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May 19, 2015, 3:50 AM

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Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
After nearly a decade of research, Apple shelved plans over a year ago for the TV set that Carl Icahn expects it to release in 2016  —  Behind Apple's Move to Shelve TV Plans  —  Apple had dropped its TV plans, but investor Carl Icahn sees the firm entering the market next year
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Katie Benner / Bloomberg View:
Jawbone's recent $300M investment from BlackRock was debt, not equity  —  Jawbone Gets a Loan and a Leash  —  Jawbone, the San Francisco maker of wearable technology, recently got a hefty $300 million investment from BlackRock, the largest and one of the most trusted asset management companies in the world.
More: Business InsiderTweets: @benthompson and @fmanjoo
Tom Dotan / The Information:
Facebook is in active talks with game developers about games for Messenger app platform  —  With Messenger Apps Sluggish, Facebook Eyeing Games  —  The first suite of apps that Facebook announced for Messenger were all for lightweight communication: sending people emojis, sound clips, gifs and the like.
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp On International Ambitions, The Apple Watch, The SF Housing Crisis And More  —  As part of a larger story about Pinterest's Jumpstart program — a new experiment in its international expansion — I sat down with Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp to talk about the company and its current goals.
More: TechCrunchTweets: @jonrussell
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama uses someone else's iPhone to post first tweet from his own Twitter account @POTUS  —  Obama Used Someone Else's iPhone To Tweet His First Presidential Account Tweet  —  President Obama still carries his secure BlackBerry.  On the day of the first tweet from @POTUS, the White House won't say if that device is Twitter capable.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
EZTV's founder NovaKing quits as scammers take over the domains, brand  —  EZTV Shuts Down After Hostile Takeover  —  During the spring of 2005 several large TV-torrent sites were knocked offline, leaving a gaping void that was soon filled by a new torrent distribution group, EZTV.
More: Geek.com, Kotaku and UbergizmoTweets: @davewiner
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Google researchers create amazing timelapses from public photos  —  There are uncountable digital photos in the public domain and scientists have now figured out something very cool to do with them.  Researchers from Google and the University of Washington have developed a fully automated …

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