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April 6, 2015, 5:10 PM

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Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:
After Kleiner trial, Ellen Pao talks about workplace sexism, changing hiring practices at Reddit, more  —  Ellen Pao Says Gender Issues Won't ‘Go Away’ After Kleiner Trial  —  In first interview since losing sexism case, Pao says too many 'women feel like there's no way to win'
NY Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Judge says Brooklyn woman can use Facebook to serve divorce papers  —  A Brooklyn woman scored a judge's approval to legally change her relationship status to “single” via Facebook.  —  In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing …
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Andy Rubin's hardware startup incubator, called Playground Global, has raised $48M  —  Ex-Google exec Andy Rubin raises $48 million for hardware incubator  —  Late last year, Android co-founder Andy Rubin left Google GOOG to launch what was described as a hardware incubator.
AppleInsider:
LG may have accidentally revealed Apple's 8K iMac plans in a press release about display tech  —  Apple to release super-high resolution ‘iMac 8K’ later this year, display partner LG says  —  In a rather unusual reveal, a supposed “iMac 8K” has been outed in a press release that was published …
Jan Willem Aldershoff / Myce.com:
Update for Windows 7 and 8.1 silently installs Windows 10 downloader  —  Microsoft has released an optional update that “enables additional capabilities for Windows Update notifications when new updates are available to the user”.  We discovered the update is actually a downloader for Windows 10 …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Tim Cook: Apple employees will get 50% off Apple Watch, 1000+ apps submitted  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook today sent out a memo to all employees ahead of the Apple Watch's retail try-on kickoff this Friday.  Cook thanks employees who have worked on the Apple Watch by saying, “congratulations …
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures-Backed Bitcoin Exchange Buttercoin Is Shutting Down  —  Buttercoin, a bitcoin exchange startup backed by Y Combinator and Google Ventures, is closing its doors this month after failing to raise new investment.  —  “Buttercoin will be turning off our service on April 10th at 11PM Pacific …
Ina Fried / Re/code:
Jonah Becker, Who Just Left HTC, Joins Fitbit as Design Chief  —  Jonah Becker, who last week left Taiwanese phone maker HTC, is joining Fitbit as VP of industrial design.  —  In the newly created position, Becker will report to Fitbit CEO James Park.  Before HTC, he was a partner …

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