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Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:

Adobe Upgrades Creative Cloud, Adds New Mobile Apps And Creative Hardware — Adobe aims to establish itself as more of a service platform today with a focus on mobile first and the largest overhaul of Creative Cloud desktop applications to date. — All 14 desktop applications in Adobe's creative suite get an upgrade.

More: CNET, iMore, Engadget, Gizmodo and Richard Curtis's Blog

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

Adobe announces Ink and Slide, a $200 pen and ruler combo for new iPad apps Sketch and Line — Adobe Releases a Physical Ruler and Pen to Go with New iPad Apps — What's next — Adobe selling hardware? Exactly! Today, Adobe began selling an intriguing, good-looking …

More: Gizmodo, MacRumors, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web, GeekWire, Re/code and Wired

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Hands-on: Adobe's Lightroom for iPhone, ‘Photoshop Mix’ for iPad take powerful image editing mobile — Adobe on Wednesday added two new apps to its growing lineup of mobile photo editing tools, including a made-for-iPhone port of Lightroom and a new tool called Photoshop Mix that can handle photo cutouts, composites and effects.

More: iMore, ZDNet, CNET, Macworld, The Verge, TechCrunch, TechCrunch and Gizmodo

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe launches Creative Cloud 2014 — its first massive update since killing the Creative Suite — Forget the Creative Suite. Adobe's first major Creative Cloud update proves that going all-in on subscriptions was the right decision. — Today Adobe announced the launch of Creative Cloud 2014 …

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Adobe launches cheaper Creative Cloud subscription for photographers: $9.99/month for Photoshop and Lightroom

More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, Macworld, The Next Web and The Register

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases new cheaper iMac with low-end processor, priced at $1099 — As rumored last week, Apple has today released a new model of iMac. These machines are considerably cheaper than their predecessors, priced at $1099. Previously, the cheapest iMac SKU was priced at $1299 (which is now the mid-range model).

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ — It only took 8 hours to build the app, and the only thing it does is allow you to send the word ‘Yo’ to your friends. To many, it seems like a joke. But its inventor, Or Arbel, is totally serious.

More: BGR, Business Insider, blogs.ft.com, Vox, Medium, SlashGear and The Next Web

Tweets: @anthonyha, @samfbiddle, @zpower and @alexia

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

BlackBerry signs deal with Amazon App Store to bring 200,000 Android apps to BlackBerry 10.3 — BlackBerry has just announced a deal that will see more than 200,000 Android apps made available for BlackBerry devices via the Amazon App Store when the new version of BlackBerry's operating system arrives later in the year.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Fab Is Buying Helsinki's One Nordic Furniture To Score Original Products — Earlier this month Re/code reported that designer portal Fab was eyeing up a European furnishings site to move further into the area of building its own stock and away from reselling others', and today comes news …

More: VatorNews, Re/code and Mashable. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV likely to gain Continuity this fall, allowing tighter integration with Mac & iOS — Alongside the introduction of the current Apple TV design in fall 2010, Apple launched AirPlay. In short, AirPlay allows a user to watch a movie, listen to a song, or view a photo on an iPhone …

More: TechCrunch, iMore, MacRumors, iLounge and Softpedia News

Jackie Reses / Yahoo:

Yahoo the latest to disclose diversity: 62% men globally, and 50% white in US, more diverse than Google — Workforce Diversity at Yahoo — Here at Yahoo we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce. We're in the business of building products for hundreds …

More: PC Magazine, CNET, Washington Post, TechSpot, CNNMoney.com, WebProNews, GadgeTell, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Dice News, Bloomberg, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, The Register, The Verge, Business Insider, Gawker, NPR, SiliconBeat and TIME

Tweets: @dmac1, @wadhwa and @ceciliakang

Kellex / Droid Life:

Samsung Announces Galaxy S5 LTE-A for Korea - Features QHD Display, Snapdragon 805, and 3GB RAM — Samsung took the wraps off a brand new variant of the Galaxy S5 this evening in Korea, one that will surely disappoint and excite many of you at the same time.

