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May 3, 2013, 12:20 PM

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Spotify Takes a Page From the Twitter Playbook, Buys Music Discovery App Tunigo — Last fall, Twitter bought We Are Hunted, a “music discovery” startup that made a popular app for Spotify. — Apparently Spotify is paying attention: It just bought Tunigo, another music discovery startup with a popular Spotify app.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, GigaOM, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, hypebot, WebProNews and iClarified

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Glass Will Soon Also Let iPhone Users Access Navigation And Text Messages — To use text messaging and navigation on Google Glass, users currently have to pair it with an Android phone and install the Glass companion app on their phones. This will change very soon, however …

More: The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, GitHub and PetaPixel

David Pierce / The Verge:

Acer announces Aspire P3, 'the world's first ultrabook convertible' (hands-on) — Acer's making a big Windows 8 play at its event today in New York city, announcing a handful of unique devices including the new Aspire P3. Acer calls the P3 an “ultrabook convertible,” and that's a fairly apt description …

More: CNET, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, Liliputing, dailywireless.org and Softpedia News

Brian Heater / Engadget:

Google Play comes to Barnes & Noble's Nook HD and HD+, we go hands-on (video) — Barnes & Noble's refusal to open its ecosystem has long been one of our principle complaints about the company's tablet offerings. The Nook HD and HD+ are extremely nice pieces of hardware that have been held …

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Take that, Apple TV: Smart TVs twice as popular as dedicated streaming boxes — 14 percent of all broadband households owned an Apple TV, a Roku box or another kind of dedicated streaming device in 2012, but 25 percent owned a smart TV with an embedded app platform, according …

More: TDG Research, Business Insider, Betabeat, Fortune, nbcnews.com, Home Media Magazine, Broadband TV News and TelecompetitorTelecompetitor. Tweets: @dannysullivan

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Maybe the Low-End iPhone Is Really a Mid-End iPhone — What if Apple's long-rumored low-end iPhone isn't targeted at the smartphone market's lower reaches? What if it's targeted at the middle? — What if it isn't low-end at all, but simply mainstream? Not a $150 phone or even a $200 one, but a $350 one?

More: DigiTimes, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News and iClarified

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Massive Bitcoin Business Partnership Devolves Into $75 Million Lawsuit — Bitcoin, the virtual currency libertarian geeks expect us all to use to pay for pizza in the future, has had a rough few weeks. A series of booms and busts have sent shivers down the spines of Bitcoin enthusiasts.

More: GeekWire, VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge, Quartz, Bitcoin Magazine, Ars Technica, BTCPedia, Computerworld and CoinDesk

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Cube 3D Printer goes retail at Staples for $1,299 — Summary: Staples will be among the first major retailers to offer a 3D printer. To date, 3D printers have been the focus of hobbyists. — Staples will begin selling 3D Systems' Cube 3D printer in select stores and online for $1,299 at the end of June.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, VentureBeat, CNNMoney.com, CNET, Business Wire and Mashable

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

U.S. Cellular to Begin Offering Apple Products Later This Year — As part of its quarterly earnings release today, U.S. Cellular announced that it will begin carrying Apple products later this year, although the carrier offered no additional details on its plans.

More: Thomson IR, iMore, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Bloomberg, iLounge, InvestorPlace, iPhone, iPhone Hacks and App Advice. Tweets: @sammywalrusiv

David Alexander / Reuters:

Samsung, BlackBerry devices cleared for use on U.S. defense networks — (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday cleared BlackBerry and Samsung mobile devices for use on Defense Department networks, a step toward opening up the military to a wide variety of technology equipment makers while still ensuring communications security.

Peter Burrows / Bloomberg:

Apple Avoids $9.2 Billion in Taxes With Debt Deal — Apple Inc. (AAPL) avoided as much as $9.2 billion in taxes by financing part of a $55 billion stock buyback with debt rather than offshore cash that would have been billed by the U.S. government, Moody's Investment Services estimates.

