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May 1, 2013, 7:15 PM

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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple's Ive Seen Risking iOS 7 Delay on Software Overhaul — Jonathan Ive, six months into an expanded role as Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s top product visionary, has embarked on a sweeping software overhaul that leaves the company at risk of falling behind on a new version of the operating system …

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's iOS 7 Team in Deadline Crunch Mode, Adding Engineers — Apple's iOS 7 is so significant a reimagining of the mobile operating system that the company is mustering additional engineering resources to get it out the door in time for a preview at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which is June 10-14 in San Francisco.

More: iMore, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, Neowin, iFans, Daring Fireball, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace and Computerworld

Facebook:

Facebook Reports First Quarter 2013 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the first quarter, which ended March 31, 2013. — “We've made a lot of progress in the first few months of the year,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Q1 Earnings Beats With $1.46B In Revenue, Up 38%, But Misses With Flat EPS Of $0.12 Non-GAAP — Facebook has just posted its earnings for the quarter that ended March 31, 2013. Facebook hit $1.46B in revenue up 38% from Q1 2012, beating the street. However, earnings per shared missed estimates, staying flat at $0.12.

More: AllThingsD, The Register, CNET, Inside Facebook, Computerworld, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, TechHive, GeekWire, GigaOM, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, internetretailer.com and WebProNews

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Facebook's Mobile Revenue Swells To A Third Of Total Ad Sales

More: Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, Reuters, Bloomberg and Mashable

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Facebook sees 751M mobile users in Q1 2013 with $375M or 30% of ad revenue coming from mobile

More: Digits, The Next Web, The Next Web, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com and Associated Press

Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

Pentagon Expected to Embrace Apple, Samsung Devices — Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. are bringing the smartphone wars to the Pentagon. — The Department of Defense is expected in coming weeks to grant two separate, security approvals for Samsung's Galaxy smartphones …

More: Examiner, AppleInsider, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, The Verge, BGR, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot and Electronista

evleaks / PhoneArena:

HTC M4 brings One style, sensibility downmarket — HTC has a certified hit on its hands with the sleek, unibody HTC One — so it's natural that the company would want to extend its design language to lower price points. Meet the HTC M4 (remember, the One was codenamed M7) …

More: The Verge, Digital Media Wire, BGR, Digital Trends, Engadget, Electronista, LAPTOP Magazine, IntoMobile, Pocketnow, MobileBurn.com, Mobile Magazine, Unwired View, VR-Zone, Inquirer, Tech Shout!, AndroidGuys and BGR India

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple's Share of Worldwide Tablet Shipments Falls Below 40% in 1Q 2013 — Research firm IDC today announced its preliminary estimates of worldwide tablet shipments for the first quarter of 2013, finding that Apple's share of the market continues to slide as competitors begin to gain footholds in the market …

More: IDC, PandoDaily, iCharts, AppleInsider, GeekWire, Engadget, GeekWire, BGR, VentureBeat, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, CITEworld, Investor's Business Daily, SlashGear, iClarified and The Next Web

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface tablets in Q1, says IDC

More: asymco and Examiner

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

U.S. Court Rules For Facebook In Its Case Against Typosquatters On 105 Domains; $2.8M In Damages — A victory for Facebook in its case against typosquatters — those who own domain names that are similar to those of a popular site, which they use to confuse people and potentially capitalize on that.

More: PC Magazine, VatorNews, Businessweek, Digital Media Wire, Betabeat, AllThingsD, The Verge, AllFacebook and CNET

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft readies ‘Mohoro’ Windows desktop as a service — Summary: Microsoft is believed to be building a Windows Azure-hosted desktop virtualization service that could be available on a pay-per-use basis. — In yet another example of its growing emphasis on remaking itself as a devices …

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider and Neowin

Maureen Farrell / CNNMoney.com:

Peter Thiel: Twitter will outlast the New York Times — Tech visionaries Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen disagree on the promise of Twitter, but both see a relatively long lifespan for the social media firm. At least in Internet years. — In a debate with Andreessen …

More: ZDNet. See also Mediagazer

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Yahoo acquires 4 million user to-do app Astrid, service to continue as is for 90 days — Yahoo has acquired the to-do list app Astrid, which will continue running as is for the next 90 days. — “Over the next 90 days, Astrid will continue to work as is, and we will no longer be accepting new premium subscriptions.

More: Astrid, VentureBeat, The Verge, VatorNews and TechCrunch. Tweets: @yahooinc

Leo Kelion / BBC:

Facebook U-turn after charities criticise decapitation videos — Charities warn that watching the video clips could cause long-lasting psychological damage — Facebook has said it will delete videos of people being decapitated which had been spread on its site.

More: Examiner. Thanks:@leokelion

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Lenovo-IBM talks over server business break down — Valuation concerns have scuttled negotiations, according to a person familiar with the talks. — FORTUNE — Negotiations between Lenovo and IBM over a multi-billion dollar deal under which Lenovo would acquire parts of IBM's server business …

More: The Register, Business Insider, ZDNet and SeekingAlpha.com. Thanks:@mhelft

Tom Bergin / Reuters:

Exclusive: Britain to quiz Google and auditor again on tax — (Reuters) - Executives from Google Inc. and its auditor Ernst & Young will be called again to a British parliament committee to testify on tax, after a Reuters investigation highlighted inconsistencies in the way Google portrays …

More: CNET and Forbes

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Yelp Cuts Losses In Q1 To $4.8M, Sees Revenue Jump 68% To $46M And Record 102M Monthly Uniques On Web, 10M Mobile — Yelp, the local online business and restaurant guide that first launched in the U.S. in 2004 and now lives in 21 countries and 12 languages, and has more than 100 million …

More: Yelp, VatorNews, Search Engine Land, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, yelp-ir.com, Electronista and The Next Web. Thanks:@ripemp

AllThingsD:

Apple's Tim Cook Returns to D Stage to Open 11th Annual Conference — Although we are only about a month out from our 11th D: All Things Digital conference, we still have a few big speakers to announce, not the least of which is Apple CEO Tim Cook. — Cook, who made his debut at D10 …

More: BetaNews, Mashable and TechSpot

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Rap Genius launches ‘News Genius’ to explain current events — Rap Genius, the popular site that lets users explain rap lyrics by annotating specific words and lines with their own descriptions and links to supporting facts, is looking to expand its reach to cover more current events and breaking news.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mashable, Valleywag and Betabeat. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Done Deal! DreamWorks Paying $33 Million, and Maybe Much More, for AwesomenessTV. — There we go: That DreamWorks Animation/AwesomenessTV deal I told you about last night is now official. The people who brought you “Shrek” are paying $33 million in cash for the YouTube channel …

More: Digital Media Wire, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, The Wrap, SlashGear, Deadline.com and The Droid Guy. See also Mediagazer

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Simple Task-Management Asana Debuts Organizations To Help Enterprises Streamline Productivity — Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that's trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), is tackling the scale of its productivity app with a new announcement today.

More: The Next Web, NYT Bits, The Asana Blog, AllThingsD, ZDNet, Fortune and PandoDaily

Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:

T-Mobile US Shares Climb in NYSE Debut Following Merger — T-Mobile US Inc., the fourth-biggest U.S. wireless company, climbed 6.2 percent in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange after a merger with MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS), a smaller rival.

More: The Verge and FierceWireless

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

As T-Mobile Swallows MetroPCS, It Must Avoid Indigestion

More: T-Mobile Media Relations, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile and GigaOM

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