This week, Twitter and LinkedIn benefit from a mobile boom, Are wearables dead in the water already?, Did the FCC just hammer the final nail in Net Neutrality’s coffin?, Netflix raises fees, Amazon goes for HBO — and smartphones, what happens when a hashtag backfires on you, and much more…

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea, episode 2
Dwayne: TARDIS proposal
Tosin: Broken Age

Headlines

• Twitter’s New Ad Unit Is A Huge, Huge Deal. Here’s Why
  • Twitter Purchases Gnip
• LinkedIn Hits 300M Members Thanks to Mobile
• Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware
  • Why Wearables Like Nike’s FuelBand Aren’t Working

Audible Book of the Week

• This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
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Music Break: Clara? by Murray Gold

More Headlines

• FCC to propose net neutrality rules that would let broadband providers give some traffic preferential treatment
• Netflix to raise prices for new members $1-2 this quarter, existing members will stay at current pricing “for a generous time period”
• Amazon Will Now Offer Old HBO Content For Prime Customers
• HBO and Amazon Sign Exclusive Multi-Year Streaming Deal For Prime Members
• Amazon Smartphone Specs, Details on Software Revealed — Exclusive
• Amazon Point of Sale system may hit too close to home

Music Break: Sound of da Police by KRS One

Final Word

• #myNYPD: Police Department Asks Fans to Upload Photos With Cops, Didn’t See This Coming

Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD. It may be featured on our Facebook. pic.twitter.com/mE2c3oSmm6

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 22, 2014

MT @NYPDnews: Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD pic.twitter.com/epG5E9cUBF — DefendedInTheStreets (@KimaniFilm) April 22, 2014

Sure thing! MT @NYPDnews: Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD pic.twitter.com/mdWqoHiij5

— DefendedInTheStreets (@KimaniFilm) April 22, 2014

just photos? ok fine, @NYPDnews #MyNYPD pic.twitter.com/CrXcILqXWE — DefendedInTheStreets (@KimaniFilm) April 22, 2014

• Danny Boyle in Talks to Direct Steve Jobs Movie, Leonardo DiCaprio Eyed to Star (Exclusive)

The Drill Down Video of the Week

HBO GO spots show how awkward is it to watch HBO with your parents

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.