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May 14, 2013, 8:20 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 …
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Exclusive: Google readies its Spotify competitor with Universal and Sony now on board  —  By signing the three largest record labels, it's likely we'll see Google roll out its new subscription music services at I /O  —  Odds are increasing that Google will give us a peek tomorrow during …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Debuts Its Latest Hardware, Stand, A $299 Card Swiper For iPad Registers  —  At an event in San Francisco at Blue Bottle Coffee, Square debuted a stand built specifically for the iPad, which turns the device into a card-swiping register.  —  Hardware has always been a part …
Brad Stone / Businessweek:
Larry Page Explains What Happened to His Voice  —  For the first time in nearly a year, Google (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page is publicly addressing a question about his personal health: why he lost his voice and continues to speak more hoarsely than is normal.
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.
Moxie Marlinspike:
A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch  —  Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they're working on in that country.  Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it's not uncommon …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Nvidia Shield gaming handheld priced at $349, pre-orders begin on May 20th (preview)  —  The biggest surprise at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is about to go on sale.  The Nvidia Shield, a five-inch portable Android game console that can also stream PC games from a nearby gaming computer …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Nearly 75% Of All Smartphones Sold In Q1 Were Android, With Samsung At 30%; Mobile Sales Overall Nearly Flat: Gartner  —  Gartner has just released its Q1 figures for mobile handset sales, and the key takeaway is that Android continues to steal the show, led by handset maker Samsung.
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Database-as-a-service Cloudant nabs $12M from Devonshire, Rackspace, & more  —  Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today.  —  Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists.

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