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February 26, 2013, 4:15 PM

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Seth Sternberg / Google+ Developers Blog:

Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam — Today we're adding a new feature to the Google+ platform: application sign-in. Whether you're building an app for Android, iOS or the web, users can now sign in to your app with Google, and bring along their Google+ info for an upgraded experience.

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Google+ Sign-In takes on Facebook Connect and frictionless sharing

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Google's Rubin: No Need for Retail Stores — Despite reports that Google has been eyeing real estate for physical stores, Android chief Andy Rubin says the company really doesn't need its own retail effort. — A few years ago, consumers needed to touch and feel devices …

More: Business Insider, The Verge, BGR, TechCrunch, Mobile Marketing Watch, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, Android and Me, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, memeburn, Macgasm and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @gsterling

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Departs Sweden And Sets Sail For Norway and Spain — When it comes to hosting a website there are thousands of companies and organizations around the world open for business. However, the options reduce massively when your site is internationally infamous.

More: Falkvinge on Infopolicy, Engadget, Techdirt, Piratpartiet, DailyTech, CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Daily Dot, ArcticStartup and Inquirer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

For the First Time Since Napster, Music Sales Are Growing — The last time music was a growth business was 1999 — back when people bought millions of Britney Spears CDs, and GeoCities was the third-most popular Web property in the world. You know what's happened since then.

More: IFPI, AppleInsider, New York Times, Techdirt, MacRumors, Associated Press, VatorNews, The Next Web, internetretailer.com, Gizmodo and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

NPD: Illegal P2P music sharing declined 17% in 2012 as Internet users turn to free, legal streaming services

More: NPD Group, Forbes, GeekWire, CNET, SlashGear and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Revealed: Stuxnet “beta's” devious alternate attack on Iran nuke program — Version 0.5 shows cyberweapon development began two years earlier than thought. — Researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen version of Stuxnet. The discovery sheds new light on the evolution …

More: CNET, Wired, VentureBeat, SecurityWeek and Bloomberg Tech Blog

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Researchers say Stuxnet was deployed against Iran in 2007

More: Symantec, The Verge and The Register

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Glam Media Just Secretly Filed For An IPO — Two sources familiar with the matter say that Glam Media, the digital lifestyle-content publisher, has filed confidential documents as part of a new secret IPO process. — Glam got its start offering fashion and gossip content on Glam.com …

More: The Next Web

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple Now a Bit Easier to Deal With, and Other Observations From France Telecom's Straight-Talking CEO — Apple, while still a force to be reckoned with, has become a bit easier to deal with under Tim Cook, at least according to one major European operator.

More: Engadget, digitaltrends.com, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, iPhone and WMPoweruser

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Internet Explorer 10 finally released for Windows 7 — Four months after Microsoft released Internet Explorer 10 with and for Windows 8, Redmond has finally released a version of the company's newest browser for Windows 7 users in 95 other languages too. More than 700 million people …

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Foursquare Partners with Visa and MasterCard to Give Discounts When Users Shop — Company Will Take a Cut of Offers Redeemed — Looking to unlock a new revenue stream, Foursquare is announcing new partnerships with Visa and MasterCard that will let credit and debit card holders claim discounts at participating retailers.

More: Business Insider, CNET, About Foursquare and Marketing Pilgrim

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Silicon Valley dwarfs list of top regions for tech acquisitions — Silicon Valley headed the list of the top 10 U.S. cities in terms of tech acquisitions in 2012. — PrivCo, a New York company that tracks private investments, said that Silicon Valley (combining San Francisco and the region around it) …

More: AllThingsD

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's Selling More Macs Because It Finally Has More Macs to Sell — Though supplies of its new iMac remain somewhat constrained, Apple appears to be making some headway in bringing supply of the machine into rough parity with demand. To wit, new data from NPD that shows Mac sales up significantly this year.

More: InvestorPlace, Ars Technica and iPhone in Canada Blog

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

“Angry Birds Toons”, Rovio's New Cartoon Series, Is Coming To A Browser Near You March 16 — They're cute. They're bouncy. And they're angry. Introducing “Angry Birds Toons”. Seriously. — Rovio has long teased the existence of an Angry Birds cartoon series but held most of the details secret.

