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March 16, 2015, 9:30 AM

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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.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Government Requests For Facebook Data Decrease In U.S. And UK, But Rise In India  —  Facebook's latest report on government requests shows a decrease in requests from many Western countries in the second half of 2014, but that's offset by increases from India, Turkey and Russia.
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Bill Gurley amps up bubble talk, predicting “dead unicorns” this year and a Facebook revenue hit  —  Bill Gurley predicts ‘dead unicorns’ in startup-land this year  —  A crash would affect more than just startups.  Bill Gurley, the prominent investor behind Uber and Snapchat …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft: malware removal tools have eliminated Superfish adware from 250K Lenovo PCs by March 4  —  Joint effort guts Superfish  —  Microsoft earlier this week said that search-and-destroy work by it, Lenovo and other software makers has reduced the daily number of Lenovo PCs found infected with the Superfish adware to below 1,000.
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
YouTube is exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription VOD service, modeled on YouTube Music Key  —  YouTube may launch subscription video service for a monthly fee  —  YouTube may soon have a subscription option for its best original content.
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Michael Wolf / Medium:
Gigaom's former VP of Research on how venture capital and the growth expectations that come with it contributed to Gigaom's demise  —  Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup  —  As most know, we lost Gigaom last week.  It was a sudden passing of a widely beloved tech media company …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
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, and now Microsoft is ready to let anyone test its upcoming Office client.  Starting today, the software maker is launching …
Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:
Yahoo demos plug-in for end-to-end email encryption, to launch by end of year; rolls out single-use password via SMS feature  —  Yahoo's plan to get Mail users to encrypt their e-mail: Make it simple  —  Keeping your e-mail messages super private can be a pain.
John Pavlus / Medium:
While apps and search made URLs less important, URLs will remain the best way to uniquely label places on the web  —  Why Won't URLs Die?  —  The Uniform Resource Locator has been the user-interface lingua franca of the internet for decades.  A browser window just wouldn't look right without it up there at the top.

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