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March 19, 2013, 8:10 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Probes Microsoft, Partners Over Bribery Claims — Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.'s relationship with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign government officials in return for software contracts, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: Ars Technica, The Register, CNET, Hillicon Valley, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Betabeat, The Next Web and Engadget

John Frank / TechNet Blogs:

Our Commitment to Compliance — Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government is reviewing allegations that Microsoft business partners in three countries may have engaged in illegal activity, and if they did, whether Microsoft played any role in these alleged incidents.

More: New York Times, VatorNews, Computerworld, ReadWrite, BGR, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Network World, The Verge and Macgasm

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.

Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble — Google's quest to continue unifying their products is about to enter its next phase. According to multiple sources, the company's next step includes unifying their messaging platforms into a single service, which is expected to be called Babble.

More: TechHive, ReadWrite, Yahoo! News, CNET, Examiner, iDownloadBlog.com, GigaOM, The Full Signal, Phones Review, Ars Technica, PadGadget and ValueWalk. Thanks:@salcan

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft tempts Windows developers with $100 cash for new apps — Microsoft wants Windows 8 and Windows Phone developers to create apps for its platforms, and it's tempting them by offering up hard cash. In a new US marketing effort, Microsoft is offering developers $100 per app …

More: GeekWire, ZDNet, Neowin, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft readies next two CRM updates; acquires analytics vendor Netbreeze

More: Engadget, Computerworld, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, CRM Buyer, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Microsoft and InformationWeek

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot — Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company Hubspot. We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons' departure …

Tweets: @johnwilson, @stevekovach, @jwherrman and @fmanjoo

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to leave Adobe for Apple, report to Bob Mansfield — According to a tweet issued by CNBC, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will leave the company this week to join Apple. Neither Apple nor Adobe have confirmed the claim. Update: Adobe has confirmed in an SEC filing that Lynch departed the firm.

More: AllThingsD, The Next Web, Business Wire, The Next Web, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, ReadWrite, Mercury News, Gizmodo, CNET, Business Insider, iMore, MacRumors, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, ParisLemon and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @cnbc, @mikebeas, @gruber, @cnbc, @panzer and @brandonbailey

Thanks:@zaccoffman

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Adobe Loses CTO But Beats Q1 Estimates: $1.01B Revenue, $0.35 Non-GAAP EPS, 479K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers

More: GigaOM, ZDNet, ZDNet, Fast Company, Network World, CNBC, Fox Business and Macgasm

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

HTC Says Its Next Phone Is Delayed Because It's No Longer A ‘Tier-One’ Customer — HTC's new flagship phone, the HTC One, is facing delays because the company can't lock down the components its needs to produce the device. — In a surprisingly candid interview with WSJ …

More: digitaltrends.com and GigaOM

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed

More: BGR, The Verge, SlashGear, Pocketables, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, PC Magazine, FierceWireless and Droid Life

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Nvidia CEO unveils next two gens of Tegra, dubbed Logan, Parker — Jen-Hsun Huang says the company's mobile chip will show 100-times improvement from the first generation to the fifth. — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today talked up the chipmaker's next two generations of mobile chip …

More: VentureBeat, Android Phone Fans, Inquirer, The Verge, Engadget, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, TechHive, Computerworld, The Register, PhoneArena, NVIDIA, AndroidHeadlines.com and IntoMobile

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia introduces its own Grid-based server: the Visual Computing Appliance

More: NVIDIA and Wall Street Journal

Ethan Smith / Digits:

End of an Era for eMusic, Subscription Music Pioneer — eMusic, the online music service that pioneered the subscription approach before Spotify was a glimmer in Daniel Ek's eye, quietly merged Monday with an e-book distributor, in an unusual bit of digital-media consolidation.

More: Engadget, Billboard and SlashGear

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Amazon in talks with record labels about subscription music service

More: CNET

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion — Yahoo Inc. is in talks to buy a controlling stake in France Telecom SA's online-video site Dailymotion, according to people familiar with the talks, in what would be Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's first major acquisition since taking over the Internet pioneer last year.

