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April 15, 2013, 10:50 AM

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Europeans Reach Deal With Google on Search Results  —  Google has for the first time agreed to legally binding changes to its search results after an antitrust investigation by European regulators into whether it abuses its dominance of online search.  —  After a two-year inquiry …
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Google Offer to Settle EU Antitrust Probe Unacceptable to Rivals  —  Google Inc. (GOOG)'s offer to settle an antitrust probe with the European Union by labeling its own services more clearly in Web search results is a “non-starter” for competitors such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled Watch Device  —  TAIPEI—Microsoft Corp. is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products.
Wall Street Journal:
Dish Launches $25.5 Billion Bid for Sprint  —  Satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp. is making a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., an effort to derail the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier's acquisition by Softbank Corp. of Japan.  —  Dish is offering to pay $4.76 in cash and about $2.24 …
Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
Intel Tries to Find a Foothold Beyond PCs  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the last several months, Andy Bryant, the chairman of Intel, has been trying to put steel in the backs of the company's employees.  At meetings, he tells them that Intel must fundamentally change even though …
Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Venture capitalists rethink big bets on China  —  Two years ago, it was one of the hottest areas in tech investing.  Venture capitalists were lining up to throw money at it.  But now, after disappointing IPOs, investors are fleeing.  —  Social networking?  Nope.  China.
Joab Jackson / PC World:
Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers  —  Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies.  —  “We're getting into the business …

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