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Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Apps using Dropbox are being rejected because Apple is playing hardball  —  If you've ever developed an iOS app, you know that the submission process can be a scary one.  Apple provides developers with a HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) that must be followed, but sometimes something obscure trips you up during the process.
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Roadshow to Start Monday; IPO Set for May 18  —  Facebook Inc. is planning to start its roadshow to pitch its stock to investors on Monday, as the social network enters the final stages of its coming public offering, said people familiar with the matter.
Wall Street Journal:
The Big Doubt Over Facebook's IPO  —  Facebook Inc. has built a $3 billion-a-year advertising business by convincing marketers to buy new forms of advertising designed to create buzz around their brands.  —  But some advertisers with big spending accounts are wondering whether they're getting their money's worth.
More: CNET and Boing Boing
JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
Barnes & Noble CEO: NFC coming to the Nook  —  The battle for e-book dollars became a lot more interesting earlier this week when Barnes & Noble (BKS) announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft (MSFT).  Over the next five years, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant will invest …
Satya Patel / Twitter Blog:
Discover better stories  —  The Discover tab makes it easy to discover information that matters to you without having to follow additional accounts.  Starting today, the Discover tab will begin to surface content that is even more personalized and meaningful to you.
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Mozilla Slams CISPA, Breaking Silicon Valley's Silence On Cybersecurity Bill  —  While the Internet has been bristling with anger over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the Internet industry has been either silent or quietly supportive of the controversial bill.  With one exception.
Miguel de Icaza / Xamarin:
Android Ported to C#  —  Oracle and Google are currently in a $1 billion wrestling match over Google's use of Java in Android.  —  But Java is not the only way to build native apps on Android.  In fact, it's not even the best way: we have been offering C# to Android developers as a high-performance …
More: 9to5Google and Slashdot.  Thanks:@ckindel
Foursquare Blog:
A faster way for businesses to start connecting with customers on foursquare  —  Over 20,000,000 people use foursquare to discover and share new experiences.  It's also an incredibly powerful tool for businesses who want to connect with their customers, and over 750,000 of them have already signed …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
ComScore: Samsung Widens Lead As Top Mobile Brand In U.S., Android 51% Of All Smartphones  —  Samsung doesn't break out actual unit sales figures for its mobile handset business, but many analyst houses are estimating that it is the brand to beat anyway.  The latest tip comes from ComScore …
AppleInsider:
Samsung overtakes Apple to claim smartphone market share lead
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated)  —  Microsoft has drastically overhauled the network running its Skype voice-over-IP service, replacing peer-to-peer client machines with thousands of Linux boxes that have been hardened against the most common types of hack attacks, a security researcher said.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M  —  For a social network that's, for lack of a better term, monogamous, social network for couples Pair has just raised funding from so many high-profile investors I'm having trouble picking who to include in this headline …
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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
T-Mobile's Marketing Chief to Step Down  —  NEW YORK—T-Mobile USA's chief marketing officer is leaving the position less than two years after being promoted, the carrier said Tuesday.  —  Cole Brodman, who held several posts over a 17-year career with T-Mobile, is stepping down effective May 25 …
Mark Milian / Bloomberg:
Twitter Said to Have Considered Buying Mobile Photo App Camera+  —  Soon after Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram, social networking rival Twitter considered acquiring a mobile photo-sharing application called Camera+, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said.
More: CNET
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
SigFig Launches To Be The Data-Driven Financial Planner Of Your Dreams  —  Whether you have $10,000 or $10 million, trying to find help to manage your investments can be a minefield.  —  Mid-level financial advisory firms have come under scrutiny for somewhat shady practices …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
New Firefox design will offer uniform look across desktop and mobile  —  Mozilla recently combined its desktop and mobile design teams with the aim of unifying the Firefox user experience across form factors.  A presentation slide deck published by Mozilla's Madhava Enros offers some insight …
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
HP reclaims top spot in PC sales, market as a whole climbs 21 percent  —  Well, Apple's reign atop the list of the world's top PC makers was short lived.  After clawing its way into the lead, if you counted the iPad as a PC, HP is back atop the heap — even with Cupertino's tablet-inflated numbers.
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Beyond textbooks, Inkling aims to revolutionize travel with Frommer's digital guides  —  Inkling's digital publication platform helped textbook makers move to the iPad.  Now, the company is setting its sights on travel with the launch of Frommer's Day by Day travel guides for the iPad and iPhone.

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