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March 25, 2013, 11:25 AM

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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: BBC, CNET, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, paidContent, The Next Web, Business Insider, SocialTimes, FierceMobileContent News, memeburn, Pocket-lint, Neowin, 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

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

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.

More: CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechEye, Business Insider, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin, AndroidGuys, PhoneArena, Android Beat and Wall Street Journal

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: Gizmodo

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

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: MSFTKitchen, The Register, SuperSite for Windows, Softpedia News, Neowin, WMPoweruser and CNET

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don't Come Back? — If judged by my Twitter stream last week, the shutdown of Google Reader is the biggest story ever in the history of news. Of course, the reality is that Google is likely shutting down the product for a good reason: relatively few people used it, with less using it over time.

More: Gravitational Pull. Tweets: @seanlindsay, @davewiner, @davewiner and @hunterwalk. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Another Reason Google Reader Died: Increased Concern About Privacy and Compliance

More: Digg Blog, The Next Web, Guardian, Gizmodo, Marketing Pilgrim, The Verge, Softpedia News and TechCrunch. Tweets: @owenthomas

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: Salon and Betabeat. Thanks:@nikcub

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 and App Advice

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

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, ZDNet, AllThingsD, BBC, CNET, Bloomberg, DealBook, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal and Fortune

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Michael Dell Could Lose CEO Job in Rival Buyout Bid

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

Tweets: @cnnmoneytech and @danprimack

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, Electronista, Pocket-lint and The Next Web

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

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