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April 16, 2015, 11:35 AM

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Microsoft and Yahoo Agree to Amend Search Partnership — SUNNYVALE, Calif. & REDMOND, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Today Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that the companies amended their search partnership to improve the search experience, create value for advertisers …

More: The Verge, Engadget, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, CNET, Yahoo, WinBeta, Wall Street Journal, Windows Central, Phone Scoop and Neowin. Tweets: @mattrosoff

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

New search deal with Microsoft requires Yahoo to monetize just 51% of its traffic via Bing, not 100% as before — Marissa Mayer redoes Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft, makes huge changes — Yahoo just renewed its search partnership with Microsoft — with huge modifications.

More: VentureBeat

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:

Ahrendts memo: no Apple Watch in-store purchases until June, pre-orders start arriving this Friday; April 24th launch date removed from Apple's website — No Apple Watches in store until June, Ahrendts tells staff as April 24th date removed from website — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple Store staff …

Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:

L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum, seeks refund from Apple — The Los Angeles Unified School District has canceled further plans to use expensive curriculum that was part of a $1.3-billion effort to provide iPads to every student, teacher and campus administrator.

More: PandoDaily, Ars Technica, Engadget, 89.3 KPCC, 9to5Mac, Hit & Run, iLounge, International Business Times, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider and MacRumors

Tweets: @jeffmgould and @ow

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Cyanogen partners with Microsoft to bundle, create native integrations of Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Office on Cyanogen OS — Microsoft will bundle its apps on Cyanogen's Android OS — Rumors of a Microsoft and Cyanogen partnership have been making the rounds recently …

More: Marketwire, 9to5Google, BetaNews, BGR, Engadget, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, Phandroid, Phone Scoop and MobileSyrup.com

Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes:

Snapchat tries to poach Uber employees using a geolocation filter that appears near Uber's HQ showing an url for its jobs page — Snapchat Sneakily Uses Its Own App To Poach Uber Engineers — Uber Technologies and Snapchat are among the world's most valuable startups and have raised billions of dollars between them.

More: Fortune, PCWorld, Dice News and Business Insider

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Sources: Jawbone closes $300M investment round from BlackRock, giving it a valuation of about $3B — Jawbone to Launch Payments Wearable With Amex, as It Closes a $300M Investment Round — “Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated,” said Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman to me earlier today in an interview in New York.

More: Ars Technica, Forbes, Wired, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch and bizjournals

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:

Jawbone announces $199 Up4 fitness band with NFC for AmEx payments and mid-range $100 Up2 band — Jawbone's latest health bands: $99 Up2 & Up4 with AmEx payments — We're still waiting for Jawbone's long-delayed Up3 to start shipping next week, but that's not stopping it from debuting two new health bands today.

More: The Jawbone Blog, TechCrunch, eWeek, The Register, Wall Street Journal, BGR, Gizmodo, Fortune, 9to5Mac, App Advice, CNET, Bloomberg Business and AppleInsider

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Technological shifts may over time weaken the rationale for EU's antitrust case against Google, like they did for the case against Microsoft — Case Against Google May Be Undercut by Rapid Changes in Technology — The antitrust case against Google filed by European Union regulators …

More: Wall Street Journal, Beyond Search, Forbes, The Precursor Blog, Slate, VentureBeat, AdExchanger and Droid Life. Tweets: @deanemurphy

Mark Bergen / Re/code:

What's Next for Google and the EU? It Could Be a Quick Settlement.

More: New York Times, Politico, Mercury News, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE and EU Press Room

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Google to EU: our vertical search products fail in the market, but are useful enough for our users to display

More: Search Engine Land, SuperSite for Windows, eWeek, Guardian and The Official Google Blog

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

To-Do App Any.do 3.0 Adds Collaboration, Zoom And List Sorting Among 150 New Features — While the world is getting its first taste of what life will be like when you have a small wearable like a watch to direct you to what you should do next, one of the leaders in personal organization apps for smartphones is releasing a big update.

