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January 29, 2013, 1:05 PM

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Apple:

Apple Increases iPad with Retina Display to 128GB — Offers Twice the Storage Capacity to Create & Enjoy Even More Incredible Content — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 29, 2013Apple® today announced a 128GB* version of the fourth generation iPad® with Retina® display.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces 128GB iPad with Retina display, available Feb. 5 for $799/$929

More: Gizmodo, Computerworld and IntoMobile

Microsoft:

Microsoft Releases Office 365 Home Premium — New consumer cloud service works across devices to help busy people simplify their lives and get more done. — Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of Office 365 Home Premium, a reinvention of the company's flagship Office product line for consumers.

More: The Register, The Official Microsoft Blog, Seattle Times, ZDNet, Slashdot, Channelnomics, WebProNews, Neowin and The Microsoft Office Blog. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Launches: $99.99 for a One-Year Subscription — After months of public testing, Microsoft is releasing the final version of Office 2013 today. The new software package, dubbed Office 365, has a freshened look and feel, similar to that of Windows 8 …

More: AllThingsD, ZDNet, Computerworld, App Advice, TG Daily and Mashable!

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Microsoft Office 2013, Office 365 Home Premium available now; 365 for business coming later — Until now, we've known almost all there is to know about Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365: we got hands-on with the new features last summer, and the company has even confirmed pricing.

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Review: Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Edition hopes to be at your service

More: AllThingsD, CITEworld, CNET, CNNMoney.com, Engadget and SlashGear

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

YouTube Set to Introduce Paid Subscriptions This Spring — A New Revenue Model For TV Networks and Video Producers — A new chapter in online video is about to begin. YouTube is prepping to launch paid subscriptions for individual channels on its video platform in its latest attempt …

More: The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, paidContent, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, PandoDaily, WebProNews, PhoneArena and Mashable!. Thanks:@delrey

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

OpenTable Devours FoodSpotting for $10 Million in Cash — OpenTable has acquired Foodspotting, the popular photo-sharing application for restaurants. — The online reservations company said it paid about $10 million in cash for the company, making it a pretty good deal for the startup …

More: TechCrunch, NYT Bits, OpenTable, CNET, PC Magazine, Foodspotting, Inside Mobile Apps, VentureBeat, Betabeat, GigaOM, The Verge, FierceMobileContent News, Forbes, The Next Web, WebProNews and App Advice

Wayne Chang / Crashlytics Blog:

Crashlytics is joining forces with Twitter — What an incredible journey this past year has been — today, we're excited to announce: we're merging with Twitter to take our platform to an entirely new level! — Our Product — We started Crashlytics a little over a year ago to address a huge hole in mobile app development.

More: Digital Media Wire, ZDNet and AllTwitter

Tweets: @twittercomms, @amac, @jeffseibert, @kevinweil and @wayne

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Twitter Is Buying A Startup, Crashlytics, And Not Killing It Off For A Change

More: Betabeat

Chris Welch / The Verge:

500px photography app returns to App Store with 17+ rating after ‘pornography’ removal — One week after it was unceremoniously booted from Apple's iOS App Store, 500px has returned. The app is once again available for both iPhone and iPad after it was pulled down last Monday.

More: TechCrunch, Examiner, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Gizmodo and AllThingsD

9to5Mac:

Is this the back of Apple's redesigned fifth-generation iPad? — Over the past few months, multiple rumors have pointed to Apple's fifth-generation iPad being in development with a design akin to the recently launched iPad mini. That design would likely feature the black & slate/white …

More: TechCrunch, BGR, Redmond Pie, TMTI Group, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, iLounge, GSMArena Blog, Know Your Mobile, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, Gearburn, MacDailyNews, ITProPortal and Apple Bitch. Tweets: @horwitz. Thanks:@mikebeas

Robert Van den Oever / The Source:

Philips Exits Consumer Electronics … Philips Electronics has drawn a line under its long history as a consumer-electronics company after failing to compete successfully with the likes of Apple Inc. Samsung Electronics Co. and Sony Corp. in the fast-moving industry.

More: Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNNMoney.com, Deal Journal, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, iLounge and BBC

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Foursquare launches dedicated iPhone app for US businesses, with analytics, local updates and more — Foursquare has just launched Foursquare for Business, its second app ever, specifically targeted towards business managers. The new app allows managers to post local updates …

More: Engadget, FierceMobileContent News, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews and About Foursquare

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Google once again selling the Nexus 4 in the US, Germany, more locations to come soon (update) — Though the Nexus 4 has been missing from the Google Play Store for weeks now, Google has confirmed to us today that it is now offering it for sale in Germany, with plans to sell it in other countries in the near future.

