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March 13, 2013, 2:05 PM

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Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:
Update from the CEO  —  Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google.  He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry.  Most people thought he was nuts.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Sundar Pichai Takes Over For Andy Rubin As Head Of Android At Google, Signals The Unification of Android, Chrome And Apps  —  Google has just announced that Andy Rubin will be moving on to a new role at the company, and that Sundar Pichai will now lead the Android division, in an official blog post written by CEO Larry Page.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Android Chief Andy Rubin Moves to Other Google Projects While Sundar Pichai Takes Over  —  In a surprise announcement, Google just switched around its top leadership.  Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, will no longer manage that team.  Sundar Pichai, the company's head of Chrome and Apps, is adding Android as well.
Cameron Johnson / The Official Netflix Blog:
Introducing Netflix Social  —  Movies and TV shows are better with friends.  —  We get suggestions from our friends for new things to watch and we connect with our friends through the shared enjoyment of a great movie or TV show.  —  Starting today, Netflix members in the U.S. can share …
Bloomberg:
Samsung Targets Galaxy 4 at Apple's Core IPhone Market  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone's U.S. loyalists, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s flagship store in New York and broadcasting the event live in Times Square.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes As Users Report Problems Early On Making Payments  —  Google opened registration for its annual I/O developer conference today at 7 AM PDT, and just as it did last year, the event sold out pretty quickly.  This year it took only 49 minutes …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Apple CEO Cook must testify in e-books antitrust case: judge  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook must sit for a deposition in the U.S. government's lawsuit against the company over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Outspends Apple on Phone Advertising  —  In the smartphone business, following the money leads right to Samsung Electronics Co.  —  Outspent by rival Apple Inc. more than three to one in advertising for mobile phones in the U.S. in 2011, Samsung responded with a marketing blitz on TV …
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
The Pivotal Initiative, in case you were wondering, is now official  —  Not that there was a lot of doubt, but the Pivotal Initiative spin-off of VMware and EMC, has now officially spun off and will likely go public, according to EMC CEO and Chairman Joe Tucci, speaking at an investors event in New York.
More: Tech Trader Daily and SiliconANGLETweets: @qthrul
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself?  —  The team sitting around the table at Groupon's Chicago headquarters in the early spring of 2011 were some of the brightest minds in technology and business.  Marc Andreessen, the man who created the modern web browser and Silicon Valley's hottest venture capitalist.
Tweets: @sfiegerman and @pkafka
Amar Toor / The Verge:
Apple Stores in France banned from forcing employees to work late  —  A Paris court this week banned seven French Apple Stores from forcing employees to work night shifts, in response to a complaint filed by a group of national labor unions.  As the AFP reports, the court also ordered Apple …
Jackie Dove / TechHive:
Adobe plans to halt boxed sales of Creative Suite software  —  Adobe plans to halt boxed sales of its Creative Suite software, making its packages for creative pros available online or by subscription only.  —  “As Adobe continues to focus on delivering world-class innovation through Creative Cloud …
Jane Justice Leibrock / Facebook:
User Experience Lab: How we designed a new News Feed using your feedback  —  “My feed is cluttered.”  That's a piece of feedback the News Feed team has heard countless times.  An obvious interpretation could be that people think the design of Feed is too busy and want it to be simplified …
New York Times:
Security Leader Says U.S. Would Retaliate Against Cyberattacks  —  WASHINGTON — The chief of the military's newly created Cyber Command told Congress on Tuesday that he is establishing 13 teams of programmers and computer experts who could carry out offensive cyberattacks on foreign nations …
Taylor Hatmaker / ReadWrite:
Peter Thiel On Not Selling Facebook To Yahoo - And Much More  —  As it turns out, the man who wants to build a sovereign ocean community off the coast of California is really down to earth.  —  Tuesday at South by Southwest (SXSW), serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist …
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