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April 12, 2012, 11:00 AM
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
DOJ is likely to lose e-book antitrust suit targeting Apple  —  Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday said the lawsuit against Apple was necessary to protect Americans from “anticompetitive harm.”  What he didn't say is that it's likely to fail.  —  (Credit: CBS News)
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
Nest Fires Back in Honeywell Suit, Brings Apple Chief Legal Counsel on Board  —  The fight over a thermostat just heated up.  —  Palo Alto, Calif.-based Nest, maker of a “smart” thermostat and target of a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by industrial giant Honeywell, has submitted a formal response to Honeywell's claims.
Rob Schmitz / Marketplace:
VIDEO: Watch an iPad get made from the Foxconn factory floor  —  Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple's Chinese producer Foxconn.  In this exclusive video, see highlights from his tour of the assembly line …
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Samsung's $249 Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 To Make U.S. Debut On April 22, We Go Hands-On  —  Samsung teased the masses this past February when they revealed that one of their first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablets would be the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, a decidedly mid-range device that seemed lacking in the style department.
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Tracking everything, Placeme is the smartphone assistant of the future  —  Placeme for iOS and Android may be both the scariest and amazingly futuristic smartphone app I've seen yet.  The free software uses every sensor in your handset to track your activities, location and environment.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Farewell, App Store?  Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Networks, Runs On HTML5  —  As e-book publishers and Apple face an antitrust lawsuit over pricing, magazine publishers are now looking into an alternative solution to the digital pricing dilemma: being able to extricate themselves from Apple's grip entirely.
Andrew Rassweiler / Market Intelligence:
Nokia Lumia 900 Carries Bill of Materials of $209  —  Nokia's new Lumia 900 smartphone features a cost-reduced design that reveals close cooperation between the handset brand, Microsoft Corp., and semiconductor supplier Qualcomm Inc. This cooperation mimics Apple Inc.'s holistic approach to hardware and software development.
Royal Pingdom:
WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs  —  WordPress is no doubt a very popular web publishing platform for blogs and other types of websites.  But just how popular is it?  —  We just completed a study and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft roadmap leaks for Office 15, IE 10 and more key products  —  Summary: Screen shots of a Microsoft product roadmap for partners have leaked to the Web.  Here are the key take-aways.  —  Microsoft has provided some of its partners with a roadmap for next versions of many of its key products …
More: Gizmodo
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Sony aims to become ‘One’, will fire 10,000 workers and spend $926m on restructuring  —  Struggling Japanese electronics giant Sony's new management team has laid out its plans to reinvigorate the company's businesses and look for growth in other and new markets.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
The Pebble is a slick e-paper smartwatch that connects to iPhone or Android  —  I've wanted a slick, minimal smartwatch that connects to my iPhone for years.  There have been plenty of attempts at this, especially recently, but the Pebble project on Kickstarter is the first one that I would actually love to see on my wrist.
Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat:
Patch Editor-in-Chief leaving AOL  —  Patch editor-in-chief Brian Farnham announced today he is leaving the network of hyper-local news and its parent-company AOL.  The news was revealed in an all-company call and Farnham let it all hang out on the Patch Blog.
Ben Rooney / Digits:
Deadline Looms For New Internet Domain System  —  If you want to own your own top-level domain you have about 24 hours to submit your application (along with the $180,000 fee) because once the April 12 deadline passes, that is it for the foreseeable future.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
With CS6, Adobe tidies up Premiere Pro, speeds up After Effects  —  Premiere Pro CS6 strips away much of the widgetry that cluttered its predecessor's user interface.  (Click to enlarge.)  —  (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)  —  Quick access to software features is nice, but there can be too much of a good thing.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel announces Centerton micro server platform for energy-efficient data centers  —  Intel announced today that it will create a low-cost, low-power “micro-server” platform dubbed Centerton, aimed to deliver energy-efficient computing.  —  The move is a reaction to Advanced Micro Device's acquisition …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
New Livestream Broadcaster Will Let You Stream From Almost Any Camera  —  Livestream, the premium live video streaming service, is announcing an interesting new product today: a $485 hardware encoder that can be connected to virtually any camera and that can stream HD video directly …
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Tablets a TV friend: 85 percent of tablet owners use the device while watching shows  —  The tablet's ability to deliver content has been considered a threat to PC and cable companies, but new data shows 85 percent of people using their tablets while watching the television, according to a report by Forrester.

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New York Times:
Sources: Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo discussed a joint all-cash offer for Paramount, which is still in an exclusive negotiation window with Skydance

Sara Fischer / Axios:
CalMatters, a nonprofit focused on CA politics and policy, acquires tech news nonprofit The Markup; CalMatters has ~$12.5M in funding and The Markup has $5M

New York Times:
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