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May 3, 2012, 2:05 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Evernote Raises $70M At A $1B Valuation To Prep For An IPO, And The Next 100 Years — It's official. To transition from a startup into a late-stage company that aims to be around for 100 years, Evernote today confirms it's raised a $70 million Series D round of funding at a $1 billion valuation.

More: VatorNews, VentureBeat, Evernote Blogcast, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, Appolicious Advisor, PhoneArena and Mobile Entertainment

Tweets: @ryanlawler, @om, @alexia and @mathewi

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Phil Libin and the Refusal to Pivot: Evernote Now Valued at $1 Billion — Today 30-million-user strong Evernote announced it had received $70 million in Series D funding from Meritech Capital, CBC Capital, T. Rowe Price Associates, Harbor Pacific Capital, Allen & Company at a valuation of Dr. Evil proportions: One billion dollars.

More: CNET and Market Wire

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft schedules Windows Phone developer summit for June — Summary: Microsoft is inviting Windows Phone developers to a developer conference in late June. Could both the Tango and Apollo operating systems be on the agenda? — Microsoft has begun sending “Save the Date” …

More: AllThingsD and Windows Phone Thoughts.com

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone web Marketplace launches in 22 new countries

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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Boku Signs Up Final U.S. Wireless Operator for Carrier Billing — It has taken three-and-a-half years, but Boku has finally signed up all four major U.S. carriers for its mobile payments service. — Today, the San Francisco company says that Sprint is coming on board to join the three …

More: Internet2Go, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, IntoMobile and The Next Web

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S III announced: 4.8-inch 720p display, eye tracking, available later this month — Capping months of rumors and speculation, Samsung has announced its Galaxy S III smartphone at an event in London today. Major specs include a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution …

The Digital Skeptic / @blumsday:

Here's a link to the live stream of Samsung Galaxy III unveiling event. http://link.brightcove.com/... #SGS3

Forbes:

The Midas List — 2012's Top Tech Investors — 1 Jim Breyer Accel Partners Facebook — 2 Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz Skype — 3 Reid Hoffman Greylock Partners LinkedIn — 4 David Sze Greylock Partners Facebook — 5 Peter Fenton Benchmark Capital Twitter — 6 Josh Kopelman …

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Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Zynga's New Ad Pitch for Draw Something: ‘Draw This Brand’ — NHL Among First to Buy Paid Terms in Hugely Popular Social game — Zynga's latest big-ticket acquisition has already figured out how to draw in users, but now Draw Something has an ad model that brings brands into the picture.

More: TechCrunch, Betabeat, Tecca, WebProNews, The Next Web, Simply Zesty, memeburn, The Verge and VG247. Thanks:@kunur

Tero Kuittinen / Forbes:

Is the OMGPOP Acquisition Haunting Zynga?

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kick-Start New NYC Research Lab — Over the weekend, I reported that Duncan Watts, the well-known social network researcher, had left Yahoo to join Microsoft. Turns out he's not the only one. — Microsoft snatched up not only Watts …

More: TechFlash, TechNet Blogs, CNET, The Verge, Microsoft Research, Technology Review, Microsoft Corporation, PC World, Betabeat, Softpedia News, GeekWire, TechNet Blogs, Bits, The Next Web and Pulse2 Technology …

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Apple Is Beating Android In The U.S., Despite Reports To The Contrary — Apple appears to have taken control of 50% of the smartphone market in the first quarter of 2012, despite a report to the contrary by NPD this morning. — NPD put out a press release saying Android …

More: NPD Group, parislemon, WebProNews, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Macgasm, SlashGear, I4U News and Daring Fireball

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

YouTube Commits $200M to Promote Premium “Channels” — Jay-Z Gives Surprise Performance, And, Yes, It's Already on YouTube — There was Jay-Z, Flo Rida and the Neon Trees; Julia Stiles, Jennifer Beals, Virginia Madsen and Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Adweek, The Next Web, WebProNews, AllThingsD and Business Insider

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Judge: An IP-Address Doesn't Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate) — Mass-BitTorrent lawsuits have been dragging on for more than two years in the US, involving more than a quarter million alleged downloaders. — The copyright holders who start these cases generally provide nothing more than an IP-address as evidence.

