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May 8, 2013, 10:40 PM

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Microsoft:

Microsoft names Corporate Vice President Amy Hood as new Microsoft chief financial officer — Former CFO for the Microsoft Business Division succeeds outgoing CFO Peter Klein. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Amy Hood was named Microsoft chief financial officer …

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Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Seeks Android Source Code Records in Samsung Suit — Apple Inc. (AAPL), taking its patent fight to Google Inc. (GOOG) through its infringement litigation against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), is asking a judge to force Google to turn over documents related to its Android operating system.

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TechCrunch:

Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion — Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.

More: CNET and The Verge. Tweets: @xpangler and @pkafka

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Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy — Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. — Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy …

More: AllThingsD, Variety, Adweek and The Wrap. Thanks:@ethan_anderson

Ronnie Cohen / Reuters:

San Francisco surrenders in fight over cell phone warnings — (Reuters) - San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round in court against the cell phone industry, have agreed to revoke an ordinance that would have been the first in the United States to require retailers to warn consumers …

More: The Register, Ars Technica, DSLreports, CNET, SiliconBeat, Engadget, PhoneArena, LAPTOP Magazine, Examiner and The Verge

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Yahoo's Mayer Plans Search Revamp to Narrow Google Lead — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer plans to unveil tools for Internet search, including making it easier to find information on mobile devices, stepping up efforts to nab share from Google Inc. (GOOG)

More: Search Engine Land, Tech Trader Daily, WebProNews and Wall Street Journal

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware — Facebook's Open Compute Project to give the world an “open” top-of-rack switch. — Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco. — Facebook

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Declan McCullagh / CNET:

DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats — An FBI investigation manual updated last year, obtained by the ACLU, says it's possible to warrantlessly obtain Americans' e-mail “without running afoul of” the Fourth Amendment. — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

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Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

Feds Drop Hacking Charges in Video-Poker Glitching Case — They know when to fold 'em. Las Vegas prosecutors targeting two men who took advantage of a software bug to win a small fortune at video poker have dropped all hacking charges from the case, cashing out an 18-month legal battle …

More: Techdirt

Matt Warman / Telegraph:

Say goodbye to the pin: voice recognition takes over at Barclays Wealth — Barclays Wealth customers will no longer need to answer security questions and remember pin codes to use telephone banking. — Barclays Wealth customers will be able to use voice recognition rather than security pins

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Groupon beats street with higher than expected Q1 revenue of $601.4 million, EPS of $0.03 — Today Groupon reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $601.4 million, and earnings per share of $0.03. Analysts had expected revenue of $592 million, and earnings per share of $0.03.

More: Business Wire, Business Insider, VatorNews, Quartz, BBC, VentureBeat, Forbes, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, CNNMoney.com, Tech Trader Daily and internetretailer.com

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.

More: Businessweek, PE Hub Blog and AllThingsD

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Coursera leaps another online learning hurdle, partners with Chegg and 5 publishers to give students free textbooks — Online learning startup Coursera on Wednesday announced a partnership with Chegg, a student hub for various educational tools and materials, as well as five publishers …

More: Washington Post, paidContent and VentureBeat

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Donald Trump Launches FundAnything, a Kickstarter Clone Meant to Bring Crowdfunding to the Masses — Crowdfunding now has a celebrity mogul endorsement. — A new site called FundAnything from Learning Annex founder Bill Zanker launches today with help from loudmouth businessman Donald Trump.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, MarketWatch, TechCrunch and Gawker. Tweets: @realdonaldtrump

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Hotel Tonight is revamping the hotel review for mobile devices — Instead of typing out a free-form hotel experience review on your laptop once you get home from your trip, or struggling with your smartphone's virtual keyboard for several long paragraphs, Hotel Tonight has a better idea: just use photos.

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Skift, Mashable and VentureBeat

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google, authors wrangle in court again over digital books — The authors are asking for $3 billion in damages related to Google's digital books project, while Google is asking for class action status to be revoked. — Google and the Authors Guild are wrangling in court again …

More: TechCrunch, Electronista, Bloomberg and PublishersWeekly.com. Tweets: @bloombergnews. See also Mediagazer

Ionut Arghire / Softpedia News:

HTC First Facebook Phone Drops to $0.99 at AT&T — HTC First, the only smartphone to have arrived on shelves so far with the new Facebook Home suite of applications loaded on top right from the start, has just seen a price cut. — At the moment, the device is available …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Trulia Acquires Market Leader For $355M To Take Its Business Beyond Listings And Into SaaS For Real Estate Professionals — Online real estate company Trulia has announced it plans to acquire real estate SaaS CRM provider Market Leader for approximately $355 million. The SEC filing is here.

More: Trulia, The Next Web, Trulia Industry Blog, VentureBeat, Xconomy, ZDNet, VatorNews, silicontap.com, Pulse 2.0, SiliconBeat and GeekWire

Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:

This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl) — Jennie Lamere was the only woman to present at a Boston hackathon. She won it. — Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum …

More: NEWS.com.au, Los Angeles Times, CNET, Digital Trends, Music Machinery, US News, The Huffington Post, Screen Junkies and ANIMAL

Jeff Jordan / Fortune:

Godzilla vs. Mothra, the sequel — What happens when two giants collide? — FORTUNE — Amazon and Google are on a collision course. — When I was at eBay, we had a belief that no one was going to compete with us by replicating exactly what we were doing. We had first mover advantages and network effects.

Tweets: @cdixon

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

NowThisNews Mobile Video Service Raises $4.8 Million — NowThisNews, the startup that's trying to create a video news service for the iPhone generation, has raised another $4.8 million. — In addition to earlier investors, who include Lerer Ventures, Oak Investment and Bedrocket …

More: VentureBeat and Beet.TV

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Internet in Syria has been restored after being disconnected for over 19 hours — Internet in Syria has been restored on Wednesday at 14:13 UTC. The country went offline on Tuesday at around 18:45 UTC as Internet connectivity was completely cut across the nation.

More: BBC, Renesys Blog, Krebs on Security, PC Magazine, NYT Bits, CNN, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Yahoo! News, The Verge, CNN, NEWS.com.au, Electronista and Softpedia News

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