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February 14, 2012, 5:35 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

Apple, Suppliers Test Tablet With Smaller Screen — TAIPEI-Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a new tablet computer with a smaller screen, people familiar with the situation said, as it looks to broaden its product pipeline amid intensifying competition and maintain its dominant market share.

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

This is not the iPad 3 — John Gruber talking about 8-inch iPad reported by WSJ: … I agree with Gruber. We've known for a long time that Apple has been testing different screen sizes and there is no reason to believe that they have stopped. With advancements in display technology and other factors …

More: The Next Web and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Bloomberg:

Amazon Has Fewer Prime Subscribers Than Estimated — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)'s Prime service, a linchpin of its effort to keep customers loyal and fuel long- term profit, has attracted fewer than half as many members as analysts estimate, three people familiar with the matter said.

More: CNET, paidContent, GeekWire, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, WebProNews and The Next Web. Tweets: @taylorbuley

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo Asia Deal Talks Off for Now — According to sources close to the situation, the discussions between Yahoo and its Asian partners have hit a potentially deal-breaking impasse over the efficacy of the centerpiece of the complex negotiations — a cash-rich split-off — and several other issues.

More: CNET, Washington Post, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Betabeat, The Tech Trade, ITworld.com, Tech Trader Daily, DealBook, PE Hub Blog, Reuters and Electronista

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

Activist Shareholder Declares War On Yahoo: Here's Who He Wants On The Board — One of Yahoo's fiercest critics, Dan Loeb, has just formally declared war on Yahoo by nominating his own slate of directors. — In addition to himself, he has suggested three other names, according to an SEC filing:

More: AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:

Motorola's First, Intel-Powered Ice Cream Sandwich Revealed (Images) — We've just gotten some imagery and a few details pertaining to a phone that will allegedly be Motorola's first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered handset. What's more, this unnamed device will also be one of Motorola's …

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Jeremy K. Chen / The Official Google Blog:

Google Public DNS: 70 billion requests a day and counting — We launched Google Public DNS in December 2009 to help make the web faster for everyone. Today, we're no longer an experimental service. We're the largest public DNS service in the world, handling an average of more than 70 billion requests a day.

More: CircleID, 9to5Google, SiliconFilter, The Next Web and WebProNews

Wall Street Journal:

Verizon, AT&T To Sell 4G iPad — Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. will sell a version of the coming iPad that runs on their newest fourth-generation wireless networks, according to people familiar with the matter, as the battle to cash in on big investments in mobile broadband heats up.

CNNMoney:

Twitter slaps limits on sales of its pricey stock — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — While Facebook prepares to go public, Silicon Valley's other buzzy social startup, Twitter, is doing everything in its power to stay private. In pursing that goal, it has slapped its shareholders with an unusual restriction …

More: AllTwitter, Business Insider, the Econsultancy blog, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, WebProNews and The Next Web

Tatsuo Nomura / Google LatLong:

An easy way to access directions and locations you care about — If you're anything like me, you might use Google Maps to look up the same places and directions more than once, like the location of your hotel while you're on vacation, or directions to a friend's house that you've visited before.

More: VentureBeat, Marketing Pilgrim and The Next Web

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Zynga beats earnings estimates for its first-ever quarterly report as a public company — Zynga reported a modest profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report today. — The non-GAAP earnings per share were five cents, or $37.1 million, for the quarter.

More: Inside Mobile Apps, TechCrunch, Inside Social Games, Between the Lines Blog, Business Insider, Digits, Business Wire, Social Markets, TechCrunch and WebProNews

Bloomberg:

Proview Asks China Customs to Stop IPad Imports, Exports — Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — Proview International Holdings Ltd., which claims ownership of the iPad trademark in China, is asking the nation's customs bureau to block imports and exports of Apple Inc.'s tablet computer.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

New Service Will Stream Local TV Stations in New York — A online television company has come up with a way to stream local television stations to paying subscribers on the Internet, potentially forming a new cord-cutting threat for cable and satellite distributors.

