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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 …
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.
Lance Whitney / CNET:
Nokia reportedly planning 5-inch Lumia ‘phablet’  —  The company will launch its own “phablet” designed to compete with such devices as Samsung's Galaxy Note, a source tells The Financial Times.  —  Nokia may jump into the “phablet” market this year.  —  A source with “knowledge …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Lower-Cost iPhone's Plastic Rear Shell Reportedly Surfaces  —  Earlier this week, case manufacturer Tactus was one of several sources to share photos of cases reportedly designed for the fifth-generation iPad, once again showing that the device is expected to be smaller than the existing iPad and take design cues from the iPad mini.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia sales hit record high of 5.6 million in Q1, still struggling in US  —  Nokia's latest quarterly earnings show that the Finnish smartphone maker continues to improve its Lumia sales.  Following a jump in Lumia sales in Q4 2012, Nokia's first quarter of 2013 saw the company sell 5.6 million Lumias …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Yahoo releases new weather and mail apps in second phase of rebuilding effort  —  A foot in the door or too little too late?  —  Rebuilding Yahoo will require “a series of sprints,” CEO Marissa Mayer told investors this week during an earnings call.  The first sprint “was all about getting people to believe in Yahoo,” she said.
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Verizon nets 677,000 new wireless subscribers, activates 7.2 million smartphones, 4 million iPhones in Q1  —  Verizon just announced its Q1 2013 financial results, which reveal positive subscriber numbers and record smartphone penetration.  America's largest wireless carrier added 677,000 net …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Verizon's Q1 2013 Sees Revenues Miss At $29.4B, EPS Beat At $0.68, Now Has 98.9M Total Wireless Customers
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches Open Graph Mobile, Updated iOS SDK With Improved Login And Sharing  —  Facebook today unveiled three new products at its Mobile Developer Conference in NYC that will put the company on an even faster track to becoming a mobile-first platform.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPad 5 Estimated to Be 15% Thinner, 25% Lighter Than Current iPad  —  KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has on a number of occasions offered accurate information on Apple's product plans, recently published a new research note outlining his expectations for Apple's fifth-generation iPad.
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Chat Heads, set free: jailbreak tweak puts Facebook Messenger all over your iPhone  —  A 21-year-old hacker brings one of Android's finer features to iOS  —  When Facebook launched Chat Heads for iOS yesterday, the feature's functionality was limited.  On Android, Chat Heads cling to the side …
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 …
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.
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.
More: Forrester Blogs.  Thanks:@owenthomas

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