More: CNET, Digits, Reuters, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones …

More: TechHive, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, App Advice, BestTechie, VentureBeat and Media Decoder

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Twitter gets a patent on... Twitter — Although Twitter famously has a pending patent on the familiar “pull-to-refresh” gesture, the company may have just acquired something more valuable: a patent on the Twitter messaging service itself. The new patent issued today with Twitter founders Jack Dorsey …

More: CNET and The Next Web. Tweets: @biz and @thematthewkeys

Brian Cairns / Google Developers Blog:

Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API — Google Drive lets users create Docs, Sheets, and Slides, collaborate on them in real time, and have their changes saved automatically. With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with Lock screen security flaw fix, Maps improvements for Japan — Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 to end users today. It is currently available over-the-air via Software Update in the Settings app. — The update includes a security flaw fix involving the iOS device Lock screen.

More: lists.apple.com, The Next Web, The Verge, Forbes, Engadget, Macworld, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, The Register, MacDailyNews, TUAW, MobilesPie, Gotta Be Mobile, Cult of Mac, Dennis Fisher, CNET and Inquirer

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Google+ Introduces New Hangouts App Called Capture, To Snap Pics Of Special Moments As They Happen — Today, Google introduced a new app for one of its most popular products, Hangouts. While Hangouts let you chat with multiple people over video, there are those moments when someone makes a funny face …

More: Google+, VentureBeat, CNET and Marketing Land. Thanks:@ayeletnoff

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Bug in EA's Origin game platform allows attackers to hijack player PCs — One scenario for using EA's Origin service as an attack platform to execute malicious code on end-user computers. — ReVuln — More than 40 million people could be affected by a vulnerability researchers uncovered …

More: BBC, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, SlashGear, IGN and Polygon

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Lytro Names Former Ning Head Rosenthal as CEO — Light field camera maker Lytro is naming former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as its new CEO. — Rosenthal, who also worked at HP/Opsware, Netscape and AOL, takes over a company with a unique technology but lots of work ahead of it.

More: VatorNews and LYTRO BLOG

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

The 49ers' plan to build the greatest stadium Wi-Fi network of all time — 49ers CTO Kunal Malik (left) and Senior IT director Dan Williams (right) stand in front of Santa Clara Stadium. — When the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium opens for the 2014 NFL season, it is quite likely …

More: Engadget, bizjournals and The Verge

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Evernote Food adds OpenTable reservations and Foursquare ratings to iOS — When Evernote Food in late 2011, it was a sign that the note-taking service was going in a new direction — but exactly where wasn't clear. Evernote Food let you collect and organize anything in your eating life …

More: Evernote Blog, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Engadget, TUAW, GigaOM, iLounge, The Next Web and SlashGear

Frank Konkel / Federal Computer Week:

Sources: Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal — In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. — Amazon Web Services will help …

More: Business Insider, The Register, Network World, GeekWire, TechSpot, ValueWalk and CNET

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

To Compete With Amazon, eBay Debuts Free Listings And Simpler Fee Structures For Sellers — Ebay is debuting a new fee structure and incentives for sellers today in an effort to remain the most competitive commerce platform next to e-commerce marketplace Amazon.

More: Reuters, The Verge and internetretailer.com

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google undeletes RSS extension for Chrome browser — It's not dead after all. Google has resurrected an extension that lets Chrome handle RSS and Atom feeds, even though it's not resurrecting the related Google Reader service. The 868,163 people who've installed Google's RSS-handling extension …

More: PC World, WebProNews and TechCrunch

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

NewsCred gets new $15M investment, adds New York Times as a partner — NewsCred has become a quiet force in media by offering brands and publishers an easy way to acquire high quality news content from brands like Bloomberg and Economist. In a further sign of its growing influence …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Venture Capital Dispatch and PandoDaily. See also Mediagazer

Donna Tam / CNET:

At $236, Galaxy S4 costlier to produce than S3, says report — IHS iSuppli's virtual teardown of the lasted Samsung smartphone shows it's 15 percent more expensive for Samsung to produce than last year's model. — The Samsung Galaxy S4's production costs are 15 percent higher …

More: IHS, CITEworld, Computerworld, MobileSyrup.com, TheStreet.com, Bloomberg and ZDNet

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