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April 2, 2013, 1:40 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.

More: AllThingsD, New York Times, iMore, Ars Technica, Washington Post, GigaOM, Computerworld, BGR, CNET, Network World, MacNN, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, TUAW, The Verge, ValueWalk, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Forbes, PhoneArena, iPhone and BBC

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Windows Blue looks to be named Windows 8.1 — Summary: The Windows Blue operating system update is likely to be named “Windows 8.1” when it hits later this summer, according to sources. — Microsoft officials supposedly have decided on the final name for Windows Blue.

More: Engadget, digitaltrends.com, BetaNews, The Verge, TechCrunch, Royal Pingdom, TrustedReviews, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, Gotta Be Mobile and Pocket-lint

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.

Betabeat:

OMGPOP Founder Dan Porter Departs Zynga; Will Be Replaced by VP of Mobile Sean Kelly — Mr. Porter and Ghostface Killah (Photo: Twitter) — 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.

More: Business Insider, ZDNet, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Business Insider

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: CNET, The Verge and Business Insider

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, BGR, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, Deal Journal, FierceWireless, Electronista, Telegraph and dailywireless.org

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.

More: TechCrunch, The Yahoo! Yodel, The Dropbox Blog, Yahoo! Mail Blog, Gizmodo, The Next Web and gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @spencerchen

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: Betabeat, CNET, CNNMoney.com, memeburn, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, NEWS.com.au, Gizmodo and PandoDaily

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Funny or Die Releases Teaser Trailer for ‘iSteve’ — Last month, comedy site Funny or Die announced that it will be releasing iSteve, a 60-75 minute movie based on the life of Steve Jobs, on April 15. The film stars Justin Long, who gained fame among Apple fans for playing the role of …

More: TechCrunch, BetaNews, CNET, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, WebProNews and Cult of Mac

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: VentureBeat and Betabeat

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 …

More: San Francisco Examiner, Guardian, iMore, AppleInsider, The Register, PC Magazine, Telegraph, TUAW, Computerworld, TrustedReviews, SlashGear and MacRumors

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, Gearburn and Ubergizmo

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Rosetta Stone acquires Livemocha for $8.5m to move its language learning platform into the cloud — Computer-assisted language teaching software Rosetta Stone announced today that it has acquired Livemocha, an online service for language-learning communities, for $8.5 million.

More: Business Wire, ZDNet, GigaOM, GeekWire, TechCrunch and AllThingsD

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 on the iPhone 5 it will start selling later this month. — The technology, known as HD Voice, requires support from both the network and the devices on each end of the call.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers, A $25 USB Stick With Windows 8 Pro And Parallels For Mac — Earlier this year, Microsoft launched modern.IE to help developers ensure that their sites work well with old and new versions of Internet Explorer.

More: Engadget, MSDN Blogs, The Verge, WinBeta, The Windows Blog, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, MacNN, MSDN Blogs and Neowin

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, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge, MacNN, Electronista, ZDNet and AppleInsider

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: CNET, Ars Technica, GeForce, 9to5Mac, NVIDIA and eWeek

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 …

More: SamMobile, AT&T, BGR, BGR, Business Wire, Engadget, VentureBeat, TechHive, Engadget, 9to5Google, GigaOM, CNET, TechCrunch, The Next Web, WebProNews, Yahoo! News and SlashGear

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: TechCrunch, The Register, ZDNet, GigaOM, OStatic blogs and Wired

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: CNET, ZDNet, The Register, digitaltrends.com, Neowin and The Next Web

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: WebProNews, RT, TG Daily, memeburn, Examiner, Zero Hedge, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Ars Technica

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Exclusive: Ongoing malware attack targeting Apache hijacks 20,000 sites — Mysterious “Darkleech” exposes visitors to potent malware exploits. — Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock — Tens of thousands of websites, some operated by The Los Angeles Times, Seagate, and other reputable companies …

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, memeburn, AllTwitter and Marketing Pilgrim

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, ZDNet, VentureBeat, 9to5Google and Twilio Cloud Communications …

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