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April 17, 2013, 9:00 PM

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Kevin Lo / Google Fiber:

Google Fiber—On the Silicon Prairie, the Silicon Hills, and now the Silicon Slopes — Today the Google Fiber team is in Provo, Utah, where Mayor John Curtis just announced that we intend to make Provo our third Google Fiber City. — Utah is already home to hundreds of tech companies and startups …

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Google to acquire Provo, Utah's fiber, transform it into Google Fiber

More: Wired and PC Magazine

Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:

Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center — Intel, the chip giant, is buying Mashery, a seven-year-old company in San Francisco that specializes in linking together Web-based software and services, a company spokesperson confirmed to ReadWrite.

More: Computerworld, The Register, AllThingsD, The Next Web, ZDNet, The Diversity Blog and silicontap.com

Tweets: @marshallk, @davemcclure and @joshk

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Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Source: Mashery Is Selling To Intel For More Than $180M

More: Business Insider

Wired:

Google Is Forbidding Users From Selling, Loaning Glass Eyewear — Google is barring anyone deemed worthy of a pair of its $1,500 Google Glass computer eyewear from selling or even loaning out the highly coveted gadget. — The company's terms of service on the limited-edition wearable …

More: CNET, Forbes, SlashGear, bizjournals and IntoMobile. Tweets: @markmcan

Alexis Santos / Engadget:

Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed (video) — We already know what Page and Co. will be packing along with Glass, but now that participants of the Explorer program have begun picking up the spectacles, we're getting a second-hand unboxing experience.

More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Android Community, SlashGear, MyTechSkool and Selfscreens. Tweets: @scobleizer

Jay Alabaster / PC World:

Evernote CEO: We want to build hardware — The CEO of archiving service Evernote said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices. — “We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design together,” said Phil Libin …

More: bizjournals, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, Business Insider, TechCrunch and ZDNet

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Sources Say Amazon Acquired Siri-Like Evi App For $26M - Is A Smartphone Coming? — When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S it seemed like a magic piece of software. The future had arrived. But it wasn't alone. True Knowledge, a British startup with a natural language search engine developed …

More: CNET, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, GeekWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Engadget and Gotta Be Mobile

Karsten Strauss / Forbes:

Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? — ILKKA PAANANEN says the best way to make money in mobile gaming is to stop thinking about making money. Think about fun instead. Fighting a mild case of flu and jet lag from a San Francisco flight back home to Helsinki …

More: PandoDaily, Business Insider, Inside Social Games, The Next Web, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Salon

Tweets: @jussil and @ipaananen

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's Xbox team testing smartwatch prototypes with a Surface connector — Microsoft is prototyping its own wrist-worn device. A reliable source familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans has revealed to The Verge that the company has been developing a wrist-worm device for just over a year.

More: Examiner, CNET, NYT Bits, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile and Neowin

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Tries to Make Its Ad Pitch More Googley, With Keyword Targeting — Twitter has already been showing users ads based on what they read. Now it's trying to target them based on what they type. — Twitter is giving advertisers the ability to show users ads based on the content of their tweets …

More: Forbes, Digits, Marketing Pilgrim, PC Magazine, Business Insider, The Verge, Marketing Land and VentureBeat

Tweets: @rsarver and @pkafka

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter now allows advertisers to target specific words used in tweets

More: Twitter Advertising, TechHive, VatorNews, Computerworld, CNET, Android Community, The Technology Chronicles, TechCrunch, Mashable, WebProNews and GigaOM

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Windows 8 touch devices to drop to $200, says Intel CEO — Prices of Windows 8 touch devices based on future Intel chips are set to drop like a rock. — Windows 8 touch devices will dive in price, according to Intel executives. — The price of Windows 8 touch devices will sink …

More: Digital Trends, CNET, TechSpot, Reuters, Engadget, dailywireless.org, Examiner, GigaOM, SlashGear, LAPTOP Magazine and TechEye

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Toshiba unveils the KIRAbook, a 13.3-inch Ultrabook with a 221 ppi touchscreen display and 256GB SSD — Toshiba is about to introduce a new, high-end Ultrabook called the KIRAbook, the first product in the company's new premium KIRA range. — The laptop is Toshiba's first piece of hardware …

More: Toshiba, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, Electronista, Engadget, Tested, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Softpedia News and Neowin

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft rolling out two-factor authentication across its product line — Summary: Microsoft is joining the two-factor authentication ranks, adding support for this security mechanism across its products and services accessible via a Microsoft Account. — There have been hints …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Thanks To PayPal And Marketplace Growth, eBay's Q1 2013 Revenue Up 14 Percent To $3.7B, Net Income Up 19 Percent — After posting strong Q4 2012 results in January, eBay once again saw better-than-expected financial results in Q1 2013. Revenue was up 14 percent to $3.7 billion, compared to the same period of 2012.

More: Business Wire, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily, internetretailer.com, Reuters and Payments News

JeeYeon Park / CNBC:

Apple Breaks Below $400 for First Time Since Dec. 2011 — Apple tumbled to its lowest level in over a year, as investors continued to dump shares of the tech company amid worries over second-quarter iPad mini shipments. — The once-darling tech giant of Wall Street shed nearly 6 percent Wednesday …

More: 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, MoneyBeat, TheStreet.com, Business Insider, Reuters, Examiner, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Business Insider. Tweets: @benedictevans

Ronald Grover / Reuters:

Exclusive: Guggenheim advises on Hulu sale, may also bid - sources — (Reuters) - Hulu has hired Guggenheim Partners to advise on a sale of the company, even as the financial services firm is considering making its own bid for the video streaming service, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

More: Business Insider

Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report:

Apple Named in China Porn App Investigation … Apple Inc. is once again in the pages of the People's Daily, this time in an article listing a number of websites and app stores that have been investigated for providing pornographic content in China. — The Cupertino, Calif. …

More: Bloomberg, Digital Media Wire, PadGadget, GigaOM, AppleInsider, TUAW, InvestorPlace, Examiner, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, CNET, Los Angeles Times and Macgasm

Winston Ross / The Daily Beast:

Can Reddit Solve the Boston Bombing? Probably Not — Boston may have caught a break in the marathon bombing. But even before, the online community Reddit had a list of suspects. Winston Ross on the hazards of crowdsourced detective work. — Was it the man in the blue robe?

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Broadcasters file Aereo appeal, warn of ‘havoc’ and ‘massive disruption’ to TV industry — Fox, PBS and other broadcasters filed for a New York appeals court to revisit a crucial ruling that permitted start-up Aereo to beam their signals. The appeal raises the stakes further in a battle for the future of TV.

More: The Wrap, Forbes, VentureBeat, Variety and Adweek. Tweets: @benedictevans. See also Mediagazer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Evan Williams' Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter — Ev Williams' content creation platform Medium has made its first acquisition: Matter, the Kickstarter-backed science and technology journalism startup cofounded by former GigaOM reporter Bobbie Johnson last year.

More: Medium, Felix Salmon, Poynter, TechCrunch, Guardian, The Next Web, WebProNews, Spark Minute, VatorNews, memeburn, VentureBeat and PandoDaily. See also Mediagazer

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