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April 23, 2013, 11:40 AM

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple's iCloud servers once again experiencing major outages for a growing number of users  —  Update, 9:34 AM: Apple has now updated its System Status page to confirm the outages we reported earlier this morning.  Apple reports some users experienced issues with account & sign in for iCloud as well as purchases for iTunes:
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 …
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 …
Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac:
iPhone 4 owners begin receiving their $15 ‘Antennagate’ settlement checks from Apple  —  Payday has come for some of the first responders to the iPhone 4 class action lawsuit.  Last February a settlement was reached that granted iPhone 4 owners who had not previously received a free bumper for their “defective” iPhones a $15 payout.
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 …
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 …
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.
TechCrunch:
Fab Is Raising A Mondo Round At A $1 Billion Valuation  —  We're hearing from multiple sources that design-focused retail site Fab is raising a new round of funding at a $1 billion valuation.  The company has previously raised $171 million in funding and we're hearing it seeks to raise more than $100 million in this round.
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.
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 …
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Grooveshark CEO: 'I'm Broke'  —  When Grooveshark's co-founder and CEO Sam Tarantino talks about what happened to his music startup between 2011 and early 2012, he doesn't hold back: It was, he says, “a year of getting punched in the face 10,000 times.”  —  During that period …
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 …
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 …

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