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Vindu Goel / New York Times:

A look at a Facebook ad campaign for MegaRed krill oil, from conception to measured results, done through Facebook's “publishing garage” program — How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil — Joao Rodrigues had been listening and holding his tongue. For a day and a half, brand managers …

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Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:

NFL teams will use heavily modified Surface tablets on the sidelines to view and annotate photos of opponents' formations — NFL players to use tablet computers during games — NFL adds tablet computers, secure wireless networks to assist players, coaches and officials during games [ …

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Fred Wilson / AVC:

Carriers not charging for data on select apps could lead to an exclusive, cable TV-like mobile internet — The Scourge Of Zero Rating — It seems like every week I read another article about a mobile carrier offering some incredible deal to eat the mobile data costs you rack up using certain apps.

More: Wired and Wikimedia blog. Tweets: @startupljackson, @cdixon, @spencerchen and @howardlindzon

Tim Carmody / kottke.org:

The problem with OKCupid is the problem with the social web — Hi, everybody! Tim Carmody here, guest-hosting for Jason this week. — On Monday, I tried to list some reasons why OKCupid's self-acknowledged experiments on its users didn't seem to be stirring up the same outrage that Facebook's had.

More: Pressthink, Wordyard, rc3.org, On The Media, werd.io and Boing Boing

Tweets: @tcarmody, @karenmcgrane, @katecrawford and @kissane

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Evan Blass explains why he's leaving tech news and retiring @evleaks, a source of phone scoops — Evan Blass explains why his @evleaks Twitter account will stop reporting phone scoops — Sunday is the quietest news day of the week for the tech industry, but Evan Blass — the man behind @evleaks …

More: Ubergizmo, AndroidHeadlines.com, Android Beat, The Next Web and Android Police

Tweets: @evleaks and @tktechnews

Dan Frommer / Quartz:

Nearly 60% of sampled mid-sized tech & media firms and 92% of sampled YC startups use Gmail — Google is stealing away Microsoft's future corporate customers — Microsoft has long dominated the corporate-software market, and its new CEO Satya Nadella has set his sights on owning all things related to productivity and the cloud.

Tweets: @zseward, @reckless and @jyarow

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Google Spotted Explicit Images Of A Child In A Man's Email And Tipped Off The Authorities — A Houston man has been arrested after Google sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saying the man had explicit images of a child in his email, according to Houston police.

More: Naked Security, KHOU-TV, CNET, The Next Web, Your Houston News, Examiner and Daily Dot. Tweets: @chetfaliszek

Rebecca Flint Marx / San Francisco magazine:

The Toxic, Abusive, Addictive, Supportive, Codependent Relationship Between Chefs and Yelpers — For 10 years, the citizens reviewers of Yelp have showered restaurants with praise—and pummeled them with abuse. Now chefs are showing the psychological effects.

More: Internet History Podcast and The Verge

Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:

Leak lets you easily send anonymous emails — “I Lied To You A Few Days Ago”: The Leak Messaging App And Anonymous Honesty — The tool for sending anonymous messages is gaining traction. But is it really the truth we're after? — “I lied to you a few days ago. Telling you anonymously makes me feel better.

More: Business Insider, Telegraph, The Next Web, Medium, The Huffington Post, Motherboard, Washington Post, Vox, CBC News and NPR

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Share of Twitter users who don't use the official site or app, and thus don't see ads, grows to 14% — Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads — Investors who drove up Twitter Inc. 's market value by more than $3 billion this week might want to read the fine print.

More: Quartz and PC Magazine. Tweets: @marshallk, @dsilverman and @zseward

New York Times:

Alibaba Is Investing Huge Sums in an Array of U.S. Tech Companies — Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet retailer, is coming to America with its checkbook wide open. — In March, Alibaba made a $215 million investment in Tango, a messaging app. It recently contacted Snapchat …

More: Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @peterlauria3

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

If Xiaomi wants to enter the US market it should stop copying design from other companies — Xiaomi's One More Thing — The young electronics company Xiaomi is exploding in China and seems posed to take over the world. In the four short years since its founding, Xiaomi has become …

More: Digital Trends and Pocketnow

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