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April 14, 2015, 6:20 PM

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Financial Times:

Sources: EU's competition commissioner to announce that formal charges will be filed against Google, alleging traffic was diverted from rivals — Europe to accuse Google of illegally abusing its dominance — Alex Barker and Christian Oliver in Brussels and Anne-Sylvaine Chassany in Paris

More: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Fortune, Reuters, The Hill, The Verge, CNET, BGR and Bloomberg Business

Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker and @johnbattelle

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Apple:

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 8 at San Francisco's Moscone West — Developers Can Apply for Tickets Now & Millions Worldwide Can Watch Sessions Streamed Live — Apple® today announced that it will hold its 26th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) …

Roger Fingas / AppleInsider:

Apple bans selfie sticks, monopods from WWDC 2015 — In an update to the rules for Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple is banning 2015 attendees from using selfie sticks or any other kind of photo monopod within the bounds of either Moscone West or Yerba Buena Gardens.

More: The Verge, NEWS.com.au, The Daily Dot, eWeek, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, CNNMoney, Mashable, CNBC, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Computerworld, App Advice, iClarified and VentureBeat

Wall Street Journal:

Apple buys Israeli camera technology company LinX for about $20M — Apple Buys Israeli Camera-Technology Company LinX — Companies had been discussing acquisition price of about $20 million — Apple Inc. has acquired Israeli camera-technology company LinX Computational Imaging Ltd.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, TechCrunch, BGR, The Next Web, iMore, VentureBeat, Business Insider, AppleInsider and TechnoBuffalo

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Play's New Program “Designed For Families” Will Highlight Pre-Approved, Kid-Safe Apps — Google today announced a new developer program called “Designed For Families” which will allow app publishers to opt into an additional review in order have their apps labeled as being “family-friendly.”

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Skype For Business Begins Rolling Out Publicly Today — Microsoft's “Skype for Business,” which is designed to replace the company's older enterprise communication tool Lync, is rolling out publicly today as part of the Office 2013 April update, the company announced this morning.

More: Office Blogs, Computerworld, eWeek, CITEworld, Tech Times, BetaNews, InformationWeek, WinBeta, Windows Central, No Jitter, ValueWalk, Thurrott.com, theWHIR.com, WindowsITPro, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal:

Shopify files for US and Canadian IPOs, hopes to raise about $100M, valuing firm at more than $1B — Canadian Software Company Shopify Files for U.S.-Canada IPO — Ottawa company raised $100 million from private investors in Dec. 2013 — Canadian software company Shopify Inc. filed …

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, Reuters, Bloomberg Business, MarketWatch, Globe and Mail, Forbes, 24/7 Wall St. and Financial Post

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

Hands-on with Apple's all-new Music app in iOS 8.4 beta — Hands-on: Apple's all-new Music app in iOS 8.4 — With the release of the first developer beta of iOS 8.4 this evening, Apple gave us the first look at the oft-rumored redesign of the Music app.

More: BuzzFeed, Neowin, TechWorm, PC Magazine, PandoDaily, Tech Times, Macworld, hypebot and TIME. See also Mediagazer

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8.4 beta moves audiobooks to iBooks app, dedicated CarPlay app

More: Engadget, TechnoBuffalo and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @9to5mac and @markgurman

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

IHS report: Verizon 64GB Galaxy S6 Edge costs about $290 to build, more than Apple's iPhones, and $34 more than Galaxy S5 — Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge Is More Expensive to Build Than Apple's iPhones — Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, is the most costly yet to build and assemble …

More: ZDNet, BGR, Engadget, eWeek, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Droid Life, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, Phandroid, Load the Game, MobileSyrup.com and AndroidGuys

Rexly Peñaflorida / Tom's Hardware Guide:

Opera launches redesigned Mini browser for Android, hopes to grow user base to 275M by 2017 — Opera Mini Update Sports New Look And Features — The Opera Mini browser is one of Opera's three browsers for mobile devices. Compared to the regular Opera mobile browser and Opera Coast for iOS …

More: ZDNet, Engadget, Opera Mobile, The Tech Portal, CNET, gHacks Technology News, NewsHub.org, NDTV Gadgets, Telecompaper, dna, AndroidOS.in, PC Magazine, PR Newswire, Load the Game, Reuters, BetaNews, AndroidHeadlines.com and bgr.in

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

On-demand pot delivery service Eaze raises $10M Series A round led by DCM Ventures, with Snoop Dogg's venture fund as an investor — ‘Uber For Weed’ Startup Eaze Raises $10 Million In Funding Led By DCM Ventures — There's an Uber for everything nowadays, so why not an Uber for weed?

