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February 12, 2013, 7:50 PM

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls Shareholder Lawsuit A “Silly Sideshow,” Says Company Won't Waste Time On It — Last week, Apple was hit with a lawsuit from Greenlight Capital, David Einhorn's hedge fund, in order to contest a proposition which would include a requirement in Apple's charter that any move …

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple announces $8B paid out to developers, a jump of $1B in just one month — Apple CEO Tim Cook today announced that Apple had paid out $8B to developers, a number that displays an increase of $1B since the last time numbers were announced on January 13th. That displays a massive increase in acceleration for developer payouts.

More: MacRumors, TUAW, CNET, Inside Mobile Apps, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin, Daring Fireball, Tech Trader Daily, The Loop and PC Magazine

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple Closing 20 Retail Stores In Order To Expand Them, Accomodate More Customers — Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a keynote speech at the Goldman Sachs investor conference that Apple was going to close 20 of its retail stores, in order to move them and make them large enough to serve the ongoing influx of Apple customers.

More: Digits, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Quartz, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, Neowin, VentureBeat and PadGadget

Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:

Apple calls tablets “the mother of all markets,” Mac cannibalization not a concern — The iPad is “the poster child of the post-PC revolution,” according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who expressed no concerns about the company's industry-leading tablet undercutting sales of the Mac platform on which Apple was founded.

More: CNET, 9to5Mac, The Verge, iLounge, BGR and TheStreet.com

Tweets: @tim and @jessicalessin

Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:

Apple buying small companies every other month but constantly evaluating larger acquisitions

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

HBO to Finally Let Subscribers Stream HBO Go to TV Over AirPlay — HBO said on Tuesday that, at long last, its subscribers will be able to stream programming from an iPhone or iPad onto their television via AirPlay. — Speaking at our D: Dive Into Media conference on Tuesday …

More: Engadget, PC Magazine, BGR, TechCrunch, CNET, MacRumors, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, The Verge, The Next Web, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @pkafka

Comcast:

Comcast to Acquire General Electric's 49% Common Equity Ownership Interest of NBCUniversal — Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) announced today it will acquire GE's entire 49% common equity stake in the NBCUniversal joint venture for approximately $16.7 billion.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, paidContent, Comcast>>Investor Relations, Gizmodo, The Next Web, VentureBeat, NPR, Electronista, CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg and Reuters. See also Mediagazer

Hollywood Reporter:

Comcast Buying Out GE's NBCUniversal Stake for $16.7B

More: Media Decoder, Financial Times and Reuters. Tweets: @brianstelter. See also Mediagazer

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Mayer Says Yahoo Needs To Slash Its Apps From 60 To 12 — Chop chop! — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, just said that Yahoo needs to slash the number of mobile apps it currently has.

More: VentureBeat and AllThingsD

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Yahoo CEO says Microsoft search deal underperforms — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said the company's search partnership with Microsoft Corp was not delivering the market share gains or the revenue boost that it should. — “One of the points of the alliance …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Intel confirms its Internet TV launch this year, complete with set-top box and a camera — Erik Huggers, General Manager of Intel Media, has confirmed that the company is, in fact, working on providing television over the internet, and it plans to do so with new consumer hardware …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Erik Huggers Makes His Case for Intel's Web TV Service

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David Phillips / Examiner:

White House offers ‘online-only enhanced’ edition for SOTU speech — President Barack Obama will be delivering his State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. EST, to congress and the nation. The speech will be carried by all the national broadcast stations.

More: ReadWrite and GeekWire. Tweets: @barackobama

Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:

State of the Union expected to heat up social nets

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Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Yahoo's latest mobile acquisition mirrors Mayer's final efforts at Google — SUNNYVALE — Yahoo (YHOO) picked up Tuesday where it left off in 2012, acquiring the team behind another mobile application, the third such move since Marissa Mayer arrived as CEO in July and one that mirrors Mayer's final Google (GOOG) effort.

