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April 30, 2015, 11:45 PM

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

IHS: 38mm Apple Watch Sport component and manufacturing costs are $83.70, about 24% of retail price — Apple Watch Sport Component Costs Estimated at $83.70, Which Won't Sit Well With Tim Cook — IHS iSuppli often tears down devices to estimate component costs, and today …

More: Business Wire, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, BGR, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, The Register, Re/code, InvestorPlace, bizjournals, CNET and WatchAware

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Teardown of Apple's S1 Watch chip reveals custom CPU, 512MB RAM, 8GB flash storage, components from ADI and IDT — Early Looks Inside Apple Watch's S1 Chip Confirm 512 MB RAM, Unexpected Suppliers — Since the Apple Watch's initial unveiling last September, Apple has touted the S1 chip …

More: ABI Research, 9to5Mac, eWeek, BGR, MacNN, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Cult of Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @marcoarment

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Mobile news app Circa seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture funding — Exclusive: News app Circa is seeking a buyer — Mobile news app Circa is seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune has learned.

More: Wall Street Journal and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mathewi and @vkopytoff. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg Business:

Leaked Lyft presentation to investors reveals estimated $130M revenue in 2014; company spends $530 marketing per driver and 22 passengers in SF — Leaked Lyft Document Reveals a Costly Battle With Uber — The startup also describes its rival as having an “anti-social culture”

More: CNET and Inc.com. Tweets: @mdudas, @mikeisaac, @lesliepicker, @ericnewcomer and @thestalwart

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

A long-winded case for replacing Dick Costolo — Twitter Needs New Leadership — Yesterday Twitter released very disappointing quarterly results, with misses on both user and revenue growth. From the Wall Street Journal: … The symbolism of the leak was appropriate …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Grooveshark ceases operations as a result of settlement with major record companies, offers apology — Grooveshark, the Free Music Service That Used to Scare the Big Labels, Gives Up — Remember Grooveshark? — At one time, the music startup — which promised 35 million users they could …

More: Grooveshark, Ars Technica, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Verge, New York Times, SiliconANGLE and Lifehacker. See also Mediagazer

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 10 won't launch on phones this summer — While Microsoft is planning to launch Windows 10 on PCs this summer, the phone part of the operating system will debut at a later date. Speaking at a media event at Build in San Francisco today, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore explained the company's plans for the launch of Windows 10.

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, Gizmodo, ZDNet, PCWorld, Liliputing, TechnoBuffalo and PhoneDog.com

Reem Nasr / CNBC:

LinkedIn plunges 27% after hours on lower outlook after reporting Q1 revenue of $638M — LinkedIn shares down 17 percent after weak outlook — Shares of LinkedIn plunged after the company released lowered guidance for the year. The company reported earnings per share of 57 cents …

More: LinkedIn Newsroom, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and Fortune

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Microsoft showcases face detection API with a web site that guesses your age based on a photo, which quickly goes viral — Microsoft's face-recognition app How Old gets everyone's age wrong, turns into a meme — My Twitter timeline just blew up with selfies with boxes hovering above faces guessing …

More: TechNet Blogs, The Next Web, The Technology Chronicles, Business Insider, PCWorld, Network World, BetaNews, Mashable, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, NY Daily News, Engadget and SlashGear. Tweets: @stevekovach

Jeff Beck / Android Police:

Custom Voice Actions Launch On Android, Allow You To Control Selected 3rd Party Apps — Over on the Android Developer's Google+ page an awesome new feature for Google's voice search was just announced. A small selection of applications will now open directly when using certain voice commands.

More: BetaNews, Android Authority, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, Android Developers, AndroidHeadlines.com, PhoneDog.com, AndroidHeadlines.com, Engadget, ZDNet, hypebot and Ubergizmo

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Warby Parker raises $100M round led by T. Rowe Price, sources say at a valuation of $1.2B — Eyeglass Retailer Warby Parker Valued at $1.2 Billion — Online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker has raised a fresh round of capital that values it over $1 billion and bolsters its expansion of brick-and-mortar stores.

More: Fortune, TechCrunch, Inc.com, Business Insider, Entrepreneur and bizjournals

Tweets: @nicole_hong and @alexjamesfitz

John Callaham / Windows Central:

The full SDK for the Microsoft Band is now available for developers — Microsoft has now released the full version of their SDK tools for the Microsoft Band, allowing Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android app developers to start making full-featured third-party apps for the fitness wearable.

More: Conversations and Neowin

Wall Street Journal:

Image sensors in iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6 generate as much as $20 per unit for Sony — How Sony Makes Money Off Apple's iPhone — Image sensors for Apple, Samsung fuel Japanese consumer-electronics giant's turnaround strategy — TOKYO—Sony Corp. lost the smartphone war but rings up a sale …

More: Fortune

Wall Street Journal:

After years of restructuring, Sony predicts operating profit will quadruple to $2.7B this year on strong PS4 and image sensor sales

More: The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg Business, IGN, CNET, USA Today, Ars Technica, Reuters and Seeking Alpha

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