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May 16, 2013, 5:35 PM

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Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass  —  Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN And Evernote Apps Coming To Google Glass Today  —  Google announced a number of new partner apps today on stage at Google I/O during the “Developing for Glass” session.  Facebook and Twitter were the highlights of the list, which also included Evernote, Tumblr …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Intel May Have Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Still Win the Mobile War  —  As CEO Paul Otellini steps down from his post, he leaves the Intel machine poised to take on the swarming ecosystem of competitors who make smartphone chips.  —  Forty-five years after Intel was founded …
Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:
Google Buys a Quantum Computer  —  Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study artificial intelligence by means of computers that use the unusual properties of quantum physics.  Their quantum computer, which performs complex calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers …
Nick Hide / Crave:
Samsung changes mind, will look at storage on Galaxy S4 … Samsung has backed down on the Galaxy S4's limited storage after the phone appeared on the BBC's Watchdog, saying it will try to squeeze its myriad features into a smaller space, freeing up more memory for apps.
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development  —  Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble.  The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures.
Jason Wilson / VentureBeat:
EA kills its controversial Online Pass program  —  EA is doing away with its Online Pass program from this point forward, a decision the video game publisher says is partially based on player response.  —  “Yes, we're discontinuing Online Pass,” EA senior director of corporate communications …
Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:
Apple plans to move flagship San Francisco store to Union Square  —  Apple has submitted plans for a new retail location in San Francisco's Union Square that would replace the Apple Store currently at Stockton and Ellis.  —  Plans for the new store emerged on Thursday, according to SFGate.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Android and iOS accounted for 92% of Q1 2013 smartphone shipments, as Windows Phone passes BlackBerry  —  Android and iOS accounted for 92.3 percent of all smartphones shipped during the first quarter of 2013, according to new figures published today by the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Tim Cook Defends Apple's Tax Record Ahead of Senate Committee Appearance [Updated]  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a break from his predecessor, is giving a number of interviews to Washington press outlets ahead of his appearance in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation next week.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
New High-Resolution Photos of iPhone 5S Parts Reveal Little  —  BGR shares several new relatively high-resolution photos of parts claimed to be from the iPhone 5S.  These parts have been leaking to repair firms over the past several months, and a number of photos have already been seen …
More: BGR, Electronista and iMore
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
That settles it: Opera drops its $3.4m lawsuit against ex-employee Trond Hansen  —  A little over two weeks ago, word got out about Opera filing a rather nasty lawsuit against a former longtime employee and contractor, designer and musician Trond Werner Hansen.
More: CNETThanks:@robinwauters
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
New Groupon CEO Unlikely Until Next Year  —  Groupon Inc. isn't likely to name a permanent new chief executive until next year, the daily-deal company's interim chiefs said Wednesday.  —  The company, which stumbled badly after going public in 2011, has been looking for someone to fill …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator Adds Five Part-Time Partners, Including Groupon's Andrew Mason And App.net's Dalton Caldwell  —  Y Combinator's Paul Graham revealed a bunch of personnel news in a just-published blog post.  —  Let's see if I've got everything: The incubator has added one full-time partner …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Court reverses Yahoo ruling for $2.75 billion Mexican Yellow Pages breach of contract, reduces damages to $172,500  —  Yahoo on Thursday announced some good news coming from its legal department.  The Superior Court of Justice for the Federal District in Mexico granted the company's appeal …
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Microsoft building touch-screen feature into Chrome  —  To try to spread its flexible Pointer Events interface beyond Windows 8 and IE10, Microsoft programmers are trying to build support into Google's browser.  —  Through the peculiar dynamics of Web standard politics and the open-source …
Luke Johnson / Trusted Reviews:
iOS BBM app will not support iPad at launch  —  With a summer iOS BBM app release having been confirmed, BlackBerry has revealed that the Apple friendly messaging application will not be available to iPad owners.  —  Leaving iPad mini and iPad 4 users out in the cold, the iOS BBM app …
More: Engadget and SlashGear
Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Dell's profit slides 79 percent as it seeks to go private  —  (Reuters) - Dell Inc, the subject of a takeover battle between activist investor Carl Icahn and the company's billionaire founder, reported a 79 percent slide in profit as personal computer sales continue to shrink.

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