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April 4, 2013, 10:00 AM
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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.
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 …
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 …
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox says technical problems are result of major DDoS attack  —  Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, says it's been hit by a major DDoS attack that's causing lengthy trading lags, 502 errors, and in some cases, preventing people from logging into their accounts.
More: BBC, PC World, and Salon
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.
AppleInsider:
Apple adds age rating tags to iOS App Store descriptions  —  In a slight tweak to the App Store, Apple recently began highlighting apps' recommended age ratings by adding a small informational box located directly below a title's developer credits, possibly in response to growing concern from parents over in-app content.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
More: Forbes and bizjournals
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 …
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 …
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.
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Facebook updates its Graph API to allow developers to build tools for managing threaded comments  —  On Wednesday, Facebook updated its API that allows developers to incorporate comment replies into tools and apps which it claims will make it easier to “monitor and respond to comment replies.”
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2023 compensation package was worth $49.7M, up 26.5% from the year prior, with $23.1M in stock awards

Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Mail, selling books, magazines, and more

Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Interviews with over a dozen current and former WAMU staffers and contractors show management's contradictory, unclear messaging about its closure of DCist

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