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February 5, 2013, 2:57 PM

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Dell, Inc.:

Dell Enters Into Agreement to Be Acquired By Michael Dell and Silver Lake — Transaction implies a 37 percent premium over the average closing share price during the previous 90 calendar days ending Jan. 11, 2013 — Dell Inc. today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement under …

More: Betabeat, The Next Web, Guardian, AllThingsD, Washington Post, PC Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, BBC, MacRumors, CNET, Forbes, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Electronista, Quartz and Softpedia News. Tweets: @danprimack

Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook:

Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private — Dell announced Tuesday that it had agreed to go private in a $24 billion deal led by its founder and the investment firm Silver Lake, in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis. — Under the terms of the deal, the buyers' consortium …

More: Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, ReadWrite, ZDNet, Business Insider, Reuters, Businessweek, GigaOM, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, BGR and Engadget

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MarketWatch:

HP Issues Statement on Dell's Leveraged Buyout Plan — HP today issued the following statement related to Dell's announcement to enter into an agreement to be acquired by Michael Dell and Silver Lake: “Dell has a very tough road ahead. The company faces an extended period of uncertainty …

More: VentureBeat, CITEworld, BGR, ZDNet, The Verge, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, Fortune and Neowin. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Microsoft:

Microsoft Statement on Loan to Support Dell Privatization — “Microsoft has provided a $2 billion loan to the group that has proposed to take Dell private. Microsoft is committed to the long term success of the entire PC ecosystem and invests heavily in a variety of ways to build that ecosystem for the future.

More: AllThingsD, GeekWire, Gizmodo, memeburn and Seattle Times

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Will Microsoft's $2 billion role in Dell's buyout play out like its Nokia partnership? — Summary: If Microsoft's $2 billion loan to Dell plays out the same way its Nokia deal has, other PC makers may have less to fear than they initially might expect. — One of the worst-kept secrets …

Deal Journal:

Michael Dell to Staff: “Exciting New Chapter”

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft Loan Is Said to Help Dell While Avoiding Favoritism

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Dell goes private: 10 big unknowns

More: ReadWrite, The Verge, The Register, Softpedia News, Quartz and TechPinions

Kevin Systrom / Instagram:

Introducing Your Instagram Feed on the Web — Today, I'm very excited to announce the launch of a product we've been wanting to build for quite some time now. Since our launch in October of 2010, we've focused on building a simple app that has inspired creativity while capturing everyday moments through the lens of your mobile phone.

More: digitaltrends.com, Marketing Land, Gizmodo, CNET, VentureBeat, Betabeat, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, AndroidGuys, PetaPixel, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable!, SocialTimes, MacStories, nbcnews.com and App Advice. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

After Two Years of “Mobile First,” Instagram Brings Its Feed to the Web — Think of “mobile first” companies, and Instagram should top that list. It rose to prominence as one of the fastest-growing mobile-only companies over the past few years, and is now closing in on the 100 million active user mark.

More: The Next Web and Mashable!

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

‘Radio Buy Buttons’ found in iOS 6.1 via newly jailbroken iPads, could mean new functionality coming — ‘Radio Buy’ buttons, above, enlarged, put together from files, below — Having a look around our newly jailbroken iPads with iFunBox, we happened on a new set of files in the iPad Music.app.

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

About.me Buys Itself Back From AOL — Here's your next challenge as a founder of a start-up: Sell your company to a digital behemoth for tens of millions of dollars, then buy it back for a fraction of the cost. Oh, and keep the change. — On Monday, About.me, an online identity Web site …

More: About.me Blog, ParisLemon, The Next Web and Business Insider

Tweets: @evelynrusli, @ryanchris and @tonysphere

Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Tony Conrad's About.me Spins Back Out From AOL After Raising $5.7M Capital, Led By True Ventures

