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February 11, 2013, 10:45 PM

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Shira Ovide / Digits:

Twitter, Amex to Collaborate on E-Commerce Sales on Twitter — Twitter Inc. is experimenting with becoming a shopping mall. — Twitter and American Express Co. said Monday they struck a partnership to allow Twitter users to buy products for the first time directly on the short messaging service.

More: AllThingsD, Business Wire, The Verge, ZDNet, Marketing Land, The Next Web, GigaOM, Adweek, VentureBeat, Fast Company and Mashable!. Tweets: @americanexpress

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Bill Gates' biggest Microsoft product regret: WinFS — Summary: In his first AMA on Reddit, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates calls WinFS the Microsoft product he most wished had made it to market. — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is doing his first-ever Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit on February 11.

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Bill Gates hits Reddit for an AMA, replies using 80-inch Windows 8 tablet — Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took to Reddit today for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session. After describing Windows 8 as a “huge advance,” Gates also revealed he has “tried all of Apple [sic] products.”

More: CNET, Seattle Times, Mashable!, WinBeta, SlashGear and AllThingsD

Tweets: @billgates and @majornelson

John Boudreau / Mercury News:

Apple CEO Tim Cook to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama during Tuesday's State of the Union address — Once again, Silicon Valley royalty will join First Lady Michelle Obama to watch her husband deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday. — Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook will sit in the First Lady's box …

More: White House.gov Blog, Fortune, CNET, CNET, 9to5Mac, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Macgasm, GeekWire, The Verge, The Next Web, MacNN, TUAW, Mashable!, WebProNews and iClarified. Tweets: @philiped

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Surface: Wifi updates, pen improvements, more cover colors in pipeline — Summary: More Microsoft Surface RT and Surface Pro questions and a few more answers from sites and spokespeople around the Web. — New tidbits about what's coming for Microsoft Surface RT and Pro devices are continuing to trickle out.

More: Computerworld, BGR, Pocketnow, The Next Web, IntoMobile, ABCNEWS, Network World, InformationWeek, Neowin, Electronista, WinBeta and MSDN Blogs

Kotaku:

The Next Xbox Has Mandatory Kinect, Game-Swapping and New Controllers, According To Leaked Info — The next-generation Xbox—the one that will follow the still-popular Xbox 360—will run multiple games at once, require game installations, and will only work when a much-improved version …

More: Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, TG Daily, WebProNews, Neowin, WinBeta, Gematsu and Ubergizmo. See also Mediagazer

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Microsoft talks plans for premium content production, details Xbox 360's transition to an ‘entertainment console’ — Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, just sat down alongside Nancy Tellem, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft LA Studios …

More: Microsoft, AllThingsD, LiveSide.net and Pocket-lint

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Microsoft plans to launch its own interactive TV shows before the end of the year

More: AllThingsD, CNET, GeekWire, The Next Web, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Polygon

IEEE Spectrum:

Willow Garage to Shut Down — IEEE Spectrum has learned that Willow Garage, the Silicon Valley robotics powerhouse that brought the world the PR2, ROS, TurtleBot, and several robotics spinoffs, will likely be dissolving within the next few months. — While we have no official confirmation …

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @bryce

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

The GoogleReaderpocalypse Is Upon Us - Google's Feed Reading Service Unusable Since Sunday — Google Reader, the RSS feed-reading service Google has long since benignly abandoned, has gone completely mad, and Google has yet to acknowledge the problem even as it heads into its second day of unusability.

More: CNET, The Next Web, BerryReview, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, The Verge, WebProNews, Softpedia News and Internet Evolution

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

GoDaddy Buys M.dot, A Mobile Website-Building App, To Push Its Mobile And Freemium Businesses — GoDaddy, the web-hosting and domain registration giant, is taking one more step into the world of mobile, and another into offering small businesses a one-stop shop for all of their online activities with a freemium sweetener.

