asm.js for its speed improvements

More: VentureBeat, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog and iPhone Hacks

Jeff Sommer / New York Times:

Tim Wu, who developed the concept of net neutrality, says it should be protected by regulation — Defending the Open Internet — The future of the Internet — which means the future of communications, culture, free speech and innovation — is up for grabs.

More: VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, TechPresident, SiliconBeat, TIME, Re/code and HBR.org. See also Mediagazer

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

FCC chair tries to salvage net neutrality plan, promises to be strong cop in revised rules

More: FierceWireless, PandoDaily, theWHIR.com, InfoWorld, dailywireless.org, The Verge and Fox News

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

One plaintiff in Silicon Valley no-hire agreement lawsuit asks judge to reject the deal his own lawyers negotiated — Plaintiff Maligns Deal in Silicon Valley Suit — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has more than $150 billion in the bank, eclipsing the combined cash reserves of Israel and Britain.

More: The Verge, AppleInsider, CNNMoney.com, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Ars Technica, Silicon Valley Watcher, Softpedia News, CNET News, Business Insider and The Register. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Wall Street Journal:

AT&T could seal deal to take over DirecTV within two weeks, for around $50B — AT&T Could Strike Deal For DirecTV In As Soon As Two Weeks — AT&T Would Likely Pay A Combination of Cash, Stock — AT&T Inc. is moving quickly to seal a takeover deal with DirecTV …

More: Bloomberg, Gizmodo, CNET News, The Verge, Engadget, Associated Press, BGR, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, Broadcasting & Cable, dailywireless.org, Reuters, Android Police and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

Facebook Said to Take Steps to Open a China Sales Office — Facebook Inc. (FB) is taking steps to open a sales office in China to work with local advertisers, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in a move that would put the social network's employees in the country for the first time …

More: The Next Web and AllFacebook. Tweets: @sarahfrier

Christina Farr / Reuters:

Apple tries to lift online sales by cutting refund times in half — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has cut in half the time it takes to give refunds to online store customers who want to return their iPhones and other gadgets, a small but crucial step to try to get more people to buy direct from its website.

More: CNET News, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Electronista, TUAW and App Advice. Thanks:@chrissyfarr

Reuters:

Exclusive: Air traffic system failure caused by computer memory shortage — (Reuters) - A common design problem in the U.S. air traffic control system made it possible for a U-2 spy plane to spark a computer glitch that recently grounded or delayed hundreds of Los Angeles area flights …

More: Ars Technica, Computerworld, The Register, BBC, Neowin and SlashGear

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Office For iPad Apps Have Racked Up 27M Downloads In 46 Days — In just over a month, Office for iPad has picked up another 15 million downloads of its applications. Microsoft reported 12 million downloads in early April, and 27 million today. — That's a massive figure.

More: 9to5Mac, GeekWire, VentureBeat and Gotta Be Mobile

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft readying locker service for Xbox Music — Microsoft already has an online file storage service, OneDrive, and its own streaming music platform, Xbox Music, and the company appears to be combining the two to create a music locker in the cloud. LiveSino has discovered references …

More: LiveSino, Computerworld, GeekWire, CNET News, I4U News, WinBeta, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Neowin and Polygon

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