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March 16, 2013, 7:40 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Foursquare Aims At A Moving Target As It Tries To Close Another Round Of Funding — This year's SXSWi did not herald the next Big Thing in tech, as some guessed it wouldn't, but it wasn't always this way. In 2010, a year when people were a bit more optimistic about the new new thing, Foursquare was the boss.

More: Skift. Tweets: @alexia, @rabois, @hunterwalk and @dens

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple sued by THX for allegedly misusing patented speaker tech in iPhone, iPad and iMac — THX, the sound innovation company founded by George Lucas, filed suit against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday, claiming that various models of the iPhone …

More: Bloomberg, PC Magazine, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, Electronista, Macgasm, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, T3 News, Patently Apple, SlashGear, Neowin, TECH.BLORGE.com, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Following Samsung Galaxy S4 launch, Apple debuts ‘Why iPhone’ webpage to tout why people love iPhone, slam Android — On the eve of Samsung's Galaxy S4 launch, Apple and its marketing chief Phil Schiller spoke with mainstream news publications to slam Android and iPhone competitors.

More: AppleInsider, CNET, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, The Verge, Communications …, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, Fortune, iPhone Hacks, TUAW and CITEworld

Tweets: @nerdtalker and @reneritchie

Thanks:@llsethj

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Facebook Brings Down The Hammer Again: Cuts Off MessageMe's Access To Its Social Graph — MessageMe, an app that launched last week and raced up the charts to the #2 spot in social networking in the U.S., is confronting Facebook's touchiness around access to its social graph.

More: The Verge, TechHive, T3 News and Mashable!

Tweets: @semil and @joshelman

Nathan Hurst / Wired:

How the America Invents Act Will Change Patenting Forever — Photo: United States Patent and Trademark Office — On Saturday, around 18 months after President Obama signed it into law, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act will take effect. Ostensibly, the act is designed to bring U.S. patent law in line with the rest of the world.

More: The Next Web, PhoneArena, Forbes, AllThingsD and adafruit industries blog. Tweets: @cdixon

Molly Wood / CNET:

Samsung GS4 launch: Tone-deaf and shockingly sexist — I don't get offended very often. But Samsung's long parade of '50s-era female stereotypes, in the midst of an entirely other long parade of bad stereotypes, just put me over the edge. Oh, they announced a phone? You'd barely know it.

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Retina iPad Mini later, new Nexus 7 sooner — DisplaySearch — Small tablets are moving to very-high-resolution displays, like larger 10-inch class tablets have done in the last year or so. — An iPad Mini with an upgraded display could appear later in the third quarter or fourth quarter …

More: Tech Shout!, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Phones Review, App Advice, PhoneArena, MacRumors, AppleInsider and iClarified

TechCrunch:

Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million — Disrupt alumnus Dropbox made the second in a series of super-savvy, super-early stage acquisitions today, picking up hyped-up email management app Mailbox in an acquisition that we're calling “DropMail.” — We had been hearing that Mailbox was raising money …

More: GigaOM, Los Angeles Times, AllThingsD, Forbes, Business Insider, T3 News, Softpedia News, Geek Beat Technology News, The Verge, The Next Web, PhoneArena, CloudAve, FierceMobileContent News, memeburn, ReadWrite, SocialTimes, Ubergizmo and ZDNet

Tweets: @patrickc, @cdixon and @nichcarlson

Slate:

The Google Graveyard — It's hard to lose a loved one, especially if that loved one is a Google service. That's why we're opening the gates of the Google Graveyard, a virtual space for grieving. Buried in these hallowed grounds are some of Google's ill-fated services.

More: The Verge. Tweets: @carnage4life

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Smartwatch Developers Rejoice! Pebble Will Release Proof-Of-Concept Watchface SDK In Early April — After much fanfare the Pebble smartwatch made the leap from fanciful concept to full-fledged product earlier this year, but now that units have started to ship and people have started to wear them, what's Pebble's next step?

More: Kickstarter, VentureBeat, Mashable!, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog and Business Insider

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them — Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday. — U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Times, The Register, Engadget, VentureBeat, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Techdirt and Ars Technica

Tweets: @eff and @tolles

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Matthew Keys' legal defense in face of hacking indictment: He was an undercover journalist — When Reuters now-suspended deputy social media editor Matthew Keys was indicted over allegedly helping members of Anonymous deface the LA Times, using credentials that he provided, it was a surprise.

More: The Huffington Post, Reuters, The Atlantic Wire, SFist, Gawker, L.A. NOW, Softpedia News, PC World, Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Huffington Post. See also Mediagazer

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