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April 2, 2013, 1:10 PM

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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.
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.
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.
Betabeat:
OMGPOP Founder Dan Porter Departs Zynga; Will Be Replaced by VP of Mobile Sean Kelly  —  Mr. Porter was at Zynga for just over a year.  —  Dan Porter, the founder of New York-based gaming company OMGPOP which was purchased by Zynga in March of last year, has left the company, according to a release obtained by Betabeat.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Yahoo Mail adds support for Dropbox attachments to web client  —  Yahoo just announced a new partnership with Dropbox that lets you attach files stored with the popular cloud service to outbound emails.  The company is touting the integration as yet another way it's making the email experience simpler for customers.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
HTC One coming to AT&T and Sprint 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 …
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.

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