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April 30, 2016, 10:05 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.

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

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, Fone Arena, EE Times, Liliputing and eWeek

Tweets: @ryansmithat and @withfries2

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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, SiliconBeat, Lifehacker, Silicon Valley Business …, Guardian, TechConnect, Quartz, Digital Trends, Fortune and Yahoo Tech

Tweets: @joshconstine and @harrisonweber

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

Scott Gilbertson / Ars Technica:

Vivaldi browser review: ultra customization and clever tab management great for power users, but no mobile version and some glitches in version 1.0 — Even at 1.0, Vivaldi closes in on the cure for the common browser — Review: Ultra customization, clever tab management breaks from Chrome, Firefox.

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: Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Verge and The Next Web. Tweets: @craigmod

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

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

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

Neil Mawston / Strategy Analytics:

Smartwatch shipments grew 223% year-over-year in Q1 2016; Apple had 52% marketshare, down from 63% in prior quarter — STRATEGY ANALYTICS: Apple Watch Slips to 52% Global Smartwatch Marketshare in Q1 2016 — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch …

More: SlashGear, FierceWireless, MacNN, AppAdvice.com Latest, Investor's Business Daily and AppleInsider

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, Macworld, Android Police, Tech Times, Mashable, Phandroid, SlashGear, 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, Daring Fireball, New York Times, VentureBeat, silicontap.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Digital Trends, Business Insider and Engadget

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