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March 12, 2013, 1:50 AM

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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.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here's What LinkedIn Can Do With Pulse  —  So what's LinkedIn going to do with Pulse now that it has bought the newsreader?  —  Maybe Jeff Weiner will keep heading down the path Pulse was headed: Trying to figure out how to create mobile magazines filled with other peoples' content …
More: CNN
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.
Tim Peterson / Adweek:
Facebook Challenges Google's Tech Dominance by Partnering With AOL, Adobe  —  Facebook and Google aren't exactly besties, and the social giant's latest move won't help matters.  In recent weeks Facebook has made two friends through moves that will simultaneously help its own advertising business and hurt Google's.
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business?  —  After ten years of struggle, nobody has figured out how to make music pay  —  “The subscription model has failed so far,” Steve Jobs said in April 2007.  “People want to own their music.”  At that time, Apple had solved the problem …
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Pinterest offers new tool, lays base for money-making features  —  (Reuters) - Online scrapbook Pinterest is rolling out new tools that will show businesses the number of visitors it delivers to their websites, part of the fast-growing start-up's efforts to build a base for the introduction of money-making features.
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 …
David Pierce / The Verge:
HTC One review  —  I'm fairly confident there's a kitchen sink inside the HTC One.  This phone has everything else, certainly, with nothing but high-end specs across the board.  It starts with Qualcomm's new quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, a remarkably powerful chip clocked here at 1.7GHz.
More: ZDNet and 9to5GoogleTweets: @dsilverman
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 …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
iPhone Video Usage Doubles Android, Says Ooyala  —  From the “Android is from Mars, Apple is from Venus” files, another reminder that the kind of phone you have influences what you do with that phone.  —  Or maybe it's a reminder that people buy different kinds of phones because they want to do different things with them.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Adam Popescu / ReadWrite:
CISPA: Who's For It And Who's Against It  —  What if all of your online communication could be monitored and shared without a warrant?  That's what's at stake if the latest version of CISPA, the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is approved by Congress.
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.

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