More: VatorNews, VentureBeat, Web Host Industry Review, NBC Bay Area, AllThingsD, WebProNews and silicontap.com

Taylor Schreiner / Twitter Advertising:

New Compete study: Primary mobile users on Twitter — We like to say that Twitter was born mobile. After all, the 140 character limit of Tweets was based on text messaging or SMS constraints. That means our platform was actually designed to allow anyone, anywhere to read, write and share Tweets.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web and Successful Workplace

Ben Martin / Telegraph:

Mike Lynch raises $1bn for technology investment — Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch has raised $1bn through his Invoke Capital fund to invest in fledgling British technology companies. — Mike Lynch founded Autonomy and sold it to Hewlett Packard for $10bn in 2011.

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat and Forbes

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple releases iOS 6.1.1 for iPhone 4S which fixes issues that ‘could impact cellular performance’ — Apple has released an iOS 6.1.1 update for the iPhone 4S, likely in response to issues that some users were reporting with 3G coverage on some European carriers.

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, VentureBeat, MacStories, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, The Verge, GigaOM, Business Insider, Gizmodo and GigaOM. Tweets: @tomwarren

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Facebook is testing ‘Buy Tickets’ links for events, but will it get into the ticketing business? [Updated] — Facebook appears to be testing “Buy Tickets” buttons and links for event pages, according to All Facebook. Reportedly, these buttons are simply links to third-party sites at the moment.

More: AllFacebook, CNET, 9.blog, Inside Facebook, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo and WebProNews

Ryan Gallagher / Guardian:

Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm — Exclusive: Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a ‘Google for spies’, drawing ire from civil rights groups — A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements …

Jessica E. Lessin / Digits:

Apple To Respond to Greenlight Suit by Wednesday — The walk-up to Apple's Feb. 27 shareholder meeting got more interesting last week when shareholder Greenlight Capital sued the company over its proxy as part of an effort to get Apple to return more cash to shareholders.

More: Reuters and TUAW

John Furrier / SiliconANGLE:

VMware Marching Towards Software Defined Datacenter with Software Defined Storage Acquisition of Virsto — VMware today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto Software, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of software that optimizes storage performance and utilization in virtual environments.

More: The Console Blog, VentureBeat, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Wikibon, Forbes, Associated Press, Motley Fool, Fox Business and silicontap.com

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

After Acquiring 15 Groupon Clones, CrowdSavings Finds a Buyer for Itself — Two daily deal companies that are far off the radar are joining forces with Half Off Depot, agreeing to acquire CrowdSavings for $6.4 million in cash and stock. — Together, the two will be rebranded as nCrowd, and will be headquartered out of Atlanta.

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Nexus 4 wireless charging orb finally selling through Google Play for $59.99 — The elusive Nexus 4 wireless charging orb — one of the most striking features of Google's Android flagship — is finally on sale through Google Play, a few months after the phone's launch.

More: Engadget, BGR, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Droid Life, BetaNews, CNET, Mashable!, Ars Technica and Gizmodo

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Amazon Will Get New CBS Stephen King Series While It's Still on the Air — On June 24, CBS starts running “Under the Dome,” a 13-episode miniseries based on a Stephen King novel, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television. And on June 28, Amazon Prime customers can begin watching the show online for free.

More: Amazon.com, paidContent, Examiner, GeekWire, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, BetaNews, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, WebProNews and Mashable!. See also Mediagazer

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:

Linux developers working on uniting Windows 8 Secure Boot fixes — Summary: There are now two major ways to boot and install Linux on Windows 8 PCs, but soon they'll only be a single unified method. — Thanks to Microsoft's Windows 8 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) …

More: James Bottomley's random Pages, The H Open Source, Engadget, Computerworld, PC World, Neowin, Computerworld, OStatic blogs, linux.com and HotHardware.com News

Justin Lafferty / AllFacebook:

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Among Biggest American Philanthropists In 2012 — We all know that Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest people in America, but he's also one of the most generous. The Chronicle of Philanthropy announced Monday that Zuckerberg …

More: Mercury News, Forbes and Fast Company

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Nike Pulled The Plug On Its FuelBand Android Companion App In Favor Of iOS And The Web — Of all the activity-tracking devices that have been churned out in the past year-and-a-half, Nike's FuelBand has been strapped to my person the longest. Sadly, the wrist-worn gadget has never been able …

More: Droid Life, The Verge, AppleInsider, Engadget, Gizmodo, Business Insider, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google, iDownloadBlog.com and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @nikesupport

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