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March 19, 2015, 10:25 PM

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Wall Street Journal:
FTC report from 2012 reveals key staff recommended filing lawsuit against Google for anticompetitive tactics  —  FTC Staff Sought Antitrust Suit Against Google  —  Key FTC staff wanted to sue Internet giant after finding ‘real harm to consumers and to innovation’
Bloomberg Business:
Google, Intel and TAG Heuer Partner on Luxury Smartwatch  —  Watch industry, consider yourself warned  —  Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is creating a smartwatch in partnership with American technology firm Google.  The watch is an attempt to compete with devices by consumer-electronics makers, particularly the much-hyped watch by Apple.
Ben Popper / The Verge:
FAA gives Amazon permission to start outdoor research and testing of Prime Air delivery drones in US  —  Amazon just got permission from the FAA to start testing its delivery drones in the US  —  The e-commerce giant had threatened to take its research and development overseas
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Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo Tech:
Facebook Engineering Director David Recordon joins White House as Director of Information Technology, a newly created position  —  Exclusive: Facebook's Engineering Director Is Headed to the White House  —  The White House just added another Silicon Valley veteran to its growing roster of tech experts.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Magic Leap demos its augmented reality tech in YouTube video showing in-office gameplay experience  —  Watch Magic Leap's Video Of Seamless Augmented Reality Office Game Play  —  Magic Leap is showing what it might look like to use its hardware for augmented reality gaming in the future …
Greg Otto / FedScoop:
US government launches open-source dashboard built on Google Analytics and AWS that allows anyone to view government website traffic  —  Feds release public analytics dashboard for .gov websites  —  Call it Google Analytics for the U.S. government: An open-source dashboard that allows …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Android Device Manager now lets you find your lost phone using your Android Wear watch  —  Google today updated its Android Device Manager service with support for Android Wear.  In other words, you can now find your lost smartphone using your smartwatch.  —  The company says watch owners …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
RIAA finds streaming services made $1.87B in 2014, eclipsing US CD sales for the first time  —  Sales of Streaming Music Top CDs in Flat Year for Industry  —  The American market for recorded music was flat in 2014, but income from streaming services like Spotify and Pandora has quickly grown …
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
GIF search engine Giphy acquires Nutmeg, a GIF messaging app, as part of focus on mobile; app will remain alive  —  Giphy's First Acquisition, Nutmeg, Is A Big Step Towards Mobile  —  Giphy, the betaworks-backed Google of GIFs, has today announced its first acquisition.
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Christine Magee / TechCrunch:
Fundbox Raises $40 Million To Pay Invoices On Demand  —  Fundbox, a company that loans businesses money for outstanding invoice payments, has raised $40 million to grow its own business in the trillion-dollar alternative lending market.  —  The Series B round was led by General Catalyst …

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