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April 30, 2016, 1:40 AM

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Sundar Pichai / Official Google Blog:

Sundar Pichai lays out priorities for Google in his first Founders' Letter, with machine learning and AI playing a key role — This year's Founders' Letter — Every year, Larry and Sergey write a Founders' Letter to our stockholders updating them with some of our recent highlights and sharing our vision for the future.

More: Medium, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, SiliconANGLE, Petri, Bloomberg, Wired, PCWorld, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, Re/code, USA Today, Android Central, TIME and Re/code

Tweets: @qhardy, @whatthebit, @sundarpichai and @guy_levin

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal:

Uber tests wait-time fees and a shorter cancellation window in NYC, New Jersey, Dallas, and Phoenix, in response to driver complaints — Uber Tests New Rider Rules: Two Minutes to Cancel or Show Up...or Else — Pilot program to allow charges for customers making drivers wait or canceling rides late, addressing complaints

More: TechCrunch, Uber Global, Lifehacker, SiliconBeat, Silicon Valley Business …, Guardian, Quartz, TechConnect, Digital Trends, Fortune, Yahoo Tech, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo UK, Tech Times and Gizmodo

Tweets: @joshconstine and @harrisonweber

AnandTech:

Intel's Changing Future: Smartphone SoCs Broxton & SoFIA Officially Cancelled — The past two weeks have been a busy - if not tumultuous - period for Intel. Driven by continued challenges in various semiconductor markets, culminating in weaker-than-desired earnings in the most recent quarter …

More: PCWorld, Forbes, EE Times, Liliputing and eWeek. Tweets: @ryansmithat. Thanks:@ryansmithat

Michele Chandler / Investor's Business Daily:

Report: Yahoo reaches deal to sell 48.6-acre undeveloped site in Santa Clara to Chinese tech firm LeEco — Yahoo Reportedly Selling Huge Silicon Valley Site To Chinese Firm — Yahoo (YHOO) has reached a deal to sell a 48.6-acre undeveloped site in Santa Clara, Calif. …

More: Silicon Valley Business …, SiliconBeat and Business Insider. Tweets: @howardlindzon

Abner Li / 9to5Google:

New Google Trips app is a smart assistant for your vacations, currently in beta testing — One of Inbox's most convenient features are Travel bundles that organize reservations and other related emails in an easy to read manner. Google is now testing (via Androidworld) …

More: The Next Web, Digital Trends, Android Police, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Android Police, Tech Times, Mashable, Phandroid, Engadget, International Business Times and Android Central

Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

Rovi buys TiVo for $1.1B at $10.70 per share, will adopt TiVo brand as new company name — Rovi Buys TiVo for $1.1 Billion — Entertainment technology firm values original DVR company at $10.70 per share — Entertainment technology company Rovi has purchased original DVR service TiVo for $1.1 billion, or $10.70 per share.

More: Business Wire, Bloomberg, FierceCable, PCWorld, New York Times, VentureBeat, Daring Fireball, The Verge, TechCrunch, silicontap.com, Silicon Valley Business …, Digital Trends, Business Insider and Engadget

Tweets: @treehcapital and @robinwauters

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Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:

Microsoft has launched an IFTTT-like automation tool called Flow — LEAKED: Microsoft is working on a new tool to help automate your life — Meet Microsoft Flow: A free way to connect all of your cloud services — including Slack, GitHub, Twitter, and Google Drive — together in new and novel ways.

More: Microsoft PowerApps, flow.microsoft.com, Microsoft PowerApps, The Verge, Microsoft Flow, CIO.com, GeekWire, MSPoweruser, The Fire Hose, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, Neowin, Windows Central, Fortune, WinBeta, Engadget, SlashGear and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

ITC judge rules that Jawbone patents in its case against Fitbit are invalid — Fitbit Wins Ruling Knocking Out Jawbone Patents at Trade Agency — Fitbit Inc. won a ruling that invalidated the last of the Jawbone Inc. patents that were the subject of a dispute at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

More: Wearable Tech Insider, Silicon Valley Business …, VatorNews, MacNN, SlashGear, Engadget, TechCrunch and The Verge

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter quietly retires Magic Recs, a DM bot that recommended viral accounts and Tweets — As Twitter tries out bigger things to spur growth activity — like changing the orderandlengthof tweets — it is turning away from others. Twitter has quietly retired Magic Recs …

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo and The Next Web

Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:

YouTube responds to music industry's complaints about low artist payments, says it is more like radio than Spotify — YouTube hits back at ‘noise’ around its music payouts — It's been a bruising month for YouTube as labels, music industry bodies and artists have attacked Google's video service …

More: YouTube Creator Blog, RAIN News, Digital Music News, Tubefilter, hypebot and International Business Times. Tweets: @musically. See also Mediagazer

Grant Gross / PCWorld:

TV stations agree to sell 126MHz of spectrum in FCC auction, paving the way for fast, reliable 5G — FCC wireless auction hits spectrum target, paving way for fast, reliable 5G — Television stations have volunteered to sell off 126MHz of “beach front” wireless spectrum to mobile carriers …

More: FierceWireless, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Hill, Bloomberg, Wireless Week, Morning Consult, Telecompaper, AndroidHeadlines.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Current, FierceWireless, New York Times, Wireless Week, TVNewsCheck.com and RCR Wireless News

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM raises its blockchain game with secure cloud services and Docker integration — Bitcoin may still be the most famous application of blockchain technology, but the distributed, encrypted database architecture is now being applied to a range of other services, from different kinds of …

More: IBM, Techvibes Global News, InfoWorld, NEWSBTC, SiliconANGLE and Reuters

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