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April 24, 2014, 2:15 PM

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Moves:

Moves joins Facebook, will continue as standalone app, will not “commingle data with Facebook” — Moves joins Facebook! — 24 April 2014 - Today, we're delighted to announce that Facebook has acquired our company and the Moves app. Since we launched Moves …

More: TechCrunch, AllFacebook, VatorNews, Inquirer, Inside Facebook, AppleInsider, Marketing Land, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Re/code, Gigaom, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Wired, Android Police, MacStories, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider and TechnoBuffalo

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @soopa

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook buys Helsinki-based ProtoGeo Oy, maker of popular fitness tracking app Moves — With App Acquisition, Facebook Enters Fitness Tracking Market — Facebook is leaping into the fitness tracking market by buying a Helsinki-based maker of a mobile app that can track users …

More: Agence France-Presse, MacRumors, The Technology Chronicles, ABC News, SiliconBeat, TechHive, Engadget, The Next Web, Mashable, App Advice and ArcticStartup

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @teroterotero, @wsjd, @movesapp and @qz

Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog:

FCC chairman to have net neutrality “enforceable rules” by the end of the year, mandate that ISPs “not act in a commercially unreasonable manner” — Setting the Record Straight on the FCC's Open Internet Rules — There has been a great deal of misinformation …

Chris Welch / The Verge:

FCC fails to clarify new net neutrality plans — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has just published a blog post that expands on a statement he gave last night on the topics of net neutrality and an open internet. Earlier yesterday, The Wall Street Journal issued a troubling report alleging …

More: Business Insider, PandoDaily and New York Times

Tweets: @samgustin and @ceciliakang

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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

FCC to propose net neutrality rules on Thursday that would let broadband providers give some traffic preferential treatment

More: New York Times, New Yorker, Gigaom, SiliconBeat, Businessweek, VentureBeat, Freedom to Tinker, Marco.org, Phandroid, TIME, Geek.com, Salon, Network World, Daring Fireball, DSLreports, Free Press, Light Reading, The Register, ParisLemon and Engadget

Tweets: @sama, @ryan, @nickbilton, @superwuster, @om, @rafat, @cdixon, @nytimesbits, @johnbattelle, @dangillmor, @ddayen, @om and @om

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Washington's revolving door: Cellular lobby and FCC have traded leaders

More: Techdirt, Inquirer, isen.blog and Softpedia News. Tweets: @dsilverman

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

FCC chairman says reports of net neutrality's death are ‘flat out wrong’

More: TechCrunch, Mashable, TechPresident, SiliconANGLE and WebProNews. Tweets: @fmanjoo

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Net neutrality dead for good? FCC may endorse pay-for-play deals

More: Mother Jones. Tweets: @maticbitenc

Re/code:

Google+ head Vic Gundotra to leave company after 8 years, with VP of engineering David Besbris replacing him — Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company — Vic Gundotra, who aggressively led Google into the social world with the creation of Google+, is leaving the company.

More: Vic Gundotra, Secret, Gigaom, 9to5Google, Engadget, GeekWire, Business Insider, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Verge, Daring Fireball, Mashable, Larry Page, MobileSyrup.com and Android Central

Tweets: @peterlauria3, @dannysullivan, @caseynewton, @monkbent and @selviano

Andy Mitchell / Facebook:

Facebook partners with Storyful to launch FB Newswire, a news feed for journalists on Facebook and Twitter — Announcing FB Newswire, Powered by Storyful — Every day, news is made on Facebook. More than one billion people use our platform to discover, explore and participate in news-making events around the world.

Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:

Ex-Anonymous hacker Sabu launched cyberattacks on Iran, Syria, Brazil, and Pakistan while an FBI informant — F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad — WASHINGTON — An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign websites …

More: Ars Technica, The Register, SecurityWeek and Gizmodo

Tweets: @nb_chris, @dangillmor, @antloewenstein, @trevortimm, @ashk4n, @jason_healey, @jpbarlow, @mattblaze and @doyle_kevin

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, others pledge $3.9M for open source projects to avoid the next HeartBleed — Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others pledge millions to open source.

More: New York Times, ZDNet, PC Magazine, PandoDaily, Computerworld, The Register, Inquirer, Help Net Security, Marketwired, 9to5Google, eWeek, CNET, Gigaom, SecurityWeek, RT, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Electronista, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Reuters, InfoWorld, The Verge, TechSpot, Mashable, ReadWrite and Neowin

Tweets: @martinkl and @trevortimm

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Google Glass now available to anyone, may be prepping for public launch — Google offered Glass to the public as part of a one day sale not long ago. Now it seems that anyone can order one again without an invite. There's been no announcement so far, no fan fair — a few Redditors …

More: Gizmodo, Forbes, 9to5Google, BGR, BuzzFeed, TechHive, iMore, googleglass.gs, Phandroid, Ubergizmo and TechnoBuffalo

Matt McGee / Glass Almanac:

Google Releases XE 16.11, Offers To Replace Bricked Glass Units

More: Ben Lang - Google+, 9to5Google and Google Glass Fans

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Internet Glue Service IFTTT Launches On Android With Deeper Integration Than iOS — The Internet connection and automation service IFTTT is launching on Android today, and it offers a deeper set of integrations with the OS than their iOS offering. This, of course, is due to Android's …

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, The Next Web, BGR, Android Police, The Droid Guy and Android Community

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Lyft Launches In 24 New Markets, Cuts Fares By Another 10% — On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is expanding aggressively in the U.S., announcing the launch of service in 24 new markets today. Along with the expansion, Lyft company will be offering free rides to new users in all launch markets …

More: Gigaom, Computerworld, GeekWire, Engadget, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, The Technology Chronicles and Uber Blog. Thanks:@ryanlawler

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Feds Beg Supreme Court to Let Them Search Phones Without a Warrant — American law enforcement has long advocated for universal “kill switches” in cellphones to cut down on mobile device thefts. Now the Department of Justice argues that the same remote locking and data-wiping technology represents …

More: Business Insider and Washington Post. Tweets: @wired

Simon Khalaf / Flurry:

A look at the demographics of “mobile addicts” who launch apps over 60 times per day — The Rise of the Mobile Addict — In May of 2013, KPCB's Partner and world-renowned analyst Mary Meeker shared her latest Internet Trends Report. In that report, Ms. Meeker shared an interesting stat …

Tweets: @ldignan

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon accelerates plans for its own delivery network, following last winter's shipping woes — Amazon Tests Its Own Delivery Network — Alternative to FedEx, UPS Could Deliver Goods the Same Day They Are Purchased — The future of Amazon.com Inc. is hiding in plain sight in a San Francisco parking lot.

Tweets: @murraymatt and @gregbensinger

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Moving your apps to the cloud gets easier as Amazon adds Docker support — The biggest public cloud provider is finally waking up to one of the hottest enabling technologies around for shipping applications to the cloud. — Today public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services announced support …

More: Amazon Web Services Blog, InfoWorld and SiliconANGLE

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Facebook, Gmail, Skype face Russia ban under ‘anti-terror’ data snooping plan — Summary: The Russian parliament's latest play could see major Western technology firms banned from the country if they don't store data on its soil — a move that would allow Russian authorities to easily snoop on user data.

More: Inquirer, Business Insider, Daily Dot, Bloomberg View, hrw.org/rss/news and Neowin. Tweets: @sicmyp

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

UPDATE A debit card for bitcoin: Xapo solves the payment problem with MasterCard tie-in — This story was updated at 12:52pm ET to reflect the fact that Xapo does not have a formal relationship with MasterCard, but only that it hopes to have one through a partner bank.

More: The Next Web, Xapo Blog, PC World, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Ubergizmo and Wired

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

CEO of digital ad platform RadiumOne avoids felony domestic abuse charges after video evidence thrown out — Tech CEO Dodges Felony Charge Despite Horrifying Abuse Video — RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh “G” Chahal pled guilty to two misdemeanors for domestic violence and battery last week.

Tweets: @eileentso, @ajs and @karensd

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:

ShopKeep's Point Of Sale Software Rings Up $25 Million — With its latest $25 million financing, ShopKeep POS has come a long way from being the cobbled together point of sale software service for a single wine shop in Brooklyn's leafy Ft. Greene neighborhood.

More: VentureBeat, Re/code, Gigaom and Mashable. Tweets: @mattstraz

Ishbel Macleod / thedrum.com:

87% of electronic spying is conducted by governments, with cyber espionage accounting for 22% of data breaches — Governments were responsible for over three quarters (87 per cent) of the 511 spying incidents recorded, the latest Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon Communications has found.

More: Threatpost, Reuters, ComputerWeekly, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, CNBC, Out-Law News, Fortune, Businessweek and Threatpost

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Ondot Raises $18M To Let You Take Complete Control Of Your Credit Card Via Your Mobile Phone — Managing credit and debit cards is still a relatively complicated process. You can control some elements of your cards like accessing your balances and transferring money online …

More: VentureBeat and Business Insider. Thanks:@bobpatters

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft delivers Remote Desktop app preview for Windows Phone 8.1 — Summary: Microsoft has made available for download a preview version of its Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1. — On April 23, Microsoft quietly made available for download a preview of its Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1.

More: PC World, MSDN Blogs, Inquirer, Softpedia News and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Qualcomm's quarterly revenue growth dwindles, shares fall — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) on Wednesday posted its smallest quarterly revenue increase since 2010 as it wrestles with a smartphone market that is losing steam and shifting to China, sending its shares lower.

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Computerworld

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:

Codecademy Moves To Be A One-Stop-Shop For Programming Education — Since its launch two years ago Codecademy has become synonymous with online education for basic computer programming. — In that time, the company says it's learned a few things itself and today launched a newly redesigned website …

More: Codecademy Blog and The Next Web

Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

Amazon's Prime Pantry service lets you ship 45 pounds of groceries for a $6 fee — Amazon's dead-set killing off the grocery store, with a same-day delivery service and even a Dash gadget for restocking items around the house. Now the retailer's going one step further …

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, PandoDaily, internetretailer.com, GeekWire, Gizmodo and Electronista

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