More: Quartz, Digital Trends, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Forbes, SiliconBeat, Smell the Truth, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, Business Wire and Wall Street Journal

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Pocket raises $7 million and launches a new responsive web app to help you read things later — Pocket, the service that lets you save content from across the web to read or watch later, has raised a further $7 million to grow its team and launch new products.

More: Pocket Blog, Geeky Gadgets, Re/code, The Verge, The Next Web and PE Hub Blog

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Popular iOS app Workflow now available for Apple Watch with its timesaving actions accessible from Glance view — ‘Workflow’ for Apple Watch Brings Automated Tasks to Your Wrist — Popular iOS app Workflow was today updated with support for the upcoming Apple Watch …

More: BGR, SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, Macworld, 9to5Mac and Redmond Pie

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Chrome 42 launches with push notifications that sites can send even after users close the page — Google today launched Chrome 42 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with new developer tools. You can update to the latest version now using the browser's built-in silent updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @jackerhack

Will Oremus / Slate:

A look at Twitter's homepage redesign, arriving in a few days, which caters to logged out visitors by organizing top tweets by category — Twitter for the Masses — For non-tweeters, the social network can feel clubby and confusing. Can its new home page change that? — Twitter.com is a barren wasteland.

More: SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @howardlindzon

Manish Singh / BetaNews:

OnePlus One gets Cyanogen 12 software update, Yu Yureka to receive it soon — The OnePlus One smartphone has finally started to receive the Cyanogen software update. On a blogpost, the software maker announces that the OnePlus One handset is the first smartphone to snag the Cyanogen update.

More: Cyanogen, OnePlus Blog, Android Authority, bgr.in, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile and Ubergizmo

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Chinese streaming video service Letv announces its Le Superphone smartphone is headed for the US, in a profoundly unconvincing pitch — After comparing Apple to Hitler, Chinese company reveals Le Superphone — Two weeks ago, to build buzz for the Android smartphone it announced today, Chinese tech company Letv turned to Hitler.

More: Forbes, Wired, SiliconBeat, PC Magazine, Los Angeles Times, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends, AndroidHeadlines.com, MarketWatch, Gizmag Emerging …, South China Morning Post, CKGSB Knowledge, Hollywood Reporter, AndroidHeadlines.com and Geeky Gadgets

Nokia:

Nokia confirms it is in advanced discussions to acquire Alcatel-Lucent — Statement regarding Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent media speculation — In relation to recent media speculation Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent confirm that they are in advanced discussions with respect to a potential full combination …

More: Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, Bloomberg Business, PCWorld, BBC, Bloomberg View, Tech Trader Daily, Inquirer, Guardian and New York Times

Tweets: @jphelminen and @jphelminen

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Path launches Kong, an app for creating and sharing animated selfies, on iOS and Android — Path's New App Kong Is A Selfie GIF Creation Machine — Most people know Dave Morin's Path for its eponymous social networking app, which sought to create a more intimate place for mobile users to share with their closest friends.

More: Path — Blog, Tech Times, Laughing Squid and The Next Web

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Delve, a Flipboard-like app for Office 365 business users, comes to iOS and Android — Microsoft delivers iOS, Android versions of Delve — Summary:Microsoft has rolled out native mobile app versions of Delve, its search and presentation technology, for iOS and Android …

More: Office Blogs, Macworld, iMore, InformationWeek, WinBeta and Android Police

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Snapchat Is No Longer Selling Its Original Ad Unit, Brand Stories — Snapchat is making a few tweaks to its six-month-old ad business. — The company has stopped selling Brand Stories, the first type of ad it released last fall, according to multiple people familiar with the move.

More: The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Arielle Duhaime-Ross / The Verge:

29 million US health records exposed by data breaches between 2010 and 2013 — Approximately 29 million health records were affected by data breaches between 2010 and 2013 in the US — 67 percent of which were stored electronically, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association today.

More: jama.jamanetwork.com, Reuters and International Business Times

Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal:

American Express and Jawbone plan to let cardholders use future fitness bands for purchases at select merchants — AmEx, Jawbone Team Up to Allow Payments Via Fitness Bands — Partnership latest to add payment function to devices — Fitness enthusiasts may soon be able to shop while they work out.

More: iMore, Computerworld and SlashGear

Wall Street Journal:

Google wants advertisers to share email addresses of customers to improve search ad targeting — Google May Offer New Way to Target Ads — Google in Talks to Let Advertisers Reach Existing Customers — The war for advertising dollars between Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. may add a new front: email addresses.

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Netflix's new narration feature describes what's happening for the visually impaired — Netflix is rolling out a new feature today aimed at visually impaired people, one that describes what's happening on-screen. — Kicking off initially with Marvel's new series Daredevil …

More: Netflix US & Canada Blog, Engadget, The Next Web and Tubefilter

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