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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Vdio: Rdio Puts Its Social Muscle Behind Movies and TV  —  Today, Rdio streaming music subscribers with Unlimited accounts will get access to new video service from the company called, appropriately, Vdio.  (It had previously been in a closed beta.)  It's a rental and purchasing platform …

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

‘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 …

Google changes how it measures Android version adoption, sees uptick in Jelly Bean devices  —  Google routinely gives monthly numbers breaking out the adoption of various versions of Android, but the company has now changed the way it calculates those numbers — providing a distinctly different portrait …

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.

Readying For An IPO, Enterprise SaaS Integration Platform Mulesoft Raises $37M From NEA, Salesforce And Others  —  MuleSoft, an integration platform for connecting SaaS and enterprise applications in the cloud and on-premise, has raised $37 million led by NEA, with Salesforce.com …

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) …

Cisco to buy Ubiquisys for $310M in femtocell tech boost  —  Summary: The networking giant is to snap up its fourth acquisition of the year with U.K.-based femtocell maker Ubiquisys, a maker of 3G and LTE small-cell technologies.  —  Zack Whittaker  —  Cisco this morning announced …

Verizon Asked to Share “Six Strikes” Alerts for BitTorrent Lawsuit  —  After years of negotiating and planning the “six strikes” copyright alert system finally went live in February.  —  While it's not as draconian as similar systems in France and New Zealand, one of the concerns …

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.

Facebook Leans In  —  Ever since Facebook's ballyhooed, bungled I.P.O., its share price has languished, with Wall Street asking when the social-media giant is going to grow up and make money.  From confidential reports, visits to the company's sprawling campus, and interviews with its press-shy founder …