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March 15, 2014, 1:20 AM

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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:

Leaked photos allegedly show Amazon's bluetooth gaming controller — Amazon Streamer To Feature Bluetooth Gaming Controller — By way of an overseas regulatory agency, similar to our very own FCC, we continue to hone in on the elusive Amazon media streamer.

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8: Apple considers simpler Notifications Center, inter-app communication, auto-deletion of Messages threads, removal of Game Center, CarPlay over WiFi — iOS 8: Apple considers Notification Center + Messages tweaks, removing Game Center app — Besides adding new Maps, Healthbook …

Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

US Commerce Department prepares to give up oversight of ICANN — U.S. Plans to Give Up Oversight of Web Domain Manager — Move Seen in Response to International Concern About Country's Control Over Internet Structure — The U.S. government is preparing to relinquish oversight of a key body …

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Wall Street Journal:

GoDaddy Prepares for IPO — Company to Interview Underwriters in Coming Weeks — GoDaddy Group Inc., the Internet company that helps individuals and businesses create websites, is preparing for an initial public share offering, said people familiar with the matter.

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Ed Christman / Billboard:

Rate Court Judge Rules Pandora Will Pay ASCAP 1.85% Annual Revenue — In what is being viewed as a defeat for songwriters, the ASCAP/Pandora rate court judge has decided that Pandora will pay the performance rights organization a rate of 1.85% of annual revenue.

More: New York Times, Associated Press, Bloomberg and SlashGear. Tweets: @edchristman. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Asus may drop dual-OS Android-Windows device after facing pressure from Google and Microsoft — Asustek's Dual-OS Devices Hit a Wall — Shelves Plans For Transformer Book Duet TD300 — Plans for a new breed of mobile devices running operating systems from both Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc …

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Mozilla scraps Firefox's Windows Metro version, cites less than 1K active daily users for beta — Mozilla scraps Metro version of Firefox, citing low interest — After more than two years of work, Mozilla has scrapped its effort to build a Metro-specific version of Firefox for Windows 8 …

More: Mozilla Future Releases, TechCrunch, The Register, BetaNews, Ars Technica, The Next Web, SlashGear, gHacks Technology News and Engadget

Reuters:

Supreme Court rejects Nokia appeal over asset transfer to Microsoft — (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Nokia (NOK1V.HE) to give a 35 billion rupee guarantee before it transfers one of its biggest handset plants to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O). — The ruling upheld a lower court verdict …

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Carlos Barria / Reuters:

Sina Weibo files for $500 million U.S. IPO — A man holds an iPhone as he visits Sina's Weibo microblogging site in Shanghai May 29, 2012. — (Reuters) - Twitter-like messaging service Weibo Corp filed on Friday to raise $500 million via a U.S. initial public offering …

More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Quartz, Wall Street Journal and Gigaom. See also Mediagazer

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Google Is Winding Down Wildfire, The Social Media Platform It Bought For $350 Million — In 2012, Google made a huge splash when it bought Wildfire, a social media marketing company that helps advertisers manage their pages on Facebook, for $350 million. The acquisition came after a flurry …

More: Wildfire Social Media …, Altimeter Group, Pulse 2.0, Marketing Land, Forrester Blogs and WebProNews

Juan Carlos Torres / Android Community:

Google Play Store update lets you require a password for every purchase — Google has just started rolling out an update to the Play Store app on Android that, among other things, now offers more fine-grained control when making purchases. This change could very well be related to the class action suit that the company is now facing.

More: Android Police, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, Droid Life, PC Magazine, MobileSyrup.com, Electronista, Engadget and AndroidGuys

Aaron Pressman / Yahoo! Finance:

Popcorn Time app shuts down amid threats of video piracy — Popcorn Time, we hardly knew ya. Just a few days after the new app arrived on the scene with its incredibly easy to use interface giving users acces to the entire Internet storehouse of illegally uploaded movies and TV shows, it has shut down.

More: Medium, TIME, Gizmodo and Business Insider. Thanks:@ampressman

The Asahi Shimbun:

Toshiba sues South Korean rival SK Hynix over corporate espionage — Asahi Asia Antenna - — THE ASAHI SHIMBUN — Toshiba Corp. has filed a lawsuit against South Korean rival SK Hynix Inc. for compensatory damages, citing the theft of its technological secrets.

More: PC Advisor, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Bloomberg:

Alibaba Said to Plan to File for U.S. IPO as Soon as April — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is preparing to file for an initial public offering in the U.S. as soon as April, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — China's largest e-commerce company is working …

More: New York Times, PandoDaily, Mashable, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily and Business Insider

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