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May 16, 2015, 1:30 PM

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google to place buy buttons for products sold by some retailers alongside paid search results on mobile in coming weeks  —  Can Google Outsell Amazon and eBay?  —  Company will launch buy buttons on its search-results pages in coming weeks  —  Google Inc. will launch buy buttons …
Ed Bott / ZDNet:
Microsoft says it's taking control of updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices, bypassing carriers  —  Microsoft says it's taking over updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices  —  Summary:It's not exactly Android-style fragmentation, but Windows Phone users are perennially frustrated …
Joshuah Bearman / Wired:
The fall of Silk Road: how the FBI closed in on Dread Pirate Roberts  —  The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall  —  I'm sorry; your browser does not support HTML5 video in WebM with VP8 or MP4 with H.264. … The descent was stunning.  Chris Tarbell, a special agent …
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Nellie Bowles / The California Sunday Magazine:
Inside the almost-adult, insular lives of ambitious teenagers flooding into Silicon Valley to join tech startups  —  The Real Teens of Silicon Valley … “Do you know Zach Latta?” asked Fouad Matin, 19, on the roof of San Francisco's unofficial tech teenager headquarters one recent night.
Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:
Xiaomi's Mi Store ‘beta’ to open in US, UK, France and Germany on May 19th  —  Xiaomi is going to very slowly start its entry into Europe and the United States next week, according to a post from the company's Facebook page.  Starting on the 19th of May, the company will offer a small selection …
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Interview with SoftBank's Nikesh Arora on working alongside Masayoshi Son, investment plans, and Sprint  —  The fast rise of Nikesh Arora at SoftBank  —  Former Google executive Nikesh Arora joined SoftBank last year to oversee the Japanese company's investment strategy …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Anonymously run music service using “Grooveshark” name is sued by record labels, loses domains, then moves to new domain  —  Record Labels Sue ‘New’ Grooveshark, Seize Domains  —  Earlier this month the long running lawsuit between the RIAA and Grooveshark came to an end.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
LG returns to Windows Phone with a budget Verizon handset  —  It took a long time, but LG is returning to building Windows Phone handsets.  Verizon is launching the LG Lancet, the first LG handset running Windows Phone 8.1.  LG created a handset for the original Windows Phone 7 launch back in 2010 …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Oculus Details Rift's Recommended PC Specs, ‘Pauses’ Mac Development  —  We're still a little while off from the Oculus Rift's official consumer launch - pre-orders are starting later this year, the company revealed recently, with shipping beginning early next year.

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