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April 2, 2015, 9:45 AM

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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
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
France, Spain, and Italy join Germany and Belgium in Dutch-led probe into Facebook's privacy practices  —  Facebook Confronts European Probes  —  Tension between EU authorities and U.S. tech giants likely to escalate  —  PARIS—Facebook Inc. is confronting a wave of probes in Europe …
Financial Times:
European regulators scrutinise Apple over music streaming plans  —  Matthew Garrahan in New York and Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco  —  European regulators are scrutinising Apple's dealings with record labels, amid an intensifying battle over the future of free, ad-supported music streaming services such as Spotify.
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.
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.
Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:
Survey: 64% of US adults own a smartphone, 10% of whom do not have broadband at home  —  U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015  —  The traditional notion of “going online” often evokes images of a desktop or laptop computer with a full complement of features, such as a large screen, mouse, keyboard …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Google Chrome will banish Chinese certificate authority for breach of trust  —  Draconian move follows the issuance of certificates masquerading as Google domains.  —  Google's Chrome browser will stop trusting all digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center following …

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