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May 16, 2014, 2:00 PM
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Marketing Exec Ivy Ross Is The New Head Of Google Glass  —  Some significant HR changes at Google Glass we're hearing.  First off is the departure of lead electrical engineer Adrian Wong, to competing facecomputer Oculus.  Second off is the bringing on of Art.com's Chief Marketing Officer Ivy Ross to head the division.
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Dr. Dre, Beats sued for $20M by MOG founder David Hyman  —  Dr. Dre's Beats Electronics Hit With $20 Million-Plus Lawsuit  —  MOG founder claims he was hired and deliberately fired before he could collect his equity grant  —  Dr. Dre has hit a bum note with a man who claims that he was hired …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 to be rebranded as “Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5” for two weeks  —  Samsung rebranding Heathrow's busiest hub to ‘Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5’  —  Two weeks of S5 overload for British fliers  —  Samsung's marketing juggernaut is reaching …
Lauren Orsini / ReadWrite:
Pinterest Raises A $200 Million Warchest To Do Battle With Google  —  Pinterest has raised $200 million from investors in a deal that values the company at $5 billion, a source close to the company told ReadWrite.  (Update: The company is now confirming its financing.)
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Airbnb Experiments With ‘Experiences,’ Offering Everything From Bike Tours To Home-Cooked Meals  —  Traditionally, we've come to know Airbnb as a place where guests find accommodations in unique spaces, and as a platform for hosts to make extra money by opening their homes up to strangers.
More: The Verge
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Most tech giants now score well in EFF's first post-Snowden “Who Has Your Back?” report  —  Who Has Your Back?  —  Protecting Your Data from Government Requests — We entrust our most sensitive, private, and important information to technology companies like Google, Facebook, and Verizon.
Sam Ro / Business Insider:
Dan Loeb's Third Point hedge fund sells all 8M of its Yahoo shares in Q1  —  Dan Loeb Dumped Yahoo  —  Third Point, the hedge fund run by Dan Loeb, dumped all 8 million of its shares of Yahoo! in Q1.  —  This is according to a new 13-F regulatory filing.
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Diapers.com Founder Could Raise $50 Million or More for New Startup  —  Marc Lore is plotting his next thing.  —  Less than a year after the former CEO of Diapers.com parent company, Quidsi, left Amazon along with his co-founder Vinit Bharara, he has spoken with investors about raising funds …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Circle lets you purchase, store and send bitcoins without fees, launches today, still invitation only  —  Circle wants to be your friendly neighborhood bitcoin bank  —  The implosion and subsequent liquidation of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox last month played to the worst fears about digital currencies.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Yahoo Mail for Android updated with news, search, weather, sports, Flickr photos and videos  —  Less than a month after the iOS release, Yahoo today updated its Yahoo Mail app for Android with a slew of non-email features.  You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.
Ry Crist / CNET:
Microsoft gets into the home automation game with Insteon partnership  —  The tech giant's set to make its first foray into the smart home next month.  —  Microsoft announced a partnership with Insteon today, along with some big plans to fully incorporate the popular home automation network into its ecosystem.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The FCC doesn't have to authorize Internet fast lanes—they're already legal  —  What the FCC chair really means when he says he isn't legalizing paid fast lanes.  FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler repeatedly said today that his network neutrality proposal doesn't authorize Internet fast lanes.

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Axios:
Sources: WH officials believe NYT's Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book Regime Change

Max Tani / Semafor:
The NYT says it is reviewing columnist Nick Kristof's work that favorably mentioned former donors to his 2022 Oregon governor bid, including Bill Gates

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Sarah Longwell, founder of opinion news site The Bulwark; source: its revenue was $20M+ in 2025 and is on track to increase by ~50% this year

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Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:
Uber Said to Be in Funding Talks for More Than $10B Value
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