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March 4, 2015, 3:30 PM

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Associated Press:

Hillary Clinton used her own private email server for official business as secretary of state; emails backed up to Google in 2012 — Clinton ran homebrew computer system for official emails — 1 photo — WASHINGTON (AP) — The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Clinton's emails …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram allows ads to have clickable links and introduces multi-photo carousel ads — Instagram Starts Letting Ads Be Clickable — Instagram never allowed URLs to open until now. It wanted people browsing photos, not the web. But Instagram says its advertisers demanded more vivid ways …

More: Instagram for Business, The Verge, Marketing Land, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Re/code, SocialTimes, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider and PhoneDog.com. Thanks:@joshconstine

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Nextdoor raises $110M, at a valuation of $1.1B; begins planning how to extract data to monetize with recommendations, on-demand services — Nextdoor Social Network Digs Really Deep Into Neighborhoods — Internet companies have been trying desperately for years to court people like Isaac Gonzales to use their services.

More: Nextdoor Blog, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat, USA Today, VatorNews, Mashable, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog and VentureBeat

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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Nvidia announces Shield, a $200 Android TV set-top box and game console with support for 4K video, available in May — Shield: NVIDIA's $200 gaming-focused Android TV set-top box — Another year, another new Shield device from NVIDIA. What's Shield? It's the hardware line from NVIDIA …

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

Nvidia's GRID game-streaming service, currently in beta, will launch in May with basic and premium subscription tiers — NVIDIA GRID Game Streaming Service To Become Commercial Service — As part of NVIDIA's suite of GDC 2015 announcements, the company has announced that their GRID game streaming service …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Fashion Marketplace Farfetch Raises $86M Led By DST At A $1B Valuation — Some big news today in the world of fashion e-commerce. Farfetch, the London-based online marketplace for high end fashion retailers, is announcing a raise of $86 million. The funding vaults Farfetch into the unicorn club …

More: Fortune, Business Insider, Vogue UK, Retail Dive and internetretailer.com

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Valve's ‘Lighthouse’ VR tech brings TVs and headsets together — We already saw the new Vive virtual reality headset that Valve and HTC are working on, but they're not stopping there. Hardware engineer Alan Yates says that its Lighthouse room-scale tracking system brings the “high-resolution …

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Philip Kollar / Polygon:

Valve announces Source 2 engine, free for developers

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Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer:

Valve announces $50 Steam Link streaming box and SteamVR for November release

More: TechCrunch and Engadget. Tweets: @elahti

Jason Schreier / Kotaku:

Valve's Steam Machines Will Officially Launch In November

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Alibaba Is Expanding Its Cloud Services To The U.S. To Give Amazon New Competition — Alibaba, the Chinese commerce firm which held the largest IPO in history last year, is bringing cloud computing services in the U.S. after it announced plans to open a data center in Silicon Valley.

More: Alizila, Fortune, ZDNet, Reuters, GeekWire, New York Times, Seeking Alpha, internetretailer.com and Tech in Asia

JP Mangalindan / Mashable:

Uber acquires mapping startup deCarta — Uber, the popular ride-sharing startup, is acquiring the mapping and search startup deCarta for an unspecified amount, Mashable has learned. — The deal, which closes later this week, is for DeCarta's technology and talent.

More: ABC News, VatorNews, Associated Press, AppleInsider, Bloomberg View, TechSpot, Wired, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Wired.co.uk, GSMArena Blog, CNET, Gizmodo UK, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Inc.com, Engadget, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Hypebeast, Gigaom, SiliconBeat and Tech2. Tweets: @mprioleau. Thanks:@jpmanga

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Microsoft is bringing Xbox games to its futustic HoloLens headset — Appearing at Game Developers Conference 2015 today, Xbox chief Phil Spencer confirmed that Microsoft intends to bring Xbox gaming to the company's futuristic HoloLens headset. “Gaming and entertainment is going to be critical …

More: Engadget

Bill Rigby / Reuters:

IBM buys AlchemyAPI to boost Watson computing unit — (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp said on Wednesday it had acquired AlchemyAPI, a fast-growing startup selling software that collects and analyzes unstructured text and data in ways big enterprises, website publishers and advertisers find useful.

More: TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Denver Post, VentureBeat, Information Management Online, ZDNet, The Next Web and Bloomberg Business

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Shyp now handles returns for online purchases from 12 big retailers including Amazon, Target — Shyp might be about to change the way we shop online — The easiest way to return unwanted items ever — In theory, shopping online couldn't be easier. You tap a few buttons …

More: TechCrunch, Refinery29, Wired, Fast Company, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Entrepreneur

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:

Facebook Is Said to Be Working on Competitor to Twitter's MoPub — (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. is working on a competitor to Twitter Inc.'s mobile-advertising distributor MoPub, according to people with knowledge of the matter, a bid to win more business in a growing market.

More: Seeking Alpha

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

US air traffic control computer system vulnerable to terrorist hackers — FAA didn't always ensure passwords were encrypted “when transmitted or stored.” — The US system for guiding airplanes is open to vulnerabilities from outside hackers, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.

More: Engadget, PandoDaily, Mashable and AOL Article

Maureen Morrison / AdAge:

Pinterest tests animated ad pins, adds more audience categories for advertisers to target — Pinterest Narrows Ad Targeting; Tests Animated Pins — Move Is Latest In Series Of Efforts To Position Service As Essential Social-Media Platform for Advertisers — Content Marketing 2014

More: Ubergizmo, Marketing Land, WebProNews and The Next Web

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