Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Google to address competition concerns  —  The European Commission invites comments from interested parties on commitments offered by Google in relation to online search and search advertising.  The Commission has concerns …

Exclusive: Verizon eyes $100 billion bid for Vodafone's Wireless stake  —  (Reuters) - Verizon Communications has hired advisers to prepare a possible $100 billion cash and stock bid to take full control of Verizon Wireless from its partner Vodafone, two people familiar with the matter said.

LinkedIn Turns Its Contacts Section Into A Personal Assistant, With Google, Yahoo, Evernote & Outlook Apps Integration And A Standalone iPhone App  —  Make way for another major update to the LinkedIn platform: today the company is relaunching its Contacts section as a smart contact management system …

Strategy Analytics: 3 million Windows tablets shipped in Q1 2013  —  Microsoft may not be talking about how many of its Surface tablets it has shipped or sold since the Surface RT launched in late October.  However, a report claims that three million Windows-based tablets shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2013.

MacBook Pro declared ‘best performing’ Windows laptop  —  A PC services company placed Apple computers in the No.1 and No. 6 slots as the best performing Windows laptops.  —  The MacBook Pro 13 was rated the best performing Windows laptop.  One of the biggest reasons: ‘every Windows installation on it is clean.’

Solar Chargers Advance in Mobile Device Market  —  WHETHER you're comparing restaurant menus while sitting in the park or turning on the air-conditioner before getting home, life is becoming increasingly mobile thanks to smartphones and tablets.  And with new apps appearing constantly …

China court fines Apple $118K for copyright breach  —  Summary: A Beijing court has ordered Apple to compensate three Chinese writers for selling their works via its app store without getting their permission.  —  Kevin Kwang  —  Apple will have to compensate three Chinese writers …

IHS: Expect 9.4 million ‘smart’ glasses units shipped by 2016  —  Summary: Are “smart” glasses the new wave of mobile?  Based on the fervor around Google Glass, IHS analysts seem to think so.  —  The pending launch of “smart” glasses as a new mobile category might not just be reserved for Google Glass.

Live from Yahoo! It's Saturday Night!  —  Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker, or Tina Fey as Sarah Palin?  As a lifelong Saturday Night Live fan, it is nearly impossible for me to pick my favorite skit.  And, as a fan, I couldn't be more excited to announce that we have reached an agreement …

In the Wired World, Feeds Drive Trading  —  When the words “explosions” and “White House” popped up Tuesday on a verified Associated Press Twitter account, computers in the bare-bones offices of a New York City startup sprang into action.  —  The computers, housed in the Madison Avenue headquarters …

McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content  —  For years copyright holders have urged search engines and Internet providers to make it harder for users to access infringing content online.  —  Thus far these efforts have been in vain, but anti-virus vendor McAfee …

Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video  —  Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest online retailer, plans to release a television set-top box that would stream video over the Internet into customers' homes, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Nokia Plans May 14 London Event to Talk About Its Next Windows Phones  —  Nokia is planning to hold a May 14 press conference in London to talk about where it is headed with its Lumia line of Windows Phones.  —  An invitation to journalists on Thursday offered few details.

Data Science of the Facebook World  —  More than a million people have now used our Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook.  And as part of our latest update, in addition to collecting some anonymized statistics, we launched a Data Donor program that allows people to contribute detailed data to us for research purposes.

MightyText, “The iMessage for Android,” Targets iCloud With New Cross-Device Photo And Video Sync  —  Today, our lives are spread across a growing array of digital devices, from smartphones and laptops to tablets and connected TVs.  While each device tends to perform certain tasks better than others …

LG promises smartphone with flexible OLED display this year  —  In a call discussing the company's recent financial results, LG announced it will introduce a smartphone with a flexible OLED screen in the fourth quarter of this year.  The company's vice president of mobile Yoon Bu-hyun …

Samsung Delays Release of Security Software for Galaxy Phones  —  In February, Samsung Electronics introduced Knox, a version of Android with security features to make the company's phones more suitable for businesses, expected for release this spring.  But the company has delayed the release …

iPhone Super-Hacker Comex, Let Go From Apple, Goes To Work For Google  —  A Brief History of Apple Hacking  —  iPhone Super-Hacker Comex, Let Go From Apple, Goes To Work For Google  —  If Apple couldn't appreciate one of the most talented hackers to ever touch its products, perhaps its biggest competitor can.

Apple Submits Revised Campus 2 Plans, Delays Tantau Development to Cut Costs  —  Earlier this month, a report revealed that Apple's upcoming “spaceship” campus in Cupertino is both behind schedule and $2 billion over budget.  Apple was said to be looking to cut costs on the project …

Amid A Challenging Mobile Transition, Zynga's Revenues Decline 18% To $264M  —  Zynga's revenues for the first quarter of 2013 declined 18% year-over-year to $264 million as the company is in the midst of doing a big pivot onto mobile platforms.  The company swung to a profit from a year ago though, with net income of $4 million.