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May 13, 2014, 10:25 AM

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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 …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple plans to match Microsoft Surface with split-screen iPad multitasking in iOS 8 — iOS 8 is likely to supercharge the functionality of Apple's iPad with a new split-screen multitasking feature, according to sources with knowledge of the enhancement in development.

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Business Insider, AppleInsider, BGR, TechCrunch, iMore, MacRumors and App Advice

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

EU top court upholds “right to be forgotten”, says Google must edit sensitive search results — Europe's top court backs ‘right to be forgotten’ in Google case — (Reuters) - Europe's top court sided with privacy rights supporters on Tuesday, saying that world No. 1 search engine Google …

More: New York Times, The Verge, Gigaom, BBC, CNET News, Guardian, BBC, Facebook, ZDNet, 9to5Google, The Next Web, NPR, PC World, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Engadget, Associated Press, Search Engine Roundtable, Electronista, The Register, Associated Press, Associated Press, Gizmodo and The Loop

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The Cryptocurrency Times:

The popular online wallet Dogevault is offline, large amounts of Dogecoin appear to have been stolen — Dogevault is a popular online wallet, where people can store and send Dogecoin. It provides no advantage over a normal Dogecoin wallet however, and generally online wallets are regarded as risky …

More: PandoDaily, Business Insider, The Register, Softpedia News, Softpedia News and CNET News

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Motorola adds LTE to Moto G, launches $129 Moto E — Motorola adds LTE to Moto G, introduces an even cheaper Moto E — Shipping with Android 4.4 and a guaranteed upgrade to the next major version of Android — The Moto G is the best selling smartphone in Motorola history.

Benjamin Mako Hill / copyrighteous:

Even if you host your own email server, Google will end up capturing about half of your emails — Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours — For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work correspondence.

More: The Guardian and Boing Boing. Tweets: @bcrypt and @dangillmor

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: TechCrunch, Washington Post, Computerworld, Inquirer, The Hacker News, Gigaom, The Register, Softpedia News, Daily Dot, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and SlashGear. Tweets: @headhntr

Om Malik / Gigaom:

The 1999 tech bubble was about naive optimism, but now it's about gross entitlement — Is it really a tech bubble, or is it something else? — Adam Lashinsky, in a piece for Fortune last week, wrote at length about the question that has crossed the minds of everyone north of San Jose: are we in a bubble?

More: Valleywag. Tweets: @qhardy, @jasonh, @christianhern, @fdestin, @naveen and @arrington

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.

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Twitter's New Mute Feature Means Brand Visibility Is No Sure Thing

More: Softpedia News, BetaNews and Mashable

Dale Russakoff / New Yorker:

Zuckerberg's $100M pledge in 2010 to reform Newark schools has had little benefit to students — SCHOOLED - Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark's schools. They got an education. — Late one night in December, 2009, a black Chevy Tahoe in a caravan …

More: Salon, The Verge and Business Insider

Tweets: @underoak, @russellbrandom, @moneyries, @tonyromm, @andrewverte and @tonyromm

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

AT&T customers can connect their GM 4G cars to shared data plans for $10 a month — If you were thinking about buying one of General Motors' new-fangled 4G cars this summer but were wondering how much that LTE connectivity would cost you, then GM and AT&T today provided an answer.

More: GM Media News, The Verge, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal, CNET News, Detroit Free Press, detroitnews.com, Wall Street Journal, Ubergizmo, Forbes, PC Magazine, Re/code, FierceWireless, Android Police, ZDNet, SlashGear and Engadget

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, Engadget, VBProfiles, bizjournals, Gizmodo, SlashGear and Tech Chronicles

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, Associated Press, Inquirer, AfterDawn.com, TechEye, BetaNews, Gotta Be Mobile, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, MacNN, iPhone Hacks, TechnoBuffalo and GeekWire

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Sony reportedly puts its OLED TV efforts on hold — There were hints that Sony's OLED TV plans were in trouble when the company's collaboration with Panasonic went south last year, and it now looks like those efforts have stalled out completely. Nikkei reports that Sony has put development of OLED sets …

More: Nikkei Asian Review, Softpedia News, The Verge, CNET News, Ubergizmo and Pocket-lint

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

VESA Adds Adaptive-Sync to DisplayPort 1.2a Standard; Variable Refresh Monitors Move Forward — The last half-year or so has seen the concept of variable refresh desktop monitors advance rather quickly. After sitting on the technology backburner for a number of years …

More: VESA, The Tech Report, Softpedia News and HotHardware.com News

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: 9to5Mac, The Lefsetz Letter, iMore, Telegraph, I4U News, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, Electronista and MacRumors

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Lenovo's ThinkPad 10 tablet brings a sharper screen, loads of accessories — Some companies throw gadget spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Others... keep the same tablets around for nearly two years. We've seen Lenovo be both those companies, frankly, but when it comes to its business line …

More: BetaNews, Inquirer, HotHardware.com News, The Verge, ZDNet, SlashGear, CRN, LAPTOP Magazine and Tom's Hardware Guide

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: Softpedia News and gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @davewiner, @marcelweiss and @violetblue. See also Mediagazer

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Sticking With Wells Fargo as Sole LP, Norwest Raises $1.2 Billion Fund — Norwest Venture Partners has closed its 12th fund, Norwest Venture Partners XII LP, at $1.2 billion-the same size as its last fund, which the firm raised in late 2009. — Norwest is one of a handful of venture capital firms …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, New York Times and PE Hub Blog

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

TV Ad Dollars Slowly Shifting to Web Video — Increasing Portion of Broadcast and Cable Budgets Follow Younger Audience Online — Online video outlets are finally starting to chip away at television's hold on advertisers. — Several major advertisers, including MasterCard …

Tweets: @jonsteinberg. See also Mediagazer

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