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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 928 to launch on Verizon in April with aluminum body and Xenon flash  —  Microsoft is gearing up to market Nokia's upcoming Verizon flagship heavily.  Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the company plans to launch its Lumia 928 handset in April on Verizon.
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.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google confirms Project Glass will support prescriptions ‘later this year,’ but not in its Explorer Edition  —  A prescription version of Google Glass is coming in 2013.  Google's project Glass is a pair of glasses at the end of the day, so it follows that you'll be able to order a pair personalized to your prescription preferences.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path
Tom Warren / The Verge:
A look at Microsoft's top-secret Surface prototypes  —  From concept to reality: how Redmond's iPad competitor came to be  —  Microsoft made a bold bet to build its own hardware, competing directly with Apple's iPad, but it was never an easy task to create something new and unique.
Matt Brian / The Verge:
Google Now confirmed for Chrome OS and Windows, beta browser reveals  —  Google Now integration may soon become available in Google's Windows browser and Chrome OS platform in the near future, after engineers added a new reference to the feature in the latest Chromium release.
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.
Casey Newton / CNET:
Google reaches $7 million settlement with states over Street View case  —  The settlement with 37 states bans unauthorized data collection and requires Google to train employees on privacy issues.  —  The long-running Google Street View privacy case was settled today, as the company reached …
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.
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
Christina Farr / VentureBeat:
Evolv pulls in $15M to prevent the ‘wrong person ending up in the wrong job’  —  Imagine using data to pinpoint the most high-performing employees and keep them satisfied?  —  A startup called Evolv is building technology to make that possible, and it has raised $15 million in a fourth funding roundl led by Vantage Point Capital.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Retailer Sues Visa Over $13 Million ‘Fine’ for Being Hacked  —  A sports apparel retailer is fighting back against the arbitrary multi-million-dollar penalties that credit card companies impose on banks and merchants for data breaches by filing a first-of-its-kind $13 million lawsuit against Visa.
Gina Chon / Quartz:
Apple's plan for its cash: stock buyback or more dividends likely coming this spring  —  Apple is leaning toward additional dividends or a share buyback program as part of its effort to return more cash to investors, according to sources.  The US tech company could announce the move this spring …
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.

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