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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:

U.S. Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, Hachette — The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Corp., Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New York district court, claiming collusion over eBook pricing. Apple and Macmillan …

Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Sues Apple, Publishers Over E-Book Pricing — NEW YORK—The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Apple Inc. and five of the nation's largest publishers, alleging they conspired to limit competition for the pricing of e-books. — The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court …

More: Tech Trader Daily, The Verge, CNET, eWeek, paidContent, Forbes, AllThingsD, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, BuzzFeed, Computerworld, TechnoBuffalo, GMSV, OStatic blogs, MarketBeat and TechSpot. See also Mediagazer

The United States Department of Justice:

Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the E-books Press Conference — Good afternoon. Today I'm joined by Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Sharis Pozen, and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, to announce the Justice Department's latest progress …

More: Digital Trends, Between the Lines Blog, TPM IdeaLab, Kindle Review, paidContent, Neowin, The Digital Reader, Wired, Wired Campus, TeleRead, SlashGear, PC Magazine and The BLT. See also Mediagazer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Macmillan CEO Sargent: Why we won't settle against DOJ — Macmillan is ready to fight the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five big publishers, CEO John Sargent writes in an open letter to the publishing community today. — “Let me start by saying that Macmillan did not act illegally.

More: Agence France Presse, ReadWriteWeb, Bloomberg Tech Blog, Computerworld, Publishers Lunch, Tor.com Frontpage Partial, Los Angeles Times and Reuters

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The e-book wars: Who is less evil, Amazon or book publishers?

More: paidContent, Publishers Lunch and Digits

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Amazon says DOJ deal with book publishers win for Kindle owners

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Bloomberg:

U.S. Said to Reach Accord With 3 Publishers on eBooks

More: parislemon, The Verge, Fortune, Daring Fireball, Coyote Tracks, Engadget, the Econsultancy blog and WebProNews. Tweets: @aaronsw

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

States pile on, claim Apple e-book conspiracy cost consumers $100 million

More: Fortune, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Digital Book World, VentureBeat, CT.gov Portal and MarketingVox News & Trends. See also Mediagazer

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Samsung's $249 Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 To Make U.S. Debut On April 22, We Go Hands-On — Samsung teased the masses this past February when they revealed that one of their first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablets would be the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, a decidedly mid-range device that seemed lacking in the style department.

More: VentureBeat, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Business Insider, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, The Verge, CNET, BGR, Mashable! and Gotta Be Mobile

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Samsung debuts two new media players, still have nothing on the iPod touch

More: 9to5Google, CNET and Gotta Be Mobile

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) review

More: The Verge and Computerworld

Ross Miller / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 review

More: LAPTOP Magazine and Mashable!

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google+ Gets A Big Refresh With New Navigation, A Redesigned Stream, A Dedicated Hangouts Page & More — Google this morning is announcing a new look for its social network, Google+, which introduces a revamped navigation, with drag-and-drop elements and actions that appear when you hover over each item …

Mohamed Mansour / Google+:

Thank you Google for breaking all my apps and extensions without warning! — Why is Google trying to be so evil to the developer community? Change is good, but you know what is even better? Relationship with your third party developer community who technically spend hundreds of hours building on top of this platform for free.

More: The Next Web and WebProNews. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Mike Isaac / Wired:

Google+ Refresh: Just Like Facebook, It's All About the Apps

More: TechCrunch, Co.Design, Computerworld and Mashable!

Andrew Rassweiler / Market Intelligence:

Nokia Lumia 900 Carries Bill of Materials of $209 — Nokia's new Lumia 900 smartphone features a cost-reduced design that reveals close cooperation between the handset brand, Microsoft Corp., and semiconductor supplier Qualcomm Inc. This cooperation mimics Apple Inc.'s holistic approach to hardware and software development.

More: Wired, Gizmodo, Reuters, PC Magazine, Neowin, Tech Trader Daily and Light Reading

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

Is AT&T's sales force prepared to sell the Nokia Lumia 900? — AT&T stores in Manhattan promoted the release of the new Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone, but some sales associates were not prepared to recommend it to customers. — (Credit: CNET/Marguerite Reardon)

More: Wall Street Journal, Gotta Be Mobile and PhoneArena

Leslie Horn / Gizmodo:

Not Shocking: Google Could Already Be Eyeing a Motorola Hardware Sale — Google could be on the brink of confirming suspicions that it only bought Motorola for its 17,000 patents. The $12.5 billion acquisition is barely official—Justice Department approval came in February …

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Google ‘Plans To Make Substantial Investment’ In Motorola's Phone Business, Not Sell It

Wall Street Journal:

Google's $12 Billion Toy

More: The New Persuaders, Bloomberg, CNNMoney.com, The Verge, Reuters, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidGuys, ExtremeTech and Pocketables

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World's Top Tech Hubs Stack Up — Last year, we covered an ambitious collaborative R&D project called “Startup Genome,” created by three young entrepreneurs, Bjoern Herrmann, Max Marmer, and Ertan Dogrultan.

More: PandoDaily. Thanks:@bjoernlasse

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Intel: ultrabook prices will drop to $699, 75 new designs already in the pipeline — After teasing 50 new ultrabook designs for CES earlier this year, Intel's now promising we'll see 75 even newer SKUs over the coming months. The x86 chip designer and producer is feeling bullish …

More: CNET, ITworld.com, eWeek, TG Daily and I4U News

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Intel chip tests surface ahead of Apple, Windows laptops

More: LAPTOP Magazine, CPU-World, Macgasm and MacRumors

Mussie Shore / Google Mobile Blog:

Google Currents goes international — In December we launched Google Currents, an app for Android and iOS devices that lets you explore online magazines and other content with the swipe of a finger. We're thrilled by how many readers and publishers are using the app in the U.S. …

More: The Verge, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, Good E-Reader, Pulse2 Technology …, GigaOM, Android Community and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. — Nick Merrill, who challenged a demand from the FBI for user data, wants to create the world's first Internet provider designed to be surveillance-resistant. — (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)

More: Hit & Run and DSLreports

Rob Schmitz / Marketplace:

VIDEO: Watch an iPad get made from the Foxconn factory floor — Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple's Chinese producer Foxconn. In this exclusive video, see highlights from his tour of the assembly line …

More: AppleInsider, CNET, GeekWire, Marketplace …, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and The Next Web

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Now Lets You Trade In Your Old CDs In Exchange For Gift Cards — Online retailer Amazon is extending its Trade-In Program today to also cover CDs - you know, those round, shiny things collecting dust in the back of your closet? Starting now, customers can send in their old CDs …

More: PC World, GeekWire, CNET, Techland and The Verge. Thanks:@sarahintampa

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Condé Nast Goes Shopping, Spends $14 Million on ZipList — Condé Nast hasn't gone shopping for digital assets for several years. But that's changing now: The magazine publisher has just picked up ZipList, a shopping list/recipe planner. — Condé wouldn't disclose …

More: VentureBeat, paidContent, TechCrunch, Media Decoder and Betabeat

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Evernote and Pinterest just had a baby: Enter the new Springpad — Springpad has long been compared to Internet note-taking sensation Evernote, but starting today Springpad will likely be compared to another darling of the startup world, visually oriented social network Pinterest.

More: AllThingsD, Tech Cocktail, Techland, VentureBeat, BostInno and SiliconANGLE

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

With 350 Investors On Hand, TechStars Debuts New Cloud Accelerator's Inaugural Batch — In September, national startup accelerator and seed fund, TechStars, launched its first program focused on providing mentorship and capital to companies working in a particular space.

More: GigaOM

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