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.

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 …

Windows Blue: a video preview of what's next for Windows 8  —  Windows Blue made an early appearance on the internet over the weekend and we've had a chance to experience some of its new features.  The upgrade to Windows 8 looks like it's going to bring a host of improvements, fixes …

BlackBerry's Million-Smartphone Mystery Partner: Brightstar  —  Who bought one million BlackBerry 10 devices?  —  We posed that question here earlier this month, following the announcement of the largest single handset purchase in BlackBerry's history.  And we answered it with a simple theory …

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.

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.

Beijing Strikes Again at Apple  —  BEIJING—The Chinese Communist Party's main propaganda outlet assailed Apple Inc.'s customer-service practices, the latest indication that China might move to check foreign companies' domination of the country's smartphone market.

T-Mobile will talk iPhone at tomorrow's event  —  CNET has confirmed that the iPhone will play a part at T-Mobile's ‘Uncarrier’ event.  —  Yep, T-Mobile will finally get the iPhone.  —  Apple's flagship device, long a gap in T-Mobile's smartphone line-up, will play a prominent role in tomorrow's …

Google to ship LTE Chromebook Pixel by April 8; here's the LTE service pricing  —  Few may have ordered one, but the LTE version of Google's Chromebook Pixel is set to ship by April 8.  That's the date currently showing on the Pixel product page in the Google Play store, as noted by Jeff Jarvis.

Best Buy poised to ax its venture capital unit  —  CEO Hubert Joly is focusing on more pressing issues, like reviving store sales.  —  Best Buy Co. Inc. is exiting the venture capital business.  —  Over the past five years, the company's venture capital unit — Best Buy Capital …

Facebook Rolls Out Replies And Threaded Comments On Page Posts And Popular Profiles  —  Facebook today is rolling out two more features for Pages used by brands and businesses and public Profiles for individuals with more than 10,000 followers: it is adding replies and threaded comments.

Potential Buyers Emerge For Hulu, Disney and News Corp. Still Talking  —  Two years ago, Hulu's corporate owners put the video site up for sale — and then took it off the block.  —  New version of a similar story: Hulu's corporate owners still aren't sure what they want to do with the site.

Google+ Gets A Mobile Refresh With Photo Editing, Post Tweaks, Location And Community Controls  —  Today, Google has announced a mobile refresh for Google+ for Android and iOS that includes some of the functionality that has come out for the desktop over the past few months.

LinkedIn unifies search to push people to content  —  With content starting to trump connections, the professional social network spent a year crafting a better way to help members access jobs, groups, companies, and people.  —  LinkedIn today released a new unified search experience …

IE11 to appear as Firefox to avoid legacy IE CSS  —  We already know that Internet Explorer 11, the next iteration of the world's most popular browser, will include tab syncing as part of the Windows Blue update, which has leaked onto the Internet.  Neowin has also discovered that IE11 …

Google bundles acquired Nik Software plug-ins for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture, drops entire set price to $149  —  When Google acquired Snapseed developer Nik Software back in September 2012, they made it clear that the mobile photo sharing app wouldn't be going anywhere.

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.

BlackBerry Z10 Teardown  —  The allure of Spring is in the air.  Feel the weather warming up.  The hills covered with blooming flowers.  And with Spring comes the reemergence of berries, specifically BlackBerrys.  The BlackBerry Z10 is BlackBerry's (the company formerly known as RIM) newest flagship smartphone.

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.

Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty Departs to Join Nirvanix as CEO  —  Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty, who has also done high-ranking stints at other big companies such as Cisco and Microsoft, has been named CEO of enterprise cloud storage company Nirvanix.  —  She replaces Dru Borden …