More: VentureBeat

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Amazon launches new ‘Coins’ virtual currency for Kindle Fire app purchases, coming to the US in May — Intent on helping app developers gain more money from their Appstore submissions, Amazon today announced the launch of ‘Amazon Coins,’ a new virtual currency that will allow Kindle Fire owners …

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Ouya console will be sold at Best Buy, Target, and Gamestop for $99.99 in June — Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman has announced the first details of retail availability for the Android-powered games console. If you missed out on Ouya's successful Kickstarter campaign and wanted to pick one up in stores …

More: Droid Life and GadgeTell

Matthew Lynley / Digits:

OUYA Finds a Friend With Amazon

More: TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Wired, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Gamasutra, TG Daily, WebProNews, Engadget, InvestorPlace, Inquirer, SlashGear, The Next Web, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, destructoid, Joystiq, AndroidGuys, Polygon and VG247. Thanks:@mattlynley

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

Growing Numbers of Start-Ups Are Worth a Billion Dollars — SAN FRANCISCO — The number of privately held Silicon Valley start-ups that are worth more than $1 billion shocks even the executives running those companies. — “I thought we were special,” said Phil Libin, chief executive of Evernote …

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, Business Insider, New York Times, bizjournals and tomasz

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Cloud storage service Box launches Partner Network to push into new markets and verticals, as it closes in on an IPO — File-sharing service Box has announced the creation of its Partner Network, a service that is the formalization of the company's three major tenets of partnering: alliances, channel, and platform.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, GigaOM, ZDNet and The Box Blog

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Viddy CEO Brett O'Brien is out, rumors of a declined Twitter deal swirl — Viddy co-founder and CEO Brett O'Brien will no longer be involved in the company's day to day operations, and the search is underway for a new chief executive with more product and content monetization experience.

More: Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, The Verge and Business Insider

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft announces exclusive console rights to Verizon's Redbox Instant, beta testers get Xbox access first — Microsoft announced on Tuesday it has scored a big win with Verizon. The company's Xbox 360 will be getting exclusive console rights to the carrier's Redbox Instant service.

More: Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Gizmodo, The Verge and Engadget

Ryan Gallagher / Slate:

The Threat of Silence — Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set to revolutionize privacy and freak out the feds. — For the past few months, some of the world's leading cryptographers have been keeping a closely guarded secret about a pioneering new invention. Today, they've decided it's time to tell all.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

BlackBerry Z10 “Off to a Better Start Than Lumia 920” — More preliminary evidence that the new BlackBerry Z10 is off to a better start than some had foreseen: A pair of research notes lending further credence to early reports of strong demand for BlackBerry's first BlackBerry 10 handset.

More: TechCrunch, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, BlackBerry Developer Blog, FierceWireless, WMPoweruser, The Buzz Bin and PhoneArena

Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Facebook Vacation: 61 Percent of Users Take Breaks From Site — Ashley Kiley needed a vacation. A Facebook vacation. — “I needed a break from everyone. I was on the site too much and was wasting too much time looking at information about friends,” Kiley, 27, told ABC News.

More: Pew Internet, NYT Bits, TechCrunch, The Verge, PC Magazine, SiliconBeat, Marketing Land, GeekWire, Datamation.com, SocialTimes, Marketing Pilgrim, Yahoo! News and Forbes

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Backed By Yammer's David Sacks, Fresh Launches A Site For Verified Consumer Gadget Reviews — When you're ready to try a new product, Stephen Svajian, co-founder and CEO of a startup called Fresh, said that what you're really looking for are recommendations from consumers like you …

More: PandoDaily, Business Insider and VentureBeat

John Cook / GeekWire:

Microsoft ‘data chief’ Ted Kummert leaves after 23 years, joins Madrona Venture Group — After more than two decades at Microsoft, Ted Kummert is leaving the software giant to join Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group. Kummert, who most recently served as the corporate vice president …

More: Digits, GigaOM and The Next Web. Thanks:@toddbishop

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