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April 2, 2013, 11:05 AM

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Melanie Lee / Reuters:

Sorry Apple gets respect in China after tabloid trial — (Reuters) - With its rare apology, Apple Inc went from pariah to praiseworthy in the eyes of China's state-controlled media, a lesson for other foreign firms not to underestimate the speed and power of the government press.

More: GigaOM, Computerworld, BGR, CNET, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, Fortune, ValueWalk, SlashGear, AppleInsider, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, Hillicon Valley, Forbes, BBC, PhoneArena, iClarified, iLounge and Business Insider

Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:

Tim Cook Apologizes for China Customer Service

More: The Atlantic Wire, Reuters, TechEye, Marketing Pilgrim, IntoMobile, Associated Press, TIME, ReadWrite, Forbes, FT Alphaville and Digits

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Verizon, AT&T could partner to take over Vodafone — report — The deal would see Verizon buy back the value Vodafone owns in its company, while AT&T would acquire all non-U.S. assets. — Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead — Verizon and AT&T could be teaming up to make a huge bid …

More: FT Alphaville, DealBook, GigaOM, 9to5Google, Telegraph and Bloomberg

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:

Google Faces Action in EU After Failing to Fix Privacy Policy — Google Inc. (GOOG) faces possible fines after six European Union data protection regulators started “coordinated” enforcement measures over the company's failure to fix flaws in a new privacy policy.

More: CNIL, The Verge, BGR, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Inquirer, BBC, The Register, TechCrunch, ZDNet, SlashGear and Associated Press

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Facebook's Sandberg May Be Deposed in Antitrust Case — Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is scheduled to be questioned in a lawsuit alleging that seven technology companies broke antitrust laws by agreeing to not recruit from each other.

More: The Verge, Business Insider and Mashable

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Smartisan OS unveiled in China, takes a fresh approach to Android UI design — Following the likes of Meizu and Xiaomi, another star is born in the Chinese smartphone market. In fact, some may already know the man behind this new Android-based Smartisan OS: Luo Yonghao, a self-taught ex-English teacher …

More: SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, Gearburn and AndroidHeadlines.com

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

San Francisco DA met with Apple over phone thefts, hints next two iPhones designed under Jobs — The San Francisco Examiner reports on meetings between San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and mobile device makers regarding phone thefts. Because Apple's iPhone was reportedly involved …

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Startup Nebula Launches a Plug-and-Play Cloud Computer — Here's a name I haven't heard in a while: Anso Labs. — This was the cloud computing startup that originated at NASA, where the original ideas for OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform was born.

More: ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Register, GigaOM and Wired

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

HD Voice Will Start Coming to AT&T Later This Year — Among the announcements that T-Mobile made last month was its plan to deploy improved voice calling, starting with the arrival of its iPhone 5 later this month. — The technology, known as HD Voice, requires support from both the network and the devices on each end of the call.

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

HTC One coming to AT&T on April 19th for $199.99, will beat the Galaxy S4 to the market — The HTC One, the company's new flagship phone and would-be savior, will be available on AT&T starting on April 19th for $199.99. That's a good $50 less than was rumored yesterday …

More: PR Newswire, BGR, BGR, Engadget, 9to5Google, GigaOM, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear and LaptopMemo

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Game of Thrones Pirates Break BitTorrent Swarm Record — As expected, the new season premiere of Game of Thrones has generated quite a bit of activity on various BitTorrent sites. — Hundreds and thousands of downloaders went out to grab a copy of the show, breaking the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever in the process.

More: CNNMoney.com, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, NEWS.com.au, Gizmodo, PandoDaily, VentureBeat and The Verge

Matthew Boesler / Business Insider:

ANALYST: All Of My Clients Think There's A Bitcoin Bubble, But A ‘Perfect Storm’ Is Causing Prices To Surge — It's probably fair to say that the big rise in Bitcoin this year has caught many by surprise. — Today, the value of one Bitcoin hit $100. In early March, they were trading below $35.

