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Official Android Blog:

Google announces it will provide monthly OTA security updates to Nexus devices, starting today with Stagefright fixes — An Update to Nexus Devices — Security has always been a major focus for Android and Google Play: Android was built from day one with security in mind.

More: OpenSignal, ZDNet, PCWorld, Washington Post, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Phandroid, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, Android Beat, Android Authority, Droid Life and PhoneDog.com

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

Samsung announces new Android security update process, will roll out patches once a month — Samsung to Deliver Monthly Over the Air Security Updates for Android — Samsung to Deliver Regular Security Updates Around Once a Month to Android-based Galaxy Devices

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

How the Stagefright bug changed Android security

More: Samsung Tomorrow, The Register, Gizmodo, Android Police, Android Authority, NPR, Android Police, Android Central, Phandroid, VentureBeat, AndroidGuys, PhoneArena, BetaBoston, Droid Life, PhoneDog.com, Ausdroid, SamMobile, Pocketnow and Android Beat

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Launches “Live” Streaming Video Feature, But Only For Celebrities — Before Periscope and Meerkat jumpstarted the mobile live-streaming craze, Facebook was already quietly working on its own way to let public figures broadcast live videos to their fans.

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg Business:

Apple defeats bid for lawsuit alleging iMessage interfered with delivery of texts after switching to non-Apple devices — Apple Defeats Bid for Group Suit Over Texts Lost in Phone Swap — Apple Inc. won a ruling beating back a group lawsuit sought by a former iPhone user who claimed …

More: MacRumors, CNET, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, iLounge and Patently Apple

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Adidas acquires mobile fitness company Runtastic for $239M — Sporting giant Adidas has acquired Runtastic, a European mobile fitness startup known for its GPS fitness-tracking app of the same name, in a deal worth €220 million ($239 million). — Founded out of Austria in 2009 …

More: Runtastic Blog, Android Police, VatorNews, AppleInsider, ReadWrite, iMore, 9to5Google, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Business Insider, New York Times, mobihealthnews and Droid Life

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Intel targets gamers with sixth-gen ‘Skylake’ CPU launch — With mobile annihilating the mainstream PC industry, Intel knows gaming is buttering its bread. The chip giant launched its sixth-gneration “Skylake” desktop processors today with two enthusiast quad-core models: the Core I7-6700K and i5-6600K.

More: The Verge, BetaNews, iMore, AnandTech, Ars Technica, Inquirer, WinBeta, PCWorld and Seeking Alpha

Micah Singleton / The Verge:

Sources: Apple's licensing deals include permission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1 — Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time — While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Empowers Pages To Provide Customer Support Over Private Messages — A business publicly debating customer problems on their Facebook Page's wall is a recipe for a PR disaster. So today Facebook is giving Pages more options for privately messaging people who complain.

More: Facebook, Marketing Land, Adweek, VentureBeat, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, The Next Web and SocialTimes. Tweets: @joshconstine

Mike Beasley / 9to5Google:

YouTube ditches “301+” video view counter, introduces new method for keeping views up-to-date — YouTube announced a new plan today to finally get rid of the well-known “301+” issue that affected popular videos on the site. — As has been explained by the company in the past …

More: The Next Web, Gizmodo, Android Police, Marketing Land, Tubefilter and Engadget. Tweets: @ytcreators

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

EMC Considers a Buyout by Its Own Subsidiary VMware — Data storage and IT giant EMC is contemplating a deal under which it would be acquired by VMware, the software company in which it is a majority owner, according to sources briefed on the discussions. — That is one of several options EMC's board …

More: Tech Trader Daily. Tweets: @knieriemen

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Google Fiber plans service in San Antonio, its biggest city yet — Google will compete against AT&T, which plans gigabit service for San Antonio. — Google today said it is beginning design work on a fiber network for San Antonio, Texas. With 1.4 million residents, it will be the biggest Google Fiber city so far.

More: TechCrunch, Google Fiber Blog, ZDNet, Multichannel News, VentureBeat, USA Today, Engadget, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, KSAT-TV, 9to5Google, TIME, The Huffington Post, Oregonian, San Antonio Current, Consumerist, Android Central and Ubergizmo

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Samsung Kills Top-Secret Plan to Reinvent the Remote Control, Lays Off Boxee Staff — Samsung's ambitious plan to replace the TV remote is dead. — The Korean consumer electronics giant quietly shuttered an ambitious initiative last month that was internally known as “Perfect Experience,” or PX, Variety has learned.

More: Engadget, SlashGear and Consumerist

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:

IBM, Apple's Rival-Turned-Partner, Plans to Help Other Companies Adopt Macs — Big Blue, set to be the world's largest corporate user of MacBooks, expands collaboration in rapidly shifting tech landscape — International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Inc. used to be bitter rivals …

More: IBM, MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, PCWorld, AppleInsider, Computerworld, ZDNet, Fortune, Tech Times, MacDailyNews, iClarified and Inquirer. Tweets: @benbajarin

Adam Jourdan / Reuters:

China to put security teams in major Internet firms, websites — China is planning to set up “network security offices” in major Internet companies and for websites so authorities can move more quickly against illegal online behavior, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement.