More: Engadget, 9to5Google, Business Insider, BGR, CNET, Droid Life, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, Droid Life, Pocketnow, IntoMobile, PhoneArena and Android Police

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

AWS launches transcoding service a week after Microsoft goes after media biz — Amazon Web Services now offers transcoding services in the cloud, a product launch for the cloud computing giant that follows a week after Microsoft announced a similar (but more expansive) service in its Windows Azure cloud.

More: Engadget, VentureBeat, ZDNet, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Dan Rayburn and Amazon.com

AJ Kohn / Blind Five Year Old:

Google's evil plan is simple and not so evil. — Don't Be Evil — Any successful company is going to draw criticism. Google probably gets more of it than others because of their 'Don't Be Evil' motto. Algorithm changes shuffle branded sites higher and people shout ‘evil!’

More: Business Insider

Thomson Reuters / The Knowledge Effect:

New Windows fails to boost Microsoft stock - graphic of the day — Back in the 1990s, Microsoft was the unchallenged king of computing and the release of a new Windows operating system would supercharge sales, generate excitement and generally boost its stock. Not anymore.

More: Business Insider

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Google Giving Grant Worth $1M To Fund Free Raspberry Pi For 15,000 U.K. Schoolkids (Updated) — Google's philanthropic arm, Google Giving, has awarded a grant to the U.K.'s Raspberry Pi Foundation to fund 15,000 U.K. schoolchildren to get their very own Raspberry Pi micro computer to learn to code.

More: Raspberry Pi, The Next Web, Guardian, ZDNet, digitaltrends.com, BBC, The H Open Source, Inquirer, PandoDaily, Neowin, Softpedia News and SlashGear. Thanks:@chris_beaumont

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Antigua's Legal “Pirate Site” Authorized by the World Trade Organization — Last week we broke the news that the island nation Antigua and Barbuda wants to start a Government run “pirate” site. — Today, this plan came a step closer to reality when the Caribbean country received authorization …

More: New York Times, Ars Technica, Business Insider and Techie Buzz

Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:

Qihoo Double Blow as iOS Apps Banned by Apple, China Warns of Anti-Competitive Practices — One of China's top web companies, Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU), has been hit with a significant double blow. First, it was given an official warning about unfair competition with its desktop products; then …

More: Bloomberg and The Next Web

Zach Epstein / BGR:

HTC sends invitations to February 19th press conference, flagship M7 unveiling expected — Struggling smartphone vendor HTC (2498) will hold a press conference in New York City on February 19th to unveil its latest device. Invitations to the event were sent to bloggers and reporters on Tuesday, but no details were provided.

More: CNET, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Inquirer, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Next Web, AllThingsD, The Verge, CNET, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile and SlashGear

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

As world of gadgets grows, online industry tunes in to video ads — (Reuters) - Internet video ads, long a sideshow in the online advertising market, are gaining in importance to marketers and Web publishers as they look to capitalize on consumers' changing viewing habits and tap a $70 billion (44.5 billion pounds) television market.

Mitch Stoltz / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Is It Illegal To Unlock a Phone? The Situation is Better - and Worse - Than You Think — Legal protection for people who unlock their mobile phones to use them on other networks expired last weekend. According to the claims of major U.S. wireless carriers, unlocking a phone bought …

More: 9to5Mac, DSLreports and Computerworld

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

BlackBerry Z10 available on January 30th in the UK? — RIM let us know months ago that BlackBerry 10's coming out party would be this Wednesday in New York City, but we haven't known when the heavily-leaked BlackBerry Z10, the first device to run the company's new operating system, would be going on sale.

More: Examiner, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, ITProPortal, Phones Review and Know Your Mobile

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

House panel demands briefing from Department of Justice concerning its prosecution of Aaron Swartz — Two members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today sent a letter to Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States, requesting answers to a number …

More: Ars Technica, Mashable!, The Huffington Post and The Verge

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

In the platform wars, open is ultimately more valuable than closed, says Betaworks — When it comes to the future of the web, there are a few incubator-style seed investors that are worth paying attention to, and New York-based Betaworks is likely at or near the top of that list …

Thanks:@mathewi

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