More: Engadget, Computerworld, ZDNet, The Verge, 9to5Google, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, MobileBurn.com, Electronista, Geek.com, Neowin, BGR, The Next Web and Softpedia News

Klint Finley / Wired:

Department of Energy network ESnet is capable of cross-country data transfers at 91 Gbps — The Shadow Internet That's 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber — When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes …

More: DSLreports, The Register, Engadget and Gizmodo. Tweets: @aarnet

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

Disruption is a dumb buzzword. It's also an important concept — Jill Lepore isn't a fan of Clay Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation. Writing in the New Yorker, she laments the growing ubiquity of the term in business in general and Silicon Valley in particular.

More: The Awl, ReadWrite, New York Magazine, stratechery, Slate, The Guardian and Forbes

Tweets: @pmarca, @chetanchawla, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis, @willoremus, @mmasnick and @binarybits

Richard Stiennon / Security Current:

CloudFlare acquires and shutters VPN service CryptoSeal, plans CloudFlare VPN service in 2015 — CloudFlare Acquires CryptoSeal — ClouldFlare, the CDN like DDoS defense and security service, announced the acquisition of CryptoSeal, a personal VPN service, this morning.

More: CloudFlare Blog

James Temple / Re/code:

Spire Launches a Wearable Device That Measures Breathing — A San Francisco startup has developed a wearable device that monitors breathing patterns and a mobile app that suggests adjustments, promising to allow users to control stress levels or otherwise improve their states of mind.

More: TechCrunch, PC Magazine, ITworld.com, SlashGear, Engadget, Medical Daily, Shape Magazine, Ubergizmo, The Wire, VentureBeat, CNET and Pocket-lint

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Red Hat shells out $95 million for French OpenStack integrator eNovance — The two companies have been working together since last year, and the takeover should help Red Hat pitch its OpenStack distribution as being easy to deploy. — Red Hat has bought eNovance, the OpenStack systems integrator …

More: ZDNet, eWeek, Computerworld and ZDNet

Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:

Hackers Seen Using YouTube to Sell Stolen Credit Cards — A review of content on Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube service turned up dozens of videos selling stolen credit card data, according to an Internet-safety research group trying to shed more light on an $18 billion illicit industry.

More: Re/code, Los Angeles Times, PC World and Business Insider

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

One Kings Lane, after raising $112M in January, is laying off between 75-100 people, or up to 20% of its staff — One Kings Lane Will Cut up to 20 Percent of Its Staff — Just six months after landing a big round of investment that valued One Kings Lane at $900 million …

More: Wall Street Journal and VatorNews. Tweets: @werty

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Augmented reality matures: Blippar confirms Layar acquisition, no immediate plans to rock the boat — UK and US-based augmented reality company Blippar has snapped up its Dutch rival Layar for an undisclosed all-cash sum, the company confirmed today following rumors of the deal last week.

More: Blippar, TechCrunch and Layar

Loek Essers / PC World:

Europe's top court to review personal data exchange between EU and US — The Irish High Court has referred to a 14-year-old agreement governing the exchange of personal data between the European Union and the U.S. to the EU's top court. — The referral, on Wednesday …

More: Gigaom, The Register, Reuters, CNET, Inquirer and The Verge

Aldrin Calimlim / App Advice:

Sunrise Calendar Update Adds Integration With Evernote, Songkick, TripIt And More — The popular iOS calendar app Sunrise Calendar has just received an update that ushers in a series of integrations with a number of popular productivity and lifestyle apps. — For its inaugural batch …

More: The Next Web, SyrupCast, Sunrise, TechCrunch, Android Police, Android Central, Lifehacker and Droid Life

Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal:

Garmin launches Viago, a fully functioning $1.99 GPS app for iOS and Android, with maps, safety and traffic add-ons via in-app purchase — Garmin's Viago GPS App Has Powerful Features—Especially if You Pay Extra … Garmin, the once-mighty GPS powerhouse, just launched Víago …

More: Engadget, Garmin Blog, iMore, Gizmodo, Android Community, iClarified, iPhone Hacks, GadgeTell, Droid Life, MacRumors, Mashable, TUAW, Liliputing, TWICE and TechHive

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