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March 26, 2015, 5:35 PM

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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Profile: since replacing the legendary Jobs, Tim Cook has led Apple to even greater financial success and changed the culture of the company — Apple's Tim Cook leads different — Tim Cook assumed he was ready for the harsh glare that shines on Apple's AAPL CEO.

More: Fortune, Guardian, Telegraph, TIME, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, SiliconBeat, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, Business Insider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore and App Advice

Tweets: @niallharbison, @eghosao, @adamlashinsky and @tim

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Watch launch retail stock to be limited for many models, reservations favored — If you want to buy the Apple Watch model of your choice at an Apple Store at launch, you should consider pre-ordering online or through an Apple Store reservation, sources have told 9to5Mac.

More: IBT, AppleInsider, App Advice, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, Network World, MacRumors, MacNN, Mobile Marketing Watch, Geeky Gadgets, AppleTell, TrustedReviews, Business Insider, iLounge and Neowin

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple begins releasing the first set of third-party Watch apps from AliPay, Evernote, Expedia, Line, NYT, Target, WeChat, WSJ, more

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac and App Advice. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@bzamayo

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Twitter launches Periscope: replays are its killer feature, push notifications are noisy — Periscope, Twitter's answer to Meerkat-style live streaming, is now available — Live-streaming apps are the thirstiest of all media. A Facebook post wants a like, a tweet begs for favs, and a snap means little without a response.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

How Periscope was started, sold to Twitter, what its co-founder thinks about Meerkat being first to market and about providing quality video at low latency

More: The Verge, Mashable, Disruption, Wired, The Next Web, Network World, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com, Poynter, Telegraph, CNET, VentureBeat, Off On A Tangent and BuzzFeed. Thanks:@alexia

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Amazon Cloud Drive goes unlimited: $11.99/year for photos and $59.99/year for everything — Amazon has announced two unlimited storage plans for its consumer cloud-based storage service, Amazon Cloud Drive, which sees a massive price reduction for its giant hard-drive in the sky.

More: Amazon.com, Engadget, eWeek, The Register, Computerworld, Six Colors, BGR, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, The Verge, GeekWire, Electronista, AppleInsider, The Next Web, AndroidOS.in, SlashGear, Geeky Gadgets, Business Insider, ZDNet, Android Police and CNET. Tweets: @psawers

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Slack's next funding round of up to $160M will value company at $2.8B, to include new investors IVP, Horizons Ventures, Index Ventures, DST Global — Slack's Valuation More Than Doubles to $2.8 Billion in Five Months — The growing popularity of workplace collaboration tool Slack …

More: Techvibes Global News, VentureBeat and Business Insider

Tweets: @collisionhq, @howardlindzon, @scottmaustin and @wsjd

Richard Lai / Engadget:

HTC One M9 to go on sale for $649 unlocked tonight — Never mind that M9+ thing in China. Back in the US, it's all about the M9 for local HTC fans, as the device is about to hit the official online store at midnight ET for $649 unlocked (it'll have the same bands as the AT&T model).

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Galaxy S6 release date is April 10th, and US pre-orders start tomorrow — Samsung today announced that the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge will be available on US carriers starting April 10th, the same time as they are scheduled to be available for sale across the world.

More: T-Mobile Newsroom, reddit, Engadget, BGR, iMore, eWeek, Computerworld, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Gizmodo, InfoWorld, BGR, ZDNet and Tom's Guide. Tweets: @verge

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

Samsung Galaxy S 6 and S 6 Edge: Preview

More: Wired, SlashGear, BGR, New York Times, Business Insider, Business Insider and Re/code

Michael Zelenko / The Verge:

Tinder hack fools men interested in female bait profile into unwittingly flirting with each other — A brilliant Tinder hack made hundreds of bros unwittingly flirt with each other — Man is a thirsty beast, and nowhere is that thirst more acutely exemplified than on Tinder …

More: BBC, Paper RSS Feed", Business Insider, Engadget and TechCrunch

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Microsoft requiring its 2K contractors to provide 15 paid days of sick leave and vacation — Corporate Peer Pressure: From Microsoft, a Novel Way to Mandate Sick Leave — From Microsoft, a Novel Way to Mandate Sick Leave — The company announced that many of its 2,000 contractors …

More: Microsoft on the Issues, bizjournals, GeekWire, Fortune and Wall Street Journal

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google to improve scrolling in Chrome with support for Pointer Events, a standard introduced by Microsoft in Internet Explorer — Google will finally improve Chrome scrolling using a Microsoft invention — Google is finally adopting a standard that supports both mouse and touch navigation for its Chrome browser.

