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May 8, 2013, 9:55 AM

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Chris Chavez / Android Phone Fans:
Google Glass Explorer Edition now receiving XE5 software update, brings loads of new features and enhancements  —  We see it happen all the time.  A not quite commercially available Android product receives an over-the-air update before it's even released.  Guess you could add Glass …
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Nokia video compares Lumia 928 camera against GS III and iPhone 5  —  The first footage from the PureView camera aboard Nokia's Lumia 928 is up on the phone's official landing page, showing how it compares against the iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S III at shooting video on a New York rollercoaster.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
New Google Maps Interface  —  Google is about to launch a new interface for Google Maps.  The update will remove the sidebar and will display everything on top of the full-screen map.  One of the new features lets you restrict local search results to places recommended by top reviews or your Google+ circles.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
T-Mobile Says Has Sold 500,000 iPhones, Q1 Revenue Dipped 7 Percent  —  T-Mobile released full first quarter financials late Tuesday evening, reporting a 7 percent dip in revenue from a year earlier.  —  Adjusted earnings, excluding interest, tax, depreciation and amortization of $1.2 billion …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Struggles to Find Way Out of Microsoft Web-Search Deal  —  Yahoo Inc. has been quietly trying to find a way out of its struggling Web-search partnership with Microsoft Corp., a person familiar the situation said, but has so far failed in that effort.  —  The Silicon Valley Internet …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people …
AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Mayer Has Met With Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium Video Unit  —  According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently met with top execs at Hulu, the premium video service whose media company owners have been considering selling it for some months.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Dots, Betaworks' New Super Addictive iOS Game, Nabs 1 Million Downloads In One Week  —  Dots, a game launched just last week out of betaworks, has reached over 1 million downloads in just one week of availability.  —  According to a blog post, the app hit number 1 in eight countries …
Daniela Hernandez / Wired:
The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI  —  There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.  —  The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your brain dedicated to processing sound from your ears could also handle sight for your eyes.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
AOL's Earnings Are Light, but Revenue and Ad Sales Are on Track  —  This looks like a pretty good performance from AOL: Tim Armstrong's Internet company came in a couple pennies light on earnings in its Q1, but hit its revenue marks.  —  As important: Its underlying numbers look pretty good.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Reminds iOS Developers That They Can Easily Integrate Chrome With Their Apps  —  Google just reminded developers that they can use Chrome as the default browser for their apps and easily switch back and forth between app and browser.  With x-callback, Google says …
Dan Farber / CNET:
Marissa Mayer's moonshot: Yahoo on every device  —  With more than 700 million users Yahoo has a good start, but getting the next billion users will be a challenge.  —  NEW YORK—Marissa Mayer has clear vision of what a moonshot — an epic accomplishment — would be for Yahoo.
Steve Ladurantaye / Globe and Mail:
Rogers determined to butt heads with Netflix  —  Canadian television providers are planning to cut their own cords, with several of the country's largest media companies developing subscription-based services to compete with online rivals such as Netflix Inc.
Wall Street Journal:
Samsung's Enviable Challenge: What to Do With Its Growing Cash Pile  —  Having grabbed a big chunk of the profitable smartphone business from Apple Inc. and others, Samsung Electronics Co. now faces a new, enviable Apple-like challenge: a mammoth pile of unspent, accumulated cash.
Randall Smith / DealBook:
Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade  —  During the dot-com boom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital investment firm, all but minted money, making prescient early investments in Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Google and delivering astonishing returns to investors.
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Hewlett-Packard faces $1bn lawsuit from shareholders over Autonomy deal  —  HP accused of ignoring evidence on ‘vastly overvalued’ acquisition while Autonomy founder denies financial impropriety  —  Hewlett-Packard tried to pull out of its $11bn (£7bn) takeover of British software firm Autonomy …
More: ZDNet and TechEye
Sarah E. Needleman / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Coinbase Nabs $5M in Biggest Funding for Bitcoin Startup  —  Eleven-month-old startup Coinbase announced Tuesday the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup, a $5 million investment led by Union Square Ventures. … In an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal …
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Zuckerberg nemesis Aaron Greenspan sues Facebook again (plus the rest of Silicon Valley)  —  Aaron Greenspan, the founder of Think Computer, creator of the FaceCash mobile payment system and (according to him) co-founder of Facebook, has been giving Mark Zuckerberg headaches for many years now …

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