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April 9, 2013, 10:10 PM

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Milo Medin / Google Fiber Blog:

Google Fiber's Next Stop: Austin, Texas — We know that your time is valuable and so we've always focused on speed — from search to Gmail, Chrome to Android. Two years ago, we announced that we'd be bringing Google Fiber to Kansas City to show what's possible with super fast Internet access …

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

Take that, Google: AT&T ups the ante with plans for its own Austin gigabit network — Updated throughout at 2:12 p.m. PT with comments from AT&T. — AT&T plans to build a gigabit network in Austin, Texas according to a company release Tuesday. On any day this would be big news …

More: AT&T, TechCrunch, CNET, AllThingsD, The Next Web, VentureBeat, DSLreports, Ars Technica, dailywireless.org, PC Magazine, 9to5Google and TechPresident. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Google Makes Its Austin Fiber Plans Official: Texas City Will Be Connected By Mid-2014

More: Digital Trends, The Verge, KVUE-TV, Macgasm, Geek Beat Technology News and VentureBeat

Simon Dawlat / AppGratis:

AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here's the full story. — I'm Simon Dawlat, CEO at AppGratis. — I founded AppGratis back in 2008, and have been running it ever since. — Today, for the first time, my company is dealing with an incredibly difficult moment.

More: PhoneArena, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Forbes, CNET, Macgasm, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, GigaOM, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, iPhoneHacks, PC Magazine, Pocket Gamer.biz, TUAW and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @stevekovach

Michael Siliski / Official Android Blog:

A fresh new look for Google Play — Whether you're in the mood to listen to Justin Timberlake's new album, read Harlan Coben's latest bestseller or discover a new game to play, you want the experience of finding and making your purchase to be quick and easy.

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Facebook Home review: are people more important than apps? — Facebook invades Android with a new lockscreen and a new chat experience — On April 12th, the much-vaunted Facebook Phone will arrive — but it's not a phone at all. Facebook Home, as its called, is a couple of pieces …

More: CNET, Wired, Business Insider, New York Times, ABCNEWS, GigaOM, Mercury News, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, TechCrunch and Mashable

Florence Ion / Ars Technica:

HTC First review: Don't call it the Facebook phone

More: The Verge

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership — Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc. are getting cozier. — The two companies have been discussing how more of Yahoo services can play a prominent role on Apple's iPhone and iPad, people briefed on the matter said. — Data from Yahoo Finance …

More: Los Angeles Times, Marketing Land, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, SiliconBeat, The Next Web, MacRumors, CNET, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhoneHacks, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, App Advice and Pocket-lint

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone 8 will support 1080p displays by the end of the year — Microsoft is planning to update Windows Phone 8 to support 1080p resolutions. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Windows Phone plans have revealed to The Verge that the company will issue an update later this year …

More: Unwired View, Gotta Be Mobile, Phones Review, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint, My Nokia Blog and PhoneArena

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

Microsoft escalates advertising assault on Google — Microsoft lobs another marketing missive at Google, punctuating shift in competitive landscape — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is skewering Google again with scathing ads that say as much about the dramatic shift …

More: GeekWire, The Verge, TechCrunch, Computerworld, ParisLemon, WinBeta, Neowin, KQED News Fix, MacDailyNews and WebProNews

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight — A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.

Tweets: @jguynn and @joshgreenman

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Boxee rebrands new device as Cloud DVR, tones down cord cutting rhetoric — Okay, I didn't see this coming: Boxee has rebranded its new consumer electronics device just five months after it first became available. The $100 device, which combines live TV and cloud DVR functionality with apps like Netflix …

More: Engadget, VentureBeat and Electronista

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

TripAdvisor Acquires Jetsetter for Undisclosed Amount — Gilt says goodbye to its travel site. Jetsetter, the luxury travel site that Gilt Groupe put up for sale for around $50 million back in October, has been acquired by TripAdvisor, according to a press release published to PRNewswire.

