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April 4, 2013, 11:45 AM
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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.
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 …
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 …
CNET:
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance  —  Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are “impossible to intercept,” even with a warrant.  —  Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Anonymous takes control of North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites  —  North Korea's official Twitter and Flickr accounts have been hacked and two of its main websites defaced, in hacker group Anonymous's latest efforts to disrupt the communist county's online presence.
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 …
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 …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warns  —  PC market begins to slip and tablets will outsell desktops and laptops combined by 2015, as Android ascendancy means challenge to relevance of Microsoft, research group warns  —  Microsoft faces a slide into irrelevance …
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 …
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.
Matthew Lynley / Digits:
What to Expect From Facebook's Android Event  —  Facebook is hosting a big mystery event today for the world to see its “new home on Android.”  —  We've reported that Facebook has been working to build software that runs on Android, Google's smartphone operating system.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.”
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPad price cuts: A signal Apple is about to release new ones  —  WalMart, BestBuy and MacMall have all lowered their prices on iPads and iPad minis.  —  FORTUNE — It's only been 163 days since Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPad mini and updated its full-size iPad line …

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