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Liz Gannes / Re/code:
Google has established a “right to be forgotten” form following EU ruling  —  Begrudgingly, Google Offers a Form for People Who Want to Be Forgotten  —  Europe's highest court on May 13 decided that its citizens could ask search engines to delete search results about themselves.
Mercury News:
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120 million to needy Bay Area schools  —  The world's most innovative community shouldn't also be a home for struggling public schools.  Today Priscilla and I are announcing a $120 million commitment to support efforts to improve education for underserved communities in the Bay Area.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Beats Breakdown: Apple Paying $2.5B for Beats Electronics, $500M for Beats Music
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
Microsoft to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch that measures heart rate, syncs with iPhones, Android and Windows Phones  —  Exclusive: A Microsoft Smartwatch Is Coming  —  Microsoft is the latest technology giant preparing to jump into the wearables market, with plans to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch …
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
Apple's upcoming smart home program is about ‘Made for iPhone’ certification, not deep product integration  —  Here's how Apple's smart home program will work  —  Apple's move into the smart home isn't actually the grand experience I had hoped for.
Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed:
Amazon Prime to offer music streaming service with songs six months old or older, coming June/July; Sony, Warner on board  —  Exclusive: Amazon Prime To Offer Music Streaming Service — With 6-Month-Old Songs  —  The internet giant has reached deals with major labels for a service to launch this June or July.
ESPN:
Steve Ballmer to buy LA Clippers for $2B; agreement signed by Sterling, pending NBA approval  —  Former Microsoft CEO bids $2B  —  Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has submitted a bid of $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, sources have confirmed to ESPN.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
New Heartbleed attack hits Android devices and routers over Wi-Fi  —  Seven weeks after the bug put the web on high alert, Heartbleed is still causing problems.  A new report from Portuguese security researcher Luis Grangeia describes how the same bug could be used over Wi-Fi to enable …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Emerging Market Strategy Includes Its Own Version Of A “Facebook Zero” Like Service Called “Twitter Access”  —  Mobile carriers around the world are touting their involvement in a program called “Twitter Zero,” but that's not its real name.  —  In 2010, Facebook revealed …
David Ulevitch / OpenDNS Blog:
OpenDNS will be ad-free for all users starting June 6  —  No more ads  —  TL;DR: We've always tried to put user experience first, even when that gets in the way of making more money.  Browsers have changed, we've become a security company, and we've shifted our business to rely …
Grant Gross / PC World:
Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility  —  A U.S. lawmaker has introduced legislation that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying broadband as a common-carrier utility, a move many net neutrality advocates have called for.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Salesforce CRM apps coming to Windows and Windows Phone  —  Summary: Salesforce and Microsoft have agreed to tighten ties between Salesforce's CRM apps and platform and Microsoft's Windows and Office.  —  Salesforce.com is building new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 CRM apps …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Google's Motorola to close down Texas factory this year, will continue making Moto X elsewhere  —  Google's Motorola Mobility to Close Factory in Texas  —  Fort Worth Plant to Close by End of Year; Employs 700 Workers Who Assemble Moto X Phones  —  Google Inc. 's attempt to build smartphones …
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Shock resistant Galaxy S5 Active available from AT&T for $199.99 on two year contract  —  AT&T releases shock-resistant Samsung Galaxy S5 Active  —  The Samsung Galaxy S5's waterproofing was one of its headline features, but if you need a little more resilience AT&T may have you covered.

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Deadline:
Disney initiates a third round of layoffs under Josh D'Amaro, sources say impacting a couple hundred staff, largely in HR and tech, smaller than prior rounds

John Koblin / New York Times:
Paramount streaming chief Cindy Holland is leaving the company; she joined Skydance as an adviser and became Paramount's direct-to-consumer chief last year

Wall Street Journal:
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