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February 12, 2013, 9:20 PM

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Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:

Apple buying small companies every other month but constantly evaluating larger acquisitions — Speaking at Goldman Sachs' Technology and Internet Conference on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook pointed to the company's “deliberate, thoughtful” mantra as a reason it doesn't typically acquire large companies …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Business Insider and TechCrunch

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, Forbes, CNET, The Loop, TUAW, MobileSyrup.com, Inside Mobile Apps, PC Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, Neowin, Mobile Marketing Watch, dailywireless.org and Daring Fireball

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple Closing 20 Retail Stores In Order To Expand Them, Accomodate More Customers

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

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls Shareholder Lawsuit A “Silly Sideshow,” Says Company Won't Waste Time On It

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Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:

Apple calls tablets “the mother of all markets,” Mac cannibalization not a concern

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

Tweets: @tim and @jessicalessin

Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Have Team Developing Wristwatch Computer — Apple Inc. has a team of about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may perform some of the computing tasks now handled by the iPhone and iPad, two people familiar with the company's plans said.

More: GigaOM, Business Insider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Third rumor of Apple ‘watch computer’ says 100 person team includes Senior Director of Engineering — The third chime has sounded in the recent rumors of Apple developing a wristwatch computer of some sort. The rumored project was first reported by The New York Times and then the Wall Street Journal.

More: AppleTell

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 …

More: CNET and GeekWire

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

Bloomberg:

Yahoo CEO Mayer to Cement Facebook Ties While Pushing Mobile

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

Hollywood Reporter:

Comcast Buying Out GE's NBCUniversal Stake for $16.7B — “The management team at GE has been a wonderful partner during the past two years,” Comcast's Brian Roberts says in a statement announcing it will acquire the remaining 49 percent it doesn't own — Comcast will acquire the 49 percent stake …

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

Comcast:

Comcast to Acquire General Electric's 49% Common Equity Ownership Interest of NBCUniversal

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

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

More: PC Magazine, Neowin and Los Angeles Times

Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:

Obama signs cybersecurity executive order — President Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at bolstering the cyber defenses of the country's critical infrastructure. — The highly anticipated cyber order intends to improve information sharing about cyberthreats between government …

Brendan Sasso / @brendansasso:

Here's President Obama's executive order on cybersecurity, which he signed earlier today http://www.scribd.com/doc/125220417/ Cybersecurity-executive-order ...

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

More: CNET, Computerworld, Digits, VatorNews, ReadWrite, InfoWorld, Business Insider, AllThingsD, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Forbes, Xconomy, Mashable!, Electronista and GeekWire

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: CNET, ReadWrite, Mediaite and GeekWire

Tweets: @barackobama and @danieleran

Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:

State of the Union expected to heat up social nets

More: VentureBeat, Slate and Mashable!

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, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, AllFacebook, Lost Remote and Mashable!

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, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Dropbox Blog, Fortune, Ars Technica and ZDNet

Philip Dorling / The Age:

Assange to run for Victorian Senate seat — WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange will run for the Senate in Victoria at the September 14 federal election as the lead candidate of a newly formed WikiLeaks Party. — Mr Assange's application for electoral enrolment in Victoria was handed …

More: Gizmodo Australia and Mashable!

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, AdExchanger and Adotas

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

Nat Brown / iLike.code:

Stupid, Stupid xBox!! — I was a founder of the original xBox project at Microsoft and gave it its name. Almost 14 years after the painful, pointless, and idiotic internal cage-match to get it started and funded, the hard selling of a compelling and lucrative living-room product to Bill …

More: The Next Web

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