More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Bloomberg Business, CNET, Human Rights Watch, ITworld.com, Slashdot, TIME, Wired.co.uk, TechSpot, The Verge, The Economic Times, Quartz, Jagran Post, ecns, International Business Times and Seeking Alpha

Brendan Klinkenberg / BuzzFeed:

Target tests Bluetooth beacons in 50 stores to send customers deals based on precise in-store location — Target Rolls Out New Pilot Program To Track Customers In Stores — The company is testing a network of beacons in 50 of its stores that will be able to tell where customers …

More: TechCrunch, corporate.target.com, iMore, GeekWire, ZDNet, MacRumors, iLounge, TWICE and Consumerist

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Fastly Raises $75M For Its Real-Time CDN — Fastly, a content delivery service (CDN) service that focuses on helping companies deliver dynamic content to their users faster, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D round led by ICONIQ Capital.

More: VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Network World, PE Hub Blog, Fortune and bizjournals

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

Hands-on with DJI's new Phantom 3 Standard: shoots “2.7K” video (2704x1520) at 30fps, priced at $799 — Flying DJI's new Phantom 3 Standard—better software, better camera — Updated platform has stricter flight controls and more attention to detail.

More: DJI, Engadget, Wired, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechSpot, SlashGear and TechCrunch

Mark Bergen / Re/code:

Twitter May Be a Takeover Target, but Google Is Unlikely to Take It Over — As markets closed yesterday, Twitter's stock sank to its lowest level ever — a drop that raised speculation, yet again, that another company would take it over. At only a $19 billion market valuation, that's not a surprise.

More: Fortune, Bloomberg Business, SiliconANGLE and Business Insider. Tweets: @amir

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Graava is an action camera that automatically edits your video and prepares highlights, on preorder for $249, to eventually retail for $399 — Graava Is A $249 Action Camera That Edits Highlight Videos For You — Your GoPro is great until you have to edit all those hours of footage to find the cool moments.

More: VentureBeat, New York Times, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, MacStories, The Verge, Re/code, The Next Web, Forbes and Crowdfund Insider

Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine

Thanks:@drew

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Data-analysis firm Tableau Software acquires Infoactive, a startup that turns data into infographics — Tableau makes first acquisition ever, swoops up startup that turns data into infographics … For the first time in its 13-year history, Tableau Software is acquiring another company.

More: BetaKit

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft launches Sway out of preview along with new Windows 10 app, revamps Docs.com for sharing Office files — Microsoft today announced its content aggregation and presentation application Sway has hit general availability. That means the digital storytelling tool is launching …

More: PC Magazine, PCWorld, The Next Web, Engadget, ZDNet and CNET

Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal:

Epson's new EcoTank printers hold two years worth of ink, cost between $400-$500 and replacement cannisters of ink will cost $52 — Review: Epson Kills the Printer Ink Cartridge — The new EcoTank printers cost more up front but can churn for years without running dry

More: Multivu, Bloomberg Business, Asia Stocks to Watch, Ubergizmo, BGR, Fortune, Liliputing, New York Post and TechRadar.com

Ben Popper / The Verge:

How MLBAM emerged as the most reliable name in streaming video, on pace to earn $900M in 2015 — How baseball's tech team built the future of television — It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York's Chelsea Market, typically packed with hordes of noisy tourists, was quiet.

More: Stratechery and VideoNuze Analysis. Tweets: @gizmodo, @shaliniwsj, @shaliniwsj, @chriswelch and @benpopper. See also Mediagazer

Sam Biddle / Gawker:

Leaked internal documents show Uber lost $20.4M in 2012, $56M in 2013, and more than $160M in the first half of 2014 — Here Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser — Uber, Silicon Valley's prized amoral unicorn, is presumed to be a financial titan and a sure-thing IPO in the near future.

More: Business Insider, The Next Web and Inc.com

Tweets: @modestproposal1, @fmanjoo, @caseynewton, @danprimack, @eriks, @katie_roof, @startupljackson, @danprimack, @cdixon and @fmanjoo

Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:

Google's Patent Purchase Promotion ends with company buying 28% of patents submitted, with a median price tag of $150K — How Google Renewed Its Fight Against Patent Trolls — Congress killed patent reform last year, but big tech companies are taking the matter into their own hands.

More: IEEE Spectrum, 9to5Google and IEEE Spectrum

Tweets: @sarahjeong and @motherboard

Thanks:@adrjeffries

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

Samsung Pay on TV lets you buy apps and games with your credit card, debit card, and PayPal — Samsung has introduced a new way for people to pay for content — right through their television. Called Samsung Pay on TV, it supports major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, and other mobile billing options.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, Engadget, ABC News, CNET, TechHive, Tech Times, The Next Web, eWeek, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Business Insider and Android Central

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