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Zac Bowden / WinBeta:

Windows 10: A closer look at Cortana integration with Spartan (with video) — Microsoft's new browser has a unique feature built in... Cortana — Microsoft announced back in January that Windows 10 would ship with two browsers, the regular IE11 for backwards compatibility, and Spartan.

More: The Verge, Business Insider, InfoWorld, Fortune, BGR, Gizmodo, Engadget, Web Browser, Engadget, The Tech Report, Windows Central, Neowin, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo UK and PC World

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

PCH buys Fab.com, will use it as a sales channel for the hardware products it helps startups make — Fab.com's Fire Sale Is Official — Fab.com finally has a new home. — PCH International, a company that helps startups design and manufacture hardware products, has announced …

More: Medium, TechCrunch, Bloomberg Business, Gigaom, PSFK, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, PCH - We make, internetretailer.com, The Verge, Mashable and YourStory.com

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Watch's retail sales pitch uses a soft-sell that focuses on bands, three key features including health and fitness, and upgrading iPhone — Apple Watch's retail sales pitch revealed: 3 key features, switch to iPhone, focus on bands — With next week's Apple Watch event fast approaching …

More: iMore, TIME, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Silicon Republic, bizjournals, Redmond Pie, ITProPortal and GSMArena Blog. Thanks:@apollozac

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple beat Samsung for Q4 2014 global smartphone sales, first time since 2011; Samsung led sales for 2014 as a whole — Led By iPhone 6, Apple Passed Samsung In Q4 Smartphone Sales, 1.9B Mobiles Sold Overall In 2014 — If 2014 goes down as the year when smartphone sales globally passed the 1 billion mark …

More: BGR, GeekWire, Fortune, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, CNET, MacRumors, Business Standard, TheStreet.com, The Indian Express, Benzinga and Tech Times. Thanks:@_trendspotter

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Oculus Has Hired Mary Lou Jepsen Away From Google X — Facebook-owned Oculus has hired away big-time Google X executive Mary Lou Jepsen, according to sources familiar with the move. — Jepsen, who spent the last three years running the Display Division at Google X, is joining …

More: VentureBeat, Fortune, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Gigaom and socalTECH.com

Rich Brome / Phone Scoop:

YotaPhone 2 featuring a rear-facing e-ink display to make its US debut this spring via Indiegogo — YotaPhone 2 Launching in U.S. via Indiegogo — YotaPhone plans to launch its unique dual-screen YotaPhone 2 in the U.S. this spring via crowd-funding site Indiegogo, according to spokesperson Mike Kelley.

More: Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Gizmodo, The Verge, Android Authority, Gigaom, Phandroid, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, Liliputing and PhoneDog.com

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Inside Project Loon: Google's internet in the sky is almost open for business — “Good news,” says Katelin Jabbari, Google X's communications chief. “It's about to explode.” — We're several hundred feet in the air, inching our way along a wooden walkway tucked high into the rafters …

More: InfoWorld, Fortune, Business Insider, Beyond Search, theWHIR.com and DSLreports. Tweets: @vassko

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Luxe Confirms $20M In New Funding, As It Hires A Business Chief And Expands To New Markets — Last week we reported that on-demand valet startup Luxe had raised $20 million in Series A funding from Venrock Partners and Redpoint Ventures to expand its service into new markets.

More: GeekWire, Gigaom, Luxe Valet, VentureBeat and BetaBoston

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Pebble reveals Pebble Time Steel for $250 on Kickstarter along with a “Smartstraps” system that's open to hardware developers — Pebble Reveals Pebble Time Steel And A Smartstrap System Open To Hardware Developers — Pebble announced Pebble Time last week …

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Researchers discover “FREAK” flaw, which can force Safari and Android browsers to use weak encryption, enabling MITM attacks — “FREAK” flaw undermines security for Apple and Google users, researchers discover — Technology companies are scrambling to fix a major security flaw …

More: A Few Thoughts …, Freedom to Tinker, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Akamai Blog, Forbes and MacDailyNews

Tweets: @csoghoian and @csoghoian

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

BlackBerry plans four phones this year, including $275 all-touch 5-inch Leap phablet — BlackBerry plans to launch a sliding ‘dual-curved display’ phone this year — During a press conference at Mobile World Congress today, BlackBerry revealed that it plans to launch a new touchscreen slider device later this year.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Sync, BitTorrent's Free File Sharing Service, Exits Beta With A $40 Pro Tier — BitTorrent is today taking one more step ahead in its bid to create a revenue-generating business out of its peer-to-peer file-sharing network. Sync, the desktop and mobile file synchronising service …

More: The Official BitTorrent Blog, The Next Web, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Macworld, Inquirer, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, gHacks Technology News and Lifehacker

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

Khronos unveils Vulkan: next generation of OpenGL, a cross-platform efficient graphics API — Next Generation OpenGL Becomes Vulkan: Additional Details Released — Continuing this week's GDC-2015 fueled blitz of graphics API news releases, we have Khronos, the industry consortium behind OpenGL …

More: Ars Technica, TechSpot, PC World, VentureBeat and The Register

Lauren Johnson / Adweek:

Interview with Kim Kardashian on her hit game, aspirations in tech, and plans to create more apps — After Conquering Reality TV, Kim Kardashian Is Taking the Mobile World By Storm — Kim Kardashian West first grabbed our attention in October 2007 with the premiere of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

More: Business Insider, Fortune, Refinery29 and Racked

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Tor Users Must Now Provide A Phone Number To Open A New Twitter Account — Twitter last week announced plans to begin tracking troublesome users via their mobile phone number. Along those lines, it has begun forcing users of anonymous web browser Tor to provide a number in order to open a new account.

More: Tech Times and Neowin. Tweets: @xor and @anonyops

Jeff Mason / Reuters:

Obama criticizes China's new rules requiring US tech companies to provide backdoor access, says Beijing must change policy if it wants to do business with USA — Exclusive: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama …

More: Motherboard, Washington Post, Engadget, Macworld, SiliconBeat, PandoDaily, Wall Street Journal, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, Medium, VentureBreak, NBC News, The Hill and Information Overlord

Tweets: @olivierlacan, @matthew_d_green, @csoghoian, @ggreenwald, @lorenzofb and @loosewire

Kevin Dugan / New York Post:

Goldman Sachs and 14 other banks invest $66M in Symphony, a messaging and social networking service for Wall Street workers — Goldman Sachs to debut new social networking service — Call it Goldman Apps. — A Goldman Sachs-backed messaging and social networking service is planning …

More: Gigaom Research and Mediaite. Tweets: @moorehn and @mgsiegler

Luke Westaway / CNET:

The Lenovo A7000 is a $169, 5.5-inch 4G LTE smartphone with Dolby sound — BARCELONA — Once the preserve of the high-fallutin', gadget-lovin' elite, smartphones no longer need to cost the Earth. The latest mobile to offer smartphone tech on a modest budget is Lenovo's A7000 …

More: NDTV Gadgets, India - The Huffington Post, PC Pro, Tech2, Android Authority and MobileBurn.com

AnandTech:

Lenovo unveils 5-inch VIBE Shot 2-in-one 16MP smartphone/camera with image stabilization, tri-color flash; available June for $349

More: Lenovo Newsroom, Engadget, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, TechnoBuffalo, Android Police, GadgeTell, ShinyShiny, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Android and Me, PhoneDog.com, The Verge and Pocket-lint

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