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March 19, 2013, 7:40 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Probes Microsoft, Partners Over Bribery Claims — Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.'s relationship with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign government officials in return for software contracts, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: Ars Technica, CNET, Hillicon Valley, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Betabeat, The Next Web and Engadget

John Frank / TechNet Blogs:

Our Commitment to Compliance — Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government is reviewing allegations that Microsoft business partners in three countries may have engaged in illegal activity, and if they did, whether Microsoft played any role in these alleged incidents.

More: New York Times, VatorNews, Computerworld, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, ZDNet, BGR, Gizmodo, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Next Web, GeekWire, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Network World, The Verge and Macgasm

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.

Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble — Google's quest to continue unifying their products is about to enter its next phase. According to multiple sources, the company's next step includes unifying their messaging platforms into a single service, which is expected to be called Babble.

More: TechHive, ReadWrite, Yahoo! News, Examiner, CNET, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com, The Full Signal, Phones Review, Ars Technica, PadGadget and ValueWalk. Thanks:@salcan

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to leave Adobe for Apple, report to Bob Mansfield — According to a tweet issued by CNBC, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will leave the company this week to join Apple. Neither Apple nor Adobe have confirmed the claim. Update: Adobe has confirmed in an SEC filing that Lynch departed the firm.

More: AllThingsD, The Next Web, The Next Web, Business Wire, VentureBeat, CNET, Gizmodo, Mercury News, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iMore, MacRumors, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, ParisLemon and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @cnbc, @mikebeas, @gruber, @cnbc, @panzer and @brandonbailey

Thanks:@zaccoffman

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Adobe Loses CTO But Beats Q1 Estimates: $1.01B Revenue, $0.35 Non-GAAP EPS, 479K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers

More: GigaOM, ZDNet, ZDNet, Fast Company, Network World, CNBC, Fox Business and Macgasm

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft tempts Windows developers with $100 cash for new apps — Microsoft wants Windows 8 and Windows Phone developers to create apps for its platforms, and it's tempting them by offering up hard cash. In a new US marketing effort, Microsoft is offering developers $100 per app …

More: GeekWire, ZDNet, Neowin, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft readies next two CRM updates; acquires analytics vendor Netbreeze

More: Engadget, Computerworld, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, CRM Buyer, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Microsoft and InformationWeek

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

HTC Says Its Next Phone Is Delayed Because It's No Longer A ‘Tier-One’ Customer — HTC's new flagship phone, the HTC One, is facing delays because the company can't lock down the components its needs to produce the device. — In a surprisingly candid interview with WSJ …

More: digitaltrends.com

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed

More: BGR, The Verge, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, PC Magazine and FierceWireless

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Nvidia CEO unveils next two gens of Tegra, dubbed Logan, Parker — Jen-Hsun Huang says the company's mobile chip will show 100-times improvement from the first generation to the fifth. — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today talked up the chipmaker's next two generations of mobile chip …

More: VentureBeat, Android Phone Fans, The Verge, Engadget, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, TechHive, Computerworld, The Register, PhoneArena, Inquirer, Inquirer, AnandTech, NVIDIA and AndroidHeadlines.com

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia introduces its own Grid-based server: the Visual Computing Appliance

More: NVIDIA and Wall Street Journal

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Amazon in talks with record labels about subscription music service — Subscription music is all the rage with the big Web music stores — Subscription music services have yet to profit but that hasn't stopped some of the internet's biggest media distributors from jumping into the business.

More: CNET

Ethan Smith / Digits:

End of an Era for eMusic, Subscription Music Pioneer

More: Engadget and Billboard

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion — Yahoo Inc. is in talks to buy a controlling stake in France Telecom SA's online-video site Dailymotion, according to people familiar with the talks, in what would be Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's first major acquisition since taking over the Internet pioneer last year.

