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April 23, 2015, 3:40 PM

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Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed:

Apple shares list of must-have apps for Watch, including Twitter, Instagram, New York Times, Mint, Citymapper, Strava, and more, as Watch App Store goes live — Apple Thinks You Should Use These Apps On The Apple Watch — As the App Store for the Apple Watch goes live today, Apple reveals which apps it thinks are must-haves.

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories and Touch Arcade

Tweets: @mgsiegler, @wjrothman and @reneritchie

Thanks:@stephaniemlee

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Apple opens up the Apple Watch App Store with “more than 3,000 apps” — Day one developer support is an encouraging sign for early adopters. — The App Store tab in the Apple Watch app offers a list of prominent apps but no other sorting or search options.

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Engadget and Wearable Tech Insider

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Developers describe making Apple Watch apps with no access to the the device, focusing on simplicity in first gen apps, and how apps will evolve

More: BGR and VentureBeat

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:

Sources: Comcast to drop proposed Time Warner Cable takeover deal after FCC staff recommends hearing; announcement as soon as Friday — Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal — Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc. …

More: The Verge, AppleInsider, BGR, Engadget, VentureBeat, Consumerist, Deadline and Fortune

Tweets: @zpower, @stevekovach, @danprimack and @chris_ciaccia

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New York Times:

Apple Watch to be stocked in select fashion boutiques in Tokyo, London, LA, Paris, Berlin, and Milan on Friday — The Apple Watch Arrives in Stores (Just Not Its Own) — Rumors of the Apple Watch's unavailability have, it turns out, been slightly, if not greatly, exaggerated.

John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:

Delayed Apple Watch Preorders Shipping Earlier Than Expected

Kim Zetter / Wired:

How to Detect Sneaky NSA ‘Quantum Insert’ Attacks — Among all of the NSA hacking operations exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden over the last two years, one in particular has stood out for its sophistication and stealthiness. Known as Quantum Insert, the man-on-the-side hacking technique …

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Google launches free tool to help AdSense publishers recommend more articles to their readers — Google Edges Further Into Hot Content Recommendation Sector — Google has rolled out a new free product designed to make it easier for Web publishers to get people to stick around on their sites longer.

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Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:

Internal policy document reveals EU is considering creating a powerful new regulator to oversee Internet platforms, many of which are US-based — EU Considers Creating Powerful Regulator to Oversee Web Platforms — New body would oversee a swath of mainly U.S.-based Internet companies

More: The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider and The Hill

Amir Mizroch / Wall Street Journal:

European Commission to unveil “single digital market” proposal May 6, to unify laws on tax, data, copyright and more across member states, to compete with US

More: theWHIR.com, AppleInsider, POLITICO, The Sofia Globe, Fast Company, Reuters, Ars Technica, Tech City News and Reuters

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Xiaomi unveils Mi 4i for around $205 in India, with 5-inch Full HD display, 13MP camera, Snapdragon 615, and LTE — Xiaomi's New Mi4i Packs A Gamut Of High-End Features Into A $200 Smartphone — Xiaomi today took the wraps of off its newest smartphone, the Mi4i, at an event in New Delhi, India.

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, New York Times, Android Police, CNET, ZDNet, Business Insider, Android Authority, BetaNews, Mobile Industry Review, TechnoBuffalo, The Techolic and AndroidGuys

Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:

Samsung Galaxy S5 Flaw Allows Hackers To Clone Fingerprints, Claim Researchers — Biometric information is about as personal as data gets. But Google's Android partners are still failing to protect it, as researchers from security firm FireEye will discuss this week at RSA …

More: International Business Times, The Register, BBC, Geek.com, Guardian, International Business Times, Digital Trends, Electronista, Gizmodo, BiometricUpdate, Planet Biometrics.com, BGR and SamMobile. Tweets: @valaafshar

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Google's Wireless Service: What It Means for Consumers, Google and the Carriers — Earlier today, Google officially announced its plans to offer its own wireless service under the Project Fi moniker. — As expected, the effort taps three networks: LTE networks from Sprint and T-Mobile along with a heavy dose of Wi-Fi.

More: CNNMoney, SiliconANGLE, Wired, Tech Times, Telecompetitor, Computerworld, Quartz, Fusion, Android Police, The Pondering Primate, ABC News, The Official Google Blog, BetaNews, Fortune, Refinery29 and Droid Life. Tweets: @kylebrussell

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

How Google's Project Fi pricing stacks up to the competition

More: ZDNet, Vox, The Register, Tech Times, The Verge and The Verge

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

First official look at Operator from Expa, an app that lets you message a human expert to assist in making “high-consideration” purchases — First Look At Uber's Co-Founder's Shopping Concierge “Operator” — Operator wants to “unlock the 90% of commerce that's not on the Internet”, CEO Robin Chan tells me.

More: Bloomberg Business, PandoDaily, Tech Times, Medium, Laughing Squid, Engadget and Greylock Partners

Tweets: @wayne, @hunterwalk, @fmanjoo, @joshconstine, @travisbernard, @naveen and @shaig

Bloomberg Business:

Twitter launches Highlights, a feature in its Android app that curates about a dozen of the most interesting tweets into a personalized digest — Twitter Tries to Tone Down the Chirping — An update called Highlights edits feeds to about a dozen tweets — Twitter today looks pretty …

More: The Twitter Blog, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Verge, Android and Me, Android Beat, BuzzFeed and Android Central

Tweets: @caseynewton, @louisgray and @mathewi

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Facebook sees 4B video streams each day but has offered investors few details on monetization — Facebook video: Big on growth, little on details — A year ago, Facebook FB was not a destination for video content. Now, the social media company sees four billion video streams each day …

More: The Next Web, Tech News Today, Fast Company, Marketing Land, ITworld.com, Fortune, Re/code, TIME, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Variety and New York Times. See also Mediagazer

TechCrunch:

Facebook Messenger Accounts For 10% of Global Mobile VoIP

More: Disruptive Telephony, Forbes, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Slashdot, The Verge, Facebook and TechCrunch

Tweets: @jonrussell and @joshconstine

Thanks:@refsrc

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