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March 7, 2013, 1:55 AM

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David Faber / CNBC:
Carl Icahn Takes Up to a 6 Percent Stake in Dell: Sources  —  Carl Icahn appears set to enter the fray over the leveraged buyout of Dell.  —  Trading sources said they were confident that Icahn had amassed a position in Dell that may approach 100 million shares, and would bring him to a roughly 6 percent ownership.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Path 3.0 adds private messaging and The Shop, with ‘handcrafted’ stickers and premium photo filters  —  Path 3.0 for iOS adds two major features to the private social network.  The first is the ability to privately message your fellow users, and the second is The Shop, part of Path's ongoing effort to monetize its app.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
EU's Microsoft Fine a Warning to Google  —  The European Commission's announcement Wednesday of $732 million in sanctions against Microsoft is an inevitable and expected comeuppance for the software giant's failure to comply with the terms of an antitrust settlement requiring it to offer consumers a choice of Web browsers.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft to update its core Windows 8 apps well before ‘Blue’  —  Summary: Microsoft may have refreshes of its Mail, Calendar, Music and Games apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT in its app store as soon as this month.  —  There's been some worry that Microsoft's Windows team may be waiting until the …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Found Using Internet Data, Study Finds  —  Using data drawn from queries entered into Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines, scientists at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University have for the first time been able to detect evidence …
More: CNET
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Facebook's Redesign Hopes to Keep Users Engaged  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook plans to announce on Thursday a substantial redesign of its News Feed — a makeover aimed at both keeping users glued to the social network and luring more advertising dollars.  —  Company executives have broadly …
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
The Check In Is Dead; Long Live The Check In As Foursquare Adds Quick Glide Feature On iOS  —  Depending who you ask, Foursquare could be in a great place as far as growth.  Or in a bad place.  We've heard about potential acquisitions, difficulty fundraising and everything in between.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
comScore: Apple debuts 2013 as top US smartphone maker, Samsung gains but Android falls for the first time  —  In the US, Apple ended 2012 as the top OEM and it has only further increased its lead with the start of the New Year.  Samsung is gaining as well, but not quite as quickly.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Trulia Launches Trulia Suggests, A Recommendation Engine For Real Estate  —  Trulia, the popular real estate search engine, just launched the beta of Trulia Suggests, a personalized real estate recommendation engine.  The typical search experience on virtually every online real estate site involves telling …
More: CNET and AllThingsD
Terje Langeland / Bloomberg:
Samsung's Patent Spat With Apple Spurs U.S. Lobbying Push  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) has doubled mobile-phone sales in the U.S. since 2008.  As the company faces anti-dumping measures and a protracted court battle with Apple Inc. (AAPL), its U.S. lobbying bill is growing even faster.
More: CNET and The Verge
Brian Crecente / Polygon:
EA won't have microtransactions in all future games, exec clarifies  —  Electronic Arts chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen clarified today that while all of EA's future games will support the ability to include microtransactions, that doesn't mean that all of them will actually have them.
Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters:
Megaupload founder can sue New Zealand spy agency: court  —  WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A court ruled on Thursday that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can sue New Zealand's spy agency for illegal surveillance, opening the government up to more scrutiny over its role in an unlawful 2011 police raid on the internet entrepreneur's home.
TechCrunch:
Urban Storage Startup Boxbee Wins Best New Startup Prize At Launch, Zillabyte Takes Enterprise With Its ‘Pandora For Leads’  —  Boxbee, a startup that's looking to make urban storage (not of the digital variety) less of a pain in the ass, just won the best new startup award at the Launch conference in San Francisco.
More: The Next Web and VentureBeatTweets: @allnickThanks:@anthonyha
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Path Hires Ex-Google, Lytro Finance Head as New CFO  —  A little more than two years after launch, Path, the self-proclaimed “private social network” startup, is beginning to focus more on monetization.  —  Hence the hiring of Kim Jabal as the company's first CFO, who will spearhead …
More: Business InsiderTweets: @davemorin
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Free broadband for all: FreedomPop's Hub Burst home router now available  —  The free wireless internet startup FreedomPop is targeting the likes of Comcast and Cablevision with its Hub Burst home router, which is now available for purchase.  —  First announced back in December …
Thomas Grillo / bizjournals:
Facebook shops Kendall Square office space for a return to Cambridge  —  Facebook is poking around in Cambridge for office space it may “like.”  —  The $66 billion social networking company, founded in a Harvard University dorm by Mark Zuckerburg and friends, is seeking 7,000 square feet …

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