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March 4, 2013, 2:25 PM

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Bloomberg:
Apple's Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV  —  While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple Inc. (AAPL) is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company's wristwatch-style device, still in development, may prove more profitable.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Apple's watch will run iOS and arrive later this year, say sources  —  Jony Ive wants a spot on your wrist  —  More details are emerging about Apple's forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to aBloomberg report this morning and corroborated by our sources.
Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:
Samsung's New Smartphone Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages  —  Samsung's next big smartphone, to be introduced next month, will have a strong focus on software.  A person who has tried the phone, called the Galaxy S IV, described one feature as particularly new and exciting: Eye scrolling.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch and GizmodoThanks:@bxchen
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Samsung posts first teaser video for Galaxy S 4  —  Samsung has just posted a teaser video for the upcoming launch of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 4.  The clip shows a young boy, apparently “the secret messenger” of Samsung Unpacked 2013, taking delivery of a secret package.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Warren Buffett: If he were Tim Cook, he'd be buying Apple  —  “If you could buy dollar bills for 80 cents, it's a very good thing to do.”  —  FORTUNE — In a three-hour appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA) Warren Buffett addressed two burning issues …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Programmers Complain About Video Advertising Dollars  —  The big picture for YouTube looks good.  The world's biggest video site keeps getting bigger, generating more video views and more ad dollars.  —  Things are fuzzier for some of YouTube's biggest programming partners.
Wayne Williams / BetaNews:
Xbox Live premieres its first movie  —  In tough economic times, raising the money and getting a movie made without any major stars in it can be more than a little challenging for independent film makers.  Getting it distributed is even harder.  —  So instead of trying to get their movie into cinemas …
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
The Evolving Economics of the App  —  Music search application SoundHound is a bargain on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone store: It is free.  —  But for iPhone users, one version of SoundHound costs $6.99.  And on Google Inc. Android devices, a version of the mobile app costs $5.99.

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