New improvements to Twitter for Mac  —  Today we're announcing a few improvements to Twitter for Mac: Photos: It's easier than ever to share photos.  Simply click the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the Tweet compose box, and choose a photo to share.  If you prefer, you can still drag and drop photos from the desktop.

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 …

Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes  —  After going on sale at 10:00 AM Pacific Time today, tickets for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco have already sold out in two minutes.  —  WWDC has sold out increasingly quickly in recent years …

The next generation of Instapaper  —  When I launched Instapaper in 2008, it was a very basic web app.  It quickly expanded to define the pillars of the read-later market: a one-click “read later” bookmarklet, a web sync service, an adjustable text view optimized for reading, and an iPhone app with offline saving.

Facebook Buys Parse To Offer Mobile Development Tools As Its First Paid B2B Service  —  Facebook has just acquired Parse, marking its entry into a whole new business category: paid tools and services for developing mobile apps.  —  The company is buying the mobile-backend-as-a-service startup …

Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain  —  It has been a busy month for The Pirate Bay's IT department thus far, with the site skipping from domain to domain.  —  Two weeks ago the notorious BitTorrent site traded in its .SE domain for the Greenland-based .GL TLD.

Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features — And It's About Time  —  Twitter may be the best way to figure out what's happening around the world right now.  But it sure ain't great at telling me what's going on in my world — that is, what's happening down the block from me.  —  That may change.

Amazon beats Wall Street estimates with $0.18 EPS, sales at $16.07B in Q1 2013, a 22% growth YoY  —  Amazon announced its first quarter financial performance and it has $16.07 billion in net income and earnings per share of $0.18.  Its sales were up 22 percent from last year.

Attorney General calls T-Mobile's no-contract plans ‘deceptive’, carrier agrees to offer refunds and change advertising  —  Following the launch of T-Mobile's new “Uncarrier” strategy alongside the $99 iPhone 5 and new no subsidy pricing plans last month, today the Washington State Attorney General …

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.

How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain  —  Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field, joined the search giant late last year.

CISPA ‘dead’ in Senate, privacy concerns cited  —  Summary: The chairman of a key Senate committee cited “insufficient” privacy protections in the cybersecurity bill, recently passed by the House.  —  Zack Whittaker  —  The Senate will almost certainly kill a controversial cybersecurity bill …

Google: government censorship requests jumped 20% in last six months  —  Google has published its latest Transparency Report and the results are not encouraging for free speech advocates: governments around the world are asking it to remove more content than ever before.

3D Leap Motion Controller device shipping date delayed 2 months until July 22nd  —  Leap Motion CEO Michael Buckwald today announced on a conference call that the shipping of the company's 3D Motion Controller would be delayed until July 22nd.  The reasons behind it, Buckwald says, were about ‘living up to expectations’.

Wi-Fi, Voice Calling Come to More New York City Subway Stations  —  Busy New Yorkers are about to get even more distracted.  —  Today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the body for New York City's arteries of public transit, had completed the first phase …

Time Warner Cable sees the Google Fiber threat and offers Austin free Wi-Fi  —  Competition is grand.  With Google planning to build out a fiber-to-the-home network in Austin, Texas next year, the local incumbent broadband providers are tweaking their models.

Google Drive gets profile pictures, one-click group chat, and a new look for anonymous users  —  Google on Thursday announced an update to its Drive service featuring the addition of profile pictures, one-click group chat, and a new look for anonymous users.

EA restructure results in hundreds of layoffs, two studios closed  —  Electronic Arts announced today that the company is undergoing an organizational restructure that has “led to some difficult decisions to reduce the workforce in some locations.”  —  Two sources with knowledge …

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.’

Actian buys Amazon database partner ParAccel  —  Database vendor Actian has acquired ParAccel, a scale-out, analytic database company whose technology underpins part of the Amazon Web Services Redshift data warehouse service.  Terms of the deal are undisclosed.

6Wunderkinder Debuts Wunderlist Pro, Paid Premium Subscriptions For Its Cross-Platform Productivity App  —  Wunderlist has been a to-do and GTD app staple since its launch back in 2010, but 6Wunderkinder, the company behind it, has always given away its products free of charge …

Square hires former Google exec Francoise Brougher as its Business Lead to help it expand globally  —  Mobile commerce payment service Square announced today that it has hired former Google executive Francoise Brougher to help it in the business development department.