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April 18, 2013, 12:30 AM

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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 …
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 …
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.
Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:
Toshiba Kirabook Challenges MacBook Air with Retina-Like Display (Video)  —  The Kirabook isn't just another laptop for Toshiba; it's the first product in a new luxury brand designed to go toe-to-toe with Apple at the high end of the market.  Priced at a fairly steep $1,599 …
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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 …
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 …
Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Expenses Mount for App Launches  —  Some Games Cost $5 Million to Get off the Ground; ZeptoLab Lines Up Burger King  —  Mobile-game maker ZeptoLab UK on Thursday will release “Cut the Rope: Time Travel,” its first major title in the popular “Cut the Rope” series since 2011.  The launch won't be a quiet one.
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 …
Harry McCracken / TIME:
Who's Winning, iOS or Android?  All the Numbers, All in One Place  —  Who's winning the mobile platform wars, Apple's iOS or Google's Android?  It's one of the blogosphere's favorite tech topics.  Every new nugget of competitive information is fodder for an avalanche of coverage.
Tracy Seipel / San Jose Mercury News:
Google's airport dreams take off: San Jose private terminal approved  —  In a move that benefits Google executives and other corporate high-flyers, the City Council on Tuesday night approved an elite corporate jet center at San Jose's airport, without adding an extra curfew provision that had been omitted in the bidding process.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Yahoo plans to launch iPad email app, new iOS weather app tomorrow  —  Yahoo plans to release an in-house weather app for iOS and an iPad version of its Yahoo Mail app as soon as tomorrow, according to a person familiar with the apps.  —  The iPad version of Yahoo Mail is optimized …
Steven Musil / CNET:
Bitcoin exchange BitFloor halts operations, shuts down  —  Exchange specializing in the virtual currency announces it's ceasing all trading operations and plans to return funds to its users.  —  The recent Bitcoin rollercoaster ride has come to an end for one exchange.

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