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March 28, 2015, 10:00 AM
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Ellen Pao Loses on All Claims in Historic Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Kleiner Perkins  —  Ellen Pao lost her gender discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Friday, a closely watched trial that has captivated Silicon Valley and served as a referendum …
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Ellen Pao's Statement On Losing The Kleiner Perkins Case: “The Battle Was Worth It”  —  Directly after the jury announced its final verdict in Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins Caufield, in which it ruled against all four of Pao's claims of gender discrimination and retaliation …
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Ellen Pao Disrupts How Silicon Valley Does Business  —  Silicon Valley is enamored of “disrupters,” those shrewd, brave men — it is almost always men — who are hailed for enduring years of ridicule and risking everything to shake up the conventional order.  —  Now, in Ellen Pao, the Valley has found its newest disrupter.
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Stolen Uber Customer Accounts Are for Sale on the Dark Web for $1  —  Active Uber accounts are for sale on a dark web marketplace for as little as $1 each, Motherboard has learned.  —  One seller claims he has “thousands” of user logins for sale.  —  A username and password is all you need …
More: The Verge.  Thanks:@derektmead
Larry Hryb / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Xbox One April System Update: Voice Messages, Party Chat Updates and More Now in Preview  —  You may have noticed a few new features that rolled out to preview over the weekend, including game hub links and more detailed achievement notifications.  Now this week, we're bringing even more features …
Wall Street Journal:
Intel is in talks to buy programmable logic device maker Altera, which would be its largest acquisition ever given Altera's $10.4B market capitalization  —  Intel in Talks to Buy Altera  —  Intel is in talks to buy Altera Corp. in what would be Intel's largest purchase ever.
Rachel Whetstone / Google Public Policy Blog:
Using GIFs, Google critiques a Wall Street Journal report about its White House influence during an FTC probe  —  Really, Rupert?  —  Last year Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp, accused Google of creating a “less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our society.”
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's strategy: buy, build, and partner because a single app no longer meets the needs of all users  —  Facebook Finds Strength As A Family, Not An App  —  F8 started with a family photo.  But not of the Zuckerbergs.  Of Facebook's products.  “Facebook used to be this one blue app on your phone …
More: SocialTimes and Medium
Michael Geist Blog:
Quebec to block gambling and gaming sites to boost revenues for its own gaming site Espacejeux  —  Quebec Takes on the Internet: Government Announces Plans to Require Website Blocking & Studies New Internet Access Tax  —  The Government of Quebec released its budget yesterday featuring …
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Product Hunt interviews Periscope: where it came from and its pivot from photos to video  —  Periscope, the new video streaming app owned by Twitter, launched today.  In that time, we've seen users stream everything from their walk to work to an explosion in NYC.
Jana Kasperkevic / Guardian:
Amazon to remove non-compete clause from contracts for hourly workers  —  Announcement comes after the Verge reported that the retailer required its US employees, including seasonal workers, to sign non-compete contracts  —  Amazon is to remove a “non-compete” clause from its employment contracts …

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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at Argentina's top news app Lisa AI, which scans local news outlets on topics users are interested in and generates a 10-minute “newscast”

Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Q&A with a co-author of a study on independent US journalism: 40% of respondents got all their income from their sites and ~80% were nearly 100% reliant on ads

The Athletic:
NFL analyst Tony Romo and CBS Sports mutually agree to part ways, two months after his arrest on suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated in Milwaukee

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BBC:
Google loses appeal court bid to prevent UK Safari users from suing over circumvention of privacy settings

Earlier Picks

Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:
Google partners with Johnson & Johnson to develop robots to assist surgeons, pending clearance from antitrust authorities
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Valve to offer HTC Vive Developer Edition for free initially; sign-ups begin as soon as next week with kits shipping later in spring
Anne Toth / Slack:
Slack confirms hackers accessed its user database in February, introduces two factor authentication
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Baidu's Internet traffic was hijacked to DDoS GitHub and GreatFire in a move that required access to network infrastructure; GitHub DDoS attack continues
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
YouTube is experimenting with 4K resolution, 60 FPS video on a limited selection of clips
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