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February 18, 2013, 5:00 PM

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Peter Farago / The Flurry Blog:

China Knocks Off U.S. to Become World's Top Smart Device Market — Just days into the Chinese New Year (Year of the “Snake” for anyone keeping track), China has passed the U.S. to become the world's top country for active Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.

More: GeekWire, MacRumors, ZDNet, CNET, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, Neowin, App Advice, The Next Web, TechCrunch, SlashGear, TUAW, WebProNews, Quartz, dailywireless.org and iClarified

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Galaxy S IV will ‘definitely’ be announced on March 14th: sources — Expect it to take design cues from the Galaxy Note 8.0, which doesn't look like the leaks — Earlier today, mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin suggested on Twitter that March 14th would see a “big announcement,” …

More: SamMobile, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, CNET, Los Angeles Times, digitaltrends.com, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com, Android and Me, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile and IntoMobile

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Hacked Burger King account embarrasses brand-friendly Twitter — Burger King's Twitter account has been suspended after hackers took it over, announced Burger King had been sold to McDonalds, and performed “shout-outs” to various users while claiming employees had been caught sniffing Percocet in restaurant bathrooms.

More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CNET, Reuters, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Digits, Guardian, BetaNews, ABCNEWS, digitaltrends.com, Telegraph, The Atlantic Wire, GigaOM, AllThingsD, ReadWrite, The Next Web, Business Insider, TG Daily, Zennie62, CNNMoney.com, SiliconBeat, The Raw Story, Digiday, Mashable! and NBC Bay Area

Tweets: @mcdonalds, @davepell, @samfbiddle, @drew, @fwd and @ischafer

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Sprint switches on LTE in some parts of San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, D.C. — Sprint has switched on its 4G LTE network in some pockets of San Francisco, New York City (and other parts of New York State), Washington, D.C. and some “cities in Florida,” including Jacksonville …

More: PadGadget, Engadget, The Full Signal, PhoneDog.com, Android Authority, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, PhoneArena and iClarified

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Ubuntu teases tablet-related announcement for February 19th — Tomorrow's already looking to be a busy day thanks to HTC's big event, but it seems that the company will be sharing the spotlight to some degree. A timer has appeared on Ubuntu's website today hinting at tablet-related news to be revealed tomorrow.

More: Pocket-lint and Softpedia News

Bloomberg:

Ex-Google China Head With 30 Million Followers Barred From Weibo — Lee Kai-fu, the former head of Google Inc.'s China division, said he was banned for three days from posting on local micro-blogging sites, where he has more than 30 million followers. — The ban applies to Sina Corp.'s Weibo …

More: PandoDaily, VentureBeat, Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Huxiu.me, CNET, Telegraph, Shanghaiist and Daily Dot

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

“Killing It” Isn't Worth It — It's unfair to take a particular moment in time, slice it, and pass judgement on that particular slice. Yet that's our precise function, as chroniclers of news, and our role in the startup community. — Like many others, I read the news this week …

More: Benjy Weinberger, Forbes and Betabeat

Tweets: @jaberman, @s_gubbi and @joshconstine

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Opera's workforce down 10% due to switch to WebKit; CEO tells us why he thinks that's a good thing — Opera Software has ‘lost’ approximately 90 employees, some of them straight-up veterans of the Oslo, Norway-based browser maker, Digi.no duly reported earlier today (in Norwegian).

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET and Techie Buzz

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

Digital Diary: Are We Suffering From Mobile App Burnout? — At last count, I had 259 applications on my iPhone. — I probably use 16 regularly — including Google Maps, Messages, Twitter for iPhone and Instagram. — When I got my first iPhone in late 2008, I couldn't wait to peruse …

More: Search Engine Land, PandoDaily, Business Insider and Lifehacker

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test — As promised, I've spent the past several days looking into the reporter John M. Broder's test drive of the celebrated electric car known as the Tesla Model S. The article, which focused on two new “superchargers” …

More: Engadget, AnandTech, Schneier on Security, Mercury News, AllThingsD, Examiner and Boing Boing

Tweets: @elonmusk, @moorehn, @jason and @sulliview

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