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April 3, 2013, 4:35 PM

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Clare Jim / Reuters:

Google to sell second-gen Nexus 7 tablet from July: sources — (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet powered by Qualcomm Inc's Snapdragon processor around July, two sources told Reuters, as the software giant pushes deeper into the cut-price mobile hardware market.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

New Nexus 7 reportedly gets Qualcomm chip, better screen, and lower price

More: Computerworld and CNET

Evleaks / 9to5Google:

Facebook Home offers a fresh take on Android UI (Photos) — It should come as little surprise to industry observers that Facebook plans to unveil both a rich, skinned version of its Android app at a press event tomorrow, along with the first hardware to run that experience out of the box.

More: 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, BGR, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Business Insider, bub.blicio.us, TrustedReviews, The Verge, Neowin, Techie Buzz and IntoMobile

Brad Molen / Engadget:

HTC First pictured ahead of Thursday's Facebook event (update: now with more colors) — The mysterious Facebook event is quickly approaching, and as luck would have it, @evleaks is hooking us up with an image of the device that we'll be introduced to on Thursday, known as the HTC first.

More: 9to5Google, DailyFinance.com, Telegraph, Technology Personalized and DailyTech

Brendan Eich / The Mozilla Blog:

Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine — Mozilla's mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we're supporting this mission by experimenting with what's next when it comes to the core technology powering the Web browser.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Samsung Buddies Up With Mozilla on New Android Browser Tech

Twitter Blog:

New mobile updates for Android, iPhone and mobile web — We just released a new version of Twitter for Android. Its new design reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold for quick actions, and more.

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, AllThingsD, MacRumors, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, AndroidPure, Android Community, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com and MacNN. See also Mediagazer

Jason Costa / Twitter Developers:

Mobile app deep-linking and new Cards — Twitter Cards are being used by more than 10,000 developers, mobile apps and websites to richly represent content on Twitter, including article summaries, user-posted photos, videos, songs, and more. Today, through those Cards …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter Is Building A Gateway To The “Web” Of Mobile Apps

More: The Next Web

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Apple no longer blocking Microsoft's SkyDrive iOS update, version 3.0 released — Microsoft and Apple have been locked in a battle over Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud-storage app for iOS. The two companies were originally sparring over a 30 percent cut of revenue from SkyDrive storage purchases …

More: The Windows Blog, BetaNews, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, iMore, CNET, AppleInsider, MacRumors, LiveSide.net, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, The Next Web, MacNN, TUAW, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com

Felix Salmon / Medium:

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency — A few days ago, the value of all the bitcoins in the world blew past $1 billion for the first time ever. That's an impressive achievement, for a purely virtual currency backed by no central bank or other authority.

More: Business Insider, Felix Salmon, Betabeat, Statspotting!, Wonkblog and eToro

Tweets: @dcurtis, @ferenstein and @binarybits

Maria Bustillos / Elements:

The Bitcoin Boom — On March 16th, the Cypriot President Nicos …

More: Guardian, Mashable and Quartz. Tweets: @nikcub

Simon Khalaf / The Flurry Blog:

Flurry Five-Year Report: It's an App World. The Web Just Lives in It — Five years ago, the iPhone ushered in the era of mobile computing. Today, more than a billion consumers are “glued” to these devices and their applications, impacting nearly every aspect of their lives.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, GigaOM, Mobile Marketing Watch, TechCrunch, Android Community and The Next Web

BBC:

Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary — The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973. — Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from “a ‘real’ cellular telephone”.

More: BBC, The Verge, Guardian, Engadget, Sky News, Quartz, Telegraph, DSLreports, IntoMobile, Mashable, InformationWeek, BGR India, Neowin, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Business Insider and Digits

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Rdio launches Vdio social movie and TV service with an iPad app coming later today and $25 credit for Rdio subscribers — After being rumored for over a year, the movie and TV rental and purchase service Vdio soft-launched last night for premium Rdio subscribers in the US and UK.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

The Latest Apple Scuttlebutt — Smart thread on Branch. Two nuggets from yours truly: — What I've heard: iOS 7 is running behind, and engineers have been pulled from OS X 10.9 to work on it. (Let me know if you've heard this song before.) — Regarding Jony Ive and iOS …

More: AppleInsider, BGR, Los Angeles Times, Branch, BGR, BGR India, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Neowin, TUAW, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, Macgasm, IntoMobile and nbcnews.com

David Greelish / TIME:

An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay — Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward over the past thirty years — and surely the most quotable one.

More: AppleInsider and Cult of Mac. Thanks:@harrymccracken

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Lodsys Targets Disney's 'Where's My Water?' and Others in New Round of Lawsuits Over In-App Purchasing — For nearly two years, we've been following the saga of patent troll Lodsys, which has been demanding licenses from and filing lawsuits against developers over in-app purchasing and related functionalities in their apps.

More: AppleInsider, Macworld, The Next Web and Daring Fireball

Max Slater-Robins / Neowin:

Meet Gabriel Weinberg, the man taking on Google and Bing — In 1998, two college friends decided to build a method of analysing every website on the Internet to find the most relevant information when a user put in a small amount of text. Their names were Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and they had just founded Google.

More: Business Insider. Thanks:@max8378

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

‘Linux of online learning’ gets stronger: edX and Stanford team up to build open source platform — In its mission to become the “Linux of online learning,” edX just got a powerful new partner. On Wednesday, the Harvard and MIT-backed non-profit is set to announce that it's teaming …

More: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Washington Post and BostInno

Paul Lilly / Maximum PC:

Seagate Now Shipping World's First 4TB Hard Drive with 1TB Platters — You could store over a million songs on Seagate's 4TB hard drive. — A representative for Seagate dropped us a note today to let us know the company is now shipping what it claims is the industry's first and only 4TB hard drive …

More: Fudzilla, Geek.com and HotHardware.com News

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Forget in-memory — SiSense raises $10M for in-chip analytics — While the rest of the world is agog about big data and in-memory analytics, SiSense is taking a different tack. It's rethinking business intelligence with higher-speed analysis on smaller (relatively speaking) …

More: TechCrunch and The Next Web

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Safari jumps to 61 percent of mobile browser share — Apple's mobile browser saw a 6 percent leap in Web traffic last month, according to stats out today from Web tracker Net Applications. — Safari has won back some of the recent ground it lost to rival mobile browsers.

More: AllThingsD, Fortune, Marketing Land, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Amazon launches AutoRip for vinyl, pairs MP3s with your records — Earlier this year, Amazon launched a service called AutoRip for CDs, which gives customers free digital copies of every CD they purchased from Amazon going back to 1998 and going forward for new CD purchases.

More: Amazon.com, TechHive, The Next Web, Associated Press, Inquirer, CNET, Evolver.fm, BetaNews, TUAW and GeekWire. Tweets: @stevekovach. See also Mediagazer

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

With expanding revenue and aggressive losses, SaaS firm Marketo files for a $75 million IPO — Today Marketo, a company that vends marketing automation tools to those engaged in advertising campaigns, today filed its S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

More: Computerworld, AdExchanger, VentureBeat and GigaOM

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Angry Birds Maker Rovio Says 2012 Sales Up 101% To $195M With Merchandising, IP 45% Of That; Net Profit $71M — Rovio, creator of the blockbuster Angry Birds series of mobile games, today reported its full-year results for 2012. While the company continues its rapid growth …

More: Rovio, Inside Mobile Apps, Business Insider, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, ArcticStartup, Guardian, The Next Web and Touch Arcade. See also Mediagazer

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