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April 27, 2015, 5:50 AM

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New York Times:

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Jussi Rosendahl / Reuters:

Nokia says it currently has no plans to manufacture or sell consumer handsets — Nokia denies return to phone manufacturing — (Reuters) - Finland's Nokia denied reports in Chinese media that it planned to return to manufacturing phones. — “Nokia notes recent news reports claiming …

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Xiaomi Boosts Its Business In India With Strategic Investment From Tata Sons Head — Xiaomi is making a push to be a local player in India. Days after unveiling its first phone customized to the South Asia country (the impressive $205 Mi 4i), Xiaomi announced that it has taken investment from leading Indian businessman Ratan Tata.

More: ZDNet, Mi India, Reuters, The Economic Times, MediaNama, Fone Arena, SiliconANGLE, Times of India and YourStory.com. Tweets: @jonrussell

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

Xiaomi expects revenue from mobile services, such as games and a payments app, to more than triple this year to nearly $1B — Xiaomi Sees $1 Billion in Mobile Services Revenue This Year — Chinese company wants to make smartphone games and mobile finance an increasing part of its business

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Analysts expect record Apple Q2 results, estimate revenues up 23% YoY to $55.96B, iPhone sales up 33% to 58.1M units, and iPad down 17% to 13.6M units — All signs point to Apple announcing a monster earnings report — Apple reports earnings for the quarter that ended in March after the market closes on Monday, April 27.

More: CNET, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, USA Today and Fortune

Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:

Jay Z takes to Twitter to defend Tidal, says it's “doing just fine”, declares “we are here for the long haul”, notes competitors are even richer — Jay Z defends Tidal in a Sunday afternoon tweetstorm — Jay Z officially relaunched his streaming service Tidal …

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Jon Christian / Slate:

Ancestry.com's data export tool for shuttered social networking site MyFamily didn't save the discussions of former users, erasing family memories of avid users — Deleting the Family Tree — When Ancestry.com shuttered its social network for relatives, it erased 10 years' worth of my family's correspondence and memories.

Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:

In e-commerce push, Google releases first fashion trends report and plans to share search data to help major retailers with fashion planning and forecasting — The Latest Fashion, Trending on Google — Normcore? So last year. String bikinis? Most definitely over.

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Daniel Roberts / Fortune:

The dearth of women in Bitcoin mirrors tech as a whole, with some women actively involved, influential, and welcomed in the community — Think there aren't women in bitcoin? Think again. — The bitcoin community—the developers, executives, venture capitalists, policy wonks, academics …

Tweets: @danprimack

Felix Salmon / Fusion:

Lack of women in the estimated 96% male Bitcoin community is a major hurdle to widespread adoption

More: CoinDesk and Business Insider. Tweets: @luciouslisaa, @paigefreeman and @sriramk

Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed:

How Uber customizes its approach for overseas: auto-rickshaws in India, Lamborghinis in Singapore, designated driver service in Colombia — This Is How Uber Hopes To Take Over The World — The ride-hail giant is expanding globally — and it's doing so by replicating the hyperlocal approach …

Jake Halpern / The Atlantic:

Behind Liberty Reserve, the digital currency shut down by US authorities for money laundering — Bank of the Underworld … In the fall of 2011, the U.S. Secret Service orchestrated a sting operation. The target was a Vietnamese man named Hieu Minh Ngo.

New York Times:

AWS revenue confirms Amazon's cloud computing dominance as Microsoft and Google give chase — With Amazon Atop the Cloud, Big Tech Rivals Are Giving Chase — Amazon unveiled the financial performance of its powerful growth engine for the first time on Thursday, and the numbers sure looked pretty …

More: ZDNet, Bloomberg Business and Slashdot

Drew Harwell / Washington Post:

Nike and Under Armour pour money into health tracking to develop connections with customers, recommend products based on exercise data, reach new markets — Why Nike and Under Armour are spending wildly to watch your every step — Runners leave the starting line of the Boston Marathon on Monday.

Bloomberg Business:

FCC Chief Tom Wheeler confounds former allies and wins praise from public interest groups with net neutrality rules and Comcast/TWC merger rejection — Comcast Trips Over Wheeler Nixon-to-China Moment as FCC Boss — Tom Wheeler came to the Federal Communications Commission in 2013 …

Tweets: @mgsiegler

Eric Lipton / New York Times:

How Comcast failed to get merger support in Congress despite $25M spent on lobbying in 2014

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