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May 14, 2014, 3:20 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 6 with larger, sharper 1704 x 960 resolution screen in testing — Apple is preparing to release a new iPhone with a larger screen later this year, and while multiple reports have indicated that the screen will be larger, the exact dimensions of the screen and its resolution have so far been guesswork.

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Greenwald expands on NSA reporting with new book ‘No Place to Hide’ and 50+ new documents — Glenn Greenwald's Pulse-Pounding Tale of Breaking the Snowden Leaks — In June 2013, Edward Snowden was sitting in his room at the Mira hotel in Hong Kong, watching the world react …

More: FRONTLINE, The Verge, dissenter.firedoglake.com, ABC, Los Angeles Times, The Verge and Daily Dot. Tweets: @ggreenwald. See also Mediagazer

Michael Cieply / New York Times:

Sony Pictures buys film rights to Glenn Greenwald's book on Snowden and the NSA revelations

More: WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

NSA Docs Detail Efforts To Collect Data From Microsoft's Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com

Adam Pash:

Switching from iPhone to Android loses incoming iMessages, senders still get delivery receipt — iMessage purgatory — I recently switched from an iPhone to Android, and discovered shortly thereafter that my phone number was still associated with iMessage, meaning that any time someone …

More: ReadWrite, MacRumors, TUAW, Gigaom, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, Redmond Pie, iLounge, SlashGear, PandoDaily, App Advice and MacNN

Tweets: @benbajarin, @dhh, @brendan_gill, @jasonh and @adampash

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Square expects to start turning a profit in about a year, has secured $225M line of credit — Square's status? It's complicated — Exclusive: Internal documents show that the innovative payments company expects losses through mid-2015. But then it predicts a turnaround.

More: Business Insider, Mashable, PSFK and NFC World+

Tweets: @evelynrusli, @evelynrusli, @djtgallagher, @kylezink, @mattlynley, @evelynrusli and @danprimack

Andreessen Horowitz:

SaaS company valuations should be based on customer acquisition cost and lifetime value, not revenue and EPS — Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong — Tune into any cable network stock market channel and the airwaves resonate with one consistent theme: SaaS companies are simply too expensive.

Tweets: @shiraovide, @stevesi, @monkbent, @cdixon and @rsarver

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Surface Pro 3 might join Microsoft's Surface mini unveiling next week — Microsoft is holding a Surface press event in New York City next week, but the company may have accidentally revealed one of the announcements. In a support article published yesterday, Microsoft says a fresh update for Windows 8.1 …

More: Microsoft Support, GeekWire, PC World, Inquirer, GadgeTell, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, The Tech Report, SlashGear, The Tech Report, Softpedia News, CNET News, TechCrunch, Neowin, WinBeta, Geeky Gadgets, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and Gigaom

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

Samsung offers ‘deep apology’ and compensation to workers who've contracted incurable diseases — Recent documentary uncovered 56 cases of leukemia — South Korean electronics giant Samsung has officially apologized over the illnesses and deaths of some of its factory workers.

More: BGR, ABC News, Engadget, 9to5Google, Computerworld, The Register, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, Electronista, CNET News, ITProPortal and Android Central

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Microsoft to offer Xbox Live Gold refunds once requirement is dropped for entertainment apps — If you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription only to access media apps such as Netflix and Hulu, Microsoft's recent decision to remove the digital requirement may have left you feeling short-changed.

More: Computerworld, Ars Technica, Re/code, GamesIndustry International, Cramgaming.com, Windows Phone Central, destructoid, Softpedia News, Neowin, WebProNews, Eurogamer.net and WinBeta

Chris Kohler / Wired:

Microsoft Had No Choice but to Yank Kinect From Xbox One

More: Polygon, ParisLemon, Cramgaming.com, VideoGamer.com, ReadWrite, Expert Reviews, Geeky Gadgets, Technabob, AfterDawn.com, Guardian, Geeky Gadgets, Ubergizmo, VG247 and Techdirt

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook For iOS Tries Popping Up Cards Of Related Content To Browse After You Post — Facebook is taking a swing at suggesting contextual content to keep you surfing after you share. A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say you're at …

More: The Verge, Gigaom, Inside Facebook, iMore and Mashable

Takashi Amano / Bloomberg:

iPhone market share in Japan is 36.6% in year ending March, up from 25.5% a year earlier — Apple Boosts Japanese Market Share After NTT Docomo Sells IPhone — Apple Inc. (AAPL) boosted its share of the Japan mobile-phone market to more than a third after the country's largest wireless carrier started selling the iPhone.

