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March 13, 2013, 5:27 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.

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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo, @reneritchie and @acedtect

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.

More: Quartz, Computerworld, CITEworld, TechHive and InfoWorld

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Larry Page Says There Have Now Been 750M Android Activations

More: VentureBeat, Inquirer, Guardian and Business Insider

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 …

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Bloomberg:

Netflix Adds Social Options, Facebook Ties for U.S. Users

More: PR Newswire, AllThingsD, Gizmodo and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Casey Newton / CNET:

Twitter acquires We Are Hunted, readies standalone music app — SCOOP: Twitter is preparing a music discovery app built on technology from a recent acquisition. It could be released by the end of the month. [Read more]

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.

More: TechCrunch, Network World, Forbes, Businessweek, PhoneArena, Reuters, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM, DailyTech and FierceWireless. Tweets: @ee

Dan Graziano / BGR:

Galaxy S IV reportedly won't have eye-scrolling technology or an eight-core processor in the U.S.

More: Associated Press, CNET, Examiner and IntoMobile

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: HTC One Headed to Verizon, Too — It looks like HTC's One really will be the one flagship for the Taiwanese phone maker. — When HTC announced the phone last month, it said the One would be sold at AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. A mention of Verizon was noticeably absent.

More: digitaltrends.com, LAPTOP Magazine, TechHive, CNET, BGR, SlashGear, IntoMobile, PhoneNews.com, Engadget, The Verge, HTC Source, The Full Signal, Gotta Be Mobile and PhoneArena

Jeff Huang / Facebook Developer Blog:

Making Apps a Bigger Part of Timeline — Today, we're announcing an update to timeline to help people express what's important to them. We're introducing better ways for apps to appear on timeline, improved controls for users, and streamlined tools for setting up Open Graph. — A more organized timeline

More: PC Magazine, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, AllFacebook, GigaOM, Techie Buzz, iDownloadBlog.com and WebProNews

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Facebook begins rolling out new one-column Timeline with increased emphasis on interests

More: Facebook Newsroom, TechCrunch, Business Insider, AllThingsD, The Verge, Inside Facebook, Marketing Pilgrim and ValueWalk

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.

More: AllThingsD, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, paidContent, The Verge, CNET, TodaysiPhone.com, Electronista and ValueWalk

iFixit:

Pebble Teardown — Welcome to the future of watch evolution. The Pebble E-Paper Watch is the “first watch built for the 21st century.” It can track your bikerides, display your text messages, and even tell the time! We had no choice but to bust the Pebble open and see what made it tick.

More: Engadget, CNET, VentureBeat, Geek.com, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and TechSpot

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Google Admits Street View Project Violated Privacy — SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people's privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords, e-mail and other personal information from unsuspecting computer users.

More: DSLreports, Forbes, InfoWorld, Gizmodo, BuzzMachine and DailyTech

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 …

More: The Atlantic Wire

Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times:

China hacker's angst opens a window onto cyber-espionage

More: The Verge

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 …

More: Business Insider, Computerworld, Business Insider, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena and BGR

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 …

More: The Verge, Mashable!, The Next Web, TechSpot, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Neowin and PetaPixel

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 …

More: PC Magazine, Computerworld, IntoMobile, Examiner, ReadWrite, MobileSyrup.com and Android and Me

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

With Q4 Earnings Two Weeks Out And Stock Dipping, BlackBerry Suddenly Announces Mystery Order Of 1M BB10 Handsets — BlackBerry issued a press release today that amounts to little more than “Look! We're selling handsets!” The four paragraph release hit the wire at 3:17 ET, and shares …

More: Market Wire, Reuters, PC Magazine, The Next Web, AllThingsD, BGR, Business Insider and GigaOM

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.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @sfiegerman

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: VentureBeat and Tech Trader Daily

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

VMware merges vCloud, Nicira to chase software defined data center

More: VMware News Releases, The Console Blog, Forrester Blogs, GigaOM, AllThingsD, CITEworld, VMware, TechCrunch and GigaOM

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Oracle buys private-cloud pioneer Nimbula — Remember Nimbula, the startup from Amazon Web Services veterans Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon that launched in 2010 amid a firestorm of private-cloud activity in every direction? Well, now it's part of Oracle, the two companies announced Wednesday morning.

More: Oracle, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Data Center Knowledge, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, The Register and VentureBeat

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 …

More: ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, Communications … and Macgasm

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