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March 25, 2013, 4:10 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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows Blue: a video preview of what's next for Windows 8  —  Windows Blue made an early appearance on the internet over the weekend and we've had a chance to experience some of its new features.  The upgrade to Windows 8 looks like it's going to bring a host of improvements, fixes …
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.
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 we answered it with a simple theory …
More: TechCrunch and Digits
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Major Windows 8 built-in app updates due Tuesday, Google Calendar sync will be disabled  —  Microsoft is preparing some major updates to its built-in Windows 8 applications on Tuesday.  The company is refreshing its communication apps: mail, calendar, and people.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Facebook Rolls Out Replies And Threaded Comments On Page Posts And Popular Profiles  —  Facebook today is rolling out two more features for Pages used by brands and businesses and public Profiles for individuals with more than 10,000 followers: it is adding replies and threaded comments.
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 …
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:
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Google to ship LTE Chromebook Pixel by April 8; here's the LTE service pricing  —  Few may have ordered one, but the LTE version of Google's Chromebook Pixel is set to ship by April 8.  That's the date currently showing on the Pixel product page in the Google Play store, as noted by Jeff Jarvis.
More: Engadget, The Verge and Pocket-lintTweets: @jeffjarvis
iFixit:
BlackBerry Z10 Teardown  —  The allure of Spring is in the air.  Feel the weather warming up.  The hills covered with blooming flowers.  And with Spring comes the reemergence of berries, specifically BlackBerrys.  The BlackBerry Z10 is BlackBerry's (the company formerly known as RIM) newest flagship smartphone.
Max Slater-Robins / Neowin:
IE11 to appear as Firefox to avoid legacy IE CSS  —  We already know that Internet Explorer 11, the next iteration of the world's most popular browser, will include tab syncing as part of the Windows Blue update, which has leaked onto the Internet.  Neowin has also discovered that IE11 …
More: Engadget and WebProNews
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.
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 …

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