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February 22, 2013, 3:00 PM

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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: Marketing Land, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Business Insider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, ValueWalk, Redmond Pie, App Advice, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, I4U News, Neowin and Electronista

Tweets: @alexia, @joshuatopolsky, @reneritchie and @viticci

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, ValueWalk, Softpedia News and Business Insider

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Glass Targeting End Of 2013 Consumer Release, With Price Tag Under $1,500 — Google seems to be looking to bring its ambitious Google Glass wearable computer to market much faster than many likely anticipated, according to the Verge. Google told the site that it hopes to have a …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Business Insider, IntoMobile, Geek Beat Technology News, Mashable! and SlashGear

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, The Next Web, Washington Post, VentureBeat and Telegraph. 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: ReadWrite, digitaltrends.com, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Dennis Fisher, Ubergizmo, PC World, PC Magazine, Naked Security, ValueWalk, SocialTimes, The Register, AllThingsD, Daily Dot, CNET, ZDNet, InfoWorld, memeburn, Help Net Security, Mashable!, TechCrunch and Electronista. Tweets: @support

New York Post:

NYPD forms dedicated team to catch thieves who steal iPhones and iPads — iTheft busters — The theft of Apple devices is so rampant in New York that a team of cops has been assigned to work with the tech giant to get the stolen gadgets back, The Post has learned.

More: ABCNEWS, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, MacRumors, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, InvestorPlace, IntoMobile, iPhone Hacks, Network World, MacNN and iClarified

Ritsuko Ando / Reuters:

Nokia to fight rivals with cheaper models-sources — (Reuters) - Nokia is shifting the focus of its turnaround strategy to regaining domination of cheaper handsets after a stuttering campaign to catch up with Apple and Samsung in high-end smartphones. — Company sources said it would …

More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, BGR, Softpedia News, The Nokia Blog, Coyote Tracks, FierceWireless, CNET, VentureBeat, Neowin, BGR India, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile, ValueWalk, PhoneArena and Inquirer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Admits Critical Bugs Caused Page Reach To Be Misreported For Months — While trying to speed up its iOS and Android apps, Facebook accidentally stripped out too much data about news feed posts by Pages. This caused Page Insights to be misreported, leading admins to believe …

More: Facebook Studio, Marketing Land, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, The Next Web, Simply Measured and ValueWalk. Thanks:@chrisvelazco

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.

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Morgan Stanley expects 6% dividend, cheaper ‘iPhone mini’ after meeting with Apple CFO — Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty recently met with Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, and came away with the impression that Apple will likely increase cash return to shareholders …

More: Business Insider, 9to5Mac, BGR, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Business Insider, Fortune, Apple Bitch, App Advice and MacNN

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: Betabeat, VentureBeat, BBC, New York Times, CNET, Techonomy, The Verge, Engadget, Electronista, SiliconANGLE, PhoneArena, The Next Web and SlashGear. 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: GeekWire, PandoDaily and Neowin. See also Mediagazer

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, Reuters, ZDNet, CNET, GadgeTell, Inquirer, IntoMobile, The Register, GigaOM, The Next Web, Electronista, Engadget, Financial Times and Pocket-lint

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: VentureBeat and Reuters

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, Business Insider, Search Engine Watch and memeburn

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, CNET, The Verge, Forbes, DailyTech, SlashGear, Gizmodo and VentureBeat

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

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google buildings in Silicon Valley affected by toxic substances left behind by computer chip makers — Two buildings owned by Google in Silicon Valley are being exposed to toxic vapors at the moment, according to a news report published today by CBS. — TCE, also known as trichloroethylene vapors …

More: CBS San Francisco, PandoDaily, BGR, CNET and Betabeat

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Accused LulzSec hacker draws comparisons to Aaron Swartz from jail — Jeremy Hammond faces 30 years-to-life for his role in Stratfor hack — Alleged LulzSec hacker and political activist Jeremy Hammond issued a statement from a New York jail on Thursday, comparing his own case …

More: CNET, PC Magazine, The Sparrow Project, Salon and Softpedia News

Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac:

Qualcomm's latest chip could end iPhone LTE band fragmentation by putting 40 bands into one chipset — Apple's LTE chip supplier Qualcomm announced on Thursday that it hopes to tackle cellular radio frequency band fragmentation with the first “single, global 4G LTE design” for mobile devices.

More: Qualcomm, Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, Digit - Tech News, SlashGear, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Electronista, Macgasm and Wired

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