More: Android Authority, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Geeky Gadgets, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Geeky Gadgets and MacRumors

Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:

Sony Sinks to $1.3B Quarterly Loss on PC Expenses — Sony Corp. sank to a 138 billion yen ($1.3 billion) quarterly loss, hit by costs from selling its personal computer business and is forecasting more red ink as it struggles to execute a long-promised turnaround.

More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Android Central, AfterDawn.com, Businessweek, Associated Press, MobileSyrup.com, Reuters, BBC and CNET News

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Adobe's marketing cloud goes real-time, adds app store, boosts search ads 25% — How can big data and smart analytics ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. There are less than 50 tickets left!

More: Marketing Land, internetretailer.com, ValueWalk, Forbes, MediaPost, ZDNet and Inside Facebook

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Mozilla reluctantly bows to industry pressure, adopts DRM tech required to watch Netflix video — Mozilla holds its nose and supports DRM video in Firefox — The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web.

More: Guardian, Mozilla Hacks and The Mozilla Blog. Tweets: @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer

Stig Øyvann / ZDNet:

Apple's ‘convoluted and unclear’ iCloud agreements break Norwegian law, says watchdog — Summary: Norway's Consumer Council has filed a complaint about iCloud 8,600 word EULA. — The Norwegian Consumer Council has filed a complaint over the terms and conditions of Apple's iCloud service …

More: forbrukerradet.no, MacRumors, EurActiv, InvestorPlace, iMore and Gigaom

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Red Hat refuses to support commercial Linux customers if they use rival versions of OpenStack — Red Hat Plays Hardball on OpenStack Software — Rivals Fear That Software Maker Is Using Linux Dominance to Block Use of Alternative Cloud Software — Software maker Red Hat Inc …

More: Gigaom and internetnews.com

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Image Is Everything: Snapchat Tops WhatsApp As Biggest U.S. Messaging App By Volume — Snapchat may be getting a rap on the knuckles right now from regulators over how it handles user privacy, but the ephemeral messaging app is still a hot commodity. According to a report out today …

More: Sandvine, Re/code, DSLreports, TorrentFreak, BGR, Gigaom and Glass. See also Mediagazer

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

SAP Cuts Jobs as Co-CEO McDermott Hastens Software Shift — SAP AG (SAP), the biggest maker of business applications, is planning its first widespread job cuts in more than four years as the company shifts to delivering more software online. — The German technology company …

More: The Register, PC World, MarketWatch, ZDNet, Dice News, Wall Street Journal and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @rwang0

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Consumer Watchdog objects to Eric Schmidt's appointment to NY's “Smart Schools” advisory group, citing “unlawful conflicts of interest” — Eric Schmidt Has an Interest. Is It a Conflict? — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York last month appointed a three-person commission …

More: SiliconBeat

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Apple's iOS Human Interface Guidelines Now On The iBooks Store — Previously available on the web from Apple's developer portal, the company's iOS Human Interface Guidelines are now on the iBooks Store as a free download (via Dave Addey). The 20 MB guide is compatible with iPads …

More: iMore, Gizmodo, App Advice, Daring Fireball, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacNN. Tweets: @daveaddey

FaryaabS / SamMobile:

Hands-on with a test build of the Tizen operating system for the original Galaxy Gear — Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy Gear Tizen Preview — Earlier this year, there was speculation about Samsung launching new version of its Galaxy Gear along with the Samsung Galaxy S5 at the UNPACKED 2014 Episode 1 event in Barcelona, Spain.

More: xda-developers, Ubergizmo, Android Police and Connectedly

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Stealth startup alert: Skype co-founder ventures into health and wearables with Project Florida — Skype's co-founder Janus Friis is looking to take on Fitbit with a new data-heavy health and wellness-focused wearable device, and he's assembled a high-profile team to do so …

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Research study classifies the many reasons for why people favorite tweets — Why We Favorite Tweets, According To Science — An ‘ official ’ taxonomy of faving behaviors. — Sometime around 2013, Twitter-obsessives became fixated on favoriting. It started with the evolution of Twitter's platform …

Tweets: @delsweil, @vivian and @nytimesbits

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

FCC considers treating cable firms like utilities in net neutrality debate — US regulator has faced criticism after it appeared to suggest it was willing to create a ‘fast-lane internet’ for those who can pay — The top lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission confirmed on Tuesday …

More: Gizmodo, Mashable and Quartz

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