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March 23, 2013, 9:10 PM

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Jessica E. Lessin / Digits:

Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM — Apple has acquired indoor-GPS company WifiSLAM, a sign that the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up. — Apple paid around $20 million for the Silicon Valley-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter who said the deal closed recently.

More: CNET, AppleInsider, GigaOM, iMore, 9to5Mac, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Fan Site and Pulse2

Tweets: @parislemon and @spencerchen

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Acquires Indoor Mobile Location Positioning Firm WifiSLAM for $20 Million — The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has acquired indoor location company WifiSLAM, paying around $20 million for the firm. Apple has confirmed the purchase, but declined to offer any details on its plans for the acquisition.

More: PhoneDog

Wall Street Journal:

Bidding War for Dell Appears Likely — A bidding war for Dell Inc. appears likely, with Blackstone Group LP and Carl Icahn separately expressing interest in the company on Friday before a key deadline for offers expired. — Blackstone and Mr. Icahn, an activist investor …

More: DealBook, Bloomberg, InfoWorld, Neowin, Deal Journal, AllThingsD, The Verge, GigaOM and Associated Press

Bloomberg:

Blackstone Group, Icahn Said to Submit Proposals to Dell — Blackstone Group LP (BX) submitted a proposal to acquire Dell Inc., rivaling a $24.4 billion offer from Silver Lake Management LLC and company founder Michael Dell, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

More: Reuters, CNET, The Next Web, Engadget and Quartz

Tweets: @danprimack, @bloombergnews and @danprimack

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry — Summary: Most of the commentary I've read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client. But that's a red herring. The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines.

More: Paul Krugman, The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, Economist, Global Voices, Business 2 Community, Beyond Search, Investor's Business Daily and PandoDaily. Tweets: @carnage4life. See also Mediagazer

Nick Arnott / iMore:

Apple rolls out fix for password reset security hole, iForgot site back up — Apple's iForgot password reset page is now back online, and iMore has verified that the security hole, discovered earlier today in Apple's password reset page, has been closed. — Previously, after providing …

More: iMore, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, TodaysiPhone.com, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, App Advice, Softpedia News and MacRumors

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Windows Blue is aimed at Intel ‘Haswell’ ultrabooks — Microsoft and Intel will deliver better power efficiency on devices running on Windows Blue. — Longer lasting Haswell ultrabooks are coming with Windows Blue. — Intel's upcoming Haswell chip will be tied to new technology coming …

More: WinBeta and Neowin

Tom Hals / Reuters:

Shutterfly sues to shut down Kodak photo app — (Reuters) - Photo service Shutterfly Inc has sued to shut down an Eastman Kodak Co app that lets users purchase photo albums made from pictures stored on Facebook Inc's social media network, according to court documents.

More: Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha and Democrat And Chronicle

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Opens Universal Analytics Beta To All, Creates A Single Analytics Platform For Tracking Online And Offline Interactions — Last October, Google announced the limited beta of Universal Analytics, an effort to bring new features like cross-platform and mobile app analytics …

More: Marketing Land, Marketing Land, Google Analytics Blog, The Next Web, Business 2 Community and WebProNews

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Inside ‘Apple Anonymous’: The Secret Society of Apple's Retail Army — Walk into any one of Apple's more than 400 retail stores across the globe and you will receive customer service that is typically unmatched in the consumer electronics industry. The experience that an Apple Store customer receives …

More: Fortune and iMore. Thanks:@apollozac

Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:

Deaf, Blind Sue Over Web Shopping — Advocates for Disabled Say Netflix, Target Are Legally Obligated to Make Sites Easier to Navigate — Commerce has moved online. Now, the disability lawsuits are following. — Advocates for disabled Americans have declared that companies …

More: The Verge and VentureBeat. Tweets: @wsj

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