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April 28, 2012, 9:15 AM

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Reuters:

Exclusive: Apple courts Hollywood for upcoming TV: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc began talks earlier this year to stream films owned by EPIX, which is backed by three major movie studios, on devices including a long-anticipated TV, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations.

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Andrew Chen / @andrewchen:

Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing — YouTube didn't need ads to spread itself - instead it used embeds. Ad via Laughing Squid — The rise of the Growth Hacker — The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley's culture, emphasizing that coding …

Tweets: @ericries, @garrytan and @semil

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Yahoo's Five Counter-Counterclaims Against Facebook. #1: Throw Out Retaliatory Patents — Today Yahoo hit Facebook with five big counter-counterclaims designed to invalidate the patents cited in the social network's infringement countersuit. If the court concurs, Facebook could be left wide-open …

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Paul Sloan / CNET:

Yahoo hits Facebook with two more patent claims

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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

T.G.I. Fridays lets diners pay with smartphones using Tabbedout — Casual food restaurant chain T.G.I. Fridays has become the first national chain to incorporate a mobile payment option called Tabbedout, which will allow diners to open a tab and pay their bill right from their smartphone.

More: The Verge, WebProNews, GadgeTell, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile and TUAW

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

The Winklevoss Twins Are Now VCs: “We Think The Cloud Is Going To Be Huge” — It's a Friday afternoon (in some parts of the world, at least), so go ahead — take a nice long drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage. If you're like me, you'll need it to make it through the CNBC interview …

More: PandoDaily, CNET, Betabeat, The Next Web and PandoDaily

Tweets: @bryce, @hunterwalk, @abrams, @levie and @pkedrosky

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Jack Dorsey Talks Square, Twitter, And Instagram-Facebook With Charlie Rose — Twitter co-founder, and Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose yesterday to talk about the two companies he's developed as well as Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram and the “digital revolution.”

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Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time:

“Instagram for Video” — Ok, I usually don't write about video other than commenting on YouTube because (a) I'm inherently biased and (b) I don't want my opinions to be taken as representing the view of my company. But.... since there's so much heat around the question of “Instagram for video” …

Tweets: @fromedome, @ryanlawler and @hunterwalk

Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:

Latest Firefox Beta Turns On the ‘SPDY’ — With Firefox 12 out the door, Mozilla is turning its efforts to polishing up Firefox 13, due out six weeks from now. — If you don't want to wait that long, you can download Firefox 13 from the beta release channel today.

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Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Samsung denies staging “Wake Up” anti-Apple flashmob — Samsung has denied any involvement with the “Wake Up” flashmob staged outside an Apple Store in Australia, despite suggestions that it was an escalation of the company's anti-iPhone campaign. Reported earlier this week …

More: Android News, Rumours …, 9to5Mac, Android and Me, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena and MacNN. Thanks:@ben_kersey

Brad Sams / Neowin:

HP is working on x86 Windows 8 tablet, rough render exposed — Windows 8 news comes from a variety of sources. Sometimes it comes from the Windows 8 fountain and other times it comes from sources familiar with company's plans. — This time around we have some information from a trusted source …

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Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

China plans national, unified CPU architecture — According to reports from various industry sources, the Chinese government has begun the process of picking a national computer chip instruction set architecture (ISA). This ISA would have to be used for any projects backed with government money …

More: EE Times, The Verge, Ubergizmo and Slashdot

Mary Jo Foley / CNET:

Microsoft forges ahead with new home-automation OS — More than a decade ago, Microsoft execs, led by Chairman Bill Gates, were touting a future where .Net coffee pots, bulletin boards, and refrigerator magnets would be part of homes where smart devices would communicate and interoperate.

More: Neowin and The Next Web

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Misfit Wearables, The Startup From Agamatrix's Founders, Former Apple CEO John Sculley, Raises $7.6M — Google Glass isn't the only game in town. — Misfit Wearables, a wearable computing startup from the founding team of mobile health company Agamatrix and former Apple chief executive John Sculley …

Matthew Goldstein / Reuters:

LightSquared creditors unite against Phil Falcone — (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Philip Falcone will face a united front when negotiating with key investors that own bank debt sold by LightSquared, the money-losing wireless telecom company controlled by his fund.

More: Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

AT&T stockholders vote down net neutrality measure by overwhelming margin — It looks like AT&T didn't have anything to worry about when Beastie Boys member Mike D and other stockholders proposed that the company commit to operating its wireless division under the principles of net neutrality.

More: PR Newswire, GigaOM and Computerworld

Peter Farago / Flurry Blog:

Social Networking Ends Games 40 Month Mobile Reign — The app revolution has changed the way software is distributed and used among consumers. With a perfect storm of digital distribution, free content and powerful touch screen devices, the success of mobile apps has disrupted industries …

More: PadGadget, A VC, Gamasutra, VatorNews, TechCrunch and AllThingsD. Thanks:@steverubel

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Mac App Store Hits 10,000 Available Apps — As pointed out by MacGeneration [Google translation], Apple's Mac App Store has reached a new milestone with 10,000 apps available for purchase or free download through the marketplace. — Our own sister site AppShopper confirms the milestone …

More: VentureBeat, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, WebProNews, AllThingsD, CNET, Techie Buzz, iPhone in Canada Blog, VatorNews, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, MacNN, The Next Web, Softpedia News and 9to5Mac

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

After four years as President of Tumblr, John Maloney steps down — In a post appropriately shared on Tumblr, John Maloney has announced that he's stepping down as President of the content-sharing site. Maloney has filled this role at Tumblr for the past four years, and says that the team …

More: Everything's Gonna Be Fine, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, TechCrunch and AllThingsD

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