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March 25, 2013, 9:50 AM

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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.

More: AllThingsD, paidContent, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and memeburn

Tweets: @yahooinc, @nickdaloisio and @rafat

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Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Yahoo! Continues To Attack Mobile, Buys News Gathering And Delivery Startup Summly, App Will Close — Yahoo! has picked up the pace on pretty much everything since Marissa Mayer became CEO, especially mobile acquisitions. Just five days ago, the company acquired social recommendation company Jybe …

Thanks:@leenarao

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don't Come Back? — If judged by my Twitter stream last week, the shutdown of Google Reader is the biggest story ever in the history of news. Of course, the reality is that Google is likely shutting down the product for a good reason: relatively few people used it, with less using it over time.

More: Gravitational Pull. Tweets: @seanlindsay, @davewiner, @davewiner and @hunterwalk

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Another Reason Google Reader Died: Increased Concern About Privacy and Compliance

More: Guardian, Gizmodo, Marketing Pilgrim, The Verge, Softpedia News and TechCrunch. Tweets: @owenthomas. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: AllThingsD, Fortune and App Advice

Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint:

Facebook Messenger on iPhone gets voice-calling and messages in UK — Pocket-lint has been given a heads-up that UK iPhone owners will get voice calling and voice message functionality on their Facebook Messenger apps at some point today (25 March). — The features have been in test …

More: iMore, Engadget, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com and Softpedia News

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Dell details rival takeover bids from Blackstone and Carl Icahn — Michael Dell faces a battle to control the company he founded — As reported on Saturday, Michael Dell's attempt to take Dell private has been challenged by a pair of rival bids. In a press release this morning …

More: AllThingsD, ZDNet, BBC, CNET, DealBook, The Next Web, StreetInsider.com, Bloomberg, Fortune and Wall Street Journal

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Michael Dell Could Lose CEO Job in Rival Buyout Bid

More: TechCrunch, Deal Journal, Reuters, CNET, Softpedia News, NextBigWhat, memeburn, Reuters, VentureBeat and ValueWalk

Tweets: @danprimack and @cnnmoneytech

Alex Konrad / Forbes:

To Sell Its New Z10 Phone, BlackBerry Bets Big On Real-Time Takeovers — When you're betting the house, you don't skimp on the marketing. That's the approach BlackBerry has taken with its BlackBerry 10 operating system and its line of smartphones anchored on the Z10, which hit stores in the U.S. Friday.

More: PhoneArena, memeburn, The Verge, Ars Technica, App Advice and T3 News

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: GigaOM. Thanks:@ripemp

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Nokia comments on VP8 patent infringement assertions filed with IETF, criticizes Google — After discovering and blogging about Nokia's declaration of intellectual property rights (IPRs) allegedly infringed by Google's VP8 video codec I asked Nokia for comment.

More: The H Open Source, ZDNet, BBC, Engadget, The Register, WMPoweruser, The Verge, iClarified, My Nokia Blog and tech.slashdot.org

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. Thanks:@nikcub

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.

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 …

More: Google+, The H Open Source, The Verge, Engadget, Redmond Pie, Android Authority and Android Beat

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