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Ryan Roslansky / Official LinkedIn Blog:

Welcome to the LinkedIn Family, lynda.com! — Many people don't know that I started my first company when I was a freshman in college. I didn't know the first thing about designing a website and relied on a Lynda Weinman web graphics book to get my site up and running.

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LinkedIn Newsroom:

LinkedIn to acquire online learning firm Lynda.com in a deal valued at $1.5B — LinkedIn to Acquire lynda.com — lynda.com's high-quality content provides opportunity for members to easily gain the professional skills they need to get hired and advance their careers. — LinkedIn Corporate Communications Team

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Apple:

Apple Watch in-store preview and online only pre-order begin Friday — Apple Watch In-Store Preview & Online Pre-Order Begin Friday — Available for Purchase Online April 24 — Apple Watch™, Apple's most personal device yet, will be available for preview and pre-order on Friday, April 10.

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Tweets: @harrymccracken and @viticci

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Sources: YouTube's ad-free subscription service coming in the next few months for around $10/month, will offer offline viewing, creators required to join — YouTube's paid subscription offering takes shape — and it's almost here — YouTube's forthcoming paid subscription offering …

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon files first-ever suit over fake product reviews, alleges Calif. man sold fraudulent praise … Amazon has filed suit against the alleged operator of several sites that offer Amazon sellers the ability to purchase fake 4- and 5-star customer reviews of their products.

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Ronald Grover / TheStreet.com:

Sources: Disney pressures Apple to carry more of its channels on rumored TV streaming service, Apple wants fewer channels to keep cost of service down — Disney Presses Apple to Carry More Channels on Internet TV Service — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Apple (AAPL - Get Report) and Walt Disney …

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

European Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Heads To Court In Vienna — A class action data privacy lawsuit that's being brought against Facebook in Europe — for participation in the NSA's PRISM dragnet surveillance program, among other alleged data protection violations — gets its first preparatory …

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Lisa Fleisher / Wall Street Journal:

Admitting Tracking ‘Bug’, Facebook Defends European Privacy Practices

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Ben Popper / The Verge:

DJI's new Phantom 3 drones start at $999, feature visual positioning, GLONASS support, bundled Lightbridge video streaming, 4K camera option — DJI updates our favorite line of drones with the new Phantom 3 — DJI created the Kleenex of consumer drones with its Phantom line of quadcopters.

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Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung Facing Supply Shortages for Curved-Screen Galaxy S6 Edge — Company's mobile chief points to difficulties in manufacturing the screens — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co.'s mobile chief J.K. Shin said Thursday there could be limited supplies of its new curved-screen smartphone …

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Bloomberg Business:

Kik Interactive Said to Explore Sale or Corporate Investment — Kik Interactive Inc., which makes a messaging application popular with young teens, is exploring a sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. — The company hired Qatalyst Partners to set up conversations with potential acquirers …

More: CNET, Medium, TechCrunch, BetaKit, SlashGear and Forbes. Tweets: @sarahfrier

New York Times:

Zynga founder and chairman Mark Pincus returns as CEO, replacing Don Mattrick — Mark Pincus, Zynga's Founder, Returns as C.E.O. — When Mark Pincus hired a new executive to run Zynga, the online games company he founded, he tweeted a message calling the executive, Don Mattrick, an “Internet treasure.”

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Tweets: @jowens510 and @neilcybart

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Intel shows its latest RealSense depth-sensing camera, small enough for a 6-inch smartphone — Intel's made a tinier, longer-range depth camera for phones — Intel's been a huge backer of gesture control plus 3D scanning, and so far it's managed to integrate its RealSense technology into select desktops …

More: BBC, WMPoweruser and BetaNews

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Twitter is not currently a takeover target; recent rumors fueled by management instability, slowing growth, vulnerable single-class stock structure — Get Used to More Twitter Takeover Rumors — At the beginning of this year, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was rumored to be stepping down immediately (he didn't).

More: TheStreet.com and Tech Trader Daily. Tweets: @jguynn

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Product Hunt for iOS Gains New Tool for Creating Curated Collections, Bookmarking Products — Product Hunt, the popular site that specializes in surfacing new products, is today launching an updated iOS app that adds several features to the existing Product Hunt app for iOS …

More: The Next Web and Re/code

Jeff Carlson / Macworld:

Review: Photos for OS X is faster than iPhoto but less powerful than Aperture — AT A GLANCE — Last June, Apple announced the impending retirement of iPhoto and Aperture in favor of Photos for OS X, a new application it demonstrated briefly at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8.3 expands iPhone WiFi Calls to Sprint in the U.S., EE in the U.K. — In addition to adding a slew of more diverse Emojis and several bug fixes, iOS 8.3 has expanded the iPhone's WiFi calling feature to a pair of new carriers: Sprint in the United States and EE in the United Kingdom.

More: The Verge and Gizmodo

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iOS 8.3, including new emojis with diversity, new Siri languages, more

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Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters:

Bitcoin exchange Coinsetter acquires Cavirtex, the Canadian trading platform that recently shut down due to security breach — Bitcoin exchange Coinsetter acquires Canadian platform — (Reuters) - Coinsetter, a New York-based bitcoin exchange that targets institutional and professional traders …

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