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April 1, 2015, 5:00 PM

Top News

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Newest App Riff Lets Friends Add Clips To Collaborative Videos  —  You could start the next Harlem Shake-style crowdsourced video phenomenon with Facebook's new app Riff, out today worldwide in 15 languages on iOS and Android.  —  Shoot a video of up to 20 seconds in Riff …
Barack Obama / Medium:
Obama signs Executive Order authorizing targeted sanctions against perpetrators of cyberattacks, with threats from overseas a primary focus  —  A New Tool Against Cyber Threats  —  It's one of the great paradoxes of our Information Age—the very technologies that empower us to do great …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sling TV will offer HBO for $15/month by April 12 as part of Dish and Turner distribution deal  —  Sling TV's Service For Cord Cutters Will Offer HBO Starting This Month  —  Sling TV, Dish's new over-the-top service designed for cord cutters, announced today that it will become …
JP Mangalindan / Mashable:
Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak is testing a photo feature  —  Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app, is testing a new feature that would let users share photos, Mashable has learned.  —  Yik Yak is in the early stages of testing the feature on some college campuses for limited periods of time …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Asks TV Programmers to Supply Their Own Streams for Apple's TV Service  —  Apple wants the TV guys to provide their shows for its proposed streaming video service.  But that's not the only thing Apple wants from the TV guys: It wants them to provide the streams, too.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter tests displaying promoted tweets on user profile pages  —  Twitter Is Now Placing Ads Within User Profiles  —  Your Twitter profile may soon include a new decoration: Advertising.  —  Twitter is bringing promoted tweets, the app's signature ad unit, to people's profile pages as part of a new test.
Wall Street Journal:
GoDaddy opens for trading at $26.15 per share, almost 31% above IPO price, raising $460M  —  GoDaddy's IPO Shares Surge in NYSE Debut  —  Web-hosting firm—known for its ads with Danica Patrick—seeks image makeover  —  Shares of GoDaddy Inc., a technology provider to small businesses …

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