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February 17, 2015, 2:15 PM

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Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Orders More Than 5 Million Watches for Initial Run — Apple has asked its suppliers in Asia to make a combined five to six million units of its three Apple Watch models during the first quarter ahead of the product's release in April, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

WSJ: Apple struggled to find purpose for Apple Watch after many planned health features were cut, 5 million units ordered — The Wall Street Journal revealed tonight that many of the planned health features that Apple intended to include in its first-generation wearable were cut from the final product.

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Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs:

Office mobile and web apps now support more third-party cloud storage services, including iCloud and Box — New cloud storage integration for Office — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. — We want Office to be the preferred …

Amy Zima / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter launches TweetDeck Teams, allowing sharing of accounts without sharing passwords, rolling out today for TweetDeck for web, Chrome, and Windows — Introducing TweetDeck Teams — Introducing TweetDeck Teams, a simple way to share access to your Twitter accounts without sharing passwords.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Mashable

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Sparrow Flies Away, As Google Finally Pulls iOS And Mac Email Apps From Apple's Stores — As Google sharpens the focus on its new Inbox email app, the company has quietly made another move on the email front: it appears to have pulled the Sparrow iOS and Mac apps from their respective Apple App Stores.

More: 9to5Google, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com

Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:

Microsoft announces its cloud services are compliant with ISO 27018, a new international standard for privacy — Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard — Today marks a major milestone, as Microsoft is the first major cloud provider to adopt the world's first international standard for cloud privacy.

Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:

Sony opens pre-orders for SmartEyeglass Developer Edition in the UK and Germany; $840 device ships in March — Sony Announces Pre-Orders Of SmartEyeglass Developer Edition, Starting Today In The UK And Germany For $840 — Sony slipped the official SmartEyeglass app into the Play Store yesterday …

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

EMC's Pivotal open sources big data tech, joins newly formed Hadoop-focused Open Data Platform with Hortonworks, IBM, GE, Verizon, Infosys, others — Pivotal open sources its Hadoop and Greenplum tech, and then some — Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz at Structure Data 2014. Credit: Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz / Jakub Mosur

More: Re/code, TechCrunch, PC World, ZDNet, InfoWorld, The Register, New York Times and VentureBeat

Eugene Kim / Business Insider:

Parker Harris: The little-known nice guy who helped turn Salesforce into San Francisco's most powerful tech company — Parker Harris was sitting by the windows of Kinkaid's, a steakhouse in Burlingame, California, gazing at the lake of Anza Lagoon, when Marc Benioff walked in.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @kwongerific and @bt_social

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Extensive Kasperky Lab report details advanced spy capabilities of Stuxnet-linked threat actor dubbed “Equation Group” — How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last — “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered.

Joseph Menn / Reuters:

NSA-linked “Equation Group” can infect computers repeatedly via spyware inserted in hard disk firmware

More: Engadget, PandoDaily, Kaspersky Lab US, Gizmodo, The Hill, DSLreports, Electronista, BGR, The Next Web, Wired.co.uk, VentureBreak, The Register, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Boing Boing

Tweets: @violetblue, @csoghoian, @dangillmor, @info_activism and @jonathan_blow

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Pebble's Android Wear support goes from beta to public release — Smartwatch maker Pebble now supports Android Wear notifications — Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile.

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

Case study: Twitter sends less than 2% of tweet impressions back to a linked website — The Unbearable Lightness of Tweeting — At the heart of the media's chattiest technology is a hollow sharing economy. A personal investigation into just how little traffic Twitter's maelstrom actually contributes to websites.

More: TechPresident and AdExchanger. Tweets: @dberkholz, @tomcoates, @klintron, @abiyetk, @snoodit, @madamebutcher, @jbenton, @bryanbumgardner, @spencerchen, @davewiner and @monkbent. See also Mediagazer

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

With IPO on Hold, Gilt Groupe Raises $50 Million Investment — Gilt Groupe just got some breathing room. — The online retailer, which sells fashion apparel at discount prices in so-called flash sales, has raised a new investment of around $50 million, multiple sources told Re/code.

More: GeekWire

TechCrunch:

Facebook's New Ads Automatically Show A Business' Products That You'll Want Most — You've probably seen plenty of products advertised on Facebook, but today the company is announcing a new unit called product ads, with features aimed specifically at helping businesses sell their products.

More: Facebook, Marketing Land, ZDNet, VentureBeat and internetretailer.com

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