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May 14, 2013, 12:10 PM

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Donny Halliwell / Inside BlackBerry:
New BlackBerry Q5 Announced Today at BlackBerry Live for Select Markets  —  As the BlackBerry Live keynote news keeps flowing in I'm happy to introduce you to the youthful and fun BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, running BlackBerry 10.  With a QWERTY keyboard and a confident design …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer  —  BlackBerry has just announced that its hugely popular BBM messaging service is going multi-platform: it will be released for Android and iOS as a free app this summer.  BBM will support iOS hardware running iOS 6 and above …
Michael Gorman / Engadget:
BlackBerry announces BBM channels, gives dedicated messaging streams to brands and users  —  BlackBerry Live 2013 isn't just about new phones and OS versions.  Thorsten Heins has just announced BBM channels, a way for people, companies and brands to provide streams of content in BBM.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Nokia's Latest, the Aluminum-Clad Lumia 925, Heads for T-Mobile USA and Vodafone  —  At a press event in London on Tuesday, Nokia is showing off the Lumia 925, a new variant of its flagship Windows Phone.  —  The aluminum-clad phone is similar to the Lumia 920 that has been sold for months at AT&T …
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Microsoft drops the Blue codename, confirms Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade available ‘later’ this year  —  One of the worst kept secrets rattling around Microsoft's campus is Windows Blue, the forthcoming update to Windows 8 that addresses users' bugbears about the OS.
Douglas Pearce / The Microsoft Office Blog:
Outlook.com now lets you chat with Google friends - one more reason to make the switch  —  The last three months since Outlook.com came out of preview have been filled with releases to help make you more productive and your experience more personal.  These were often based on your feedback.
DealBook:
Hedge Fund Manager Loeb Targets Sony for a Breakup  —  Updated  —  An American hedge fund billionaire known for starting big fights has called for a breakup of the entertainment and electronic colossus Sony, according to people briefed on the matter, possibly setting off a battle …
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
No Nexus Q News at Google's I/O This Year  —  Nearly one year ago, at its I/O developer conference, Google unveiled its Android-powered Nexus Q media player product to much fanfare.  Little more than a month after the big reveal, Google suspended the launch of the Q indefinitely.
Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Web Browsers Are Reinvented  —  File-sharing, Apps and Voice Commands Change How Internet Is Used  —  Mobile phones, wearable devices and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology.  But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend with implications …
Assaf Gilad / Ynetnews:
Facebook, Waze at odds over liquidation  —  Social network giant insists on relocating some of Israeli navigation company's employees to its San Francisco headquarters, while Waze executives are adamant about leaving development center in Israel  —  The chasm between Facebook and Waze …
More: Business Insider and TechCrunchTweets: @talirafaeli and @jguynn
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
Cyber caper: behind the scenes of the $45 million global ATM heist  —  Hackers coordinated with cells on the ground to carry out a precise, sophisticated attack  —  Defendants Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje posing with approximately $40,000 with cash.  Source: US Attorney, Eastern District of New York
More: Betabeat and Wired
Pete Norman / Sky News:
Twitter Boss Quits UK Role Post TweetDeck  —  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has resigned as director of its UK arm  —  The American boss of Twitter has resigned as director of its UK arm, two days after the business regulator struck off its other British firm for failure to file accounts.
More: Telegraph
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:
Online Sales Tax: Why E-Commerce Companies Are On Both Sides Of The Debate  —  If passed by the House, the Marketplace Fairness Act, which aims to level the playing field between online retailers and brick-and-mortar businesses, could go into effect as soon as this fall.
More: ClickZ
Jonathan Skillings / CNET:
Aereo gets set for Atlanta debut  —  The capital of Georgia will be the third city to get the TV streaming service, following New York and, from tomorrow, Boston.  —  Aereo is getting on a roll, with plans now to bring its streaming TV service to Atlanta.  —  The Atlanta launch is scheduled …
Shaunacy Ferro / Popular Science:
How Facebook Used Science To Design More Emotional Emoticons  —  With the help of a psychology professor and a Pixar illustrator, Facebook is trying to make our messages a little more emotional.  —  Surprise Matt Jones / Facebook  —  In 1872, Charles Darwin published The Expression …
More: SlashGear
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple wants to add Galaxy S4 to second patent case against Samsung in California (spring 2014 trial)  —  Late on Monday, Apple and Samsung submitted statements in response to Judge Koh's April 24, 2013 order to narrow their second California case.  Narrowing will occur in several steps until the spring 2014 trial.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
RelayRides Acquires Wheelz To Boost Inventory And Improve Hardware For Its Peer-To-Peer Car Rentals  —  There's consolidation afoot in the peer-to-peer car rental space.  San Francisco-based RelayRides, which launched about five years ago and is now available nationwide, has gobbled up fledgling competitor Wheelz.
More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, Wired and PandoDailyThanks:@ripemp

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