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April 18, 2015, 1:05 AM
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David McLaughlin / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: US Justice Department lawyers leaning against Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable, could submit recommendation next week  —  U.S. Antitrust Lawyers Said to Be Leaning Against Comcast Merger  —  Staff attorneys at the Justice Department's antitrust division are nearing a recommendation …
Wall Street Journal:
Apple plans to launch Pay in Canada in November, in talks with six biggest banks, which account for more than 90% of country's retail bank accounts  —  Apple Pay Plans to Launch in Canada This Fall  —  Apple is in talks with six Canadian banks for mobile payment service's first venture outside the U.S.
Jordan Pearson / Motherboard:
MakerBot's new CEO lays off 20% of the staff, about 100 people  —  MakerBot Just Laid Off 20 Percent of Its Staff  —  When MakerBot, the Brooklyn-based 3D printing company, became a subsidiary of 3D printing giant Stratasys, Inc. in 2013, everyone expected there would be changes.
Kashmir Hill / Fusion:
Profile of lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan, who's suing Uber, Lyft, Homejoy, Postmates, and Caviar, alleging they misclassified workers as independent contractors  —  Meet the lawyer taking on Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy  —  Several years ago, Boston lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
After years of testing, Google has replaced the URL with the site name and breadcrumb trail in the mobile search snippets  —  Google Replaces A Site's URL In Search Results & Uses Its Site Name & Breadcrumb Path  —  Google announced they've begun replacing the URL within the search result snippet area …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Klout co-founder Joe Fernandez steps down as CEO about a year after firm's acquisition  —  Klout Founder Joe Fernandez Steps Down  —  Klout co-founder and CEO Joe Fernandez has stepped down from his role leading the social media influence startup that's now owned by Lithium Technologies.
Tweets: @marshallk
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Google Says “Vast Majority” Of Ads On Its Platforms Will Be Encrypted By June 30  —  Google has been gradually moving all of its online services to HTTPS encryption — you may even remember the excitement wayyyy back in 2008, when Gmail switched to HTTPS.  —  In a blog post published this morning …
More: Inside AdWords and Yahoo.  Tweets: @mattcutts and @igrigorik
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek:
Recently patched Windows flaw seen exploited in the wild for DDoS attacks; web servers of 70M sites at risk  —  Recently Patched Windows Flaw Exploited in the Wild for DoS Attacks  —  SANS Institute researchers advise system administrators to update their Windows operating systems as soon …
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Interview: Slack's Stewart Butterfield on the favorable fundraising climate and options for spending the $160M he recently raised  —  Is Slack Really Worth $2.8 Billion?  A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield  —  When I recently wrote about Slack, a corporate messaging app that has aspirations …
C. Custer / Tech in Asia:
Xiaomi CEO says company has invested in 20+ startups and plans to invest in a hundred more  —  Lei Jun: Xiaomi will invest in 100 more startups  —  This has been a big week for the Xiaomi ecosystem, as one of the companies in the Xiaomi fold just acquired Segway.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft to bring universal Office apps to Windows Phones in a test build before the end of April  —  What's next for Microsoft's ‘universal’ Office apps  —  Summary:Microsoft is readying a test build of its Office ‘Universal’ apps for Windows Phones before the end of April.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Universal credit card device Coin ships 350K units after year delay, some backers still must wait months  —  Coin, The One Credit Card To Rule Them All, Is Finally Shipping  —  The Coin (promising to let you combine all your credit/debit/loyalty cards into a single piece of tech) …

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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Apple TV relies on a few tentpole titles to draw audiences, like HBO did in the past, while Netflix uses its catalog size and algorithms to keep viewers engaged

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News names prominent British Sky News broadcaster Trevor Phillips as a senior global correspondent; Bari Weiss says he sees “beyond groupthink”

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

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