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March 18, 2015, 5:25 PM

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Reuters:

Microsoft will offer free upgrades to Windows 10 even for PCs with non-genuine copies of Windows, to tackle piracy — Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10 — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is making its biggest push into the heavily pirated Chinese consumer computing market …

Terry Myerson / Blogging Windows:

Microsoft announces Windows 10 will launch this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages, partners with Xiaomi to test the OS on Mi 4 devices — Windows 10 Launching This Summer in 190 Countries and 111 Languages — Today at the renewed Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) …

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Fast Company:

Tim Cook on Apple's Future: Everything Can Change Except Values — Tim Cook: Steve felt that most people live in a small box. They think they can't influence or change things a lot. I think he would probably call that a limited life. And more than anybody I've ever met, Steve never accepted that.

Fast Company:

Tim Cook talks about his friendship with Steve in an excerpt from “Becoming Steve Jobs”, available March 24

More: Cult of Mac, Daring Fireball, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider and Cult of Mac

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service launches today in NYC, Chicago, and Philadelphia, starts at $50/month with about 50 channels including CBS, Fox, NBC — Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service launches today in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Dark Web's top drug market, Evolution, vanishes overnight, in what appears to be a $12M scam — Dark Web's ‘Evolution Market’ Vanishes — The Evolution Market, an online black market that sells everything contraband — from marijuana, heroin and ecstasy to stolen identities …

More: Wired, Ars Technica, PandoDaily, Forbes, Security Affairs, CryptoCoinsNews, The Hill, International Business Times, The Verge, NEWSBTC, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, ZDNet, Computerworld, Business Insider and Slashdot

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Former Facebook employee Chia Hong sues company for sex discrimination, sexual harassment, represented by law firm representing Ellen Pao in KPCB suit — Former Facebook Employee Sues for Sex Discrimination, Harassment — A former Facebook employee is suing the company for a number of claims …

More: TechCrunch, USA Today, The Technology Chronicles, The Verge, Business Insider, Wired, WebProNews and Yahoo Tech

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Shuddle Raises $9.6M For Its Uber-Style Service For Kids And Seniors — As Uber continues to extend is well-funded tentacles into ever-more categories of transportation, a startup focusing on children and elderly people has raised some money of its own to compete.

More: bizjournals, PandoDaily, SiliconBeat, Forbes, Entrepreneur and PE Hub Blog

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

After Six Months of Rejections, Launcher Returns to the App Store — When Greg Gardner, an independent developer based in San Francisco, released Launcher for iOS last year, he didn't think his handy utility would make headlines around tech blogs and push other developers to approach widgets for iOS 8 differently.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, App Advice, App Advice and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @viticci

Darren Pauli / The Register:

Cisco shipping products to vacant properties to hide customers' identities, foiling NSA interdiction — Cisco posts kit to empty houses to dodge NSA chop shops — Kit sent to SmallCo of Nowheresville to avoid NSA interception profiles — Cisco will ship boxes to vacant addresses …

Tweets: @cyberwar, @counternotions, @csoghoian, @clipperchip and @counternotions

Tricia Duryee / GeekWire:

For coffee delivery, Starbucks will use Postmates in Seattle and baristas in New York City — At the Starbucks annual shareholder meeting today, the company plans to unveil new details of its highly anticipated delivery service launching in the second half of this year in Seattle and New York City.

More: Postmates, Re/code, The Daily Dot, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, Mashable, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Associated Press, The Seattle Times and Fusion

Astro Teller / Backchannel:

Google X head Astro Teller on origin of Google X, Project Loon, Glass, self-driving cars, Project Wing, and failure — How to Make Moonshots — Astro Teller says that at Google[x], failure is indeed an option. So is changing the world. … Closing keynote of South by Southwest

More: Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, Tech Trader Daily, ABC News, Associated Press, Engadget, The Verge and TechCrunch. Tweets: @odannyboy

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

UK Chancellor confirms new “Google tax” on diverted profits will come into effect April 1, pledges £600M to improve broadband — UK Chancellor Says “Google Tax” On Diverted Profits Will Come Into Effect Next Month — UK Chancellor George Osborne today confirmed that a new tax dubbed the …

More: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, The Register and Inquirer

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Xbox Music can now play music stored in OneDrive — Want to listen to your personal music collection through Xbox Music? Microsoft has just unveiled its take on an online music locker, allowing people to store their personal music files in OneDrive and then listen to them over on Xbox Music.

More: xboxmusic.uservoice.com, Engadget, PC World, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, Neowin, Windows Central and WMPoweruser

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