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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook now offers free friend-to-friend payments in its Messenger app using debit cards, to roll out to Android, iOS, and desktop in US over coming months — Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages — When you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill …

More: Facebook, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNET, Quartz, The Daily Dot, BGR, Engadget, MacRumors, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, GeekWire, ZDNet, The Technology Chronicles, 9to5Mac, iMore, Reuters, Business Insider, The Next Web, VentureBeat and ABC News. Thanks:@joshconstine

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

NBC plans cable-dependent Apple TV app for second half of 2015 — Despite reports that NBC Universal is not involved in negotiations for Apple's upcoming subscription TV replacement service, NBC still hopes to arrive on the Apple TV as soon as the second half of 2015, according to a source with knowledge of NBC's digital roadmap.

More: TechCrunch, Forbes, The Verge, InvestorPlace, App Advice, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and iLounge. Thanks:@bzamayo. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Apple aiming to launch online TV service in September with about 25 channels, anchored by ABC, CBS, Fox — Apple in Talks to Launch Online TV Service — Service would have about 25 channels, anchored by broadcasters such as ABC, CBS and Fox — Shalini Ramachandran and Daisuke Wakabayashi

More: New York Post, BGR, NEWS.com.au, eWeek, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Verge, MacRumors, iMore, PC Magazine, TIME, Business Insider, PandoDaily, POPSUGAR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, Telegraph, TechSpot, CNET, WebProNews, bizjournals and O'Grady's PowerPage. Tweets: @mattrosoff. See also Mediagazer

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Nintendo Partners With DeNA To Bring Its Games And IP To Smartphones — Nintendo is finally bringing its games and characters to mobile after the company surprised the tech world with an alliance with Japanese mobile gaming firm DeNA. — The duo announced a collaboration that will see them jointly develop games for “smart devices.”

Nick Summers / Engadget:

Nintendo teases new dedicated game system codenamed NX, will share details next year

More: SocialTimes, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Wired, EW.com, Wololo.net, Forbes, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, PC Magazine, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe sees solid Q1 with $1.11B in revenue, 517K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 3.97 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company shared within its first quarter 2015 financial report today. — Adobe aims to hit six million paid subscribers by the end of 2015 …

More: TechCrunch, InvestorPlace and Business Wire

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Adobe unveils Document Cloud service with electronic signature support, launching April, to cost up to $15/month

More: ZDNet, Seeking Alpha, SiliconANGLE, diginomica, Electronista, The Register, Adobe Document Cloud and Computerworld

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Will Include Age-Based Ratings — Google Play, Google's marketplace for Android applications which now reaches a billion people in over 190 countries, has historically differentiated itself from rival Apple by allowing developers …

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

IBM unveils developer tools and cloud-based data analysis services mining Twitter data — IBM Introduces Twitter-Fueled Data Services for Business — When IBM announced its partnership with Twitter last October, the move seemed both promising and logical.

More: InfoWorld, PC World, Seeking Alpha, eWeek, ZDNet, VentureBeat and Techworld.com

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Windows Hello and Microsoft Passport: Unlock Windows 10 devices and apps with your finger, iris, or face — Microsoft today announced biometric authentication is coming to Windows 10. Windows Hello will let you unlock your Windows 10 device, whether it be a PC, tablet, or a smartphone, with your finger, iris, or face.

More: Windows Blog, Engadget, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, ZDNet, Forbes, PC World, Digital Trends, USA Today, BetaNews, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Mashable, SecurityWeek, WMPoweruser and Windows Central

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Carbon3D's 3-D printing grows objects from a pool of resin, is 25-100 times faster than conventional layer by layer method — Startup Says New 3-D Printing Technique Could Shift Use From Prototype to Production — Already, 3-D printing has emerged as a means for rapidly making prototypes of new products.

More: Washington Post, Engadget, bizjournals, 3DPrint.com, The Daily Caller, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Slashdot and Vox. Tweets: @inafried

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Premera Blue Cross of Washington state, Oregon and Alaska hit by sophisticated hack this January, with up to 11M affected by breach — Premera Blue Cross hit by “sophisticated” hack, 11M affected — Summary:The multi-state health insurance company was attacked in January and is working …

More: Premera News, ABC News, Re/code, Reuters and SecurityWeek

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's new modern browser, codenamed Project Spartan, will have a distinct name and brand in Windows 10, says CMO Chris Capossela — Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand — While Microsoft has dropped hints that the Internet Explorer brand is going away …

Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal:

Tweet-analysis firm Dataminr raises $130M Series D round led by Fidelity, valuing the company at about $700M — Tweet-Analysis Firm Dataminr Raises Funding — Deal values firm at about $700 million — Dataminr Inc., which analyzes tweets and other information streams to create alerts for traders …

More: TechCrunch, bizjournals, Bloomberg Business, Financial Times and ZDNet

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

The new Steve Jobs documentary is an unforgiving look at tech's most complicated man — The day that Steve Jobs died, people around the world flocked to Apple Stores in a sort of spontaneous mass pilgrimage. They left letters and signs, holding up iPhones and iPads in tribute.

More: Fast Company, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Fast Company, Hollywood Reporter, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, iMore and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @cue

Janko Roettgers / Medium:

Chromecast can be controlled by select TV remotes, made possible by HDMI-CEC protocol — Chromecast now works with your TV's remote control — One of the most frequent complaints about Chromecast has been that it doesn't come with a remote control, requiring users to fiddle with their phone …

More: The Verge, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft Band expanding to Amazon, Target and Best Buy, launching in UK, with increased supply — Microsoft will expand the availability of its Microsoft Band wearable device, boosting inventory at its own online and physical retail stores and offering the device through third-party retailers …

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Verge, Windows Central, Inquirer, The Next Web, Re/code, Wearable Tech Insider, SlashGear and CNET

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Sling TV launches on Xbox One today, and you can try it free for a month — Sling TV is debuting on its first gaming console today. Microsoft just announced that the internet TV service is now available to Xbox One owners — as is the month-long free trial we heard about back in January.

More: Xbox Wire, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Engadget, Forbes, SlashGear, GameSpot, CNET, PC World, TechCrunch, VG247, GeekWire, IGN, Variety and BetaNews. See also Mediagazer

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

After being cut off from Twitter's social graph, Meerkat updates app with user search functionality to help with stream discovery — Meerkat releases update to help with stream discovery, adds search feature — Meerkat today updated its app to add a number of new features after the company …

More: The Verge and TechCrunch

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Birst Banks $65 Million for Business Intelligence and Analytics … Business analytics vendor Birst Inc. on Tuesday added itself to the list of private software companies raising money from public-market investors, with a $65 million round led by Wellington Management Co. — Total funding in Birst is now $156 million.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, PE Hub Blog, Business Insider and SiliconANGLE

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