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May 11, 2015, 9:40 AM

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Tad Friend / New Yorker:
A profile of Marc Andreessen and Andreessen Horowitz  —  Tomorrow's Advance Man  —  Marc Andreessen's plan to win the future.  At his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist routinely lays out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years.”
Wall Street Journal:
IDC: China Q1 smartphone shipments fall for the first time in 6 years, down 4.3% YoY, with Apple the largest vendor by market share  —  China's Smartphone Market Slows Down  —  With 90% of Chinese already owning a smartphone, handset makers look to win over ‘upgraders’
Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
How are there so many unicorns? Survey of 37 unicorns by Silicon Valley legal firm shows liquidation preferences protecting investors in 100% of funding deals  —  Here's One Thing All the Billion-Dollar Unicorns Have in Common  —  They're called unicorns — young companies valued at $1 billion or more …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
How Microsoft's strategy for supporting apps developed for Android and iOS differs from similar plans by BlackBerry and IBM  —  Android and iOS apps on Windows: What is Microsoft doing—and will it work?  —  Running a competitor's apps has been done before.  It hasn't worked.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces new environmental initiatives for China, plans to expand its renewable energy projects to manufacturing facilities in the region  —  Apple announces new environmental initiatives for China: responsibly managed forests, solar for manufacturing
David Scheltema / Make:
Next Thing Co. unveils CHIP, a $9 Raspberry Pi competitor with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, running Debian Linux  —  Next Thing Co. Releases “World's First” $9 Computer  —  Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)  —  Snuggly situated in an industrial section of Oakland …
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Overcast's Apple Watch app redesign shows why scaled-down iPhone apps don't work well on Watch  —  Redesigning Overcast's Apple Watch app  —  I originally designed the Apple Watch app for my podcast player, Overcast, with a scaled-down version of the iPhone app's structure.
John McDuling / Quartz:
Q&A with Google Ventures' Bill Maris on conflicts of interest, life sciences investments, international investments, and more  —  What it's like to run Google's $2 billion venture capital fund  —  When Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, decided to set up a venture-capital fund …
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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Obama's 2013 plan to curb online espionage falls short as most prosecutions under Economic Espionage Act involve passing trade secrets without hacking  —  An Obama Plan to Stop Foreign Hackers Has Mixed Results  —  Two years ago, the Obama administration announced a new strategy to curb online espionage.

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