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March 5, 2013, 2:20 PM

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Rene Ritchie / iMore:

iPhone 5S planned for August, next iPads may debut as soon as April — iMore has learned that Apple is planning the release of the iPhone 5S for this summer, currently for August. Next generation iPads, presumably the iPad 5 and potentially the iPad mini 2, may also debut as soon as this April.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Is Building A Same-Day Amazon Prime Competitor, “Google Shopping Express” — Google is stealthily preparing to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called “Google Shopping Express.” According to one source the service will be $10 or $15 cheaper than Amazon Prime, so $69 or $64 a year …

More: CNET, VatorNews, PC World, GeekWire, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, DailyTech, The Verge, Washington Post, Business Insider, memeburn, WebProNews, Gizmodo and Mashable!. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Fortune:

YouTube to launch music streaming service, take on Spotify — Google planning to roll out service to capitalize on the vast power of YouTube. — By Ryan Bradley and Jessi Hempel — FORTUNE — YouTube, the world's largest digital repository of streaming media, will launch a subscription music service later this year.

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Melanie Lee / Reuters:

Google controls too much of China's smartphone sector: ministry — (Reuters) - Google Inc has too much control over China's smartphone industry via its Android mobile operating system and has discriminated against some local firms, the technology ministry said in a white paper.

More: PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Marketing Land, BGR, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Tech in Asia, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Verge, Datamation.com, Engadget, Neowin, Geek.com, FOSS Patents, memeburn, Quartz and PhoneArena

Pew Research Center:

Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion — The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys. This is the conclusion of a year-long Pew Research Center study that compared …

More: ReadWrite, Mashable!, SocialTimes, Marketing Pilgrim, CNN, WebProNews, nbcnews.com, Stuff.co.nz, VentureBeat, Betabeat, BuzzFeed, PC Magazine and BetaNews. See also Mediagazer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple considered calling iPhone the ‘Telepod’, ‘Mobi’, ‘iPad’, or ‘Tripod’, former Apple ad man reveals — At an event at the University of Arizona's Department of Marketing, former Apple advertising lead Ken Segall has shared some additional details into the naming behind Apple's massively popular smartphone.

Bloomberg:

Verizon Is Said to Seek to Resolve Vodafone Relationship — Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) is working to resolve its relationship with Vodafone Group Plc this year, having weighed options that range from ending its wireless venture with its European ally to a full merger of the two phone companies …

More: CNET, BGR, The Next Web, The Verge, Tech Trader Daily and FierceWireless

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf — (Reuters) - In the face of increasing government-led crackdowns on social media, Google Inc (GOOG.O) should not force Internet users to reveal their real names for some services, including its Google+ social network, said Vint Cerf …

More: The Verge, PC Magazine, 9to5Google, Engadget and Electronista

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Tumblr to Introduce Mobile Advertising to Help Achieve Profit — Tumblr Inc., the six-year-old blog network that months ago began letting advertisers pay for prominent placement, expects to make its first annual profit this year after extending the feature to smartphones.

More: The Verge. Thanks:@sarahfrier

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google Maps for iOS updated with Google Contacts support, local search categories and more — Google Maps for iOS has been updated with a nice set of new features today, including the ability to sign in with Google Contacts to have your saved addresses at your finger tips.

Mathew J. Schwartz / InformationWeek:

Evernote: We're Adding Two-Factor Authentication — After data breach and wide password reset, Evernote accelerates plans to offer additional security to users. — Start The — Evernote, after suffering a data breach that caused the company to reset passwords for all of its 50 million users …

More: The Verge and Engadget

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft ViralSearch: tracking and identifying popular web content on Twitter — The concept of viral internet content or memes has been played out for a number of years, but Microsoft thinks it has mastered the solution to tracking exactly how web content gets popular.

More: Engadget, SiliconANGLE and VentureBeat

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Chamath Palihapitiya Confirms That His Social+Capital Partnership Has Raised A New Fund Of $275M+ — Chamath Palihapitiya, the early Facebook executive who left the company in 2011 to launch The Social+Capital Partnership, said today that he has raised a second fund.

