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March 12, 2013, 6:55 AM

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M — LinkedIn will buy San Francisco-based newsreader appmaker Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. — The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million.

More: memeburn, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, AllThingsD, PhoneArena, VatorNews, Business Insider, ZDNet, GeekWire, Inside Mobile Apps, Neowin, GigaOM, Mobile Marketing Watch, Mashable!, App Advice and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Here's What LinkedIn Can Do With Pulse — So what's LinkedIn going to do with Pulse now that it has bought the newsreader? — Maybe Jeff Weiner will keep heading down the path Pulse was headed: Trying to figure out how to create mobile magazines filled with other peoples' content …

More: CNN

Tao Tao / Oh, How Pinteresting!:

Introducing Pinterest Web Analytics — Bloggers, businesses, and organizations often ask us, “what are people pinning from my websites?” These website owners help create the content on Pinterest and we wanted to help them understand which pieces of content people find most interesting.

More: TechCrunch and Softpedia News

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Pinterest offers new tool, lays base for money-making features

More: ZDNet, Mobile Marketing Watch, AllThingsD, The Next Web and Marketing Land

J.J. Colao / Forbes:

Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working — To begin his talk at the Startup Village at South By Southwest, Steve Blank played a clip from Bravo's reality show “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” Ben and Hermione Way, two aspiring entrepreneurs who haven't built …

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Terril Yue Jones / Reuters:

China says willing to discuss cyber security with the U.S. — (Reuters) - China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington about the accusations and counter-accusations.

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

White House demands China stop hacking into US companies

More: The White House, VentureBeat and The Verge

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Netflix Launches Speed Index To Highlight The Best ISPs For Streaming — For the last few months now, Netflix regularly published a list of the fastest ISPs for streaming video. Today, the company launched a dedicated site for this data, the Netflix ISP Speed Index.

More: ReadWrite, GigaOM, Engadget, Overheard, SlashGear, PR Newswire, Light Reading, VentureBeat, WebProNews and Deadline.com

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

BlackBerry Shares Jump as Lenovo CEO Mentions Possible Deal — BlackBerry shares jumped the most in more than a month after Lenovo Group Ltd. (992)'s chief executive officer was quoted in a French financial newspaper as saying his company may eventually consider buying the smartphone maker.

More: BGR, Tech Trader Daily, Ubergizmo, memeburn, CNET, Neowin, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, ValueWalk, LAPTOP Magazine and PhoneArena. Tweets: @inafried

Rene Ritchie / iMore.com:

The “iPhone 5S” problem — Apple may or may not release a product called the “iPhone 5S” this year. The presumption, however, fueled by Apple having previously released the 2009 iPhone 3GS-as-in-speed, and the 2011 iPhone 4S-as-in-Siri, is that 2013 will see another S-style update.

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business? — After ten years of struggle, nobody has figured out how to make music pay — “The subscription model has failed so far,” Steve Jobs said in April 2007. “People want to own their music.” At that time, Apple had solved the problem …

More: Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path — Developer advocate Timothy Jordan highlights the ways your favorite services might integrate with Google Glass — We're watching Google's Project Glass developer panel live at SXSW Interactive, and the company's showing off …

More: Engadget, ABCNEWS, CNET, ReadWrite, NYT Bits, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Business Insider

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

AWS Just Made It A Whole Lot Easier For Anyone To Create A Virtual Private Cloud Showing Again How Enterprise Tech Is Obsolete — Amazon Web Services will now offer the option for everyone to have their own virtual private cloud (VPC), another sign of the company's intent to push into the enterprise market.

More: Amazon Web Services Blog and The Register

Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:

Data Mining for Investors: DJ Patil — Data mining can help venture capitalists find the next big thing. But it can't be the whole story— at least not yet. — From his perch as data scientist in residence at the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Greylock Partners …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

iPhone Video Usage Doubles Android, Says Ooyala — From the “Android is from Mars, Apple is from Venus” files, another reminder that the kind of phone you have influences what you do with that phone. — Or maybe it's a reminder that people buy different kinds of phones because they want to do different things with them.

More: AppleInsider, Electronista, PhoneArena and TodaysiPhone.com. Tweets: @pkafka

The Security Ledger:

Many Watering Holes, Targets In Hacks That Netted Facebook, Twitter and Apple — The attacks that compromised computer systems at Facebook, Twitter, Apple Corp. and Microsoft were part of a wide-ranging operation that relied on many “watering hole” web sites that attracted employees …

More: Ars Technica, CNET, Securosis Highlights, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Mac Security Blog and Macworld

David Pierce / The Verge:

HTC One review — I'm fairly confident there's a kitchen sink inside the HTC One. This phone has everything else, certainly, with nothing but high-end specs across the board. It starts with Qualcomm's new quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, a remarkably powerful chip clocked here at 1.7GHz.

More: ZDNet and 9to5Google. Tweets: @dsilverman

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Omniture Co-Founder's Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $60M From GGV Capital, Jeff Bezos, Greylock And Others — Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $60 million in new funding, we've learned exclusively.

More: AllThingsD, AdExchanger, MarketWatch and Salt Lake Tribune. See also Mediagazer

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Facebook ‘focused on basics’ for News Feed and mobile ads — There's a vision many people have when they think about mobile advertising. Hyperlocal, real-time, something that incorporates features like text, push notifications, QR codes and GPS. — Facebook News Feed product manager Jeff Kanter …

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office Is Investigating HP's Autonomy Allegations — Hewlett-Packard just filed its regular form 10Q or quarterly report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and it contains some news. — In the filing HP discloses that it has been told by the Serious Fraud Office …

More: TechEye, CNET, Bloomberg, Electronista, Associated Press, ZDNet and SiliconBeat

Jay Greene / CNET:

Microsoft offers Kinect code samples under open source — The software giant, hoping to get more developers writing PC applications to use its motion-sensing controller, is offering some pieces of code under an Apache 2.0 license. — Kinect for Windows sensor

More: BBC, VentureBeat, Open Source Insider, MSDN Blogs, Neowin and Polygon

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Sprint Will Have an All-Touch BlackBerry This Year, but It's Not the Z10 — Sprint may have chosen to take a pass on the first all-touch BlackBerry 10 device, but it isn't planning to sit out that part of the market. — The No. 3 U.S. carrier plans to launch an all-touch BlackBerry-10-powered device …

More: The Verge, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, CNET, Pocketnow, BGR, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo and Engadget

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google updates design of Gmail's web and offline apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users — Google on Monday announced an update to its Gmail mobile Web app and Gmail Offline. The company says the new release is available to Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users …

More: Google+, digitaltrends.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, MacRumors, TUAW, TodaysiPhone.com, Engadget, VatorNews, Macgasm, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, IntoMobile and WebProNews

Tim Peterson / Adweek:

Facebook Challenges Google's Tech Dominance by Partnering With AOL, Adobe — Facebook and Google aren't exactly besties, and the social giant's latest move won't help matters. In recent weeks Facebook has made two friends through moves that will simultaneously help its own advertising business and hurt Google's.

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Microsoft enabling Flash by default in Internet Explorer 10 starting March 12th — Microsoft has just announced that it will permit Flash content to run by default in both Windows RT and Windows 8 beginning tomorrow, March 12th. Until now, compatibility in Internet Explorer 10 has been limited …

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