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April 24, 2015, 7:10 PM

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Comcast Corporation:
Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement  —  Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter Transactions Terminated  —  Comcast Corporation announced this morning that its merger agreement with Time Warner Cable and its transactions agreement with Charter Communications, Inc. have been terminated.
Bloomberg Business:
Charter's Advisers Said to Contact Time Warner Cable for Talks  —  Advisers for Charter Communications Inc. have already reached out to Time Warner Cable Inc. to begin friendly talks on an acquisition after Comcast Corp. withdrew its bid for the company, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
iFixit:
Apple Watch teardown reveals 205mAh battery, Apple S1 CPU, inside view of Taptic Engine and Digital Crown  —  Apple Watch Teardown  —  Time flies: it's been eight months since Apple announced its (digital) crowning achievement: the Apple Watch.  Join us as we make time stand still by tearing …
Manuela Mesco / Wall Street Journal:
Italian eyewear maker Luxottica working with Google on cheaper version of Glass coming soon  —  Italian Eyewear Maker Luxottica Working on New Version of Google Glass, CEO Says  —  A new version of Google Glass is in the works and will be out soon, the Chief Executive Officer of Italian eyewear maker Luxottica said Friday.
Ben Popper / The Verge:
How crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky brought money-losing inventions to market and ultimately cut a third of its staff  —  How the invention factory at Quirky almost imagined its way out of business  —  In February of this year, the staff of the New York startup Quirky gathered …
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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
The history of YouTube and how Google overcame legal, financial, and technological problems to build a site that has almost 50 years of video uploaded daily  —  Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube  —  Leading the Web video revolution was an almost constant battle for survival.
New York Times:
Chipotle partners with Postmates to offer delivery in 67 US cities for $4.99 to $7.99  —  Chipotle Signs Deal With Food Delivery Start-Up Postmates  —  In the age of the on-demand economy, sooner or later everything is just a few taps of a smartphone app away.  Even burritos.
Yahoo! Finance:
Apple wins appeal in China over patent rights to Siri voice recognition software  —  Apple wins patent appeal in China  —  Companies:  —  RELATED QUOTES  —  SymbolPriceChange  —  130.2179  —  +0.5479  —  Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL - news) has won an appeal in China over patent rights …

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