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Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Sorry Apple gets respect in China after tabloid trial  —  (Reuters) - With its rare apology, Apple Inc went from pariah to praiseworthy in the eyes of China's state-controlled media, a lesson for other foreign firms not to underestimate the speed and power of the government press.
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
Facebook's Sandberg May Be Deposed in Antitrust Case  —  Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is scheduled to be questioned in a lawsuit alleging that seven technology companies broke antitrust laws by agreeing to not recruit from each other.
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Google Faces Action in EU After Failing to Fix Privacy Policy  —  Google Inc. (GOOG) faces possible fines after six European Union data protection regulators started “coordinated” enforcement measures over the company's failure to fix flaws in a new privacy policy.
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Smartisan OS unveiled in China, takes a fresh approach to Android UI design  —  Following the likes of Meizu and Xiaomi, another star is born in the Chinese smartphone market.  In fact, some may already know the man behind this new Android-based Smartisan OS: Luo Yonghao, a self-taught ex-English teacher …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
San Francisco DA met with Apple over phone thefts, hints next two iPhones designed under Jobs  —  The San Francisco Examiner reports on meetings between San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and mobile device makers regarding phone thefts.  Because Apple's iPhone was reportedly involved …
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Sign o' the Times: Twitter gets a Vine copyright complaint from Prince's record label  —  Twitter has been served a DMCA copyright complaint for content that was published using the Vine video platform it acquired and launched earlier this year.  —  Twitter openly shares how many DMCA takedown notices …
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Steven Musil / CNET:
USPTO reaffirms invalidation of Apple patent in Samsung suit  —  Patent office issues a Final Office Action on Apple's “bounce-back” patent, a key patent to Apple's case.  —  The damages Samsung owes Apple in their landmark patent lawsuit could be reduced even further after a recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Startup Nebula Launches a Plug-and-Play Cloud Computer  —  Here's a name I haven't heard in a while: Anso Labs.  —  This was the cloud computing startup that originated at NASA, where the original ideas for OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform was born.
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
HTC One coming to AT&T and Sprint on April 19th for $199.99, will beat the Galaxy S4 to the market  —  The HTC One, the company's new flagship phone and would-be savior, will be available on AT&T starting on April 19th for $199.99.  That's a good $50 less than was rumored yesterday …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
HD Voice Will Start Coming to AT&T Later This Year  —  Among the announcements that T-Mobile made last month was its plan to deploy improved voice calling, starting with the arrival of its iPhone 5 later this month.  —  The technology, known as HD Voice, requires support from both the network and the devices on each end of the call.
Matthew Boesler / Business Insider:
ANALYST: All Of My Clients Think There's A Bitcoin Bubble, But A ‘Perfect Storm’ Is Causing Prices To Surge  —  It's probably fair to say that the big rise in Bitcoin this year has caught many by surprise.  —  Today, the value of one Bitcoin hit $100.  In early March, they were trading below $35.
Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Microsoft co-founder to open investment office in Silicon Valley  —  (Reuters) - Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp, is opening an office in Silicon Valley to make new investments in emerging technology and internet companies.  —  The Palo Alto office …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
No joke: Amazon hires Windows Phone vet Charlie Kindel for ‘something secret’  —  Charlie Kindel, the Seattle tech veteran who left his job as a Microsoft Windows Phone general manager in 2011 to join the startup world, has now been hired by Amazon.com as the director of an undisclosed project inside the company.
Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
Google's Privacy Director Is Stepping Down  —  When Alma Whitten was tapped to be Google's first director of privacy in 2010, CNet declared hers the “hardest job at Google.”  A long time engineer at the company with expertise in computer security, she was put in charge of a program overseeing products …
Carl Franzen / The Verge:
E-bleeder: is Nook on its deathbed?  —  Barnes & Noble's once-promising digital business needs to turn a page to compete with Amazon and Apple  —  The ending has yet to be written for Barnes & Noble's Nook story, which began with the surprise debut of the original Nook e-reader back in late 2009.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A judge approves Paramount's settlement with 12 state AGs who tried to block its WBD deal, and Paramount tentatively sets October 6 to close the acquisition

Los Angeles Times:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that creates refundable tax credits for local news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch is stepping down after 7.5 years to become the CEO and chairman of Mattel; lead independent director Mike Perlis will be interim CEO

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