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March 25, 2013, 1:55 PM

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The Yahoo! Yodel:
Yahoo! To Acquire Summly  —  Today, we're excited to share that we're acquiring Summly, a mobile product company founded with a vision to simplify the way we get information, making it faster, easier and more concise.  —  At the age of 15, Nick D'Aloisio created the Summly app at his home in London.
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Spotify Plans To Take On Netflix And HBO With Streaming Video Service  —  Spotify, the on-demand music service, is planning a major change.  According to two sources briefed on the company's plans, Spotify intends to become an on-demand music and video service - one that would invest …
Paul Sloan / CNET:
Is Spotify gearing up to take on Netflix?  Not soon  —  Video on the on-demand music service is a possibility, but Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says not for a long time.  —  Spotify, the largest on-demand music service with 24 million active listeners, is in the early stages of exploring a possible video service …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft readying multiple Windows Blue servers and a Blue Windows RT build  —  Summary: There's more confirmation (if you needed/wanted it) that Microsoft is readying Blue builds of Windows RT and Windows Server.  —  It shouldn't be too much of a surprise to anyone who has been following …
Eva Dou / Digits:
HTC's Marketing Chief Takes Bolder Approach  —  After weeks of HTC Corp. being coy about a delayed launch for its new flagship smartphone, the company's new chief marketing officer was surprisingly frank during his first meeting with the press since joining the company in January.
Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:
[Breaking] Steve Kondik (Cyanogen) Leaves Samsung After Less Than Two Years On The Job  —  Steve Kondik, the founder of CyanogenMod, needs no introduction.  This man is a star in the Android community and a true Nexus warrior (hi, /r/acj!).  19 months ago, in August of 2011 …
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Google+ Gets A Mobile Refresh With Photo Editing, Post Tweaks, Location And Community Controls  —  Today, Google has announced a mobile refresh for Google+ for Android and iOS that includes some of the functionality that has come out for the desktop over the past few months.
DealBook:
Dell Founder Said to Weigh Switching to Blackstone Offer  —  With the emergence of the Blackstone Group as a suitor for Dell Inc., it appears that Michael S. Dell may have a change of heart.  —  Mr. Dell considers Blackstone's preliminary proposal to be potentially friendly to management …
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Sony's High-End Xperia ZL Comes to U.S. at a Hefty $719  —  Sony's latest smartphone is coming to the U.S. with both an eye-popping screen and an eye-popping price.  —  Once again, the Japanese phone maker has found little carrier support, and is instead selling its device unlocked.
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Evernote 5 hits Android with revamped camera, shortcuts and tweaked UI  —  Evernote has finally brought its Android client up to par with its iOS counterpart, pushing it to version five.  The update, which just hit the Play store, includes a mild face lift that offers more contrast between notes …
Horace Dediu / asymco:
So long, break-even  —  iTunes store will be 10 years old next month.  From its inception Apple has stated that it aims to run the store “at break-even”.  The business has grown so rapidly however that its profit-free nature has come under severe pressure.
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
United States Wants to Attract Hackers to Public Sector  —  WASHINGTON — In the eighth grade, Arlan Jaska figured out how to write a simple script that could switch his keyboard's Caps Lock key on and off 6,000 times a minute.  When friends weren't looking, he slipped his program onto their computers.
More: Salon and BetabeatThanks:@nikcub
TechCrunch:
AWS Reveals In Job Listing It's Launching “A New Business,” Looks To Be Pushing Deeper Into Mobile  —  Amazon Web Services believes wholeheartedly that the cloud is the future.  And not just the cloud, but the AWS public cloud.  As a result, Amazon sees big opportunity for its technology …
More: The Droid Guy and GigaOMThanks:@ripemp
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Nasty Gal, an Online Start-Up, Is a Fast-Growing Retailer  —  LOS ANGELES — If ever there were a Cinderella of tech, Sophia Amoruso might be it.  —  In 2006, Ms. Amoruso was a 22-year-old community college dropout, living in her step-aunt's cottage, working at an art school checking student IDs for $13 an hour.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
BlackBerry's Million-Smartphone Mystery Partner: Brightstar  —  Who bought one million BlackBerry 10 devices?  —  We posed that question here earlier this month following the announcement of the largest single handset purchase in BlackBerry's history, and answered it with a simple theory …

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