More: CNET, Digits, Reuters, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones …

More: TechHive, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, App Advice and BestTechie

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot — Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company Hubspot. We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons' departure …

Tweets: @johnwilson, @stevekovach, @jwherrman and @fmanjoo

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Twitter gets a patent on... Twitter — Although Twitter famously has a pending patent on the familiar “pull-to-refresh” gesture, the company may have just acquired something more valuable: a patent on the Twitter messaging service itself. The new patent issued today with Twitter founders Jack Dorsey …

More: CNET and The Next Web. Tweets: @biz

Brian Cairns / Google Developers Blog:

Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API — Google Drive lets users create Docs, Sheets, and Slides, collaborate on them in real time, and have their changes saved automatically. With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration …

More: ZDNet and WebProNews

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with Lock screen security flaw fix, Maps improvements for Japan — Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 to end users today. It is currently available over-the-air via Software Update in the Settings app. — The update includes a security flaw fix involving the iOS device Lock screen.

More: lists.apple.com, The Next Web, The Verge, Forbes, Engadget, Macworld, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, The Register, MacDailyNews, Gotta Be Mobile, Inquirer, Mobile Marketing Watch, TUAW, MobilesPie and Cult of Mac

Casey Newton / CNET:

Google Images adds filters for animated GIFs — The company confirms it is adding filters to make the popular image format easier to find. — Google is making it easier to find the perfect animated GIF with which to e-mail a friend or post on a blog, adding new filters to Images that let users query specific file types.

More: Google, digitaltrends.com, Google Operating System, BetaNews, VatorNews, Engadget, The Next Web, The Atlantic Wire, Betabeat, The Verge, VentureBeat and Search Engine Land

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Bug in EA's Origin game platform allows attackers to hijack player PCs — One scenario for using EA's Origin service as an attack platform to execute malicious code on end-user computers. — ReVuln — More than 40 million people could be affected by a vulnerability researchers uncovered …

More: BBC, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, SlashGear, IGN and Inquirer

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Lytro Names Former Ning Head Rosenthal as CEO — Light field camera maker Lytro is naming former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as its new CEO. — Rosenthal, who also worked at HP/Opsware, Netscape and AOL, takes over a company with a unique technology but lots of work ahead of it.

More: VatorNews

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google undeletes RSS extension for Chrome browser — It's not dead after all. Google has resurrected an extension that lets Chrome handle RSS and Atom feeds, even though it's not resurrecting the related Google Reader service. The 868,163 people who've installed Google's RSS-handling extension …

More: PC World and WebProNews

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

To Compete With Amazon, eBay Debuts Free Listings And Simpler Fee Structures For Sellers — Ebay is debuting a new fee structure and incentives for sellers today in an effort to remain the most competitive commerce platform next to e-commerce marketplace Amazon.

More: CNET, Reuters, The Verge and internetretailer.com

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Google+ Introduces New Hangouts App Called Capture, To Snap Pics Of Special Moments As They Happen — Today, Google introduced a new app for one of its most popular products, Hangouts. While Hangouts let you chat with multiple people over video, there are those moments when someone makes a funny face …

More: Google+, VentureBeat, CNET and Marketing Land. Thanks:@ayeletnoff

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Evernote Food adds OpenTable reservations and Foursquare ratings to iOS — When Evernote Food in late 2011, it was a sign that the note-taking service was going in a new direction — but exactly where wasn't clear. Evernote Food let you collect and organize anything in your eating life …

More: Evernote Blog, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Engadget, GigaOM, iLounge, The Next Web and SlashGear

Frank Konkel / Federal Computer Week:

Sources: Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal — In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. — Amazon Web Services will help …

More: Business Insider, The Register, Network World, GeekWire, TechSpot, CNET and ValueWalk

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

NewsCred gets new $15M investment, adds New York Times as a partner — NewsCred has become a quiet force in media by offering brands and publishers an easy way to acquire high quality news content from brands like Bloomberg and Economist. In a further sign of its growing influence …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Venture Capital Dispatch, PandoDaily and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

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