New ways to support great content on YouTube  —  We've been building a YouTube partner program since 2007 that enables content creators to earn revenue for their creativity.  We've watched them build amazing channels that have made YouTube into a news, education and entertainment destination …

Amazon Developing Smartphone With 3-D Screen  —  New Gadgets, Including Audio-Only Device, Is Bid to Expand Beyond Kindle Fire.  — Amazon's hardware ambitions are broadening.  The Seattle e-commerce giant has recently been developing a wide-ranging lineup of gadgets—including two smartphones …

Salesforce Acquires Bookmarking Startup Clipboard for More Than $10M  —  Salesforce has acquired Clipboard, a social bookmarking service that had built interesting hooks for saving rich Web content across devices, both companies said today.  —  The deal was worth between $10 million and $20 million …

State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations  —  The battle for control of dangerous digital shapes may have just begun.  —  On Thursday, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson received a letter from the State Department Office …

Facebook Previews New Features For Home, Which Is Near 1M Downloads And Increases Users' Time Spent On Facebook By 25%  —  “Home is the first product we've released that's really about ‘mobile-best’ and the transition beyond ‘mobile first’” said Facebook's VP Cory Ondrejka.

Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping/Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court Mobile Users  —  Facebook appears to be close to making another billion-dollar acquisition to once again ramp up its mobile efforts: according to two reports in the Israeli press at Calcalist and sister publication Ynet …

Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite  —  On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes.  That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined.

Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo  —  It's only been a few weeks since the folks behind music-charting app We Are Hunted confirmed that it was acquired by Twitter, and it seems that Twitter isn't done snapping up startups just yet.

Box buys Crocodoc to display files more beautifully in any browser  —  Box has acquired Crocodoc, a five-year-old company that provides technology to display and annotate documents at high fidelity in a browser.  It is Box's first acquisition since 2009.  —  Crocodoc is geared toward developers today …

Can Congress Blow Up the TV Bundle?  John McCain Is Going to Try — Again.  —  Lots of people say they want to break up the bundle — the economic model that keeps the TV Industrial Complex intact — but no one has been able to do it.  Can Congress?  —  Senator John McCain is going to try …

Apple wins trademark case over ‘iBooks’  —  A small New York publisher that uses the label “ibooks” has struck out in its lawsuit against Apple, after a New York court on Wednesday held that the publisher's mark was not distinct and that consumers would not confuse the two companies' products.

‘Deleted’ Snapchat photos saved in phone data, can be examined as evidence  —  OREM — Not so fast, Snapchat.  Those 10-seconds-or-less pictures appear to have a much longer life, deep inside of smartphones.  —  Orem-based firm Decipher Forensics said it has derived a method to extract …

Microsoft Developed Prototypes for a TV Set-Top Box  —  As videogame fans await the unveiling of Microsoft Corp.'s next Xbox, questions about another piece hardware loom for the software giant.  —  The company has been quietly developing designs for a separate, simpler set-top device …

Google unveils 5-year roadmap for strong authentication  —  Summary: Smartphones and smart apps are major factor in access control strategy that plans to ignore whining from end-users  —  Google Wednesday unveiled a five-year road map for stronger consumer authentication tagging smartphones …

ESPN Eyes Subsidizing Wireless-Data Plans  —  Smartphone users who binge on video, games and other content must monitor their usage to ensure they don't run over monthly data caps that wireless carriers have put in place in recent years.  —  Now, some media companies whose mobile content gets …

Twitter Verification?  No Thanks  —  A few months back, Mike Hayes, who's a senior reporter at BuzzFeed and who also runs the official BuzzFeed Twitter account, sent around an email to the office.  Twitter, he reported, was going to be verifying the whole staff at once.

How Facebook could save Nokia  —  On Tuesday, Nokia chief Stephen Elop fielded questions from irate shareholders at his company's annual meeting in Helsinki.  When, they wanted to know, would he do something about Apple and Samsung?  In London next week, Nokia will announce its new high-end flagship product, whatever it is.

Can't raise a Series A?  Just sell yourself to Yahoo  —  While many have speculated on the ways CEO Marissa Mayer will remake Yahoo, none have correctly predicted what the company has actually become: A safe haven for VC rejects.  —  Since taking the helm in October, Mayer has snapped up nine young …

PC Makers Hopeful on Windows 8 Changes  —  With the PC industry in severe contraction, industry executives seem terribly relieved to have found some optimism to cling to.  —  PC makers in Asia say there is hope yet for Windows 8, the new operating system that even Microsoft Corp. has admitted hasn't been a huge hit.

New Zealand isn't exactly outlawing software patents—it's doing something more interesting  —  Despite what you may have read, New Zealand is not “banning” software patents.  Indeed, the country has never explicitly allowed the patenting of software in the first place …

Nvidia smashes Q1 estimates but outlook is wobbly  —  Summary: Nvidia's CEO attributed Q1's success to “Kepler-based GPUs within and beyond the PC.”  —  Nvidia has a lot to be proud of on its first quarter earnings report, but the outlook is close to the edge.