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April 2, 2013, 10:00 AM
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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.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple CEO Tim Cook announces changes to warranty policies, apologizes to customers in China following smear campaign
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Biz Stone / Jelly HQ:
What is Jelly?  —  People are basically good—when provided a tool that helps them do good in the world, they prove it.  —  Jelly is a new company and product named after the jellyfish.  We are inspired by this particular animal because neurologically, its brain is more “we” than “me.”
Mary Ellen Gordon / The Flurry Blog:
Size Matters for Connected Devices.  Phablets Don't.  —  Flurry now detects about 1 billion smartphones and tablets in use around the world every month.  In the last 30 days, we saw activity on more than 2,000 unique device models.  As the device base grows, we're seeing an increasing variety …
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.
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.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Midokura Scores $17.3M Series A To Ramp Up Its Network Virtualization Offering On A Global Scale  —  Japan's Midokura, a startup with offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, Lausanne and Barcelona, today announced a $17.3 million Series A funding round, led by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan …

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