More: TechEye, Business Insider, Examiner, RT, Zero Hedge, memeburn, Ars Technica, Forbes and VentureBeat

Bill Rigby / Reuters:

Microsoft co-founder to open investment office in Silicon Valley — (Reuters) - Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp, is opening an office in Silicon Valley to make new investments in emerging technology and internet companies. — The Palo Alto office …

More: ZDNet, digitaltrends.com, The Next Web and Neowin

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Google's Privacy Director Is Stepping Down — When Alma Whitten was tapped to be Google's first director of privacy in 2010, CNet declared hers the “hardest job at Google.” A long time engineer at the company with expertise in computer security, she was put in charge of a program overseeing products …

More: BBC, The Register, Dennis Fisher, CNET, Android Authority, Engadget, Electronista, VentureBeat, The Verge, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and ZDNet

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

No joke: Amazon hires Windows Phone vet Charlie Kindel for ‘something secret’ — Charlie Kindel, the Seattle tech veteran who left his job as a Microsoft Windows Phone general manager in 2011 to join the startup world, has now been hired by Amazon.com as the director of an undisclosed project inside the company.

More: The Verge, ZDNet, BGR, TechCrunch, Inquirer, cek.log, FierceMobileContent News, Electronista, Mashable, TrustedReviews, T3 News, PC World, The Register, CNET, Neowin, AllThingsD, Windows Phone Central and The Next Web

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

E-bleeder: is Nook on its deathbed? — Barnes & Noble's once-promising digital business needs to turn a page to compete with Amazon and Apple — The ending has yet to be written for Barnes & Noble's Nook story, which began with the surprise debut of the original Nook e-reader back in late 2009.

More: The Next Web

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Twitter Relaunches Its Twitter For Business Site With More Content, New Video — Twitter has relaunched its Twitter For Business website with a new look, plus additional content that Twitter hopes will help businesses learn how to build a successful presence there.

More: Twitter Advertising, VentureBeat, Marketing Pilgrim, AllTwitter, memeburn and VatorNews

Jarred Walton / AnandTech:

NVIDIA's GeForce 700M Family: Full Details and Specs — With spring now well under way and the pending launch of Intel's Haswell chips, OEMs always like to have “new” parts across the board, and so once more we're getting a new series of chips from NVIDIA, the 700M parts.

More: 9to5Mac, NVIDIA Newsroom, NVIDIA, eWeek, Neowin, The Tech Report, TechSpot, digitaltrends.com and SlashGear

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Sign o' the Times: Twitter gets a Vine copyright complaint from Prince's record label — Twitter has been served a DMCA copyright complaint for content that was published using the Vine video platform it acquired and launched earlier this year. — Twitter openly shares how many DMCA takedown notices …

More: Betabeat

Steven Musil / CNET:

USPTO reaffirms invalidation of Apple patent in Samsung suit — Patent office issues a Final Office Action on Apple's “bounce-back” patent, a key patent to Apple's case. — The damages Samsung owes Apple in their landmark patent lawsuit could be reduced even further after a recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision.

More: FOSS Patents, ZDNet, MacNN and AppleInsider

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Google Adds Twilio For The First Voice And Messaging APIs Available Through The Google Cloud Platform And App Engine — Twilio today is taking one more step in its bid to become the most ubiquitous voice and messaging API available to developers: it is announcing a partnership with Google's Cloud Platform.

More: The Next Web, 9to5Google, VentureBeat and FierceMobileContent News

Biz Stone / Jelly HQ:

What is Jelly? — People are basically good—when provided a tool that helps them do good in the world, they prove it. — Jelly is a new company and product named after the jellyfish. We are inspired by this particular animal because neurologically, its brain is more “we” than “me.”

More: GigaOM, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena and Computerworld

John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:

Reeder Goes Free On The iPad & Mac Until Google Reader Shuts Down — Reeder has long been our favorite newsreading app on the iPhone and iPad, but with Google Reader set to be discontinued on June 30th, the future of Reeder has been up in the air. Google Reader is the engine that drives Reeder …

More: paidContent, Computerworld, Lifehacker, TUAW, johnsherrod.net, PadGadget, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @wpbasti

James Hibberd / Inside TV:

HBO: ‘Game of Thrones’ piracy is a compliment — How does HBO feel about having the most pirated show on TV? — Not too bad, apparently. — HBO programming president Michael Lombardo spoke to EW about the rampant illegal downloading of the network's fantasy hit drama Game of Thrones, which returns for its third season tonight.

More: blog.chron.com, BGR, WebProNews, SlashGear, TrustedReviews, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo and ParisLemon. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

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