Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
The Case For And Against Candy Crush-Maker King's Possible IPO  —  Zynga cast a long shadow when its stock tanked by about 75 percent in the first year after going public.  But that apparently isn't scaring off other contenders in the gaming industry from an IPO.

Michael Harper / AppleInsider:
Parallels Desktop 8 updated to support Apple's OS X Mavericks  —  Popular desktop virtualization client Parallels released an update to their desktop app for Mac on Wednesday, allowing Apple developers to run beta versions of OS X Mavericks in tandem with older versions of the Mac operating system.

Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Lazada, Rocket Internet's Amazon for Southeast Asia, raises $100m as it aims for profitability by 2015  —  Rocket Internet is bringing yet more investment to its e-commerce businesses in Southeast Asia, after Lazada — its Amazon-like marketplace service — announced the closure of a $100 million round of investment.

Anurag Kotoky / Reuters:
India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail  —  (Reuters) - India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance program that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said.

Rasul Bailay / Times of India:
Google brings Android Nation store to India to spice up its retail market  —  NEW DELHI: In a significant move that will help increase Android penetration in India, its promoter Google is now vying for a piece of the retail market with brick-and-mortar stores called Android Nation.

Bloomberg:
Google Gets 3 Months to Fix Privacy or Face French Fines  —  France gave Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) three months to amend its policy regarding Internet users' data to avoid fines, and said five other European countries will follow suit by the end of July.  —  The U.S. search engine giant …

Kate Kaye / AdAge:
Mozilla and Stanford Pitch New Cookie Blocking Approach  —  Laying More Rail for a Do-Not-Track Web  —  Techno-privacy wonks are laying yet another rail for Do Not Track.  Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser, has paired with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society to create a Cookie Clearinghouse.

Caitlin Fitzsimmons / Business Review Weekly:
IBM cutting up to 1500 jobs in Australia as cloud computing upsets server market  —  The 1500 jobs on the line at IBM's Australian operation mirrors the decline in the server market as business customers shift to cloud computing and software as a service.  —  The number of job cuts reportedly looming …

Horace Dediu / asymco:
Measuring the iTunes video store  —  It's been five years since we had an update on TV show downloads and six years since we've had an update on movie downloads from Apple.  In Q3 2008 Apple announced 200 million TV show downloads and in Q2 2007 2 million movies.

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Yahoo rejects fears hackers will exploit old user IDs  —  (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Wednesday downplayed concerns that its plans to recycle inactive user IDs could leave users exposed to hackers, saying only 7 percent of those IDs are tied to actual Yahoo email accounts.

Steven Musil / CNET:
LinkedIn suffers site outage due to ‘DNS issue’  —  The business networking site's home page is replaced by a domain sales page for about an hour.  —  LinkedIn is battling a DNS issue that took the business social networking site offline for an hour Wednesday night.

Joshua Kopstein / The Verge:
A startup looks to stop fraud with a new method for ‘fingerprinting’ phone calls  —  Pindrop Security is using acoustic analysis tech to stop social engineering  —  One of the most cherished and time-honored traditions of computer security conferences like Def Con has been the Social Engineering contest.

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:
Rockmelt brings its social news app to Android  —  Rockmelt, which started out as a social web browser and has pivoted to produce apps for social news instead, is bringing its product to Android on Wednesday.  —  The company was known for its social browser that had tabs for chat and features …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Blackboard Co-Founder Michael Chasen Raises $12.75M Series A For SocialRadar, A New Take On Location-Based People Discovery Apps  —  If you thought the “ambient location” craze has passed, prepare to be surprised.  A company called SocialRadar is announcing today that it has raised $12.75 million …