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April 18, 2013, 11:15 AM

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Stephen Philips / Twitter Blog:
Now playing: Twitter #music  —  Today, we're releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter.  It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.
Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:
Twitter #Music App Launches for iPhone and Web: Listen and Discover Trending Music  —  You no longer have to be Ryan Seacrest, Ne-Yo or Jason Mraz to play with Twitter's new music discovery app.  After testing the app with music artists and influencers, Twitter #Music will be available starting today …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Nokia Q1 2013 Misses With Sales Of $7.6B With $0.03 Loss Per Share; 5.6M Lumias Sold  —  Nokia has just reported is results for Q1 2013 with sales of $7.6 billion and a non-IFRS loss per share of $0.03 (and a reported EPS of $0.09) — a mixed result compared to analyst estimates …
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 …
Daniel Rubino / wpcentral.com:
First images of Nokia's aluminum Lumia, codenamed ‘Catwalk’, have surfaced [Updated]  —  We have no way of verifying the authenticity of these two images, but it appears to be of the upcoming Nokia Lumia ‘Catwalk’, a follow up to the Lumia 920 that reportedly sports a new aluminum chassis to help reduce the size and weight.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
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 …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Q1 Venture Capital Spending And Number Of Deals Down, M&A Activity Drops 44 Percent And Pre-Money Valuations Plummet  —  Dow Jones Venture Source released its quarterly report on the state of venture capital, including data on number of VC deals, funds raised, M&As and IPOs in the technology sector.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Updates iPhone, Android Apps With A Personalized Activity Stream, Better Navigation, And Ads  —  With the ink still drying on last week's acquisition of news aggregation app Pulse, LinkedIn continues to double down on mobile, the fastest-growing consumer service among its 200 million members.
Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung says considers Hynix chips for its mobile products  —  (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co is considering purchasing mobile memory chips from rival SK Hynix Inc for future products including its new flagship Galaxy S smartphone to be launched this month, J.K. Shin, head of Samsung's mobile business, said on Thursday.
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Intel outlines new strategy, investments for cloud-based networking  —  Summary: While this week's earnings report was all about Windows 8, Intel also has a new networking strategy to disclose.  —  Intel is ramping up its networking strategy with a series of new investments …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft Excel: The ruiner of global economies?  —  Figuratively speaking, of course.  —  Aurich Lawson  —  An economics paper claiming that high levels of national debt led to low or negative economic growth could turn out to be deeply flawed as a result of, among other things, an incorrect formula in an Excel spreadsheet.
Peter Ha / Gizmodo:
Space Monkey: Easy Cloud Storage in Your Very Own Home  —  I have a confession: I've never properly backed up my computer.  Ever.  Whether it was a cloud-based solution or a local NAS, the upload speeds were horrendous or the software was just plain ugly and confusing to use.
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.
Scott Reyburn / Inside Social Games:
Supercell raises another round of funding at $130M on a valuation of $770M, sees revenues of $2.4M a day  —  Supercell confirmed to Forbes that is had raised another round of funding at $130 million in February on a valuation of $770 million from Index Ventures, Atomico Partners and Institutional Venture Partners.

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