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March 16, 2015, 7:50 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple will offer Android switchers gift cards to trade-in rival smartphones for iPhones — Apple is preparing to launch another program to boost iPhone sales in its stores, a stated goal of CEO Tim Cook. — According to sources, Apple will soon introduce a new recycling and trade-in program …

More: BuzzFeed, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, Android Authority, BGR, Macworld, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, BetaNews, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, Electronista, Engadget, Geek.com, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace, The Verge, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, PhoneDog.com, Redmond Pie, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Business Insider, iMore, iLounge and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @whatthebit. Thanks:@apollozac

Facebook:

Explaining Our Community Standards and Approach to Government Requests — By Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Chris Sonderby, Deputy General Counsel — Every day, people around the world use Facebook to connect with family and friends, share information and express themselves.

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

Facebook confirms people can use chosen names, clarifies rules regarding hate speech, nudity, and more

More: Re/code and VentureBeat

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Government Requests For Facebook Data Decrease In U.S. And UK, But Rise In India

More: HotHardware.com News, ValueWalk, Tech Times, The Hill, Reuters, Reuters and CNET

Pew Internet:

Pew survey examines changes in American attitudes about online privacy post-Snowden — Americans' Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden — It has been nearly two years since the first disclosures of government surveillance programs by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden …

More: Slate, Re/code, Guardian, Gizmodo, The Huffington Post, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Hill, Nextgov, SocialTimes, LJ INFOdocket, SecurityWeek, WebProNews, SiliconBeat, NPR and Aaron Pressman's Tumblr

Tweets: @pewinternet, @digiphile, @ronwyden and @ampressman

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Sources: Lyft forecasts $1.2B revenue in 2015, profitability in 2016 on $2.7B in gross sales, monthly rides to grow from 2.5M to 13M in 2015 — A Look Inside Lyft's Financial Forecast For 2015 And Beyond — Last week on-demand transportation service Lyft announced that it had raised $530 million …

More: CNET, Adweek, Re/code, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Fusion and Inc.com

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @kevinroose

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Uber CFO Brent Callinicos Steps Down, Memo Says — To stay on as adviser to company — Brent Callinicos is stepping down as Uber Technologies Inc.'s chief financial officer after helping spearhead the car-hailing service's fastest years of growth. — Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick shared …

More: Mashable, New York Times, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Pinterest has raised $367M at a $11B valuation for international expansion, may raise up to $211M more — Pinterest Valued at $11 Billion After Latest Funding — Pinterest has raised $367 million at a rich valuation of $11 billion, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Business Insider and Racked. Tweets: @yoreekoh

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Cablevision to Offer HBO Now to Broadband-Only Customers — Cablevision Systems is the first pay-TV provider to agree to offer HBO's standalone Internet-streaming service — without having to also buy a TV package. — Pricing for HBO Now as purchased through Cablevision's Optimum service was not announced.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, PC World, The Next Web, Associated Press, SlashGear, The Wrap, Consumerist, VideoInk and FierceCable. Tweets: @cnbcnow. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Buys Careerify To Build Out Its Big Data Recruitment Business — LinkedIn has made another acquisition to build out its big data recruitment business. It's acquired Careerify, a startup based out of Toronto, Canada, that focuses on software for businesses to hire people.

More: Careerify, Techvibes Global News, VentureBeat, The Next Web, StreetInsider.com, Benzinga and Seeking Alpha

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft launches Office 2016 preview for IT pros and developers, Skype for Business preview to replace Lync — Microsoft launches Office 2016 and Skype for Business previews — A leaked version of Office 2016 gave us an early look at a new colorful theme early today …

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Google is working on an open API to allow any app integrate with Google Now — A Google Now open API is in the works... and support for theme park ride queue times — Google Now will one day be able to work with information from all of the apps you use.

More: Pocketnow, ReadWrite, TechnoBuffalo, Search Engine Land, ITworld.com, SlashGear, Phandroid, Gizmodo, PhoneDog.com, Digital Trends, DailyTech, Tech Times, Droid Life, Android Authority, Android Central and Engadget. Tweets: @harrymccracken

Amir Efrati / The Information:

Facebook to announce ad performance measurement tool on its own and third party apps next week — Mobile Ad World Braces for Facebook's Move Into Measurement — Facebook next week is expected to announce a tool to help mobile app developers measure whether an ad caused people to download an app …

More: Business Insider

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Windows 10 compresses system files, eliminates separate recovery image to increases disk space — Microsoft promises drastic cuts in disk space use for Windows 10 — Summary:The increasing popularity of SSDs and flash-based storage have created a big problem for Windows …

More: Blogging Windows, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, SuperSite for Windows, HotHardware.com News, WinBeta and Windows Central. Thanks:@edbott

Jordan Pearson / Motherboard:

‘Sirius’ Is the Google-Backed Open Source Siri — Sirius, a Google-funded open source program similar to Apple's Siri or Google's Google Now voice recognition application, could finally democratize the virtual assistant. — RIght now, virtual assistants are a game for the big kids of the tech world …

More: TechSpot, VentureBeat, News Service News Releases, EE Times and ReadWrite

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