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April 19, 2013, 1:30 AM

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Google:

Google Inc. Announces First Quarter 2013 Results — Google Inc. today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. “We had a very strong start to 2013, with $14.0 billion in revenue, up 31% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Google Reports Mixed Q1 2013 Earnings: Revenue Up 31 Percent To $14B, Net Income Of $3.35B, Beats EPS Estimates

More: GigaOM, SlashGear and CITEworld

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Motorola's $271M Q1 loss drags on Google's results

More: Electronista

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Larry Page: Google's Focus On Constant Iteration Will Shift Toward Big Bets Like Google Fiber And Glass

More: Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Microsoft profits increase to over $6 billion in Q3 2013 despite flat Windows revenue — Microsoft just released its fiscal Q3 2013 statement, with overall revenue of $20.49 billion up 18 percent year-over-year. However, when you take into account recognition of revenue related …

More: GigaOM, ReadWrite, CITEworld, Ars Technica, Gamasutra, CNET, New York Times, Quartz, Electronista, Reuters, Marketing Land and GeekWire

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

The Microsoft number we all want to know: Windows 8 sales to date — Summary: Microsoft didn't release an updated count of Windows 8 licenses sold as part of its third quarter earnings. But here's what the company did say about Windows. — On April 18, Microsoft didn't share the one number …

More: ParisLemon, WinBeta, VentureBeat, PC Magazine and Forbes

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Here are Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Peter Klein's internal memos regarding the CFO's exit

More: Forbes and SlashGear

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft working on ‘small touch devices’ with Windows, due in ‘coming months’

More: PhoneArena, Engadget, GeekWire, VR-Zone and IntoMobile

Microsoft:

Microsoft Reports Third-Quarter Results

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Jessica E. Lessin / Digits:

Amazon's Goodreads Purchase Scuttled Apple Partnership — Amazon.com's announcement last month that it was purchasing book-recommendation site Goodreads did more than land the e-commerce giant a social-networking service. It also thwarted a possible partnership between the reading social network and Apple.

More: AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, TUAW, Macworld and Electronista. Tweets: @stevenlevy

wikileaks.org:

Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt — On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK at the time, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

More: The Verge. Tweets: @wikileaks, @wikileaks, @wikileaks and @wikileaks

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.

More: PadGadget, BGR, App Advice, Computerworld, Examiner, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks and Gotta Be Mobile

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.

Cord Jefferson / Gawker:

Did Reddit's Boston Bomber Sleuthing Actually Turn Up a Decent Piece of Evidence? (UPDATE) — For the past few days, Reddit's quest to ferret out the Boston bombing culprits with the powers of the internet has come across as juvenile at best, embarrassingly paranoid at worst.

More: The Lede, Telegraph, Yahoo! News, The Verge, Business Insider, Slate, Digits, Mashable, VentureBeat, Deadspin and New Yorker. See also Mediagazer

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.

Paul Foy / Associated Press:

Google Buying $39M Fiber Service In Utah For $1 — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Google Inc. will pay $1 for a municipal fiber-optic system that cost $39 million to build, according to terms of the Internet company's agreement with Provo. — The deal is widely expected to be approved Tuesday by the City Council …

More: Associated Press

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google leak hints at an Android game center with multiplayer, chat, lobbies, leaderboards, and achievements — Google appears to be preparing the launch of a game center for Android with an unknown name. It looks like the new hub will sport a slew of features, including multiplayer support …

More: Android Police, Android and Me, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, BGR, Ars Technica, Engadget and SlashGear

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Google CEO Larry Page confirms: yes, Google Glass runs on Android

More: TechCrunch and Macgasm

Steven Musil / CNET:

Twitter, BBC America announce video partnership — The pair will offer the first “in-tweet branded video synced to entertainment TV series,” according to a BBC America tweet. — It looks like Twitter is ready to make its rumored foray into the TV business.

More: TechCrunch and AllThingsD. Tweets: @bbcamerica

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

House passes revamped CISPA cybersecurity bill amidst warnings of ‘digital bombs’ — Fear of cyber attacks trumps privacy concerns — The US House of Representatives has once again passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which died in the Senate last year, by a margin of 288 to 127 after two days of debate.

More: Daily Dot, CNET, MacRumors, The Next Web, The Hill, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Electronista

Alex Howard / Strata:

Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweets — Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter in May. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying …

More: Simon Rogers and PressGazette. Tweets: @smfrogers. Thanks:@digiphile. See also Mediagazer

Angela Haggerty / The Drum:

Simon Rogers quits data journalist role at the Guardian to become Twitter's first data editor

Wall Street Journal:

IBM in Talks to Sell Part of Its Server Unit to Lenovo — International Business Machines Corp. is looking to part ways with the servers that have powered much of the Internet. — The company is in advanced discussions to sell its so-called x86 server business to China's Lenovo Group Ltd., people familiar with the matter said.

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

IBM comes up short of Q1 2013 estimates with $23.4B in revenue, EPS of $3.00 due to falling demand

More: ZDNet, MarketWatch, The Register, PC World, Bloomberg, GigaOM, Computerworld, ZDNet, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Yahoo! News and IntoMobile

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

YouTube Again Beats Viacom's Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuit — After an appellate court revived Viacom's claims that YouTube hosted copyright infringing work, U.S. District judge Louis Stanton has again given the defendant a victory. — Viacom has been hit with a devastating legal loss.

More: YouTube Blog, New York Times, The Wrap, CNET, Business Insider, Techdirt, Electronista, Reuters, Marketing Land and The Verge. Tweets: @chad_hurley. See also Mediagazer

Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time:

Why Video Discovery Startups All Fail — Sad to see Cory Booker's startup Waywire pivoting to “Pinterest for video” after starting with much bigger ambitions. Prediction: they'll struggle because video discovery just isn't a venture scale business. — My previous role leading product …

More: MHALLVILLE. Tweets: @cjkaminski and @pkafka

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