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April 25, 2012, 11:20 AM

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DigiTimes:

HTC, Facebook jointly developing smartphone, say sources — Given that Google is expected to continue to cooperate with Samsung Electronics for the development of the next-generation Nexus smartphone, HTC reportedly has decided to move forward in its own way and is currently developing …

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

HTC and Facebook working on new Android smartphone for later this year, says DigiTimes

Apple:

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Record March Quarter Sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs Net Profit Increases 94% Year-over-Year CUPERTINO, California—April 24, 2012—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012.

Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb:

Apple's Huge Quarter in Charts

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Tim Cook on Samsung patent litigation: ‘I highly prefer to settle’

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Apple:

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 11 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 11 through June 15 at San Francisco's Moscone West. At this year's five-day conference …

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

How far does Google Drive's terms go in ‘owning’ your files? — Summary: Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive allows you to retain your copyright and IP rights to the work you upload to the service. Google Drive, however, takes everything you own. — Within hours of Google launching …

More: Hillicon Valley, The Register, CNET, Neowin, MediaNama, gHacks Technology News, The Official Google Blog, Engadget, The Box Blog and BetaNews

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Sundar Pichai: Google Drive Is About Context, Where Competitors Are About Files — In advance of the release of Google Drive, I sat down yesterday with Google SVP of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai and Google Drive product head Scott Johnston. I asked them to elaborate on how Google Drive emerged …

More: Guardian, The Verge, Softpedia News, Washington Post, PhoneArena, The Verge, Guardian and Gotta Be Mobile

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

A Lot Of People Are Freaking Out Over Google Drive For Nothing* — We've been seeing a few tweets from people who are worried how Google's recently updated terms of service will affect Google Drive. — Specifically, it's this section that has people talking:

More: ZDNet, The Next Web, Search Engine Roundtable and Android Phone Fans

David Beren / TmoNews:

T-Mobile Branded Samsung Galaxy Note Hanging In The Wild, Looking Awesome — We're about to put aside any doubt any of you may have had surrounding the future availability of the Galaxy Note on T-Mobile. We've had two indications that the 5.3″ “phablet” was forthcoming …

More: GigaOM, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, GadgeTell, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, Sammy Hub, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, The Verge, Android Phone Fans and Pocketables

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Feature: Windows 8 on the desktop—an awkward hybrid — Windows 8's new user interface has proven nothing short of polarizing. The hybrid operating system pairs a new GUI concept, the touch-friendly Metro interface, to the traditional windows, icons, menus, and pointer concept that Windows users have depended on for decades.

More: BGR

Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:

Andreessen Horowitz Has “Nearly Returned” Fund One, Yet Critics Remain — Andreessen Horowitz has been shaking things up since debuting on the venture scene nearly three years ago; this week is no different. — After the New York Times published a recent piece, highlighting …

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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

Some Investors May Request Protection From Acqui-Hires — Inside baseball warning, but I like writing about the things being discussed that the press never really picks up on. — Acqui-hires, if you aren't aware, are the acquisitions of startups by large companies (usually Facebook …

More: Business Insider

Steven Levy / Wired:

Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? — Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company's Chicago headquarters lie only a long baseball toss from the Tribune newspaper building.

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind — For all of their awesome applications — from portable navigation devices, to self-driving cars, to cruise missile targeting — the American Global Positioning System and its Russian cohort GLONASS have two fundamental flaws: They don't work indoors …

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Don Reisinger / CNET:

Sprint posts $863 million loss, but that's not the whole story — To put that loss into perspective, Sprint lost $439 million during the first quarter of 2011. — Sprint Nextel started off 2012 on a sour note, the company revealed today in its first-quarter earnings release.

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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google Launches Update Targeting Webspam In Search Results — Google has announced that it is releasing a new search algorithm that it hopes will better catch people who spam its search results or purposely do things to rank better that are against Google's publishers guidelines.

