Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out  —  Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram, a tiny company dedicated to helping Thai beauty queens share photos of their fingernails.

Nokia Confirms Lumia 900 Software Glitch, Offers Fix and $100 Credit  —  Nokia said late Monday that it has identified a problem that has left some early Lumia 900 customers unable to connect to the Internet.  —  Nokia U.S. chief Chris Weber told AllThingsD that the problem is a memory-management issue …

The 4 inch iPhone 5  —  In the past year of so the smartphone landscape has seen a trend of screen size increasing from around 3.2/3.5 inches to 4.3, 4.65 and as high as 5.3 inches in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Note.  The iPhone screen however, has remained at 3.5 inches since its debut in 2007.

Apple developing Flashback malware removal tool  —  In response to Flashback malware that's been in the news lately, Apple on Tuesday revealed that it is developing a tool to detect and remove it.  —  There is no date that the tool will be released, but considering it is Apple …

Google's $12 Billion Toy  —  Here's a business riddle: Divine Google Inc.'s intentions for its largest-ever acquisition, the $12.5 billion purchase of the once-great, now-faltering Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.  —  Motorola represents one of the thorniest strategic and operational challenges in Google's 14-year history.

DOJ may sue Apple over ebooks as early as Wednesday: sources  —  (Reuters) - The Justice Department could sue Apple Inc as early as Wednesday over alleged electronic book price-fixing, while settling with several publishers as early as this week, two people familiar with the matter said.

Availability of Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pros constrained ahead of redesigned models  —  Multiple authorized resellers this week are reflecting stock outs of 15-inch MacBook Pros, suggesting that Apple is ramping down production of existing models before introducing redesigned offerings …

Apple working on iTunes 11 with iOS 6 support, improved iCloud integration  —  According to sources, Apple has recently begun internally seeding the next major release of the iTunes application for computers, iTunes 11.  Work on iTunes 11 began prior to the release of iTunes 10.6 …

Wavii Launches In Public Beta, Aiming To Be Your Big Data News Aggregator Of Choice  —  After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption.

iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship  —  When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app.  Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod.  Originally, you could just drag tracks onto …

Apple ‘made £6bn’ in UK... but paid only £10m in tax  —  Apple paid a paltry £10million in UK corporation tax in the last financial year, despite earning an estimated £6billion in the country over the period.  —  It is the latest technology firm to be accused of avoiding UK tax, following Amazon and Google.

Tumblr updates Android app with a radical new look  —  Hot blog-baker Tumblr has cooked up a zany and colorful update to its Android application.  —  Five-year-old, New York-based Tumblr is the go-to blogging platform for the young and hip.  The company now powers more than 51 million blog sites …

It's Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!)  —  Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this note to Yahoo employees, about a new organization for the company.  —  “It's time for Yahoo! to move forward, and fast,” wrote Thompson (using punctuation I really, with nice comma deployment).

“New” Roku HD Lands On Retail Shelves  —  “New” Roku HD Lands On Retail Shelves originally appeared on Zatz Not Funny!  —  Just last month we reported that a new “Roku HD” SKU had hit the FCC, and today I found it nestled amongst the Roku 2 XD and XS models.

Please Welcome Peter Ha, Frederic Lardinois And New Co-Editor Alexia Tsotsis  —  Sure, legends like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle don't play for the Yankees now, but the team hasn't just survived the ups and downs over the years.  Hate it or love it, the franchise attracts many of the best players …

Nokia jumps the gun, unveils its first NFC Windows Phone handset: The Lumia 610 NFC  —  Update: We have since had confirmation from three independent sources that the device will launch in Monaco at 1pm GMT.  —  Microsoft had teased NFC support in its Windows Phone OS but until recently it had been a pipe dream.

Latest Chrome beta release adds tab syncing across computers and Android  —  The introduction of Chrome for Android brought a baked-in solution for syncing your tabs from computer to your phone, and now Google's rolling that out more broadly.  The latest beta version of Chrome for Mac …

To Compute or Not to Compute—Wolfram|Alpha Analyzes Shakespeare's Plays  —  For hundreds of years, scholars have carefully studied the plays of Shakespeare, breaking down the language and carefully dissecting every act and scene.  We thought it would be interesting to see what sorts …

Intel Develops Small, Sturdy Tablet for Education  —  Companies have been trying to transform education with computers for decades, with mixed results.  But there is new enthusiasm for the possibilities represented by tablets, and Intel has a new entry.

Samsung Galaxy Note Variant On the Way to Sprint?  —  Well look what we have here: It looks an awful lot like the Samsung Galaxy Note has made an appearance on Sprint's website.  Neither Sprint nor Samsung have announced any intention to launch the 5.3-inch “phablet,” but our own Mark Hearn …

Free Adobe Reader app for iPad and Android can now sign and annotate PDFs  —  Annotating PDFs on a tablet is a widely-held dream in the suit community, and now Adobe's making it a little easier — the free Adobe reader app for iOS and Android is being updated to support electronic signatures and basic annotations.