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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.

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.

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: PC Magazine, The Technology Chronicles, digitaltrends.com, Marketing Land, VatorNews, CNET, GeekWire, Ars Technica, PC World, DailyTech, The Verge, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Business Insider, memeburn, WebProNews, Washington Post and Gizmodo. Tweets: @dannysullivan

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

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, The Next Web, Engadget and AllThingsD

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, nbcnews.com, Stuff.co.nz, VentureBeat and Betabeat. See also Mediagazer

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, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, 9to5Google, Engadget and Electronista

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.

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, Betabeat, CNET, VentureBeat, Mobile Marketing Watch and Business Insider. Thanks:@sarahfrier

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, Engadget, BGR, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily, The Verge, The Consumerist and FierceWireless

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.

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 …

More: Oracle, The Oracle Software …, SiliconBeat, The Next Web, The Register, The Mac Security Blog, Inquirer, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, SlashGear, SecurityWeek, Datamation.com, Krebs on Security and ZDNet

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

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Google Shares How Often The FBI Sends National Security Letters For User Information — How do you talk about requests for user information that legally, you can't talk about. In the case of National Security Letters that Google receives from the US Federal Bureau Of Investigation …

More: The Official Google Blog, The Next Web, 9to5Google and CNET

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

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: Computerworld, 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, Engadget, GigaOM, The Next Web, iLounge, Cult of Mac and iClarified. Thanks:@jordankahn

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, CNET, TechSpot, Computerworld, ExtremeTech and Mashable!

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

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

Picasa Web Albums Redirects to Google+ Photos — After replacing Picasa Web with Google+ Photos in the navigation bar and redirecting individual albums to the Google+ interface, now Google redirects picasaweb.google.com to the albums section of Google+ Photos.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and CNET

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 with LTE coming to Verizon March 7th for $599.99 — Samsung has taken its time rolling out the Galaxy Note 10.1 — originally announced at last year's Mobile World Congress in February, it didn't launch until August, and its LTE-enabled version has so far only been sold outside the US.

More: Ars Technica, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, Electronista, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, The Full Signal, SlashGear and Droid Life

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

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

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