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April 3, 2013, 9:25 PM

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Asian bill-sharing startup BillPin buys BillMonk, the US service that inspired it  —  BillPin, a bill-sharing startup out of Singapore that launched to the public 6 weeks ago, has done something rather unique after it completed the undisclosed acquisition of BillMonk, a 2005-founded US company …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Huh?  EA builds an app for sharing music and photos (exclusive)  —  Electronic Arts has stretched beyond its roots as a game publisher by creating a social networking app for sharing music and photos.  —  That's right.  It has nothing to do with games.  Vue is a free mobile app that EA …
More: The Verge
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 …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
SimpleHoney Acquired By Payment Startup OpenCoin  —  SimpleHoney, a startup co-founded by Joyce Kim (who was previously CEO of Soompi.com and co-host of the GigaOm show) and Eric Nakagawa (creator of the I Can Has Cheezburger blog), just announced that it's being acquired by payment company OpenCoin.
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 …

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