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April 30, 2015, 8:30 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 …
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 …
Scott Flynn / Unity Technologies Blog:
Unity announces full support for Microsoft HoloLens  —  Announcing Support for Microsoft HoloLens  —  Holograms for all!  We've expanded our strategic collaboration with Microsoft to include full support for Microsoft HoloLens holographic computer.  Microsoft made the announcement today during …
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.
Steve Teixeira / Building Apps for Windows:
Microsoft releases preview of Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi and Arduino devices
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 …
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.
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 …
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Apple poaches top producers from BBC Radio 1 for new Spotify rival  —  Whatever Apple is creating to rival Spotify just got a lot more intriguing.  —  Little more than two months after poaching Zane Lowe from BBC Radio 1, MBW understands that Apple has pinched four producers from the station …
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 and The Verge
Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Microsoft to pay about $30M for assets of touch screen technology company N-trig  —  Microsoft to Pay Around $30 Million for N-trig  —  Company's components used in Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 tablet  —  Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement to buy the assets …
More: PCWorld
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.

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Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
The UK Competition and Markets Authority clears Paramount's takeover of WBD, saying “after the merger, Paramount will continue to face sufficient competition”

The Wrap:
The FCC votes to repeal the national broadcast ownership cap and replace it with a case-by-case review, approving the measure by a 2-1 margin

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
WBD reports Q2 revenue down 11% YoY to $8.72B, below $9.21B est., net income down 91%, ad revenue down 22%, content revenue down 26%, streaming revenue up 10%

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