More: Gizmodo, Fight Copyright Trolls, Betabeat, WebProNews and Boing Boing

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

With 8.8% market share, Apple has 73% of cell phone profits — Among the major vendors, Samsung captured 26%, HTC took 1%, and the rest lost money — FORTUNE — Asymco's Horace Dediu on Thursday updated his quarterly review of mobile phone profits, and the news for everyone but Apple (AAPL) and Samsung is not good.

More: asymco, MacRumors, PC Magazine and The Next Web

New York Times:

Target, Unhappy With Being an Amazon Showroom, Will Stop Selling Kindles — Target, signaling its growing irritation with its rival Amazon, announced on Wednesday that it would stop selling the online retailer's Kindle e-readers. — Target, with almost 1,800 stores, is one of the bigger carriers …

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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Liquidmetal Inventor: Apple Will Use It In A ‘Breakthrough Product’ — We've been hearing a lot about Liquidmetal lately, mostly because of rumors that Apple could be using the alloy in its next iPhone. — But what exactly is Liquidmetal? What makes it so special that Apple decided to license the rights to use it in its products?

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Ryan Mac / Mobile:

Reid Hoffman And Peter Thiel In Conversation: The Biggest Misses — This is the final post of a five-part series from a conversation between Founders Fund cofounder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn cofounder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman. One new video has been posted each day leading …

More: SocialTimes and Forbes

Joel Schectman / The CIO Report:

Skype Knew of Security Flaw Since November 2010, Researchers say — Skype was told a year and a half ago about a security flaw that allows for the location tracking of customers, but left it unfixed, the security researchers who first discovered the vulnerability told CIO Journal.

More: ZDNet, TechWeekEurope UK, Naked Security, The Verge, Inquirer, eWeek, The CIO Report, Wired and Digits

Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:

AT&T Chief Says Blocked Deal Will Cost Consumers — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—The government's decision to block AT&T Inc.'s takeover of Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA unit will result in higher prices to consumers, AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Randall Stephenson contended during a public interview Wednesday.

More: PhoneArena, SlashGear and IntoMobile

Reuters:

Settlement with HP isn't going to happen: Oracle — (Reuters) - An Oracle Corp attorney ruled out a settlement with Hewlett-Packard Co in a bitter lawsuit over the Itanium microprocessor, a day after the judge refused to resolve the case for either side before trial.

More: eWeek, AllThingsD, The Register and TechEye

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

LifeStreet Media Closes $66 Million Financing to Reign Supreme Over Facebook and Mobile In-App Advertising — What if there was a company that had paid mobile and social app publishers more than $100 million in ad revenue and driven 200 million app downloads to date but almost no one knew about it?

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews and AllFacebook

Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:

Judge again orders Apple, Samsung to streamline claims in iPad patent case — The companies' lawyers have until Monday to simplify the case enough for a scheduled July 30 trial — Apple and Samsung Electronics have until Monday to further boil down the number of claims to be considered …

More: TUAW, PC Magazine, Engadget, AppleInsider, CNET and Phone Scoop

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Next-Generation Publishing Platform Hyperink Wants To Transform Blogs Into Books — YC company Hyperink, a next-generation digital book publishing platform, is debuting a new service which helps bloggers create short books from their existing content. — As we've reported in the past …

More: Good E-Reader, Fast Company, The New Persuaders, VatorNews, BetaKit and PandoDaily

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

EBay puts down roots in NYC with data-focused tech center — EBay plans on making it in New York and it's bought a 35,000 square foot space to ensure that it happens. The commerce and payments company is announcing that it has purchased an entire floor in the Flat Iron district …

More: PC Magazine

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Code Advisors Takes a $25 Million Investment From J.P. Morgan — Code Advisors is getting a $25 million investment from financial services giant JPMorgan Chase for a minority stake in the Silicon Valley-based boutique investment bank and advisory firm. — The influx of cash will allow Code …

More: Om Malik

Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:

Google Argues for Dismissal of Authors' Book-Scan Lawsuit — Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an organization representing authors over the search engine company's project to digitally scan millions of books, saying the group can't represent the copyright holders.

More: Associated Press and Wall Street Journal

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Thorsten Talks: RIM CEO Sounds Off On Licensing, Updating Devices, And The U.S. Market — Just because the first day of BlackBerry World is over doesn't mean we mobile geeks have run out of BlackBerry-related tidbits to pick apart. — Oh, far from it — in fact, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins took the stage …

More: Inquirer, ZDNet, The Verge, PhoneArena and Shiny Objects

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