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, PC World, Phandroid, Ubergizmo and Tech Times

Alex Konrad / Forbes:

How Super Angel Chris Sacca Made Billions, Burned Bridges And Crafted The Best Seed Portfolio Ever — Between the parade of wet suits and abundant seafood and yoga joints, Manhattan Beach, just south of Los Angeles, tries to cling fast to its surf town roots. It's a tough battle.

Tweets: @alexiskold, @reformedbroker, @sacca, @getwired and @danprimack

Tom Occhino / Facebook Code:

Facebook open sources React Native framework for building native apps for iOS with JavaScript, Android support coming soon — React Native: Bringing modern web techniques to mobile — If you're new to React, you can read more about it on the React website.

More: GitHub, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Facebook, The Next Web, SlashGear, InfoQ, InfoWorld and React

Spencer Woodman / The Verge:

Exclusive: Amazon makes even temporary warehouse workers sign 18-month non-competes — Contract says it can limit jobs across the globe — Amazon is the country's largest and most sophisticated online retailer, but it still runs largely on manual labor. Scattered around the country …

More: PandoDaily, Daring Fireball and Consumerist. Tweets: @aworkinglibrary

Tom Dotan / The Information:

Google partners with Mummy producer Sean Daniel Co. to make its augmented reality game Ingress into a TV show — Google Takes Its Web Game to TV — When Google launched a gaming studio five years ago, it was largely an effort to keep a valued employee. Now, the first game developed by the studio …

More: The Verge, Engadget and Pocket-lint

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Cloud Launcher Lets Developers Quickly Deploy Over 120 Popular Open-Source Packages — Google and Bitnami are launching a new feature for Google's Cloud Platform today that makes it easier for developers to deploy over 120 popular open-source applications to its Cloud Platform.

More: Google Cloud Platform Blog, ZDNet, GeekWire and The Next Web

James Vincent / The Verge:

Social news app Nuzzel arrives on Android — Nuzzel for Android lets you know what stories your friends are talking about — Nuzzel is basically a free social RSS reader for news stories shared by your friends. The service — which is already available on the web and iOS — launches on Android today.

More: Android Authority and The Next Web

James Trew / Engadget:

Create apps for your quadcopter with 3D Robotics' free ‘DroneKit’ software — 3D Robotics develops the open source software that powers a lot of home brew UAVs. Today it's introducing a new tool to the public: DroneKit, software that allows anyone to create apps for, well, drones!

More: Washington Post and TechCrunch

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Cloud ERP firm FinancialForce that runs on Salesforce's platform raises $110M — FinancialForce raises $110 million in funding — Summary:The cloud ERP player is now hitting an annual revenue run rate of about $50 million and plans to spend the dough on product development, sales and various corporate functions.

More: InfoWorld, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Forbes and PE Hub Blog

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Lyft adds optional user profiles for drivers and passengers to its app — Lyft Adds Profiles to Make Ride Sharing More Personalized — In 1971, Herb Kelleher, a founder of Southwest Airlines, had an idea: As competition in the burgeoning airline industry intensified, he wanted to make his small …

More: Lyft Blog, Engadget and VentureBeat

Gordon Mah Ung / PC World:

New 3D NAND flash will triple capacity of SSDs, Intel and Micron say — Standard consumer SSDs will increase up to an astounding 10TB of storage, thanks to a new type of 3D NAND flash memory that Intel and Micron introduced Thursday morning. — The two companies, longtime joint partners …

More: Wall Street Journal and CNET

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Ex-Beats Music CEO David Hyman's music competition app Chosen launches as invite-only beta — Crush Someone's Dreams In Music Competition And Judging App Chosen — If American Idol was mobile-first, it'd be Chosen. Built by ex-CEO of Beats Music, Gracenote, and Mog David Hyman …

More: Hollywood Reporter, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Variety, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Cult of Mac, Billboard, USA Today, App Advice and Tech Times

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