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, Betabeat, Engadget, pocketnow.com and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Barry Diller Gets Into the “Cord-Cutting” Business

More: CNET, Mixed Media, GigaOM and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Take that, Netflix: Hulu premieres Battleground series — Hulu launched its first original scripted series Battleground Monday night, just one week after Netflix started its foray into original programming with Lilyhammer. — New episodes of Battleground, a comedy about a Senate campaign in Wisconsin …

More: Hulu Blog

Bloomberg:

Netflix Said to Plan Another Original Series, Increasing Challenge to HBO

More: TechCrunch

Zee / The Next Web:

Welcome (Back) to The Next Web, Robin Wauters — Back in 2008, @Boris put a tweet out looking for a replacement for one Robin Wauters, a contributor, who after a spell with The Next Web was being snapped up by Michael Arrington to join TechCrunch. — As with many things, both TNW and I were at the right place at the right time.

More: PandoDaily, Robin Wauters and bub.blicio.us

Tweets: @alexia, @grg and @arrington

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Ingrid Lunden Now Writes For Us From London And Colleen Taylor Will Be Our TCTV Reporter

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @anthonyha. See also Mediagazer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform—From Inkling, Not Apple — Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a bit like iBooks Author, but a preview of the program suggests that it is indeed …

More: Mashable!, PC World, Fortune, Macworld, TUAW, GigaOM, The Verge, TechCrunch and AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:

Did Google Just Disable Privacy-Friendly Scroogle? [UPDATED] — A satirical image from Scroogle, reflecting the search engine's tendentious position on Google's privacy policy. (scroogle.org) — UPDATE: Google says it did not target Scroogle specifically.

More: Search Engine Land and A Simple Soul

Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com:

Exclusive: New pre-release BlackBerry 10 OS images surface - homescreen widgets make their BB debut! — POW! Following up the first-look image of a BlackBerry 10 phone we posted two weeks ago, today the good ol' CrackBerry tip line received a pretty *interesting* email …

More: Digital Trends, Gizmodo, eWeek, GigaOM, The Verge, TechSpot, Gizmodo UK, Techland, Inquirer, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketables and SoMobile

Alex Payne:

On Business Madness — I am not intentionally a business person. — Over the course of my career to date I've worked at companies of various sizes, and have been situated at commensurately varying distances from the concerns of running a business: funding, sales, forecasting and planning …

More: Business Insider

Italovignoli / The Document Foundation Blog:

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5: “the best free office suite ever” — Berlin, February 14, 2012 - The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5, the third major release of “the best free office suite ever”, which shows to end users the improvements derived …

More: ReadWriteWeb, The Register, PC World, InfoWorld and BetaNews

Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:

HTC PlayStation certification devices coming 2012, time to get your Crash Bandicoot skills up to scratch — HTC is to be one of the first companies outside Sony to get PlayStation certification for its mobile devices, sources have confirmed to Pocket-lint. — The announcement expected later …

More: IntoMobile, SlashGear, Engadget, AndroidOS.in, Android Phone Fans, The Next Web, AndroidGuys, UnleashthePhones, PhoneArena, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, Inquirer and FierceMobileContent

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Fab.com takes big step toward becoming Amazon of design — A year ago, Fab.com pivoted toward its present model as a design flash sales site, and it's been a stunning success, with 2 million members since launching eight months ago and a Crunchie award for best shopping app.

More: Social Markets, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fast Company, The Next Web, @PSFK and internetretailer.com

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Sony developing authenticating power outlets: pay-to-charge on the way? — Sony is developing power outlet technology that uses IC chips to determine a user's identity or permissions. Possible use case scenarios include managing energy usage in large buildings, device theft prevention …

More: Geek.com, The Technology Chronicles, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Tech Report and Electronista

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Did the AP just declare war on news aggregators? — Like virtually every other traditional news entity, the Associated Press newswire has been under pressure for some time from digital media — but this disruption has been even worse for AP and its ilk because they are primarily distributors …

More: ap.org, paidContent and TechCrunch Europe. See also Mediagazer

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