More: Rovio, The Verge, The Next Web, Kotaku, SlashGear, MyTechSkool, WebProNews and iPhone in Canada Blog

Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits:

Gates, Zuckerberg, Other Tech Icons Promote Youth Coding in New Film — A new nonprofit seeking to rally interest among children, parents and schools in computer programming is getting help from some big guns in the tech industry, including the founders of Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter.

More: CNET, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, ZDNet, USA Today, AllFacebook, Fortune, GigaOM, Forbes, MSDN Blogs, HotHardware.com News, SlashGear, Softpedia News, PandoDaily and GeekWire

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Intel baking Apache Hadoop into silicon for big data, security uses — Summary: Silicon Valley is turning to Hadoop to tackle big data, and Intel is attempting to get involved at ground level through integration on its chips. — SAN FRANCISCO — Not to be left out of the party this week …

More: Digits, SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reuters, Intel Newsroom, PC Magazine, V3.co.uk and Datacenter Dynamics

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

BlackBerry Testing Money Messenger Service — BlackBerry (BBRY) is testing whether the money-transfer business will help Canada's smartphone maker keep users hooked on its instant-messaging service. — BlackBerry is beginning a pilot project with PT Bank Permata (BNLI) …

More: MobileSyrup.com, AllThingsD, Web 2.0 Asia Blog and FierceMobileContent News

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Maybe You'll Get the Pay TV You Want, After All: Cablevision Sues Viacom to Break Up the Bundle — Pay TV has a simple model: If you want to watch one channel, you have to pay for dozens — or hundreds — of others, whether you watch them or not. That model drives lots of consumers nuts, but it has looked very, very hard to dislodge.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, PR Newswire, The Next Web, AdAge and multichannel.com/rss. See also Mediagazer

Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac:

Staples now sells Apple accessories including Apple TV, keyboards, Airports, Magic Mouse, and Smart Covers — Staples executives confirmed last week that the office supply retail chain would soon offer Apple accessories in its U.S. online store, and now the merchandise is finally live.

More: CNET, iMore.com, TUAW, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, Edible Apple, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac and PadGadget

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs, keep them open when memory runs out — Google is working on identifying Chrome tabs that are currently playing audio (or recording it). The feature is expected to show an audio animation if a tab is broadcasting or recording sound.

More: The Register, PC World, Techdows, Evolver.fm and Geek.com

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Former Square COO Keith Rabois Joins Square Investor Khosla Ventures As Partner — Keith Rabois is going to be a full-time investor after more than a decade in operating roles. And fittingly, he'll be doing that as a partner at Khosla Ventures — a high-powered firm as feisty, contrarian, and entrepreneur-focused as he is.

More: AllThingsD, Business Wire, Business Insider, Mercury News, CNET, VentureBeat, Businessweek, Fortune, Digits, GigaOM, Wired and Forbes. Thanks:@ryanlawler

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Exclusive: RightScale is first to resell, support Google Compute Engine — Here's something to ponder for those who don't see Google Compute Engine as ready for primetime: RightScale will start reselling and providing first-line support of the Google public cloud infrastructure. This is big news.

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Instagram Surpasses 100 Million Active Users — After nearly two and a half years on the market, Instagram has surpassed the 100 million active user mark. — The milestone comes just over a month after Instagram began releasing its active user numbers for the first time …

More: Instagram Blog, VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com and BestTechie

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's ‘Think Different’ man likes Samsung's ad campaign — Apple is like Obama after the first debate, says TBWA\Chiat\Day's former creative director — FORTUNE — Ken Segall worked with Steve Jobs for 14 years, during which time he put the i in iMac and found the thread that links Albert Einstein and Amelia Earhart.

More: Observatory, Business Insider, BGR, Network World, iPhone Alley Spectrum, MacRumors, Business Insider, 9to5Google, iPhone Hacks, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Computerworld, AppleInsider, iPhone and App Advice

CNET:

Mozilla CEO: Android, iOS leave lots of room for Firefox OS — Mozilla's browser-based OS can win a place among the next 2 billion people arriving on the Net, Gary Kovacs argues. And about attracting app developers, he quipped, “There's a Web for that.” — BARCELONA, Spain …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, OStatic blogs and FierceWireless. Tweets: @benedictevans

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