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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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Julie Bort / Business Insider:

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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.

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Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Square to acquire food delivery startup Caviar in a $90M all stock deal, announcement coming later this week — Square Will Announce Acquisition of Food Delivery Startup Caviar This Week — Square is on a mission to diversify, and it's turning to the red-hot food delivery industry to do so.

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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Q&A with Pinterest's Evan Sharp on the company's function, competitors, and ambition — What Is Pinterest? A Database of Intentions — Evan Sharp, one of the co-founders of Pinterest, delves into what the wildly popular image-collecting site is really about, and what it's likely to do in the future.

More: Mashable. Tweets: @pmarca, @scottjenson and @elizabeth. Thanks:@srikardr

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

Why these startups think chat apps are the next big thing in workplace collaboration — The big cloud storage companies like Amazon and the file-sync players like Box aren't the only ones rolling out work-collaboration features; there's a host of startups generating a lot of interest …

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.

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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 …

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Tanvi Misra / NPR:

Google faces challenges in trying to support every written language with its Noto font family — Can Google Build A Typeface To Support Every Written Language? — Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects — digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars.

Tweets: @anildash

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.

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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 …

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