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Tao Tao / Oh, How Pinteresting!:
Introducing Pinterest Web Analytics  —  Bloggers, businesses, and organizations often ask us, “what are people pinning from my websites?”  These website owners help create the content on Pinterest and we wanted to help them understand which pieces of content people find most interesting.
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.
Paul Sloan / CNET:
Spotify: Growing like mad, yet so far to go  —  The digital music service has added another 1 million subscribers since December, bringing its global total of paying customers to 6 million.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — It's not a bluegrass jam on the legendary Austin City Limits stage …
Rene Ritchie / iMore.com:
The “iPhone 5S” problem  —  Apple may or may not release a product called the “iPhone 5S” this year.  The presumption, however, fueled by Apple having previously released the 2009 iPhone 3GS-as-in-speed, and the 2011 iPhone 4S-as-in-Siri, is that 2013 will see another S-style update.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path  —  Developer advocate Timothy Jordan highlights the ways your favorite services might integrate with Google Glass  —  We're watching Google's Project Glass developer panel live at SXSW Interactive, and the company's showing off …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Major glitch in Bitcoin network sparks sell-off; price temporarily falls 23%  —  A technical glitch in the core Bitcoin software forced developers to call for a temporary halt to Bitcoin transactions, sparking a sharp sell-off.  The currency's value briefly fell 23 percent to $37 before regaining much of its value later in the evening.
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:
AWS Just Made It A Whole Lot Easier For Anyone To Create A Virtual Private Cloud Showing Again How Enterprise Tech Is Obsolete  —  Amazon Web Services will now offer the option for everyone to have their own virtual private cloud (VPC), another sign of the company's intent to push into the enterprise market.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Netflix Launches Speed Index To Highlight The Best ISPs For Streaming  —  For the last few months now, Netflix regularly published a list of the fastest ISPs for streaming video.  Today, the company launched a dedicated site for this data, the Netflix ISP Speed Index.
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Yahoo's Mayer gets internal flak for more rigorous hiring  —  (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer was asked at an all-staff meeting several weeks ago whether her rigorous hiring practices had caused the company to miss out on top engineering talent in Silicon Valley's hyper-competitive job market.
More: ZDNet and bizjournals
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Meet the ‘Corporate Enemies of the Internet’ for 2013  —  Paris-based Reporters Without Borders names five companies as “digital mercenaries” that have decided to sell their surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes.  —  Vietnam has been named one of the enemies of the Internet for its extensive government surveillance.
Kirstin Ridley / Reuters:
UK's anti-fraud agency says may be conflicted in Autonomy probe  —  (Reuters) - Britain's fraud-busting agency said it might have a conflict of interest in its investigation of Autonomy, a British software company accused of accounting irregularities by its new U.S. owners Hewlett-Packard Co.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Security firm: iOS Provisioning Profiles could be vector for Apple's first big malware wave  —  Up to this point, iOS users have been relatively safe from malware on their devices.  Apple SVP Phil Schiller recently felt good enough about it to tweet a link to a recent report that put most of the onus of mobile malware on Android.
More: CNET and Skycure Security.  Thanks:@jonrussell
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Chinese Version Of Samsung Galaxy S IV Apparently Captured In Hands-On Video  —  After yesterday's photos posted to a Chinese forum of a device claimed to be the Samsung Galaxy S IV, a video of what looks like the same device has landed on YouTube — again purporting to be the sequel to Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Automatic's iPhone app makes your dumb car feel a little smarter  —  Automatic handles everything from fuel efficiency to to crash response  —  Cars have been equipped with onboard computers for decades now, but as they get smarter, they remain stubbornly closed off.
Christina Farr / VentureBeat:
Evolv pulls in $15M to prevent the ‘wrong person ending up in the wrong job’  —  Imagine being able to use data to pinpoint the most high-performing employees, and keep them satisfied?  —  A startup called Evolv is building technology to solve that very problem, and has raised $15 million …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Shopping Express Test Partners Include Target And Other Local SF Stores  —  We've been getting all sorts of new info since we first ran our story about Google dogfooding “Google Shopping Express,” its same-day Amazon Prime and Postmates competitor.  While we originally reported …
Zack Whittaker / CNET:
Panic over as EU votes to reject ‘porn ban’ proposals  —  EU politicians have voted against a pan-European ban on all forms of porn, including on the web, at least for now.  Such a vote has happened before, and it's worth putting the ‘porn ban’ into some context.
Terril Yue Jones / Reuters:
China says willing to discuss cyber security with the U.S.  —  (Reuters) - China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington about the accusations and counter-accusations.
Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Data Mining for Investors: DJ Patil  —  Data mining can help venture capitalists find the next big thing.  But it can't be the whole story— at least not yet.  —  From his perch as data scientist in residence at the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Greylock Partners …
Jay Greene / CNET:
Microsoft offers Kinect code samples under open source  —  The software giant, hoping to get more developers writing PC applications to use its motion-sensing controller, is offering some pieces of code under an Apache 2.0 license.  —  Kinect for Windows sensor
Noel Randewich / Reuters:
Apple's iPads to fall behind Android tablets this year: IDC  —  (Reuters) - Shipments of Apple Inc's iPads will fall behind the growing variety of tablets running Google Inc's Android platform for the first time this year as smaller-sized devices catch on with more consumers, research firm International Data Corp (IDC) said on Tuesday.
More: eWeek, IDC, CNET, ZDNet and Bloomberg

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