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March 24, 2013, 1:35 AM

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Jessica E. Lessin / Digits:

Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM — Apple has acquired indoor-GPS company WifiSLAM, a sign that the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up. — Apple paid around $20 million for the Silicon Valley-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter who said the deal closed recently.

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Acquires Indoor Mobile Location Positioning Firm WifiSLAM for $20 Million — The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has acquired indoor location company WifiSLAM, paying around $20 million for the firm. Apple has confirmed the purchase, but declined to offer any details on its plans for the acquisition.

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Wall Street Journal:

Bidding War for Dell Appears Likely — A bidding war for Dell Inc. appears likely, with Blackstone Group LP and Carl Icahn separately expressing interest in the company on Friday before a key deadline for offers expired. — Blackstone and Mr. Icahn, an activist investor …

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Bloomberg:

Blackstone Group, Icahn Said to Submit Proposals to Dell

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Nick Arnott / iMore:

Apple rolls out fix for password reset security hole, iForgot site back up — Apple's iForgot password reset page is now back online, and iMore has verified that the security hole, discovered earlier today in Apple's password reset page, has been closed. — Previously, after providing …

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Nick Arnott / iMore:

Anatomy of the Apple ID password reset exploit — When The Verge broke news of Apple's password reset vulnerability, they cited a step-by-step guide that detailed the process of exploiting the service. They declined to link to the source for security reasons, and rightfully so.

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Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Windows Blue is aimed at Intel ‘Haswell’ ultrabooks — Microsoft and Intel will deliver better power efficiency on devices running on Windows Blue. — Longer lasting Haswell ultrabooks are coming with Windows Blue. — Intel's upcoming Haswell chip will be tied to new technology coming …

More: WinBeta and Neowin

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry — Summary: Most of the commentary I've read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client. But that's a red herring. The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines.

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Bloomberg:

Cisco Must Pay $70 Million in XpertUniverse Patent Case — Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the world's largest maker of networking equipment, must pay patent-licenser XpertUniverse Inc. $70 million in civil fraud damages in connection with a failed partnership, a federal jury decided.

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Tom Hals / Reuters:

Shutterfly sues to shut down Kodak photo app — (Reuters) - Photo service Shutterfly Inc has sued to shut down an Eastman Kodak Co app that lets users purchase photo albums made from pictures stored on Facebook Inc's social media network, according to court documents.

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Opens Universal Analytics Beta To All, Creates A Single Analytics Platform For Tracking Online And Offline Interactions — Last October, Google announced the limited beta of Universal Analytics, an effort to bring new features like cross-platform and mobile app analytics …

More: Marketing Land, Marketing Land, Google Analytics Blog, The Next Web, Business 2 Community and WebProNews

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

AP wins big: why a court said clipping content is not fair use — A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely-watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the internet without paying for it. — The case has important implications …

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