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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.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine That Will Soon Power Chrome And Chrome OS — Google just announced that it is forking WebKit and launching this fork as Blink. As Google describes it, Blink is “an inclusive open source community” and “a new rendering engine based on WebKit” …

More: Macgasm, ReadWrite and The Next Web

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 …

More: Eric Bidelman and Jake Archibald. Tweets: @carnage4life

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.

More: OStatic blogs, Android Authority, The Register, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, InfoWorld, ExtremeTech, PC Magazine, BGR, MobileMoo, gHacks Technology News, BetaNews, Geek.com, Liliputing, BrowserFame, The Verge, WebProNews, CNET, ZDNet and The H Open Source. Tweets: @lessien

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Samsung Buddies Up With Mozilla on New Android Browser Tech

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.

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Bitcoin wallet service Instawallet hacked, shuts down ‘indefinitely’ — Updated at 12:57 p.m. with more detail about current Bitcoin prices. — Bitcoins are a hot commodity now, but are your Bitcoins actually safe? Bitcoin wallet company Instawallet has suspended its service “indefinitely” after being hacked.

More: Computerworld, Business Insider, The Next Web, Ars Technica, TechCrunch and The Verge

Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable:

Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage — The value of digital currency Bitcoin fell from above $145 to below $117 Wednesday as Mt. Gox, the largest market for trading the digital currency, suffered an outage for approximately an hour.

More: New York Magazine, CNNMoney.com, CNET, Guardian, Financial Times, VentureBeat and Forbes

Felix Salmon / Medium:

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency

More: Business Insider, Statspotting!, The Atlantic Wire, Guardian, Unqualified Reservations, Salon, Betabeat, eToro, Wonkblog and Domain names …

Tweets: @glennf, @dcurtis and @ferenstein

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.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter Is Building A Gateway To The “Web” Of Mobile Apps

More: Inside Mobile Apps, GigaOM and PandoDaily

Simon Khalaf / The Flurry Blog:

Flurry Five-Year Report: It's an App World. The Web Just Lives in It — Five years ago, the iPhone ushered in the era of mobile computing. Today, more than a billion consumers are “glued” to these devices and their applications, impacting nearly every aspect of their lives.

More: BGR, GigaOM, CNET, The Next Web, Fortune, Forbes, Mobile Marketing Watch, Android Authority, Android Community and TechCrunch

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Rdio launches Vdio social movie and TV service with an iPad app coming later today and $25 credit for Rdio subscribers — After being rumored for over a year, the movie and TV rental and purchase service Vdio soft-launched last night for premium Rdio subscribers in the US and UK.

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Just 154 Days After Acquiring It — Pour one out for the Gold Guy tonight, my fellow gamers. A sage pillar of the industry has fallen. — Just 154 days after acquiring LucasArts as part of their larger, $4B acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney has dissolved the classic video game development company.

More: Kotaku, gameinformer.com, Motherboard, San Francisco Chronicle, Computerworld and PandoDaily

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 …

More: WinBeta, InfoWorld, ITworld.com and DailyTech

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Full-size photos arrive for real on Google+ — Trying to keep its photo fans happy, Google now lets people upload full-resolution images to Google+. But big photos count against Google's 5GB free limit. — Google now lets Google+ users override a setting that limited photos they uploaded …

More: Jon Emerson, Techie Buzz, The Verge and 9to5Google

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Apple no longer blocking Microsoft's SkyDrive iOS update, version 3.0 released — Microsoft and Apple have been locked in a battle over Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud-storage app for iOS. The two companies were originally sparring over a 30 percent cut of revenue from SkyDrive storage purchases …

More: The Windows Blog, TUAW, PhoneArena, CNET, MacRumors, AppleInsider, BGR, BetaNews, iMore, Macgasm, 9to5Mac, LiveSide.net, PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web and ZDNet

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Owen Thomas Joins ReadWrite As Editor-in-Chief, Says He Will Take The Site ‘Back To Our Roots’ — Say Media just announced that Owen Thomas, previously the West Coast Editor at Business Insider, has joined ReadWrite (a tech blog that Say acquired in 2011) as editor-in-chief.

More: Say Media. Tweets: @ricmac, @qthrul, @owenthomas and @marshallk

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Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system — CNET looks at newly surfaced contracts, design specs, and page after page of schematics and code, revealing how Apple created its first disk OS, a chapter of Silicon Valley history critical to its later success.

More: TUAW

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Huh? EA builds an app for sharing music and photos (exclusive) — Electronic Arts has stretched beyond its roots as a game publisher by creating a social networking app for sharing music and photos. — That's right. It has nothing to do with games. Vue is a free mobile app that EA …

More: CNET and The Verge

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Who Wrote the Flashback OS X Worm? — A year ago today, Apple released a software update to halt the spread of the Flashback worm, a malware strain that infected more than 650,000 Mac OS X systems using a vulnerability in Apple's version of Java. This somewhat dismal anniversary is probably …

More: F-Secure Antivirus …, TUAW, VentureBeat, The Mac Security Blog, CNET and Ars Technica

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Asian bill-sharing startup BillPin buys BillMonk, the US service that inspired it — BillPin, a bill-sharing startup out of Singapore that launched to the public 6 weeks ago, has done something rather unique after it completed the undisclosed acquisition of BillMonk, a 2005-founded US company …

More: Tech in Asia, TechCrunch and Web 2.0 Asia Blog

Beth J. Harpaz / Associated Press:

Arthur Frommer gets Frommer brand back from Google — NEW YORK (AP) — Travel guru Arthur Frommer said Wednesday that he has reacquired rights to his travel guidebook brand from Google, and that he intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks. — Google acquired the Frommer brand …

More: Skift. Tweets: @skiftnews and @edbott

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

With New Weather Channel Deal, Twitter Aims to Make it Rain for Brands — Forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of promoted tweets. — Aiming to attract more big-brand ad dollars, Twitter and the Weather Company have a new deal to create custom content around weather-related Twitter activity.

More: AdExchanger

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

As Web Search Goes Mobile, Apps 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.

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

BlackBerry's Peculiar BBM Music Service Slated To Shut Down On June 2 — BBM Music, I hardly knew ye (seriously, I never got the chance to play with it). In an email sent out to the service's users earlier tonight, BlackBerry announced that it was officially pulling the plug …

More: MobileSyrup.com

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