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May 27, 2014, 11:25 PM

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Gurdeep Pall / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Skype Translator, a real-time language translation tool, will begin rolling out later this year — Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations — The following post is from Gurdeep Pall, Corporate Vice President of Skype and Lync at Microsoft.

More: Re/code, TechCrunch, Re/code, Microsoft Research, ZDNet, The Register, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, MacRumors, Gizmodo, CNET News, The Next Web, Quartz, Engadget, The Verge, iMore, Vox, Bloomberg, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, WinBeta, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable, Business Insider Australia and App Advice. Tweets: @dinabass

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Satya Nadella on Microsoft's future, the “post-post-PC era,” and his immediate to-do list — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Code Conference — Highlights: Microsoft's future is about building platforms and software for productivity. Nadella says we're entering a “post-post-PC era.”

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Verge, GeekWire, Re/code and Business Insider

Tweets: @ahess247, @jonfortt, @parislemon, @reckless, @stevecase, @jguynn, @kabster728, @lanceulanoff and @stevenlevy

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google unveils a self-driving car prototype, sans steering wheel, accelerator, and brake, speed limited to 25mph — Google's New Self-Driving Car Ditches the Steering Wheel — Google has finally built its own car from scratch. And it looks like a gondola with wheels.

More: The Official Google Blog, Re/code, Re/code, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, New York Times, The Verge, BuzzFeed, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, Business Insider and Android Central

Tweets: @theonlynewts, @dmac1, @dinabass, @savitz, @jguynn, @ihnatko, @mims, @cnbc and @theinformation

LG:

LG announces the G3, its new flagship smartphone with a 5.5" 2560 x 1440 display that launches May 28 in South Korea, later in other countries — WITH NEW G3, LG AIMS TO REDEFINE CONCEPT OF SMART AND SIMPLE — LG Electronics (LG) today introduced to the world its eagerly anticipated G3 smartphone …

More: PR Newswire, Geek Beat, AndroidGuys, Phandroid, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, LAPTOP Magazine, TIME, Xperia Blog, POPSUGAR, Gigaom, PhoneArena, dailywireless.org, Droid Life and High-Def Digest. Tweets: @harrymccracken

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

LG Officially Outs Its Leaky G3 Smartphone: Bigger Hardware, Flatter Software

More: Engadget, The Verge, BGR, Gizmodo, NEWS.com.au, BetaNews, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, CNET News, LAPTOP Magazine, IntoMobile, BGR, Inquirer, Droid Life, AnandTech, VentureBeat and SiliconBeat

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Yahoo Plots YouTube Rival for Summer Debut After Delay — Portal's Proposed Terms Have Received Pushback From YouTube Creators — Yahoo wants to rival YouTube for viral videos. — Creativity Reimagined — Is there room for another YouTube? — Yahoo is ramping up talks …

More: VentureBeat, CNET News, CBS San Francisco, Tubefilter, TechnoBuffalo and Ubergizmo. See also Mediagazer

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Valve: Steam Machines delayed until 2015 — Valve attached this controller sketch image to its announcement. Go ahead, pick it apart for clues about new hats coming to Team Fortress 2! — Valve Software — On Tuesday evening, Valve Software used a forum in the Steam games-store app …

More: The Verge, GeekWire, Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Kotaku and Gamasutra

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries — Lucrative Rebates Aimed at Top Tech Talent — Imagine you are launching or running a startup and there's a place where all of your developers—the biggest expense for most tech companies—cost one quarter what they do in Silicon Valley.

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook reduces volume of auto-posted stories from third-party apps in News Feed — Facebook gives up on automatically posting everything you do online — Mark Zuckerberg's quantified self dream is over — for now — Last week, Facebook made a small but very important change to Instagram.

More: Facebook Developers, Facebook, TechCrunch, LIVEdigitally, TechHive, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Gizmodo UK and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine

Bloomberg:

China Said to Push Banks to Remove IBM Servers for Security — The Chinese government is pushing domestic banks to remove high-end servers made by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and replace them with a local brand, according to people familiar with the matter …

More: New York Times, Guardian, Xinhua News Agency, The Register, Ars Technica, CNET News, Reuters, Engadget, Computerworld, TechSpot, eWeek and Inquirer

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

Intuit dishes $360 million to acquire mobile bill pay firm Check — Summary: The Palo Alto, California-based company is best known for its mobile app that automates and consolidates the bill pay process for both consumers and small businesses. — Financial services giant Intuit …

More: Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Washington Post, Reuters, silicontap.com and PE Hub Blog

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter and Omnicom Strike $230 Million Mobile Ad Deal — Omnicom Media Group announced a mobile-focused deal with Twitter on Tuesday, worth $230 million over the next two years. — The deal will integrate Omnicom's programmatic ad buying unit Accuen with Twitter's ad exchange MoPub …

More: VentureBeat, ClickZ, Marketing Land, Electronista, Reuters and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Mark Hearn / 9to5Google:

Google blocking extensions not listed in the Chrome Web Store for Windows users — Google announced today that it's now blocking local Chrome extensions to protect Windows users from malicious software. This means that only extensions coming from the Chrome Web Store can be installed on Chrome for Windows.

More: Google Chrome Blog, Chromium Blog, Engadget, The Register, The Next Web, Neowin, The Next Web, Phandroid, TechCrunch, Liliputing and BetaNews

eMarketer Newsroom:

Forecast: Twitter could reach 400M users in 2018, 40.1% in Asia-Pacific, 19% in North America — Emerging Markets Drive Twitter User Growth Worldwide — More than 40% of Twitter users worldwide will be in Asia-Pacific by 2018 — Twitter's user base will increase 24.4% in 2014 …

More: New York Times, Business Insider, Marketing Land, Businessweek, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Softpedia News, Fortune, TechCrunch and AllTwitter. See also Mediagazer

William Gruger / Billboard:

Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts Go Live — Today, Billboard and Twitter officially launch the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts. These new, interactive charts redefine how fans interact with, and influence, popular content by ranking the most popular songs being shared on Twitter in the U.S.

More: Mashable, Digital Trends, AllTwitter, Engadget, Motherboard, Complex, Daily Dot, Pocket-lint, TechSpot and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple to live stream ‘exciting’ WWDC keynote for everyone to watch — Apple has updated its website to announce that it will be live streaming next week's WWDC Keynote address for all to watch. As per usual, the event will be available on Macs running Safari 4 or later …

Michelle Moghtader / Reuters:

Iranian judge summons Facebook CEO for breach of privacy — (Reuters) - A conservative Iranian court opened a case against instant messaging services WhatsApp and Instagram while also summoning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over complaints of privacy violation, state news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday.

More: Slate and Mashable

Francis Bea / CNET News:

Inside Innoconn: Foxconn's new hardware startup incubator — Will this Chinese manufacturer's search for the next big thing pay off? CNET takes a tour of Foxconn's Innoconn Beijing campus to find out more.

Thanks:@francisybea

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Toshiba's back-to-school lineup has laptops, tablets, and everything in between — What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! — For most students, school isn't even over yet.

More: BetaNews, Engadget, PC World, The Verge, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and LAPTOP Magazine

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Drupal Platform Acquia Raises $50M Funding Round Led By NEA — Acquia, the digital business solutions provider for Drupal launched by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert, today announced that it has raised a $50 million financing round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation …

More: Acquia, Gigaom, Digital Media Wire, VentureBeat, Xconomy, bizjournals, theWHIR.com, OStatic blogs and BetaBoston

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