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April 23, 2013, 10:45 AM

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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 …
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:
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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:

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