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April 23, 2013, 9:30 AM

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Netflix Surpasses HBO in U.S. Subscribers … Netflix reported 29.17 million domestic subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, surpassing HBO for the first time.  —  Netflix, which ended 2012 with 27.15 million domestic subs, added just over 2 million subs, according to first quarter results issued Monday.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
Apple earnings could bring profit setback, despite record sales  —  The iPad maker is expected to report record sales Tuesday, but its profits could take a hit for the first time in a decade.  —  Apple could make history tomorrow with its biggest second-quarter sales yet …
Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Has an Identity Crisis  —  Is It a Hardware Company or A Software Firm?  —  Apple Inc. is facing an identity crisis on Wall Street.  —  As Apple prepares to report what analysts project may be the company's first year-over-year quarterly earnings decline in a decade on Tuesday …
Wall Street Journal:
Hedge Fund Takes $2 Billion Stake in Microsoft  —  A hedge-fund executive disclosed that his firm owns about $2 billion in Microsoft Corp. stock, stating that the value of the software giant's businesses wasn't appreciated by other investors.  —  Jeffrey W. Ubben, founder of ValueAct Capital Management LP …
Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
AMD reveals G-Series X embedded chips, drops a little ARM-powered bombshell  —  We're no strangers to AMD's embedded processors, designed for specialist applications such as casino gaming and dashboard infotainment systems.  But this latest announcement of an updated G-Series processor reveals something totally unexpected.
Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:
Raising your hand is so passé: Pearson buys real-time student feedback and polling startup  —  Pearson - the big kahuna of ed tech — has snapped up another startup.  The company on Monday said it had purchased Learning Catalytics, a company founded at Harvard University by a trio of academics.
Alexa Ray Corriea / Polygon:
Pizza Hut launching Xbox 360 app that lets console owners order pizza from Xbox Live  —  Microsoft and Pizza Hut have partnered up to launch a pioneer app for Xbox Live that will allow users to order from the chain's menu directly through their Xbox 360.  —  The Pizza Hut for Xbox app makes …
hueypriest / reddit:
Reflections on the Recent Boston Crisis  —  After some reflection we want to share our thoughts about the reddit activity during the recent crisis in Boston.  We all need to look at what happened and make sure that in the future we do everything we can to help and not hinder crisis situations.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's Blue: What will developers do?  —  Summary: If Microsoft brings back the Start Button and adds a boot-to-desktop option with Windows Blue, should Windows developers still be counting on Metro as their future?  —  Since I blogged last week about Microsoft mulling the return …
More: The Register and CNET
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Google keeps losing: ITC finally tosses Motorola's complaint against Apple  —  This week begins for Google like last week ended: with another failure to convert the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility into leverage against a major rival.  On Friday a German court denied Google's Motorola …
Adario Strange / DVICE:
Eric Schmidt: Google Glass not coming to you until 2014  —  Every move that Google has made regarding its wearable Glass computer has been closely scrutinized, particularly the staggered, picky rollouts of the device, most recently with Glass Explorer applicants.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
For your robot-building needs, $45 BeagleBone Linux PC goes on sale  —  The brand-new BeagleBone Black.  —  BeagleBoard.org  —  The market for cheap single-board computers is becoming one of the most surprisingly competitive spaces in the tech industry.  On the heels of the million-selling …
More: SlashGear and Engadget
Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:
ASUS Cube Google TV review  —  The past year has been a busy one for Google TV — in fact, with the big I/O conference right around the corner, we're sitting down to review our fifth such device in the past 12 months.  The ASUS Cube naturally does everything one would expect from a Google TV set-top box …

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