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April 2, 2015, 1:45 AM

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple wants TV networks to handle infrastructure and costs of streaming for its video service — 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.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacNN, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore and iLounge. Tweets: @monkbent. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

European Commission seeks permission to publish confidentially filed antitrust complaints from shopping, local, and travel firms against Google — EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google — Regulator seeks permission to publish complaints against Internet giant in long-running probe

More: 9to5Google, Reuters, Fortune, Business Insider, VentureBeat and Android Central

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 …

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google's ARC now runs Android apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux — “App Runtime for Chrome” takes a big step toward making Android a universal binary. — The ARC Welder is a Chrome app that makes Chrome apps. It shows up in the app list.

More: 9to5Google, OMG!, VR World, ReadWrite, Android Authority, Android Police, Technology Personalized, Liliputing, Lifehacker, Phandroid, Android Central and BetaNews

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 …

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple + IBM add 8 new enterprise iOS apps, first for industrial products & healthcare industries — Apple CEO Tim Cook with IBM CEO Ginni Rometty — Through its MobileFirst for iOS initiative, Apple and IBM have added 8 new enterprise apps for designed exclusively for iPhone and iPad.

More: App Advice, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, iMore and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @chrissyfarr

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 …

More: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, ReadWrite, Deadline, Ars Technica, BGR, DSLreports, Pocket-lint, Bloomberg Business, Android Central, GeekWire, Reuters, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, SlashGear, Business Insider, FierceCable and TechHive. See also Mediagazer

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 10's new Music and Video apps finally drop the Xbox naming — Microsoft appears to be moving away from its Xbox Music and Xbox Video branding. Two new Music and Video apps for Windows 10 have debuted today, and they both drop the Xbox brand in favor of simplified names.

More: Windows Blog, Tech Times, TechSpot, Electronista, PCMag Asia Feed, BGR, Thurrott.com, The Next Web and BetaNews

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Groupon Quietly Launches Groupon Stores, a Marketplace for Its $2 Billion Goods Business — If Groupon's history was as a virtual coupon shop, it's future is starting to look more like a traditional online store. — Case in point: The Chicago-based company has quietly started testing …

More: GeekWire, internetretailer.com and ValueWalk

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

N64 and Nintendo DS games available on Wii U Virtual Console from today — Nintendo has announced that it's bringing Nintendo 64 and DS games to the Wii U via its virtual console service beginning today. — The virtual game service will allow you to configure your Wii U controller …

More: IGN, TechCrunch and The Verge

Amanda Connolly / The Next Web:

Roundup of April Fools' Day gags by tech companies — Roundup: The best (and worst!) April Fools' Day pranks in the tech world ever — April Fools' Day might be dying a slow death in reality, but on the Web, it's being taken to a whole new level every year.

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:

Joint statement from 39 tech leaders calls for state laws to protect “everyone including LGBT people and people of faith” — Tech Leaders Call For States To Pass LGBT Protections, Ban Denial Of Services — Joint statement from 39 tech leaders comes in the midst of a national debate over religious liberty measures.

More: Human Rights Campaign Blog, WRAL Tech Wire, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Mashable, The Hill, The Huffington Post, GeekWire and New York Times

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