More: 9to5Mac, The Next Web, iMore, The Verge and Android Central

Kevin Tofel / ZDNet:

EU's three gripes with Android: What you need to know — Summary:Did you know there are really two main versions of Android? The one Google controls is under fire for potential antitrust practices. Here's why. — After five years of investigation, the European Commission (EC) …

More: PCWorld, bizjournals and The Tech Report

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Research launches handwriting input keyboard in Play Store, rendering text and emojis, supports 82 languages — Google Launches Handwriting Input For Text And Emoji On Android — Google Research today launched its latest project: Google Handwriting Input.

More: Google Research Blog, Android Police, The Huffington Post, The Register, Tech2, Ubergizmo, Google Operating System, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, PhoneDog, 9to5Google and Liliputing

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Bing Reaches 20 Percent Search Market Share Milestone In US — Bing has hit 20 percent market share in the US according to new data from comScore. The slow and steady gains resulting in today's milestone have come mostly at the expense of Search Alliance partner Yahoo.

More: comScore, HotHardware.com News, VentureBeat, WebProNews, SuperSite for Windows and GeekWire

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple makes “last-minute decision” to use TSMC for 30% of A9 chip orders for next iPhone — Apple makes ‘last-minute decision’ to use TSMC for 30% of ‘A9’ chip orders for next iPhone — Facing poor yield rates from chipmaker GlobalFoundries …

More: MacRumors, International Business Times, ZDNet, Business Insider and iPhone in Canada Blog

Politico:

Spotify hires four lobbyists on issues like competition and licensing, as Justice Department, Congress weigh music streaming — Spotify turns up volume in D.C. — The online streaming service hires four lobby firms on issues like competition and licensing, as it gears up to do battle with Apple.

More: RAIN News. See also Mediagazer

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Virginia e-voting systems relied on weak hard-coded passwords, trivial Wi-Fi security, unpatched OS — Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away — Virginia decertifies device that used weak passwords and wasn't updated in 10 years.

More: Yahoo Tech, Verified Voting, Freedom to Tinker, Washington Post, The Roanoke Times, Gawker, Guardian and Slashdot

Pew Research Center:

Cell phones proliferate in sub-Saharan Africa: texting, taking pictures and video are the most common uses, mobile money popular in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania — Cell Phones in Africa: Communication Lifeline — In a few short years, the proliferation of mobile phone networks has transformed communications in sub-Saharan Africa.

More: M&G Africa Index Feed and International Business Times. Tweets: @pewresearch

Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:

Etsy opens at $31, up 93% from IPO price, valuing company at over $3.5B — Etsy starts trading on the Nasdaq at $31 per share — nearly double its original price — Etsy began trading on the Nasdaq at $31.86 a share — a big pop from the $16 a share price the company set yesterday.

More: PR Newswire and iamWire

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

European online banking startup Number26 raises $10.6M in Series A led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures — Number26 Grabs $10.6 Million To Bring Its Bank Of The Future To Everyone — It feels like Number26 opened its doors yesterday, but the young startup just raised a $10.6 million Series A round …

More: VentureVillage, VentureBeat, Finextra Research news and Forbes

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Ola, Uber's rival in India, closes $400M Series E led by DST Global as it looks to expand its network to over 200 cities — Ola, Uber's Big Rival In India, Raises $400M To Grow To 200 Cities This Year — Ola, the largest rival to Uber in India, has announced that it has raised …

More: VentureBeat, Tech in Asia, Tnooz and MediaNama

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

Cloud startup Vlocity raises $42 million led by Salesforce Ventures — Summary:Vlocity has honed in on the industry-specific cloud approach, with a portfolio built entirely on the Salesforce Customer Success Platform. — Industry cloud startup Vlocity has raised $42.8 million …

More: CNN and PE Hub Blog

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Netflix stock up over 10% after beating estimates for new subscribers: 2.3M in US, and 2.6M non-US; Q1 revenue of $1.57B — Netflix Adds 4.9M New Members In Q1, Sending Shares Up More Than 10% — Following the bell today, Netflix reported its first quarter financial performance …

More: Re/code, Re/code, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Beyond Devices, Geeky Gadgets, USA Today, BuzzFeed, The Verge, ZDNet, Variety, GeekWire and bizjournals

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