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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.

Rob Isaac / prng.net:

A Short Translation from Bulls**t to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ — 1 Why is Chrome spawning a new browser engine? The WebKit maintainers wouldn't let us attack Apple directly, by changing WebKit in ways that would make it perform badly on OS X and iOS.

More: ZDNet. Tweets: @rmi, @davidbgk and @carnage4life

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: iPhone, ZDNet, Jake Archibald and Eric Bidelman. Tweets: @carnage4life

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 …

More: Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, CNET, GSMArena Blog, Macgasm, Electronista, GamesIndustry International, bizjournals, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com and Softpedia News

CNET:

Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance — Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are “impossible to intercept,” even with a warrant. — Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service …

More: The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, App Advice, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, TUAW, iPhone, BGR India, Electronista and Softpedia News. Thanks:@jbruin

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Anonymous takes control of North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites — North Korea's official Twitter and Flickr accounts have been hacked and two of its main websites defaced, in hacker group Anonymous's latest efforts to disrupt the communist county's online presence.

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.

More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, iMore, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Macgasm, TUAW, The Next Web, MacNN and PhoneArena

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 …

More: NYT Bits, BGR, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, TechHive, PC Magazine, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Macgasm, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Gizmodo, CNET, CNET, AllThingsD, The Verge, Softpedia News, TechEye and Electronista

Casey Chan / Gizmodo:

Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg's Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website? — The word on the interwebs today is that this 1999 Angelfire page belongs to one Mark Zuckerberg. Yes, that Mark Zuckerberg, which means this could be the very first website that the hoody that made Facebook ever created.

More: Marketing Land, Business Insider, The Verge, The Register, WebProNews, NEWS.com.au and CNET. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later — The photo above is a Microsoft classic, showing the company's founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, surrounded by personal computers in 1981. Fast forward 32 years, and check out the picture below …

More: The Verge, Geek.com, The Verge and Mashable. Tweets: @paulgallen. Thanks:@johnhcook

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 …

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: Search Engine Land, NYT Bits, Forbes, WebProNews, Beyond Search and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @bgurley

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warns — PC market begins to slip and tablets will outsell desktops and laptops combined by 2015, as Android ascendancy means challenge to relevance of Microsoft, research group warns — Microsoft faces a slide into irrelevance …

More: AllThingsD, BGR, TechCrunch, Gartner, Inquirer, CNET, ZDNet, Financial Times, T3 News, Neowin, SlashGear and TechEye

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 …

More: TheStreet.com, Marketing Pilgrim, AdExchanger, Forbes and CNET

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Facebook's mobile hype, eyeballs and dollars grow. Is that enough?

More: Pocket-lint and The Next Web

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile Says It Gained 579,000 Customers Last Quarter Amid Strategy Shift — T-Mobile USA late on Wednesday released some preliminary first-quarter results that it says show its turnaround efforts are starting to take hold. — The company said that its total customer base grew to 34 million …

More: VentureBeat, T-Mobile News, CNET, TmoNews, ZDNet, iPhone, Electronista, Engadget, The Verge and TechCrunch

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: VentureBeat, BBC, Mt.Gox and PC World

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Bitcoin wallet service Instawallet hacked, shuts down ‘indefinitely’

More: GigaOM, InfoWorld, TechHive, Softpedia News and Business Insider

Matthew Lynley / Digits:

What to Expect From Facebook's Android Event — Facebook is hosting a big mystery event today for the world to see its “new home on Android.” — We've reported that Facebook has been working to build software that runs on Android, Google's smartphone operating system.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Wired, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, CNN, BostInno and ABCNEWS

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.

More: The Verge, Techie Buzz, InfoWorld, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, memeburn, HotHardware.com News and Computerworld

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

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

More: Businessweek, Inquirer and SocialTimes

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 …

More: Inquirer, Billboard, Digital Music News, Music-News.com and Electronista

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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: The Register, paidContent, Skift, Engadget, The Verge and CNET

Tweets: @skiftnews and @edbott

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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 …

More: Danielle Morrill and Thomson Reuters

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.”

More: Facebook Developer Blog, AllFacebook, WebProNews, Mashable and CNET

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

iPad price cuts: A signal Apple is about to release new ones — WalMart, BestBuy and MacMall have all lowered their prices on iPads and iPad minis. — FORTUNE — It's only been 163 days since Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPad mini and updated its full-size iPad line …

More: MacRumors, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Business Insider, CNET, Softpedia News and Cult of Mac

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