More: Pulse2 and VentureBeat

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Oracle issues emergency Java update to patch vulnerabilities — After hackers attack a new flaw in Java, “Oracle decided to release a fix for this vulnerability and another closely related bug as soon as possible.” — In response to discovering that hackers were actively exploiting …

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Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Seagate ships its first desktop hybrid drive, third-gen laptop models — Seagate has had some skin in the hybrid hard drive game for some time, but always in 2.5-inch wide versions — great for your laptop, not so much the cavernous spaces of a gaming tower. Its just-shipping Desktop SSHD fills that gap in a nearly literal sense.

More: AnandTech, Ars Technica, TechSpot, CNET, ExtremeTech and Mashable!

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

VMware Exits Collaboration Market With Sale of SlideRocket To Clearslide, A Sales Engagement Platform — VMware is exiting the collaboration market with the sale of SlideRocket to Clearslide, which will use the rich slide creation too to buttress its service that offers sales people presentation capabilities …

More: GigaOM and ZDNet

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iBooks 3.1 with support for iBookstore in Japan, local content & improvements for reading Asian language books — Apple released version 3.1 of iBooks today on the App Store and with it comes hundreds of thousands of Japanese books to the iBookstore in Japan.

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, The Next Web, Cult of Mac and iClarified. Thanks:@jordankahn

Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

[New App] Opera Browser Beta, With Ground-Up Redesign And Webkit Rendering Engine, Is Live In The Play Store — Get those fingers ready, Opera fans: the biggest thing to happen to your favorite mobile browser in years has arrived. Opera Software announced a new and retooled version …

More: TechHive, The Verge, Opera, IntoMobile, CNET, Engadget, ZDNet, GigaOM, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, FierceMobileContent News, Inquirer, The Next Web, BetaNews and Electronista

Forbes:

10 Reasons To Be More Optimistic About Broadband Than Susan Crawford Is — Susan Crawford thinks she sees the future of the Internet—and it isn't pretty: Cable companies monopolizing broadband, charging too much, withholding content and keeping speeds low, all in order to suppress disruptive innovation.

Thanks:@berinszoka

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Verizon considering LTE-only phones in 2014 in push to lower subsidies — Soon after Verizon transitions to Voice over LTE for ordinary telephone calls around the end of the year, it could start selling phones without CDMA chipsets, reducing costs and associated subsidies, said the company's CFO Fran Shammo.

More: Ars Technica, ReadWrite, AllThingsD, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, IntoMobile, Electronista, Engadget, FierceWireless, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, DSLreports and PhoneArena

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Business Data Modeling And Planning Software Company Anaplan Raises $33M From Meritech, Shasta And Others — After acquiring Vue Analytics, Anaplan, which provides a cloud-based solution for businesses to model and plan for sales, operations, and finance; is announcing $30 million …

More: bizjournals, GigaOM, Venture Capital Dispatch and VentureBeat

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

The rise and fall of Andy Zaky — How an Internet-trained Apple analyst lost tens of millions of other peoples' money — FORTUNE — In the late 1990s, an ad agency creative director I'll call Joe Smith to protect his privacy bought several hundred shares of Apple (AAPL) at $60 apiece.

More: Daring Fireball and Business Insider. Thanks:@philiped

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple executives and a long history with watches — Apple design chief Ive pictured with Ikepod designer Newson — Apple is building a device for the wrist, and it may even launch later this year. One of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' most famous sayings is that “we build the products that we want to use.”

More: Businessweek, Computerworld, Communications … and ITworld.com

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

WordPress.com Launches Business Accounts With Custom Domains, Unlimited Storage & Support For $299 Per Site Per Year — Automattic's WordPress.com just launched WordPress.com for Business. The business accounts, which will cost $299 per site per year, include advanced design tools with support …

More: The Verge, The Next Web and WordPress.com News

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