More: TripAdvisor, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Skift

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

YAHOO SOURCE: Here's The Real Reason Marissa Mayer Bought A 17-Year-Old's Startup For $30 Million — Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million. — Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones. — The deal got a lot of attention …

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Coinsetter Lands $500K From SecondMarket Founder & Others To Help Bring Leverage, Shorting To Bitcoin Trade — Today, Coinsetter, a New York City-based startup looking to launch a new Forex trading platform for Bitcoin, announced today that it has raised $500,000 in seed capital.

More: CNET, BuzzFeed and Wall Street Journal

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Can you find me now? How carriers sell your location and get away with it — Companies are selling ‘anonymized’ location data left and right — but do they know how to keep it private? — Check your cell phone contract, and you might come across the following turn of phrase: “We do not sell your personal information.”

More: DSLreports

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Walmart's Vudu Resets All Customer Passwords After Office Break-In — Walmart-owned video service Vudu is undergoing a service-wide password reset after having data stolen during a break-in at its offices late last month. — The company emailed customers on Tuesday to inform them of the break …

More: VUDU, The Verge, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, Lifehacker, Forbes, bizjournals, Electronista, Techlicious Blog …, Polygon, Consumerist and App Advice

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple Says iMessage and Facetime Services Are Down For Some — Update: The outage has concluded, according to Apple's Support page. Total downtime appears to have been just over 5 hours. — For about an hour, we've been getting reports of Apple's iMessage system encountering errors and issues including delays and send failures.

More: AllThingsD, Computerworld, GigaOM, Betabeat, MacRumors, iMore, Pocket-lint, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, iPhoneHacks, Macgasm and IntoMobile

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

AOL's new publisher tool to compete with Google, Armstrong says it's back in “ad tech game” — AOL announced Marketplace, an effort to consolidate the stack of tools publishers use to serve ads. AOL is competing with Google in the ad tech field as it tries to diversify its revenues

More: AOL Corp, Adweek, AdExchanger and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Flurry launches market to match mobile advertisers with content in real-time — July 9-10, 2013 — Flurry is launching an exchange dubbed Flurry Marketplace for its mobile advertising platform so that the right advertisers can be matched with the right content publishers.

More: TechCrunch, AdExchanger and PRWeb. Thanks:@flurrymobile

Damaster / LiveSide.net:

Exclusive: Microsoft account to get two-factor authentication soon — Last month we exclusively reported one of the new security features coming to Microsoft account - enhanced account aliases, aimed to replace the account renaming feature currently in place.

More: CNET, WMPoweruser, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable, gHacks Technology News and Pocketnow

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Asks You To Please Select Your Emotion — It could make us more willing to express how we feel. Or you could say it over-simplies our complex moods and lives. But today the Facebook status update box began offering the option to “share how you're feeling or what you're doing” …

More: Digital Trends, Engadget, VentureBeat and Telegraph. Thanks:@joshconstine

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Google Play Music arrives in 7 more countries, including New Zealand, Australia, Austria, and Ireland — Google is expanding its service coverage of its music service. We initially heard reports of the nearly two-year old service being available in Australia and New Zealand.

More: CNET, Engadget, SlashGear, techAU, The Sociable and Android Police

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting — Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks.

More: Fortune, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, AndroidGuys, AppleInsider, Neowin, Android Community, BGR and The Register

Tim Peterson / Adweek:

EBay Opens Up Its Data for Ad Targeting — Retailers possess a crazy amount of really valuable data for advertisers—e.g., what products someone has bought or have browsed through and may one day buy, potentially sooner if they're shown an ad for that item.

More: Marketing Pilgrim

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

China just surpassed the US in semiconductor manufacturing—and the trend is likely to accelerate — Amount of materials used to produce semiconductors, by region. Quartz/SEMI — For the first time since the depths of the Great Recession, the the total value of materials consumed …

More: SEMI

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