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March 21, 2013, 1:15 AM

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Katherine Kuan / The Official Google Blog:

Google Keep—Save what's on your mind — Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember. Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. Unfortunately, if you're like me you probably often discover …

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself — Google today launched Keep, an app that allows you to save things, clip stuff from the web, hoard notes and what not and put them all onto your Google Drive. Yup, you guessed it — it is an imitation to Evernote and many other such applications.

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google launches Evernote rival Keep for the Web, Android 4.0 and above — Google on Wednesday announced Google Keep, a note-taking service similar to Evernote, for both the Web and Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean) devices. You can try the service out now for yourself at Drive.Google.com/Keep.

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Jessica Wohl / Reuters:

Walmart adds iPhone scan-and-checkout feature to 12 more markets — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters. — Walmart's “Scan & Go” …

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Kellex / Droid Life:

Preview of New Google Play Version 4.0 — The Google Play store is an ever-evolving marketplace that has seen its fair share of changes throughout the last few years. It was once incredibly fussy and difficult to navigate while lacking features, but over time, has become much more polished …

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Electronista:

Exclusive: US DoD to purchase 650,000 iOS devices — Sequester holding up purchase, intended to replace failing devices — Electronista has discovered that the mobile device testing program currently underway at the Department of Defense has produced a pending purchase order for Apple hardware.

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Kevin Allocca / YouTube Trends:

YouTube Searches Now on Google Trends — Here's a trivia question: Based on YouTube searches, what was the top trending animal on YouTube this month in the United States? It's not what you might think... Yes, goats. (If you missed this one and want to know more about how exactly screaming goats became …

More: The Next Web, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Engadget, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, Google Operating System and BuzzFeed

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

YouTube reaches 1 billion unique monthly users, almost 15% of planet Earth

More: YouTube Blog, TechCrunch, Digits, CNET, Reuters, Yahoo! News, 9to5Google, Engadget, VentureBeat, Electronista, SocialTimes, SlashGear and Pocket-lint. See also Mediagazer

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Starbucks's Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers — The Starbucks clerk was at a loss. I had just ordered a mocha Frappuccino and asked to pay with Square, a service that allows customers to purchase goods at the coffeehouse chain via their smartphone. “What?

More: GeekWire, TIME, SplatF and VentureBeat. Tweets: @bridgetcarey

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

MacBook Pro with Retina display: Problems in every dimension — When Apple unveiled its first Retina MacBook Pro with the 15.4-inch model in June, it came with an all-new, slimmed down design, all-flash architecture, and its flagship Retina display with over 5 million pixels.

Business Insider:

Amazon On The $99 Kindle Fire HD Tablet: 'It's Not Happening' — So much for all that! — Amazon is not doing a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet, a company spokesperson tells us: “It's not happening—we are already at the lowest price points possible for that hardware.”

More: digitaltrends.com, Mobile Marketing Watch and TechHive

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Rumored To Be Working On A $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD

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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Oracle's Q3 falls short, revenue misses mark; Hardware systems tank again — Summary: Oracle's fiscal third quarter misses on many fronts as revenue comes in way short of expectations. Hardware systems sales continue to fall. — Oracle's third quarter earnings had a big buildup …

More: Computerworld, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and The Register. Tweets: @levie

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Acquires Livestar, The Mobile Recommendation Startup Founded By Fritz Lanman — Pinterest said today it's acquired Livestar, the mobile recommendations app founded by noted Microsoft alum (and Square and Pinterest investor) Fritz Lanman. — Pinterest tells TechCrunch …

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, GeekWire, Screenwerk and AllThingsD

Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Visa CEO calls digital wallet fee on PayPal “appropriate” — (Reuters) - Visa Inc Chief Executive Charlie Scharf suggested on Wednesday that the payment network may impose a fee on digital wallet operators like PayPal, following rival MasterCard Inc. — MasterCard said earlier this year …

More: The Verge and PhoneArena

Nielsen:

New Study Confirms Correlation Between Twitter and TV Ratings — U.S. TV viewers are taking to Twitter to talk about TV, and the digital chatter is building steam. According to SocialGuide, 32 million unique people in the U.S. Tweeted about TV in 2012. That's quite the confab, but what does it all really mean for the TV industry?

More: The Next Web, Forbes, Beet.TV and GeekWire. See also Mediagazer

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

New iPhone lock screen bypass bug found on iOS 6.1.3, gives access to contacts and photos — Another iPhone lock screen bypass bug has been discovered and this one affects the latest version of iOS: 6.1.3. This version was just released and contained a fix for vulnerabilities that allowed users …

More: Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Register, Engadget, SlashGear, iMore, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, CNET, Ars Technica and everythingiCafe

Mark Wilson / Co.Design:

NYC Subways Deploy A Touch-Screen Network, Complete With Apps — Not so long ago, we featured a radical proposal for New York City's payphones. The criticism we sensed was that this networked, touch-screen system—equipped with cameras and Wi-Fi—was too too sci-fi for a city of today.

More: digitaltrends.com, Engadget, Betabeat, Gizmodo, TechHive, PC Magazine and The Verge

Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Under CISPA, Who Can Get Your Data? — Under CISPA, companies can collect your information in order to “protect the rights and property” of the company, and then share that information with third parties, including the government, so long as it is for “cybersecurity purposes.”

Dennis Fisher / threatpost:

Researchers Uncover ‘TeamSpy’ Attack Campaign Against Government, Research Targets — Researchers have uncovered a long-term cyber-espionage campaign that used a combination of legitimate software packages and commodity malware tools to target a variety of heavy industry, government intelligence agencies and political activists.

More: CrySyS Blog, Securelist / Blog, Ars Technica and SecurityWeek

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