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February 22, 2013, 12:25 PM

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Mat Honan / Wired:

Zendesk Security Breach Affects Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest — Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.

More: Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Next Web, Telegraph, VentureBeat and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Mikkel Svane / Zendesk.com:

We've been hacked — We feel that it's important our customers receive an update from us on a recent security situation. We have an investigation underway and do not have the answer to every question. — We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week.

More: digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, PC World, Dennis Fisher, InfoWorld, SocialTimes, Help Net Security, ValueWalk, Naked Security, AllThingsD, The Register, CNET, Daily Dot, ZDNet, memeburn, TechCrunch, Mashable! and Electronista. Tweets: @support

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — There is perhaps no one more excited for Google Glass than Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg. — On Wednesday at the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay medical campus, the Facebook CEO met …

More: Telegraph, Softpedia News, Business Insider and AllFacebook

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates — Up close and personal with Google's visionary new computer — The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google's NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity.

More: The Next Web

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Glass Targeting End Of 2013 Consumer Release, With Price Tag Under $1,500

More: The Verge

Ritsuko Ando / Reuters:

Nokia to fight rivals with cheaper models: sources — (Reuters) - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is set to launch cheaper handset models in an attempt to fend off growing competition from Chinese rivals in the low-end market, company sources said on Friday.

More: TechCrunch, BGR, VentureBeat, CNET, Inquirer, FierceWireless, ZDNet, Neowin, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR India, ValueWalk and The Nokia Blog

Galen M. Gruman / InfoWorld:

Hands-on with the Ubuntu Touch Linux smartphone — The early and surprisingly nice version bodes well for Canonical's Linux smartphone — but you may not want to install it yourself Ubuntu Touch's home screen Developers got their first hands-on peek yesterday of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch OS for mobile phones …

More: iDownloadBlog.com

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Ubuntu touch preview can now be installed on Nexus phones, tablets

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Orange Acquired Dailymotion For $168 Million By Buying Out Remaining 51% Stake [Update: Orange Confirms] — Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (€59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51 percent.

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Google's Offer Extensions rolling out within a week, integrating deals with search — Google's Offer Extensions, which pair ads in search result pages with Groupon-like deals and special discounts, is set to roll out to all advertisers by the end of February, according to an ad industry insider.

More: Internet Marketing Blog, Search Engine Watch, memeburn and WebProNews

Jean H. Lee / Associated Press:

NKorea to allow mobile Internet for foreigners — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea will soon allow foreigners to tweet, Skype and surf the Internet from their cellphones, iPads and other mobile devices in its second relaxation of controls on communications in recent weeks.

More: BBC, CNET, New York Times, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Engadget, Electronista, PhoneArena, SlashGear and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

NBCU Spent $195 Million To Buy Back Half Of MSNBC.com — Thanks to Comcast's 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, we now know how much NBCUniversal spent to buy back the 50% of MSNBC.com that was owned by Microsoft. — The total purchase price for Microsoft's stake was $195 million …

More: Neowin

AllThingsD:

Native Instagram App Is Not Coming to BlackBerry 10 — BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins says the company has a clear shot at turning BlackBerry 10 into the “No. 3 mobile ecosystem in the world,” but to do that, the company needs a critical mass of native apps, particularly big-name ones.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, GadgeTell, FierceMobileContent News, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, memeburn, digitaltrends.com, PhoneArena, SlashGear, CNET, Forbes, Engadget, WMPoweruser, Pocket-lint, The Verge and Softpedia News

Associated Press:

Nevada governor signs online gambling bill law after measure fast-tracked through Legislature — CARSON CITY, Nev. — Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation Thursday legalizing online gambling in Nevada, capping a dizzying day at the Legislature as lawmakers passed the bill through the Assembly and Senate as an emergency measure.

More: Las Vegas Sun News, Gizmodo, CNET, The Verge, Forbes, DailyTech, SlashGear and VentureBeat

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

PayPal Here Is Coming To The UK, Its First Mobile Payment Market In Europe, Armed With A New Way To Read Your Card — Make way for one more player in the European mobile payments space, and a big one at that. Today, the online payments giant PayPal announced that from this summer …

More: The PayPal Blog, ZDNet, Reuters, The Register, The Verge, GadgeTell, Inquirer, CNET, Electronista, IntoMobile, GigaOM, The Next Web, Engadget, Bloomberg, Financial Times and Pocket-lint

Fred Wilson / A VC:

Venture Capital Returns — This post is for everyone who thinks venture capital is an easy business. I'd like to dispel that notion. — Here are short term and long term returns for the venture capital business over the past ten years compared to the public equity markets in the US.

More: Xconomy. Tweets: @spencerrascoff, @kellblog and @jessicakroy

Valéry Marchive / ZDNet:

France to invest €20bn in high-speed broadband for the entire country — Summary: French president François Hollande wants very high-speed broadband to reach every household in the country by 2023 - a plan that will need private as well as public investment. — Valéry Marchive

More: Reuters

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Gives Graph Search To More People, Makes Those Left Out Jealous — Five weeks after launch, Facebook gave reporters a ‘State Of Graph Search’ today at its Menlo Park HQ. It's been rolled out from the original 100,000 users to “hundreds of thousands,” and now a news feed story …

More: VentureBeat

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple-Samsung Judge Says Companies Must Narrow Lawsuit — Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) must narrow their patent-infringement lawsuit case scheduled for trial in 2014, a judge ruled. — U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, California, today told lawyers …

More: everythingiCafe, Electronista, Macgasm, PhoneArena and CNET

Ev Williams / Medium:

When to Sell Your Company — On October 30, 2008, I wrote an email to Twitter's board of directors, which started: … This email was in reply to a thread in which we were briefly discussing an overture we'd received from a much larger company. Of course, in 2008 Twitter was much, much smaller than it is today.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @qthrul, @fredwilson, @dsb, @bijan and @joelgascoigne

James Niccolai / Computerworld:

HP's Whitman says ‘no plans to break up the company’ — HP's CEO has again dismissed rumors that HP may be broken up into smaller businesses — Hewlett-Packard's CEO has dismissed persistent rumors that the company might break itself up in a move that could create more value for shareholders.

More: Network World, Bloomberg, GigaOM and Reuters

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

HP Beats Expectations With Revenue of $28.36B, $1.2B Earnings And EPS Of $0.82 For Q1 2013

More: The Verge, AllThingsD, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Engadget, SlashGear, The Register, PandoDaily, BBC, Business Insider, ZDNet, Forbes and Mercury News

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