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Cameron Johnson / The Official Netflix Blog:
Introducing Netflix Social  —  Movies and TV shows are better with friends.  —  We get suggestions from our friends for new things to watch and we connect with our friends through the shared enjoyment of a great movie or TV show.  —  Starting today, Netflix members in the U.S. can share …
Bloomberg:
Samsung Targets Galaxy 4 at Apple's Core IPhone Market  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone's U.S. loyalists, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s flagship store in New York and broadcasting the event live in Times Square.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes As Users Report Problems Early On Making Payments  —  Google opened registration for its annual I/O developer conference today at 7 AM PDT, and just as it did last year, the event sold out pretty quickly.  This year it took only 49 minutes …
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
The Pivotal Initiative, in case you were wondering, is now official  —  Not that there was a lot of doubt, but the Pivotal Initiative spin-off of VMware and EMC, has now officially spun off and will likely go public, according to EMC CEO and Chairman Joe Tucci, speaking at an investors event in New York.
More: Tech Trader Daily and SiliconANGLE.  Tweets: @qthrul
Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Outspends Apple on Phone Advertising  —  In the smartphone business, following the money leads right to Samsung Electronics Co.  —  Outspent by rival Apple Inc. more than three to one in advertising for mobile phones in the U.S. in 2011, Samsung responded with a marketing blitz on TV …
Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:
Update from the CEO  —  Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google.  He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry.  Most people thought he was nuts.
More: Engadget and TechCrunch
Amar Toor / The Verge:
Apple Stores in France banned from forcing employees to work late  —  A Paris court this week banned seven French Apple Stores from forcing employees to work night shifts, in response to a complaint filed by a group of national labor unions.  As the AFP reports, the court also ordered Apple …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Dell announces XPS 18: a giant all-in-one Windows 8 tablet starting at $899 (hands-on)  —  When we reviewed the best Windows 8 all-in-one desktop computers, it was a giant, bulky, pricey Dell desktop that rose to the top of the heap.  Today, Dell's trying its hand at a radically different Windows 8 experience …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: HTC One Headed to Verizon, Too  —  It looks like HTC's One really will be the one flagship for the Taiwanese phone maker.  —  When HTC announced the phone last month, it said the One would be sold at AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.  A mention of Verizon was noticeably absent.
More: The Verge and Engadget
Jackie Dove / TechHive:
Adobe plans to halt boxed sales of Creative Suite software  —  Adobe plans to halt boxed sales of its Creative Suite software, making its packages for creative pros available online or by subscription only.  —  “As Adobe continues to focus on delivering world-class innovation through Creative Cloud …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself?  —  The team sitting around the table at Groupon's Chicago headquarters in the early spring of 2011 were some of the brightest minds in technology and business.  Marc Andreessen, the man who created the modern web browser and Silicon Valley's hottest venture capitalist.
Tweets: @sfiegerman and @pkafka
Jane Justice Leibrock / Facebook:
User Experience Lab: How we designed a new News Feed using your feedback  —  “My feed is cluttered.”  That's a piece of feedback the News Feed team has heard countless times.  An obvious interpretation could be that people think the design of Feed is too busy and want it to be simplified …
Taylor Hatmaker / ReadWrite:
Peter Thiel On Not Selling Facebook To Yahoo - And Much More  —  As it turns out, the man who wants to build a sovereign ocean community off the coast of California is really down to earth.  —  Tuesday at South by Southwest (SXSW), serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist …
More: Betabeat
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Alleged Google Now for iOS video leaks on YouTube, is promptly pulled  —  iOS fans jealous of Jelly Bean's creepy Google Now might finally have something to get excited about.  An October update to the Google Search app finally delivered an updated voice recognition experience to Apple's platform …
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
How Apple Gets All the Good Apps  —  Apple tightly controls its software and hardware, and is fiercely competitive in battling its rivals, especially in the mobile market.  And yet, while the company never creates apps for anyone else's mobile system or device, each of its major mobile-platform foes …
More: PhoneArena
Alexis Santos / Engadget:
Unannounced Motorola Android phone surfaces, isn't the fabled ‘X phone’ (video)  —  The fine folks at Tinhte have gotten their mitts on a Motorola-made Android phone that hasn't made its official debut.  Right out of the gate, the outlet notes that it's not the rumored “X phone” …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
PayPal Acquires Mobile App Development Studio Duff Research To Work On Its Mobile And Digital Wallet  —  PayPal is acquiring mobile app development studio Duff Research today.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. … Duff Research, which has not raised any venture capital to date …
Marvin Ammori / Slate:
Uber, Lyft, Sidecar: Can the FTC fight local taxi commissions?  —  Taxi commissions are crushing disruptive transportation apps.  —  In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service.
More: CNET
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Intel releases Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 dev code, adds dual-boot option for Windows 8  —  Intel's in the tricky position of playing Android iteration catch-up — but it's getting better at it.  Releases are now appearing every six months, with the latest release of Android (4.2.2) now Intel-optimized — at least at a pre-alpha stage.
Owen Thomas / Business Insider:
Amazon Has An Estimated 10 Million Members For Its Surprisingly Profitable Prime Club  —  Amazon hasn't disclosed how many people have signed up for its Prime program, which offers free two-day shipping, a Netflix-like video service, and other perks for a $79 annual fee.
More: BGR

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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

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Q&A with Ian Coss, host of GBH's Big Dig podcast, on his multi-city live event tour in partnership with local NPR stations, the use of GBH archives, and more

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