More: WebProNews, Inquirer, Macworld, Google Webmaster Central Blog, Search Engine Roundtable, Ubergizmo and SEO by the Sea

Computerworld:

Macs more likely to carry Windows malware than Mac malware, study finds — One in five Mac computers is likely to carry Windows malware, but only one in 36 is likely to be infected with malware specifically designed for the Mac OS X, according to study performed by antivirus firm Sophos.

More: Softpedia News, SecurityWeek, SlashGear, Digital Trends, eWeek, PC Magazine, BGR, Neowin and Ars Technica

Wall Street Journal:

China Escalates Crackdown On Internet Amid Scandal — China censors have gone into high gear as the most popular topic continues to be the Bo Xilai scandal. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks to reporter Josh Chin on why the government is enforcing a heavy hand on China's microbloggers.

More: CNET, WebProNews and Hit & Run

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Exclusive: Bebo founders, shareholders sue owner for ‘destroying’ site — Bebo, which has hit one rocky patch after another the past few years, now has new troubles. The social network's founders and some other shareholders are suing its current owner, alleging fraud.

More: Betabeat, Business Insider, WebProNews and AllThingsD

Rick Borovoy / Google+ Developers Blog:

Introducing the Google+ Share Button — When your visitors come across something interesting on your site, sometimes you want to encourage a simple endorsement (like +1). Other times, however, you want to help visitors share with their friends, right away. Today's new Google+ Share button lets you do just that.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, WebProNews, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Mashable!, The Verge, The Next Web, Marketing Land and 9to5Google

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Nokia targets May 14th for Lumia 900 UK release, maxing out production capacity with AT&T model — We've just gotten off the phone with Nokia's UK team, following up on an earlier report from V3. The company tells us it's set a target date of May 14th for the retail release …

More: Engadget, GadgeTell, WMPoweruser, Neowin, Phones Review, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, IntoMobile, V3.co.uk and Pocket-lint

Tarmo Virki / Reuters:

Nokia, HTC win European patent ruling — (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and HTC (2498.TW) won a key ruling by the European Patent Office that a patent used by German firm IPCom in legal battles against the two mobile phonemakers was invalid in its current form.

More: Electronista

Chris Anderson / Wired:

The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen — He's not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg. His face isn't known to millions. But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc Andreessen to change the way we communicate.

More: Business Insider and Gizmodo. Tweets: @bhorowitz

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Chrome for Android to come out of beta ‘in weeks’ — Google expects to bring its Chrome browser for Android out of beta testing “in a matter of weeks.” So said Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome and Apps, in an interview yesterday, shortly after Google released a Chrome …

More: Android Phone Fans, Android News, Rumours …, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys and The Verge

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

The Digital Education Revolution, Cont'd: Meet TED-Ed's New Online Learning Platform — TED's new tool lets teachers create customized lessons that revolve around web video. — education.ted.com — The iconic image of high school education, forged for most of us through personal experience …

More: TechCrunch, WebProNews and The Next Web. Thanks:@theatlantictech

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Lava Xolo X900 Review - The First Intel Medfield Phone — For Intel, the road to their first real competitive smartphone SoC has been a long one. Shortly after joining AnandTech and beginning this journey writing about both smartphones and the SoC space, I remember hopping on a call …

More: GigaOM and ExtremeTech. Thanks:@nerdtalker

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

LG's Q1 2012 earnings show greater profits on strong TV, phone sales — LG has released its Q1 2012 numbers, and there's plenty of good news to go around, with TV profits that nearly doubled and profit from cellphones for the second quarter in a row following six straight quarters of losses.

More: Reuters, The Verge, IntoMobile, Electronista, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, Agence France Presse, I4U News and PhoneArena

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

ACTA ‘highly intrusive’ to individuals, says European Data Protection Supervisor — The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has given an opinion in his official capacity on ACTA, an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement which has been criticized for its potential to invade an individual's privacy.

More: Techdirt, Inquirer, Telegraph and BBC

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