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March 4, 2013, 3:30 PM

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Bloomberg:

Apple's Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV — While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple Inc. (AAPL) is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company's wristwatch-style device, still in development, may prove more profitable.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple's watch will run iOS and arrive later this year, say sources — Jony Ive wants a spot on your wrist — More details are emerging about Apple's forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to aBloomberg report this morning and corroborated by our sources.

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Tweets: @joemfbrown, @tomwarren and @markgurman

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

Samsung's New Smartphone Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages — Samsung's next big smartphone, to be introduced next month, will have a strong focus on software. A person who has tried the phone, called the Galaxy S IV, described one feature as particularly new and exciting: Eye scrolling.

More: CNET, BGR, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, PhoneArena and Mashable!. Thanks:@bxchen

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung posts first teaser video for Galaxy S 4 — Samsung has just posted a teaser video for the upcoming launch of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 4. The clip shows a young boy, apparently “the secret messenger” of Samsung Unpacked 2013, taking delivery of a secret package.

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

White House: It's Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking. — The White House on Monday came out in support of a consumer's right to unlock their cell phone once they have fulfilled the terms of the contract. — Responding to a petition on whitehouse.gov, the executive branch stated …

More: The White House, Library of Congress, VentureBeat, Techdirt, Ars Technica, The Verge, ReadWrite, Engadget, Hillicon Valley, MacRumors, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, Gizmodo, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, Network World, FierceWireless, Pocketnow, FCC, WebProNews, Quartz, The Consumerist and iClarified

Tweets: @nerdtalker and @digiphile

Laird Harrison / KQED News Fix:

Microsoft Winds Down ‘Scroogled’ Campaign Against Google — Can nothing stop Google? — On Thanksgiving, Microsoft launched attack ads against the Internet giant that were so ferocious they made headlines in advertising and technology publications alike.

More: VentureBeat, BGR, GeekWire, Marketing Land, The Verge, DailyTech, Neowin, WinBeta, Search Engine Land and WebProNews

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Warren Buffett: If he were Tim Cook, he'd be buying Apple — “If you could buy dollar bills for 80 cents, it's a very good thing to do.” — FORTUNE — In a three-hour appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA) Warren Buffett addressed two burning issues …

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Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Apple loses title of most valuable company to Exxon

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Business Insider, MacNN and Mashable!. Thanks:@mercbizbreak

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube Programmers Complain About Video Advertising Dollars — The big picture for YouTube looks good. The world's biggest video site keeps getting bigger, generating more video views and more ad dollars. — Things are fuzzier for some of YouTube's biggest programming partners.

More: The Verge, Virtual-Strategy Magazine and SocialTimes. See also Mediagazer

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Blurred Navision: Microsoft may owe Denmark more than $1b in unpaid taxes — American software juggernaut Microsoft may owe Denmark's treasury department several billions of Danish kroner in unpaid taxes, according to a report from DR, the country's national broadcasting corporation.

More: CNET, TechSpot, ValueWalk, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, TechEye, Geek.com, Mashable! and Gizmodo

Wayne Williams / BetaNews:

Xbox Live premieres its first movie — In tough economic times, raising the money and getting a movie made without any major stars in it can be more than a little challenging for independent film makers. Getting it distributed is even harder. — So instead of trying to get their movie into cinemas …

More: BBC, The Verge, Telegraph, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Inquirer, The Next Web, PC Magazine, CNET, blog.chron.com, Engadget, Ubergizmo, National Updates, Laughing Squid, Mashable!, Electronista, Pocket-lint and Neowin. See also Mediagazer

Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:

Hold On Tight, Gizmodo Is a TV Show Now — If we made a Top Gear for gadgets, would you watch it? In two weeks, you'll have your chance. — Nearly ten years ago, when I first ran Gizmodo, gadgets were as niche of a topic for news and debate as could be.

Tweets: @alexweprin, @kylenw, @joshpetri, @nicknotned, @joeljohnson and @joeljohnson. Thanks:@nstango. See also Mediagazer

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets Virtual Asylum — Last week the Swedish Pirate Party was forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay. — The Party and its leaders took this difficult decision after they were threatened with a lawsuit by a local anti-piracy group.

More: The Pirate Bay, Gizmodo and WebProNews

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack in the Cloud — The open source software for running cloud computing installations just got a big new name in its camp: IBM. — Big Blue announced today that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, GigaOM, Wired, SiliconANGLE and Wired

Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal:

As Pirates Run Rampant, TV Studios Dial Up Pursuit — By the glow of six flat screens inside a windowless room in a California office tower, three content cops from NBCUniversal watch as pirated versions of the cable-TV drama “Suits” begin popping up on the Internet within minutes of the show's closing credits.

More: paidContent and ZDNet. See also Mediagazer

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Netflix Has No Current Plans for a BlackBerry 10 App — If BlackBerry is “in talks” with Netflix about a BlackBerry 10 version of the company's popular video-streaming app, they aren't going very well. — Sources say Netflix isn't developing a version of its app for BlackBerry 10 — native or port.

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

The Evolving Economics of the App — Music search application SoundHound is a bargain on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone store: It is free. — But for iPhone users, one version of SoundHound costs $6.99. And on Google Inc. Android devices, a version of the mobile app costs $5.99.

More: GigaOM and Wall Street Journal

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