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May 13, 2014, 1:50 AM

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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, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, I4U News, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Electronista, MacRumors, The Verge, Ars Technica 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 …

More: iPhone Hacks, TUAW, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Patently Apple, Fortune, VentureBeat, Electronista, Geeky Gadgets, App Advice, Softpedia News and AppleInsider. Tweets: @hamburger. See also Mediagazer

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: CNET News, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, Daily Dot and TechCrunch. Tweets: @mattblaze. See also Mediagazer

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Sources: Xbox Live to remove Gold requirement for Netflix, Hulu — Coming soon, according to internal Microsoft sources: two fewer white dots on this promotional card. — We can report that multiple sources within Microsoft have been briefed on plans to make a long-awaited change …

More: Softpedia News, Kotaku, VG247, Neowin, Windows Phone Central, Ubergizmo, enConnected, destructoid and SlashGear. 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.

More: Digital Trends, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Next Web, Mashable, CIO.com, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Salon, TechSpot, Daily Dot, GadgeTell, TUAW, The Register, POPSUGAR, Laughing Squid, AllTwitter, Turnstyle, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint, BuzzFeed, MobileBurn.com, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, VatorNews, Marketing Land, CNET News, Geek Beat, Washington Post, MacStories, Marketing Pilgrim, Poynter, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iMore, PandoDaily, MacRumors, Valleywag, TIME, GeekWire, 9to5Google, Android and Me, VentureBeat, gHacks Technology News, SocialTimes, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Neowin, Electronista, ABC News, App Advice, WebProNews, The Verge, everythingiCafe, Lifehacker, MobileSyrup.com and Gigaom

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

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: Fortune, Tech in Asia, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and AllFacebook. Tweets: @sarahfrier

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: Business Insider, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile and iPhone Hacks

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

More: Somasegar's blog, The Register, GeekWire, Softpedia News, eWeek, TechCrunch and ZDNet. Tweets: @carnage4life

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

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

More: AdExchanger, The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft Corporation, ZDNet, ScottGu's Blog, PC World, eWeek, WinBeta, CITEworld, Gigaom, CITEworld and Ars Technica

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

YouTube shuts down public RSS feeds of user subscriptions — If you're a news junky, you probably use an RSS reader like Feed.ly to keep up with stuff on the Web. One of the nicest ways to consume YouTube subscriptions was to use an RSS feed of new videos, allowing them to show up just like news articles do.

More: gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @davewiner and @violetblue. See also Mediagazer

Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:

Uber brings a cheaper SUV service, UberXL, to San Francisco — Above: An Uber SUV. Not to be confused with the much cheaper UberXL SUV. — For those times when the party is not just breaking up, but moving to a whole new location, the typical Uber car might feel a little cramped.

More: Uber Blog, VBProfiles, bizjournals and Tech Chronicles

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Shortwave Shows Off Anonymous Chat As Another Consumer Use Case For iBeacons — Apple's iBeacons are being trialled and demoed in retail settings all over the place, but they're slowly becoming more interesting to average users, too. A new app called Shortwave offers up an everyday use case …

More: SlashGear

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, Variety, dailywireless.org, GeekWire, Business Insider, Broadcasting & Cable, The Verge, CNET News, New York Times, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Android Police, Engadget, Associated Press and BGR. See also Mediagazer

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, ZDNet, CNNMoney.com, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, NBC News, Computerworld News …, Valleywag, The Register, CNET News, Softpedia News, Business Insider and Washington Post. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

FCC chair tries to salvage net neutrality plan, promises to be strong cop in revised rules — Under immense public pressure, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is attempting to salvage a plan that would allow Internet service providers to charge content companies such as Netflix …

More: FierceWireless, theWHIR.com, PandoDaily and InfoWorld. See also Mediagazer

Jeff Sommer / New York Times:

Tim Wu, who developed the concept of net neutrality, says it should be protected by regulation

More: VentureBeat, TechPresident, Wall Street Journal, HBR.org, SiliconBeat, TIME and Re/code

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