More: Inquirer, MacNN, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo and TUAW

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

LG Working On A Nexus 5, Wants Deeper Partnerships On TVs And Glass, Report Claims — LG is an Android smartphone OEM that, like many others, finds itself in the shadow of Samsung. But it scored an impressive hit with the Nexus 4, the $300 unlocked Google-branded Android reference phone …

More: The Korea Times, VentureBeat, Inquirer, Android Beat, TechEye, CNET, The Droid Guy and Engadget

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Is Google Getting Serious About Gaming? Noah Falstein Hired As Chief Game Designer — Well, what do we have here? Somewhat under the radar, Google has hired the computer games veteran Noah Falstein to the position of Chief Game Designer. Yes, that's right, the search giant …

More: TechHive, Forbes, AndroidGuys, NBC Bay Area, Ars Technica, The Verge, Android Beat, ValueWalk, VG247, AndroidOS.in, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk, Kotaku, Electronista, Polygon, Engadget, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Pocketnow and WebProNews. Thanks:@sohear

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Horace Dediu on the bad habits of Apple analysts and why Tim Cook shouldn't be fired — “I have few average days,” says Horace Dediu, one of the most well-respected watchers of the mobile industry, and Apple in particular, when asked about how he fills his time while running the Asymco blog and consultancy.

More: Fortune and Fortune. Tweets: @panzer

Nathaniel Rich / New York Times:

Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Start-Up Machine — Michelle Crosby, an energetic 37-year-old lawyer in Boise, Idaho, applied for a loan last November from a local bank, Western Capital. She proposed to use the money, $10,000, to help start a new business, Wevorce, which could be described …

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, Business Insider and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Warner Brothers sued for unauthorized use of Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat — Make it stahhppppp. — Nyan Cat — Warner Brothers is facing a federal lawsuit for using two feline-themed Internet memes in a video game without their creators' permission. The authors of “Keyboard Cat” and …

More: Techdirt, Forbes, WebProNews, VideoGamer.com, Geek.com, SlashGear, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Gizmodo and Laughing Squid

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google reveals Shawnee, Kansas, will be the fourth city to get its Fiber Internet service — Google on Thursday announced that Shawnee, Kansas will be the fourth city to receive the company's Fiber Internet service. Shawnee is located just south-west of Kansas City, meaning the technology …

More: Google Fiber Blog, PC Magazine, CNET, Engadget, DSLreports, Associated Press, The Verge, SlashGear, Gizmodo, dailywireless.org and Softpedia News

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Always on? Study says 72% of U.S. gamers now play online — The number of people who play video games without an online connection is quickly dwindling, according to the results of a study released today. The report by the NPD research firm found that 72 percent of U.S. gamers now play games online …

More: BGR, Agence France Presse, Gamezone, Joystiq, NPD Group and PC Magazine

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google lets you add Calendar events directly from Gmail by clicking on a date and time, English-only for now — Google on Thursday announced a small Gmail update that lets you create Google Calendar events directly from your email. The new feature is rolling out to everyone with the English …

More: Engadget, Google Enterprise Blog, The Verge, BetaNews, Gizmodo, SocialTimes and Lifehacker

Shanaz Musafer / BBC:

Digital doorkeys and more: Meet New York's latest start-ups — Opening doors with the push of a button: Traditional doorkeys may be a thing of the past — That's a problem that the founders of Kisi hope they have solved, by coming up with a way of using your smartphone to open your front door.

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Google adds remote desktop to Hangouts, lets users simultaneously video chat and troubleshoot — Google+ Hangouts just received a small but potentially quite useful upgrade today — as of now, Hangouts include a remote desktop feature. This lets you remotely control the computer …

More: Google+, 9to5Google, Geekosystem, PC Magazine and Engadget

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

The Intel Opportunity — A new CEO has taken over Intel. Their core business, upon which the company has been built, is floundering. Does the new CEO, who is not really new at all (he's the current COO), have the vision to ensure Intel's continued success?

More: Bloomberg and Marco.org. Thanks:@monkbent

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