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Mike Shields / Adweek:
Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Tumblr Deal could reach as high as $1 billion  —  Is Marissa Mayer about to make a game-changing acquisition?  It appears so.  —  Yahoo is in serious talks with Tumblr to acquire the social blogging site, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr.  Will Facebook swoop in at the last minute?  —  Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer thinks that what Blogger did for Google, Tumblr could do for her aging Internet company — make it relevant and a major player on the modern web.  And for that she is willing …
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 coming June 10th  —  Rumors suggested that a white Nexus 4 might appear at Google IO, and they were right.  We obtained the elusive white Nexus 4 and we can confirm it's a carbon copy of the previous Nexus 4, just with a different color casing.
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.
Robert Hof / Forbes:
Google Reveals How To Hack Google Glass Device (And Void Your Warranty)  —  No sooner was Google 's wearable Google Glass device released to early developers than those developers began to try hacking it.  —  Now, Google is encouraging developers-slowly-to hack the controversial device, which won't go on sale publicly until next year.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Google urges fast adoption of VP9 video compression  —  The computing industry has just begun taking the VP8 codec seriously, but Google wants people to adopt its brand-new successor.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google is nearly done with its VP9 video technology, and it wants the world to use it.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Laurene Powell Jobs Goes Public to Promote Dream Act  —  Steve Jobs's widow has taken on a public role, backing one of the most controversial causes in the U.S. today: immigration reform.  And she is doing it using some of the tactics that her late husband, the Apple Inc. co-founder, employed to great effect at the technology giant.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
CW Strikes Deal with Apple to Bring Content to Apple TV  —  The CW has struck a deal that will bring the network's content to the Apple TV, reports Deadline.  At the company's annual Upfront Presentation in New York today, CW president Mark Pedowitz announced that the CW's TV Now applications …
Bloomberg:
Bill Gates Retakes World's Richest Title From Carlos Slim  —  Bill Gates became the world's richest person today, the first time he has held the title since 2007.  His fortune was valued at $72.7 billion at 4 p.m. in New York, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Big offering for big data: Tableau prices stock at $31 per share  —  Tableau Software had been boosting its proposed price for Friday's initial public offering for the past few weeks and now we've got a concrete number.  —  The company will price its shares at $31 for Friday's IPO …
More: VentureBeat and In the News.  Thanks:@johnhcook
James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
How Many Turns in a Screw?  Big Data Knows  —  Companies' pursuit of “big data”—collecting and crunching ever larger amounts of information—is often thought of as another way to figure out exactly what customers want.  But big data is also a means of measuring millions of little things in factories …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Billions: How exactly do Apple and Google count app downloads?  —  Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it had hit 48B downloads of apps on the Google Play Store.  During the same keynote, the counter on Apple's site ticked over to 50B App Store downloads.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Google Announces Rebuilt AdMob Developer Tools With Smarter App Promotion, Local Currency Support  —  Mobile app developers using Google's AdMob ad network will start seeing a new version that has been rebuilt “in a ground-up sort of way,” according to Jonathan Alferness, director of product management for mobile ads.
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech  —  Facebook's “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
MessageMe Raises A $10M Series A Led By Greylock As It Gears Up For Money And Premium Services In Its Rich Messaging App  —  MessageMe — a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in — has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today.
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Sources: Paramount seeks a business-side counterpart to Bari Weiss, implying she would oversee editorial across CBS News and CNN if Paramount's WBD deal closes

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