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March 25, 2013, 12:40 PM

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The Yahoo! Yodel:

Yahoo! To Acquire Summly — Today, we're excited to share that we're acquiring Summly, a mobile product company founded with a vision to simplify the way we get information, making it faster, easier and more concise. — At the age of 15, Nick D'Aloisio created the Summly app at his home in London.

More: AllThingsD, BBC, CNET, Screenwerk, VatorNews, SiliconANGLE, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, Summly, paidContent, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Next Web, SocialTimes, FierceMobileContent News, Neowin, Pocket-lint, memeburn, App Advice, WebProNews and bizjournals

Tweets: @yahooinc, @nickdaloisio and @rafat

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Acquires Hipster Mobile News Reader Summly for Close to $30 Million — Yahoo has bought Summly, the mobile news reader app founded by a young British entrepreneur. — In a statement, the London-based company said it had bought the small outfit, which will close its app.

More: Business Insider, The Verge and Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Yahoo! Continues To Attack Mobile, Buys News Gathering And Delivery Startup Summly, App Will Close

Thanks:@leenarao

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Spotify Plans To Take On Netflix And HBO With Streaming Video Service — Spotify, the on-demand music service, is planning a major change. According to two sources briefed on the company's plans, Spotify intends to become an on-demand music and video service - one that would invest …

More: The Verge, The Atlantic Wire, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Evolver.fm, Apple Bitch, Pocket-lint and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Eva Dou / Digits:

HTC's Marketing Chief Takes Bolder Approach — After weeks of HTC Corp. being coy about a delayed launch for its new flagship smartphone, the company's new chief marketing officer was surprisingly frank during his first meeting with the press since joining the company in January.

Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:

[Breaking] Steve Kondik (Cyanogen) Leaves Samsung After Less Than Two Years On The Job — Steve Kondik, the founder of CyanogenMod, needs no introduction. This man is a star in the Android community and a true Nexus warrior (hi, /r/acj!). 19 months ago, in August of 2011 …

More: Google+, Business Insider, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Verge, The H Open Source, Engadget, Redmond Pie, Android Authority, Electronista and Android Beat

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Major Windows 8 built-in app updates due Tuesday, Google Calendar sync will be disabled — Microsoft is preparing some major updates to its built-in Windows 8 applications on Tuesday. The company is refreshing its communication apps: mail, calendar, and people.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, ZDNet, Ars Technica, The Next Web and Windows Experience Blog

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Digg Hints Its Google Reader Replacement Will Go Beyond RSS Alone To Include Content From Social Media, HN, Reddit & More — Digg today responded to early user feedback about its plans for a Google Reader replacement announced earlier this month, saying that it has narrowed down incoming requests …

More: Digg Blog, The Next Web and CNET. See also Mediagazer

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don't Come Back?

More: Gravitational Pull and AllThingsD. Tweets: @seanlindsay, @davewiner, @davewiner and @hunterwalk

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft readying multiple Windows Blue servers and a Blue Windows RT build — Summary: There's more confirmation (if you needed/wanted it) that Microsoft is readying Blue builds of Windows RT and Windows Server. — It shouldn't be too much of a surprise to anyone who has been following …

More: The Verge, PC World, MSFTKitchen, The Register, SuperSite for Windows, SlashGear, Neowin, WMPoweruser and Softpedia News

Horace Dediu / asymco:

So long, break-even — iTunes store will be 10 years old next month. From its inception Apple has stated that it aims to run the store “at break-even”. The business has grown so rapidly however that its profit-free nature has come under severe pressure.

More: AllThingsD, Fortune, TUAW, hypebot, Daring Fireball and App Advice

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

United States Wants to Attract Hackers to Public Sector — WASHINGTON — In the eighth grade, Arlan Jaska figured out how to write a simple script that could switch his keyboard's Caps Lock key on and off 6,000 times a minute. When friends weren't looking, he slipped his program onto their computers.

More: Betabeat and Salon. Thanks:@nikcub

TechCrunch:

AWS Reveals In Job Listing It's Launching “A New Business,” Looks To Be Pushing Deeper Into Mobile — Amazon Web Services believes wholeheartedly that the cloud is the future. And not just the cloud, but the AWS public cloud. As a result, Amazon sees big opportunity for its technology …

More: The Droid Guy and GigaOM. Thanks:@ripemp

Alex Konrad / Forbes:

To Sell Its New Z10 Phone, BlackBerry Bets Big On Real-Time Takeovers — When you're betting the house, you don't skimp on the marketing. That's the approach BlackBerry has taken with its BlackBerry 10 operating system and its line of smartphones anchored on the Z10, which hit stores in the U.S. Friday.

More: ZDNet, FierceWireless, memeburn, PhoneArena, App Advice, Ars Technica, The Verge and T3 News

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Nasty Gal, an Online Start-Up, Is a Fast-Growing Retailer — LOS ANGELES — If ever there were a Cinderella of tech, Sophia Amoruso might be it. — In 2006, Ms. Amoruso was a 22-year-old community college dropout, living in her step-aunt's cottage, working at an art school checking student IDs for $13 an hour.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Sony's High-End Xperia ZL Comes to U.S. at a Hefty $719 — Sony's latest smartphone is coming to the U.S. with both an eye-popping screen and an eye-popping price. — Once again, the Japanese phone maker has found little carrier support, and is instead selling its device unlocked.

More: PR Newswire, GigaOM, CNET, Engadget, Xperia Blog, Android Community, Electronista, Pocket-lint and The Next Web

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

Hon Hai Posts Record Profit as Apple Expands Product Line — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317), the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, posted record quarterly profit after it boosted production efficiency and output of Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhones and iPads.

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Quartz, Electronista, Macgasm, App Advice and iClarified

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Dell details rival takeover bids from Blackstone and Carl Icahn — Michael Dell faces a battle to control the company he founded — As reported on Saturday, Michael Dell's attempt to take Dell private has been challenged by a pair of rival bids. In a press release this morning …

More: Business Wire, AllThingsD, BBC, ZDNet, Bloomberg, DealBook, CNET, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, ZDNet and Fortune

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Michael Dell Could Lose CEO Job in Rival Buyout Bid

More: TechCrunch, Reuters, Forbes, ValueWalk, FierceEnterpriseCommunications …, Deal Journal, CNET, memeburn, Softpedia News, NextBigWhat, Reuters and VentureBeat

Tweets: @cnnmoneytech and @danprimack

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