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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.

Rob Isaac / prng.net:

A Short Translation from Bulls**t to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ — 1 Why is Chrome spawning a new browser engine? The WebKit maintainers wouldn't let us attack Apple directly, by changing WebKit in ways that would make it perform badly on OS X and iOS.

Tweets: @rmi, @davidbgk and @carnage4life

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink — Both Chrome and Safari will move faster when uncoupled from each other, Google argues. But it's not just about technology: social issues also factored into the schism. — A years-long marriage of convenience that linked Google …

More: iPhone, Jake Archibald and Eric Bidelman. Tweets: @carnage4life

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Opera confirms it will follow Google and ditch WebKit for Blink, as part of its commitment to Chromium — Google on Wednesday made a huge announcement to fork WebKit and build a new rendering engine called Blink. Opera, which only recently decided to replace its own Presto rendering engine for WebKit …

More: TechEye, InfoQ, Softpedia News, Softpedia News, SlashGear, TG Daily and Macgasm

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine That Will Soon Power Chrome And Chrome OS

More: Ars Technica, ReadWrite, The Register, Electronista and Web Browser

Peter Burrows / Businessweek:

Apple's Campus 2 Shapes Up as an Investor Relations Nightmare — At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple (AAPL). Scarecrow thin but forceful as ever …

More: The Atlantic Wire, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, CNET, The Verge and iDownloadBlog.com

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox says technical problems are result of major DDoS attack — Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, says it's been hit by a major DDoS attack that's causing lengthy trading lags, 502 errors, and in some cases, preventing people from logging into their accounts.

More: BBC, PC World, and Salon

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Bitcoin wallet service Instawallet hacked, shuts down ‘indefinitely’

More: GigaOM, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Business Insider, The Next Web, The Verge, TechCrunch and Ars Technica

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.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

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

More: Inquirer, SocialTimes, Inside Mobile Apps and GigaOM

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Samsung Decides to Build Its Own Stores — Inside Best Buy — Samsung is battling Apple on many fronts, and retail stores are no exception. — However, this time the company has opted not to follow the same path as its rival. Whereas Apple opened its own chain of stores …

More: NYT Bits, Wall Street Journal, BGR, Bloomberg, Engadget, ZDNet, TechEye, Macgasm, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, AllThingsD, CNET and Electronista

AppleInsider:

Apple adds age rating tags to iOS App Store descriptions — In a slight tweak to the App Store, Apple recently began highlighting apps' recommended age ratings by adding a small informational box located directly below a title's developer credits, possibly in response to growing concern from parents over in-app content.

More: iMore, Gizmodo, The Next Web, MacNN and PhoneArena

Casey Chan / Gizmodo:

Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg's Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website? — The word on the interwebs today is that this 1999 Angelfire page belongs to one Mark Zuckerberg. Yes, that Mark Zuckerberg, which means this could be the very first website that the hoody that made Facebook ever created.

More: Marketing Land, Business Insider, The Register, The Verge, NEWS.com.au, CNET and Yahoo! News. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Intel: The Big Bet That Could Change TV … Editor-in-chief: Digital — @awallenstein — Employees at Intel Corp. are free to roam almost anywhere across the vast Santa Clara, Calif., campus they call home. Certain laboratories are off-limits of course; that's understandable …

eMarketer:

Facebook to See Three in 10 Mobile Display Dollars This Year — Mobile advertising will reach $7.29 billion in 2013, and Google will take home more than half of it — Following explosive entrances by Facebook and Twitter to the marketplace, as well as a strong performance from Google …

More: AllThingsD, Forbes, AdExchanger and CNET

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Facebook's mobile hype, eyeballs and dollars grow. Is that enough?

More: VentureBeat and Forbes

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google's Lead — Say you need a latté. You might pull out your phone, open the Yelp app and search for a nearby cafe. If instead you want to buy an espresso machine, you will most likely tap Amazon.com. — Either way, Google lost a customer.

More: Forbes and bizjournals

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Online music licensing revenues pass radio for first time — Google Play and Xbox licensing agreements help digital revenues jump 32.2% in 2012, from £39.1m to £51.7m — British songwriters, including acts such as Ed Sheeran and Calvin Harris, netted a record total of £51.7m …

More: Engadget, Inquirer, Billboard, Digital Music News and Music-News.com

Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal:

Unusually low number of Q1 VC exits reported — U.S. budget and world economic worries appeared to have made for a very small exit window for venture-backed companies in the first three months of 2013. — Only eight venture-backed U.S. companies went public in the period, raising $672 million …

More: Danielle Morrill, Thomson Reuters, St. Louis Business Journal, Boston Business Journal and Reuters

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Facebook updates its Graph API to allow developers to build tools for managing threaded comments — On Wednesday, Facebook updated its API that allows developers to incorporate comment replies into tools and apps which it claims will make it easier to “monitor and respond to comment replies.”

More: Facebook Developer Blog, Mashable and CNET

Agam Shah / PC World:

Prices of Windows RT tablets drop, point to failure of OS — Prices of Windows RT devices have started falling, signaling an attempt by PC makers to quickly clear out stock after poor adoption of tablets and convertibles with the operating system. — Microsoft released Windows RT …

More: Softpedia News, Windows 8 Beta, WinBeta and ITworld.com

Beth J. Harpaz / Associated Press:

Arthur Frommer gets Frommer brand back from Google — NEW YORK (AP) — Travel guru Arthur Frommer said Wednesday that he has reacquired rights to his travel guidebook brand from Google, and that he intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks. — Google acquired the Frommer brand …

More: Skift, The Verge and CNET

Tweets: @skiftnews and @edbott

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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.

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:

Google Upgrades Its Google Places Dashboard With Google+ Local Integration — Google has begun a staged upgrade of its Google Places Dashboard — the backend tool that allows local businesses to manage their business information that appears in Google's search results.

More: Google and Your Business, Understanding Google …, WebProNews and Search Engine Roundtable

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Just 154 Days After Acquiring It — Pour one out for the Gold Guy tonight, my fellow gamers. A sage pillar of the industry has fallen. — Just 154 days after acquiring LucasArts as part of their larger, $4B acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney has dissolved the classic video game development company.

More: Motherboard, Wall Street Journal, Kotaku, Guardian, The Register, gameinformer.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Fortune, Wired and Electronista

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Loek Essers / Computerworld:

In wake of gTLD security criticism, ICANN announces emergency back-up registry operators — The back-up registries were announced shortly after gTLD rollout security concerns were raised by Verisign and others — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) …

More: ICANN, Internet and e-mail policy … and SecurityWeek

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile Says It Gained 579,000 Customers Last Quarter Amid Strategy Shift — T-Mobile USA late on Wednesday released some preliminary first-quarter results that it says show its turnaround efforts are starting to take hold. — The company said that its total customer base grew to 34 million …

More: T-Mobile News, TmoNews, ZDNet, CNET, TechCrunch, iPhone, The Verge and Engadget

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