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Adam Barth / Chromium Blog:
Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project  —  WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001.  Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium's rendering engine back when we started.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Opera confirms it will follow Google and ditch WebKit for Blink, as part of its commitment to Chromium  —  Google on Wednesday made a huge announcement to fork WebKit and build a new rendering engine called Blink.  Opera, which only recently decided to replace its own Presto rendering engine for WebKit …
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink  —  Both Chrome and Safari will move faster when uncoupled from each other, Google argues.  But it's not just about technology: social issues also factored into the schism.  —  A years-long marriage of convenience that linked Google …
Twitter Blog:
New mobile updates for Android, iPhone and mobile web  —  We just released a new version of Twitter for Android.  Its new design reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold for quick actions, and more.
Evleaks / 9to5Google:
Facebook Home offers a fresh take on Android UI (Photos)  —  It should come as little surprise to industry observers that Facebook plans to unveil both a rich, skinned version of its Android app at a press event tomorrow, along with the first hardware to run that experience out of the box.
Brendan Eich / The Mozilla Blog:
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine  —  Mozilla's mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all.  At Mozilla Research, we're supporting this mission by experimenting with what's next when it comes to the core technology powering the Web browser.
eMarketer:
Facebook to See Three in 10 Mobile Display Dollars This Year  —  Mobile advertising will reach $7.29 billion in 2013, and Google will take home more than half of it  —  Following explosive entrances by Facebook and Twitter to the marketplace, as well as a strong performance from Google …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Intel: The Big Bet That Could Change TV … Editor-in-chief: Digital  —  @awallenstein  —  Employees at Intel Corp. are free to roam almost anywhere across the vast Santa Clara, Calif., campus they call home.  Certain laboratories are off-limits of course; that's understandable …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Samsung Decides to Build Its Own Stores — Inside Best Buy  —  Samsung is battling Apple on many fronts, and retail stores are no exception.  —  However, this time the company has opted not to follow the same path as its rival.  Whereas Apple opened its own chain of stores …
Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal:
Unusually low number of Q1 VC exits reported  —  U.S. budget and world economic worries appeared to have made for a very small exit window for venture-backed companies in the first three months of 2013.  —  Only eight venture-backed U.S. companies went public in the period, raising $672 million …
Agam Shah / PC World:
Prices of Windows RT tablets drop, point to failure of OS  —  Prices of Windows RT devices have started falling, signaling an attempt by PC makers to quickly clear out stock after poor adoption of tablets and convertibles with the operating system.  —  Microsoft released Windows RT …
Peter Burrows / Businessweek:
Apple's Campus 2 Shapes Up as an Investor Relations Nightmare  —  At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple (AAPL).  Scarecrow thin but forceful as ever …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Online music licensing revenues pass radio for first time  —  Google Play and Xbox licensing agreements help digital revenues jump 32.2% in 2012, from £39.1m to £51.7m  —  British songwriters, including acts such as Ed Sheeran and Calvin Harris, netted a record total of £51.7m …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google's Lead  —  Say you need a latté.  You might pull out your phone, open the Yelp app and search for a nearby cafe.  If instead you want to buy an espresso machine, you will most likely tap Amazon.com.  —  Either way, Google lost a customer.
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Samsung taps Absolute Software for mobile security on Knox, Galaxy S4  —  Summary: Headed for Samsung Knox when it debuts this year, Absolute asserted that Samsung mobile devices will be the first to offer “constant, tamper-proof security connection for tracking, wiping, recovery and IT servicing.”
Loek Essers / Computerworld:
In wake of gTLD security criticism, ICANN announces emergency back-up registry operators  —  The back-up registries were announced shortly after gTLD rollout security concerns were raised by Verisign and others  —  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) …

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New York Times:
Sources: Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo discussed a joint all-cash offer for Paramount, which is still in an exclusive negotiation window with Skydance

David Ingram / NBC News:
Hyundai says it is pausing ads on X, after one ad appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi content; the ad appeared on a user profile that had 55K+ followers

Sara Fischer / Axios:
CalMatters, a nonprofit focused on CA politics and policy, acquires tech news nonprofit The Markup; CalMatters has ~$12.5M in funding and The Markup has $5M

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