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Adam Barth / Chromium Blog:

Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project — WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium's rendering engine back when we started.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine That Will Soon Power Chrome And Chrome OS — Google just announced that it is forking WebKit and launching this fork as Blink. As Google describes it, Blink is “an inclusive open source community” and “a new rendering engine based on WebKit” …

More: Ars Technica, CNET, The Next Web, ReadWrite, Macgasm and Electronista

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.

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: TechHive, Examiner and 9to5Google

Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable:

Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage — The value of digital currency Bitcoin fell from above $145 to below $117 Wednesday as Mt. Gox, the largest market for trading the digital currency, suffered an outage for approximately an hour.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Guardian, New York Magazine, CNNMoney.com, Forbes, Elements, Financial Times and Quartz

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Bitcoin wallet service Instawallet hacked, shuts down ‘indefinitely’ — Updated at 12:57 p.m. with more detail about current Bitcoin prices. — Bitcoins are a hot commodity now, but are your Bitcoins actually safe? Bitcoin wallet company Instawallet has suspended its service “indefinitely” after being hacked.

More: The Next Web, Ars Technica, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Verge and Business Insider

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, Guardian, The Atlantic Wire, Statspotting!, Salon, Betabeat, Unqualified Reservations, Wonkblog and eToro

Tweets: @ferenstein, @binarybits and @glennf

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, Computerworld, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, CNET, Marketing Land, AllTwitter, everythingiCafe, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, AllThingsD, LaptopMemo, MacRumors, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com and AndroidPure

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

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

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Jason Costa / Twitter Developers:

Mobile app deep-linking and new Cards

More: Twitter Developers, Inside Mobile Apps, 9to5Google, Mashable, GigaOM, PandoDaily, SocialTimes, Business Insider, IntoMobile, Path, Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone Hacks

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.

More: Digital Media Wire, AppleInsider, Marketing Land, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Unwired View, The Verge, TIME, Computerworld, BGR India, TechSpot, Pocketnow, Examiner, AndroidPure and Pocketables

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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

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

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Owen Thomas Joins ReadWrite As Editor-in-Chief, Says He Will Take The Site ‘Back To Our Roots’ — Say Media just announced that Owen Thomas, previously the West Coast Editor at Business Insider, has joined ReadWrite (a tech blog that Say acquired in 2011) as editor-in-chief.

More: ReadWrite and Say Media

Tweets: @marshallk and @owenthomas

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.

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: Fortune, GigaOM, The Next Web, Mobile Marketing Watch, Forbes, CNET and Android Authority

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, BGR, BetaNews, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, CNET, AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and ZDNet

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

With New Weather Channel Deal, Twitter Aims to Make it Rain for Brands — Forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of promoted tweets. — Aiming to attract more big-brand ad dollars, Twitter and the Weather Company have a new deal to create custom content around weather-related Twitter activity.

More: AdExchanger and Venture Capital Dispatch

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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Startup's Deep Roots: Stanford — Ex-Students, Professors—Even the President—Are Aiding E-Wallet Firm — In one of the largest exoduses from Stanford University's computer-science programs, more than a dozen students have left to launch a startup called Clinkle Corp. that aims to let other students …

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: Macworld, AppleInsider and The Next Web

Alistair Barr / Reuters:

PayPal tests merchant financing as Kabbage raises debt — (Reuters) - EBay Inc's payments business, PayPal, already lends money to online shoppers, but it is now starting to finance the merchants who sell on the company's online marketplaces. — PayPal has already tested a financing program …

More: VentureBeat and TechCrunch

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: The Verge, Marketing Land, Engadget, Quartz, IntoMobile, Telegraph, Mashable, Business Insider, DSLreports and InformationWeek

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Zynga launches real-money online gambling, stock price surges — On Wednesday, Zynga Plus Poker opened up to British residents. — Zynga Plus Poker — On Wednesday, Zynga launched its online poker and casino games in the United Kingdom, the first proof that the company's previously announced pivot away …

More: TechCrunch, CNNMoney.com, Digital Media Wire, Bloomberg, Digital Trends and Inside Social Games

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, The Next Web, Inside Social Games, Business Insider, ArcticStartup, VentureBeat, PhoneArena and Touch Arcade

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Who Wrote the Flashback OS X Worm? — A year ago today, Apple released a software update to halt the spread of the Flashback worm, a malware strain that infected more than 650,000 Mac OS X systems using a vulnerability in Apple's version of Java. This somewhat dismal anniversary is probably …

More: F-Secure Antivirus …, VentureBeat and Ars Technica

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: BGR, Cult of Mac and AppleInsider. Thanks:@harrymccracken

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Brian Pokorny Returns To SV Angel As A General Partner After Airbnb Talent Deal — Brian Pokorny, who led photo-sharing service Daily Booth and Batch into a talent acquisition by Airbnb, is returning to SV Angel as a general partner. — He has a long history with the firm.

More: David Lee. Tweets: @ronconway, @brianp and @parislemon

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Full-size photos arrive for real on Google+ — Trying to keep its photo fans happy, Google now lets people upload full-resolution images to Google+. But big photos count against Google's 5GB free limit. — Google now lets Google+ users override a setting that limited photos they uploaded …

More: Jon Emerson, Techie Buzz and The Verge

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