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March 3, 2015, 3:55 AM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tim Cook says Apple Watch will be available outside U.S. in April — Speaking at the Berlin flagship Apple Store last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees that the Apple Watch will not be exclusive to the United States in April, according to employees in attendance.

More: NEWS.com.au, App Advice, Electronista, Macworld, Tech2, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, CNET, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com and The Next Web

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Cook teases ‘ton’ of Apple Watch announcements, including Panera Bread, Salesforce enterprise & fitness apps — In addition to discussing the international Apple Watch launch and accessibility efforts at a briefing in Germany, Apple CEO Tim Cook teased “a whole ton of announcements coming shortly …

More: MacDailyNews, App Advice, Business Insider and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @markgurman

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Google quietly backs away from encrypting new Lollipop devices by default — Encrypted storage will only be required in “future versions of Android.” — Last year, Google made headlines when it revealed that its next version of Android would require full-disk encryption on all new phones.

More: PC World, Gigaom, The Register, iMore, MobileSyrup.com, Droid Life, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Engadget, BGR, AppleInsider, Phandroid, OSNews, PhoneDog.com, VentureBeat, Android Police and NextBigWhat

Tweets: @ageis and @thegrugq

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: PC Pro, Tech2, India - The Huffington Post, NDTV Gadgets, 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, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, Android Police, GadgeTell, ShinyShiny, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Android and Me, PhoneDog.com, The Verge and Pocket-lint

Aaron Pressman / Yahoo Tech:

Samsung Pay vs. Apple Pay vs. Android Pay — Samsung's new mobile payment system, coming this summer, will work even at the millions of old-fashioned checkout terminals that don't have a wireless connection. That solves one of the big limitations of Apple's mobile pay system …

More: Samsungmobilepress.com, Droid Life, Tech Times and BGR

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Sundar Pichai confirms Android Pay, says it will exist as an “API layer” for developers

More: The Next Web, SlashGear, Android Central, Computerworld, InvestorPlace, AppleInsider, Android Police, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog and Android Authority

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Sundar Pichai: Google Will Give Details Of Its U.S. Mobile Network ‘In The Coming Months’

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Wired, Forbes, Quartz, 9to5Google, Gigaom, New York Times, Tech Times, Silicon Valley Watcher, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Reuters, GSMArena Blog, Gizmodo, Global Nerdy, PhoneDog.com, Android Police, USA Today, SlashGear and MobileSyrup.com

Tweets: @amir and @amir

Chloe Sorvino / Forbes:

The World's Richest Tech Billionaires: Jack Ma Breaks Through to Top, Google Leaders Slip — Want to join the upper crust of the billionaire ranks? Building a tech company could be your way in: Seven of the world's 15 richest self-made billionaires earned their wealth through a technology business.

More: CNET

Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica:

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 will feature Kryo CPU, Krait's 64-bit successor — At long last, it's (almost) time for Qualcomm's custom-designed 64-bit chip. — BARCELONA, Spain—Qualcomm, after an agonizingly long wait, has finally revealed a few details about its next-gen, top-end CPU core.

More: AnandTech, Engadget, Ars Technica, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, Android Authority, BBC, Pocket-lint, Neowin and CNET

Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech:

Qualcomm's cognitive compute processors are coming to Snapdragon 820

More: Droid Life, Ubergizmo, Forbes, Android Police and Android Central

Kashmir Hill / Fusion:

Open Whisper System's Signal app for encrypted calls gets encrypted texting in version 2.0 for iOS — You can now call or text anyone with end-to-end encryption, for free — For years, smartphone users have been out of luck if they wanted to call or text everyone in their address books …

More: Open Whisper Systems Blog, Wired, The Intercept, Ars Technica, RT, Forbes, The Verge and The Next Web. Tweets: @micahflee

Niall Kennedy / The Twitter Blog:

Embed Twitter-hosted video on your website — With the new embedded video widget, you can highlight Twitter-hosted video on your website, enhanced by the same JavaScript used to render Tweet buttons and embedded Tweets. — Video embeds are available for videos captured …

More: The Verge, Mashable, WebProNews, Marketing Land, Tubefilter, SocialTimes, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

Stratos Bluetooth connected card aims to unify all credit cards, ships in April — Stratos' Bluetooth connected payment card works everywhere, available this April — Everyone wants a piece of the payments space and if the excitement for Coin proved anything, people want a single card …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Gizmodo, eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, CNNMoney, Tom's Guide, NBC News and Mashable

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: Wall Street Journal, The Hill and NBC News

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

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

PayPal to Pay $280 Million for Paydiant to Help Retailers Compete With Apple Pay — PayPal isn't giving up on payments in brick-and-mortar stores. — The eBay payment unit plans to acquire Paydiant, a payments startup that licenses a technology platform used by big retail chains to create their own branded mobile wallet apps.

Kevin Roose / Fusion:

Tinder's new Tinder Plus option costs nearly 4X as much in Europe if you're over 28 years old — Sorry, olds: Tinder's new premium option in Europe costs more if you're older than 28 — For lonely Europeans who have passed their mid-twenties, looking for love just got a little more expensive.

More: NPR, TechCrunch, Re/code, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, Engadget, Mashable, The Verge, Business Insider, InvestorPlace, Tech2, Pocket-lint, Android Central, Tech Times, Gigaom, The Independent, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, GeekWire and Guardian

Tweets: @evelynrusli, @ellenhuet, @ellenhuet, @caseynewton and @kevinroose

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases first OS X 10.10.3 Public Beta with new Photos app — Apple today released the first Public Beta of the upcoming OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. The new release includes the iCloud-based Photos application for the Mac, new Emojis across the system, and simpler login to Google accounts …

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, The Verge, iMore, InvestorPlace, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, iThinkDifferent, O'Grady's PowerPage, Ars Technica, SlashGear, iClarified, AppleInsider, GeekWire, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, Engadget and Macworld

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Mozilla launches 64-bit Firefox Developer Edition for Windows — Mozilla today released Firefox Developer Edition 38, which for the first time includes a 64-bit flavor for Windows. You can download the new version now directly from Mozilla.org. — So, what does a 64-bit version of Firefox offer for the user?

More: Mozilla Hacks and The Next Web

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Judge halts movie industry-backed probe against Google — A federal judge has agreed to put the brakes on an investigation into Google by Mississippi Attorney General, Jim Hood, after the company complained that Hood's inquiry was an illegal censorship campaign cooked up by Hollywood.

More: Northeast Mississippi …, Techdirt, PC World, Wall Street Journal and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

6" Alcatel Hero 2+ comes with Cyanogen OS, octacore Mediatek CPU, available for $299 unlocked in US this spring — Alcatel's Hero 2+ will come to the US with Cyanogen OS — Today at Mobile World Congress, Cyanogen and Alcatel announced the Hero 2+, a 6-inch smartphone that will come with Cyanogen OS preinstalled.

More: Quartz, Gigaom, SiliconBeat, PhoneNews.com, PC Magazine, CNET and Android Authority

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Alcatel's flagship Idol 3 smartphones feature mid-range specs at low cost, will be available unlocked in the US this spring starting at just $200

More: Android Authority

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