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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present  —  Earlier today, we posted the first image of the back plate for the next-generation iPhone, and now we have received several more images that are very high-resolution.
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Writedown Risked With $1 Billion Inventory: Corporate Canada  —  Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stockpiles of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets have swollen by two-thirds in the past year because of slumping sales, raising the chances of the company's third writedown since December.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
RIM Expects Operating Loss as Bankers Help Company Explore Options  —  Research In Motion, the troubled Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry line of smartphones, just announced that it expects an operating loss in the quarter ending June 2.  —  The company also said it has hired J.P. Morgan …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right  —  We often joke Google is like the old Microsoft — getting things right, bumbling its way into new markets, and getting things right on the third try.  This seems to be quite true of Google's efforts to develop a cloud PC.
Amazon.com:
Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360, with Access to ‘Your Video Library’ and Prime Instant Video  —  Customers can now watch the latest movies and TV episodes on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and use Kinect for Xbox 360 to find and play videos with the wave of a hand or sound of their voice
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Salesforce Set to Snap Up Facebook Friend Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million  —  Enterprise, meet social: Cloud-computing pioneer Salesforce.com is close to a deal to acquire Buddy Media, the five-year-old company that helps brands manage their Facebook presence.
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Has Lost About $35 Billion In Value Since IPO As Shares Dip Below $29  —  Pain, pain, and more pain for Facebook's stock.  Facebook sunk into the $20s for the first time today, declining about 9 percent as options trading started.  The decline also came a day after a third wave …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources  —  The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources.  —  Those familiar with the matter have confirmed the price will be $100m, as per the media speculation in the last few days.
Dan Webb / Twitter Engineering:
Improving performance on twitter.com  —  To connect you to information in real time, it's important for Twitter to be fast.  That's why we've been reviewing our entire technology stack to optimize for speed.  —  When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built it around …
Marie Mawad / Bloomberg:
Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff  —  When Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPhone hits store shelves, Technicolor SA (TCH)'s engineers will rush to get the handset — not to make calls or play games, but to rip it apart.  —  Technicolor, an unprofitable French company that invented …
More: BuzzFeed and Gizmodo
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
HTC says One X and Evo 4G LTE have cleared US customs, are in compliance with ITC rulings  —  HTC says that it has completed the review process with US customs, and that “HTC devices have been released, as they are in compliance with the ITC's ruling.”  The company's One X and Evo 4G LTE phones …
Roberto Baldwin / Wired:
Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass  —  Google's co-founder manipulates the Google Glass touch pad.  Image Capture: Current TV  —  Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass — but this time he let someone else wear Google's augmented reality headset.
More: The Verge and Mashable!.  Thanks:@strngwys
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Microsoft at Work on Meshing Its Products With Skype  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — By some measures, Tony Bates has accomplished a lot at Skype since Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the Internet calling service.  —  The statistics tell the story.  In seven months, the number of people using …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms  —  Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals.  —  EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues …
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Facebook faces extended US review of Instagram deal  —  (Reuters) - Facebook has received notice that U.S. antitrust regulators will give its proposed purchase of the popular photo-sharing app maker Instagram a lengthy investigation, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday.
More: CNET and The Next Web
Evan Ackerman / Automaton:
Japanese MH-2 Shoulder Robot Wants To Be Your Friend, Literally  —  Nobody likes being alone, and Japanese researchers from Yamagata University are developing a robot to make sure you'll never have to be alone again: the MH-2 wearable miniature humanoid lives on your shoulder and can be remotely inhabited …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Rumored images of Apple's 3D Maps for iOS 6 leak  —  Earlier this month reports surfaced that Apple was preparing an updated Maps app for iOS 6, which would include a focus on 3D.  And while we still don't know for sure what the company is up to, BGR is adding some fuel to the fire …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows 8 Release Preview leaks out ahead of official debut  —  A Chinese edition of Microsoft's Windows 8 Release Preview, due in the first week of June, has leaked ahead of its official debut.  ISO files for an 8400 build of Windows 8 have been circulating on Chinese forums and bit torrent websites …

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Filing: Paramount and state AGs agree to freeze the WBD merger until an antitrust trial occurs or until June 2027; a preliminary injunction hearing is canceled

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