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March 11, 2013, 8:55 PM

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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Exclusive: super-early iPhone prototype had 5″x7″ screen, serial port — What did the iPhone look like before it looked like an iPhone? — That's one big iPhone — This iPhone prototype was a lot closer to the size of an iPad than an iPhone at 5"×7" and nearly 2" thick.

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M — LinkedIn will buy San Francisco-based newsreader appmaker Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. — The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million.

More: AllThingsD, VatorNews, Business Insider, The Verge, GeekWire, CNET, Inside Mobile Apps, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Mobile Marketing Watch, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Neowin, BestTechie and Mashable!. See also Mediagazer

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Sprint Will Have an All-Touch BlackBerry This Year, but It's Not the Z10 — Sprint may have chosen to take a pass on the first all-touch BlackBerry 10 device, but it isn't planning to sit out that part of the market. — The No. 3 U.S. carrier plans to launch an all-touch BlackBerry-10-powered device …

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, BGR, Gizmodo, n4bb.com, IntoMobile and Pocketnow

Brad Molen / Engadget:

BlackBerry Z10 coming to AT&T March 22nd for $199.99, pre-orders open tomorrow (update: Best Buy)

David Barboza / New York Times:

In Wake of Cyberattacks, China Seeks New Rules — SHANGHAI — China has issued a new call for international “rules and cooperation” on Internet espionage issues, while insisting that accusations of Chinese government involvement in recent hacking attacks were part of an international smear campaign.

More: Xinhua News Agency and PC World

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

White House demands China stop hacking into US companies

More: The White House and The Verge

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google updates design of Gmail's web and offline apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users — Google on Monday announced an update to its Gmail mobile Web app and Gmail Offline. The company says the new release is available to Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users …

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office Is Investigating HP's Autonomy Allegations — Hewlett-Packard just filed its regular form 10Q or quarterly report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and it contains some news. — In the filing HP discloses that it has been told by the Serious Fraud Office …

More: Associated Press and SiliconBeat

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

BlackBerry Shares Jump as Lenovo CEO Mentions Possible Deal — BlackBerry shares jumped the most in more than a month after Lenovo Group Ltd. (992)'s chief executive officer was quoted in a French financial newspaper as saying his company may eventually consider buying the smartphone maker.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, Pocket-lint, ValueWalk and PhoneArena. Tweets: @inafried

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Microsoft enabling Flash by default in Internet Explorer 10 starting March 12th — Microsoft has just announced that it will permit Flash content to run by default in both Windows RT and Windows 8 beginning tomorrow, March 12th. Until now, compatibility in Internet Explorer 10 has been limited …

More: MSDN Blogs, Engadget, BetaNews, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Next Web, ParisLemon and Neowin

The Security Ledger:

Many Watering Holes, Targets In Hacks That Netted Facebook, Twitter and Apple — The attacks that compromised computer systems at Facebook, Twitter, Apple Corp. and Microsoft were part of a wide-ranging operation that relied on many “watering hole” web sites that attracted employees …

More: Ars Technica, Macworld, The Verge, VentureBeat, Securosis Highlights and The Mac Security Blog

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Omniture Co-Founder's Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $60M From GGV Capital, Jeff Bezos, Greylock And Others — Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $60 million in new funding, we've learned exclusively.

More: AllThingsD, MarketWatch and Salt Lake Tribune

Martha Mendoza / Associated Press:

As Tech Wealth Explodes, Silicon Valley Poverty Spikes — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — On a morning the stock market was sailing to a record high and a chilly storm was blowing into Silicon Valley, Wendy Carle stuck her head out of the tent she calls home to find city workers duct taping …

More: Business Insider

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Bit.ly CEO Peter Stern Steps Down From The URL Shortening And Analytics Company — Today, Bit.ly has announced that its CEO, Peter Stern, has stepped down as CEO in a statement on their blog. The reason is that Stern is pursuing other interests, although other details aren't known at this time.

More: bitly blog, Betabeat, GigaOM, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Unicorn Apocalypse Is Real And It Sucks — Unicorn Apocalypse, the mobile game Samsung promoted in its TV ads that began airing at the beginning of the year, isn't fictional after all - it's a real, playable game live now in the Google Play app store. Generally speaking, the Samsung ads …

More: The Verge, Droid Life, Business Insider, MobileBurn.com and SlashGear

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Computer Algorithms Rely Increasingly on Human Helpers — Trading stocks, targeting ads, steering political campaigns, arranging dates, besting people on “Jeopardy” and even choosing bra sizes: computer algorithms are doing all this work and more. — But increasingly, behind the curtain …

More: counternotions and The Atlantic Online

Tim Peterson / Adweek:

YouTube Co-founder Prepping Possible Rival — YouTube has had its share of competition over the years. Companies like Vimeo and DailyMotion (plus copyright lawsuits and crushing overhead costs) led Chad Hurley and the video-sharing site's co-founders to sell YouTube to Google.

More: digitaltrends.com, Wired, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Android Community, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, The Verge, TechSpot and SocialTimes. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

“Zero TV” Households Now At 5 Million, Says Nielsen, Up From 3 Million In 2007, But Still Just 5% Of Market — Nielsen today released new data that examines trends in the “Zero TV household” - a definition which refers to those who no longer watch traditional television offered by cable …

More: Nielsen, Mashable!, The Verge, CBS News and BestTechie. See also Mediagazer

Ian King / Bloomberg:

Fujifilm Touch Screen Poised to Aid Microsoft Vs. Apple — Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (4901), a company better known for cameras and film, could help Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and the personal-computer industry fight back against Apple Inc. (AAPL) — Fujifilm is using its experience with silver …

More: PetaPixel, Softpedia News and The Verge

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

3D-Printable Gun Project Announces Plans For A For-Profit Search Engine Startup — For the last six months, Cody Wilson and his non-profit group Defense Distributed have worked towards a controversial goal: To make as many firearm components as possible into 3D-printable, downloadable files.

More: VentureBeat, WebProNews and The Verge

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Salesforce to raise $1 billion in convertible debt offering to help fuel acquisitions — Today CRM giant Salesforce announced that it intends to raise $1 billion, with the potential for $150 million more, in long-term convertible debt. — The sum is large compared to the company's current cash position.

More: PR Newswire, ZDNet, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Tech Trader Daily

Kunal / Sammy Hub:

Pictures of GT-I9502 leaked, could this be the Galaxy S IV? — A Chinese forum has published plethora of pictures of GT-I9502. Images reveal a lot of things on the hardware front and most importantly, the design. Interestingly, the forum poster claims it to be a dual-SIM version of the Galaxy S IV for China Unicom.

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Insight: On Facebook, app makers face a treacherous path — (Reuters) - Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as southern California's skies. — Based a block away from Venice Beach, the 30-person startup impressed prospective investors …

More: Forbes and Business Insider

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams — “See! That s**t keeps popping up on my f**king computer!” says a blond woman as she leans back on a couch, bottle-feeding a baby on her lap. — The woman is visible from thousands of miles away on a hacker's computer.

More: Salon, Boing Boing, Kotaku and Good Morning Silicon Valley

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Microsoft really wants students to use Office 365, offers 6 months free & 20GB SkyDrive storage — Microsoft has launched a new campaign to hook students on Office 365 University by offering up six months of the service and an extra 20GB of SkyDrive cloud storage for free.

More: CNET, Computerworld, TechNet Blogs, The Next Web, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Network World, Windows 8 Applications …, Neowin, LiveSide.net, Forbes, Microsoft News, TechCrunch and BetaNews

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