More: FierceMobileContent News

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Acquires Mobile “Nearby Recommendation” iPhone and Web App Alike

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Next Big App Categories Will Be Movies, Books, And Fitness — As Facebook is working to build partnerships with big media companies, the company sees a huge opportunity for growth in the sharing and discovery of movies, books and fitness tools on its platform.

More: AllThingsD, Marketing Land, AllThingsD, The Verge, AllFacebook, Mashable!, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget and Lost Remote

Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:

Dropbox makes a play for the enterprise with new IT controls — When IT directors worry about employees using unapproved services for work, Dropbox is often near the top of the list. Today, the company took a few serious steps toward changing that. — Dropbox is the most popular online …

More: GigaOM, BetaNews, Fortune, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Dropbox Blog and ZDNet

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

OnRamp, A Free, Open Source Ad Server From OpenX, Gets Shut Down After Getting Besieged By Hackers — Another victory for hackers and a blow for the security of open source systems: OpenX, the online and mobile advertising company that announced a $22.5 million fund raising just last month …

More: AGBeat and AdExchanger

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Vertu makes post-Nokia comeback with $10K Android phone — Once upon a time Nokia had an England-based subsidiary called Vertu, which made absurdly expensive Symbian phones for people with more money than tech savvy. But then Nokia fell on hard times, and last year it offloaded the brand …

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft commits to more 128 GB Surface Pros in stores by Saturday — Summary: Microsoft's 128 GB Surface Pro remains in short supply, but Microsoft officials are saying there will be more in stock by February 16. — It's been like pulling teeth to get the Microsoft Surface team to talk …

More: CNET, The Verge, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, WinBeta, WinBeta and WindowsObserver.com

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple's ‘microslot antennas’ are invisible to the naked eye, could see use in future iPhones — Apple on Tuesday won the patent rights to “microslot antenna” technology that allows micron-wide antenna assets to be integrated into the housing of a portable device, such as an iPhone, making them nearly invisible to the human eye.

More: TechCrunch, Patently Apple, MacRumors, Forbes, Macgasm, iPhone Alley Spectrum, iDownloadBlog.com and TUAW

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Opera founder sells shares, potentially clearing way for acquisition — It's been almost nine months since rumors were flying around about a certain social network seeking to buy Opera, the Norwegian browser company. We still don't know how much truth there was in that supposed scenario …

More: ArcticStartup and Softpedia News

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Millions Improperly Claimed U.S. Phone Subsidies — The U.S. government spent about $2.2 billion last year to provide phones to low-income Americans, but a Wall Street Journal review of the program shows that a large number of those who received the phones haven't proved they are eligible to receive them.

More: CNET, SlashGear and FierceWireless

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

With Another $21 Million in the Bank, Social Site Nextdoor Launches Version 2.0 — The biggest problem facing some of the more private social networks is growth. Or a lack thereof, as it happens. Insular by design, expansion of these networks takes time — a slow, persistent burn.

More: NYT Bits, Venture Capital Dispatch, TechCrunch, GigaOM, PandoDaily, Forbes, VatorNews, Bloomberg, ABCNEWS, Digits, Wired and Reuters

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Microsoft officially offers workarounds for iOS 6.1 Exchange errors including blocking & throttling iOS users — We reported on Friday that AOL had informed its corporate employees via email that it would be temporarily disabling the ability to manage meetings with Exchange on iOS devices running iOS 6.1.

More: MacRumors, The Verge, AllThingsD, TechnoBuffalo, Apple Bitch and iDownloadBlog.com

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Financial Analyst Affirms Google's $1 Billion In “Default Search” Payments To Apple — Last year the FTC asked Apple to disclose the terms of Google's “default” search presence on iOS. This was part of the US government's broader antitrust investigation of Google, which is now over.

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Marketing Land, Geek.com and ReadWrite

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