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April 10, 2013, 6:05 PM

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Office for iOS, Android: Not until fall 2014? — Summary: An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's two-year wave of coming Office updates implies Office for iOS and Android may be further away than many industry watchers thought. — An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's coming ‘Gemini’ wave …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Exclusive: Microsoft's next Xbox will take over your TV, interact with your cable box — The fight for the living room continues — Microsoft is investing in TV in a big way with its next Xbox console as part of a fight for the living room. Multiple sources familiar with the company's Xbox plans …

More: Ars Technica, Digital Trends, DSLreports, VentureBeat, BGR, Engadget, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, dailywireless.org, VG247, Kotaku, Neowin, destructoid and Polygon. Tweets: @reckless. See also Mediagazer

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's Ouster of AppGratis Is Just the Start of an App Store Crackdown — Simon Dawlat, founder of AppGratis — the app-discovery application removed from the iTunes App Store this week for developer guideline violations — said he's “in total disbelief” at Apple's action. And it's hard to blame him.

More: Forbes, PandoDaily, iPhone in Canada Blog, nbcnews.com, Ars Technica, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and Gotta Be Mobile

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins And Andreessen Horowitz Team Up As “Glass Collective” To Invest In Google Glass Ecosystem — Today, Google Ventures announced a partnership with two of the biggest technology venture capital firms in the world, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, on what they're calling the “Glass Collective.”

More: AllThingsD, The Official Google Blog, Engadget, CNET, VentureBeat, Fortune, Digits and Forbes. Tweets: @googleventures

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Glass Explorer Edition To Ship Within The Next Month, Google Confirms

More: The Verge, PhoneArena and ProgrammableWeb

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Well, That Was Fast: Twitter Already Shut Down Ribbon's Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature — This morning, payments startup Ribbon announced support for “in-stream” payments on Twitter.com, allowing users to click a button directly within a tweet in order to make a purchase without having to leave the Twitter.com website.

More: Ribbon Blog, The Next Web, TechCrunch, GigaOM, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Mashable

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

Clare Jim / Reuters:

Hon Hai first quarter sales down as iPhone disappoints — (Reuters) - Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, the main manufacturer of Apple Inc products, posted a 19 percent decline in sales in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, hurt by disappointing demand for the iPhone.

More: AllThingsD, VatorNews, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Fortune, HotHardware.com News, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac

Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:

IDC: Global PC Shipments Drop 13.9% in First Quarter — Worldwide shipments of personal computers fell 13.9% in the first quarter, according to market researcher IDC, in the biggest decline since the firm began issuing quarterly numbers in 1994. — The grim estimate of 76.3 million units shipped …

More: IDC, GigaOM, Business Insider, ZDNet, CITEworld, AllThingsD, Engadget, The Verge, AppleInsider, ParisLemon, BGR, CNET, The Next Web, Reuters, Bloomberg and The CIO Report. Tweets: @alex

Kellex / Droid Life:

Google Babel News: Google Voice Support “Eventually” Coming, Synced Notifications, “First Class” iOS Experience — Whenever Google Babel does arrive for public consumption, we're starting to believe it will be everything we have ever asked for in a unified messenger service.

More: 9to5Google, TechCrunch and AndroidGuys

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook Launches Partner Categories, 500+ Generic Profiles To Target Ads Better, With Data From Datalogix, Epsilon, Axciom — Facebook today is taking another step ahead in its ad targeting strategy, which serves users advertising based on their location and online purchasing and browsing histories.

More: Facebook Studio, Digital Trends, AllFacebook, CNNMoney.com, SiliconANGLE, ReveNews, GigaOM, Inside Facebook, WebProNews, Mashable, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Marketing Land and internetretailer.com

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Buy Signal: Facebook Widens Data Targeting

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

In Midst of Mobile Pivot, Mozilla CEO Kovacs to Step Down Later This Year — Gary Kovacs, who has been CEO of Mozilla for just over two years, will be stepping down later this year, the company announced this morning to employees. The Mountain View, Calif.-based open source software nonprofit foundation …

More: The Mozilla Blog, PC Magazine, Mitchell's Blog, VentureBeat, internetnews.com, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, bizjournals, FierceMobileContent News and WebProNews

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Dropbox For Teams Gets Dropped In Re-Branding To Reflect “Business” Focus — Dropbox is renaming Dropbox Teams to better reflect its change in business focus. The move comes in tandem with Dropbox's new support for single sign on (SSO) and partnerships with Okta and other identity providers.

More: Dropbox for Business Blog, The Verge, Engadget, The Dropbox Blog, ReadWrite, BetaNews, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Next Web, GigaOM, Silicon Republic, CITEworld and The Diversity Blog

iFixit:

Oculus Rift Teardown — Let's face it, the year is 2013. Where are our flying cars? Why isn't deep space travel a thing yet? Why hasn't virtual reality become, well, reality? The Oculus Rift seeks to fill that lack of virtual reality in our lives. Still in its early developmental stage …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Mashable, TechSpot and The Verge

Wall Street Journal:

The New Résumé: It's 140 Characters — Some Recruiters, Job Seekers Turn to Twitter, but Format Is a Challenge; Six-Second Video Goes Viral — Twitter is becoming the new job board. It is also becoming the new résumé. — Fed up with traditional recruiting sites …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

LinkedIn Beefs Up Recruiter, the Company's Biggest Revenue Driver — Ask any tech trader on the Street — LinkedIn is consistently crushing it every earnings season. Question is, how does the one tech company outperforming all its peers on the public market keep up that momentum?

More: TechCrunch, The LinkedIn Talent Blog, ZDNet, GigaOM and VentureBeat

Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat:

Here are the first three commercials for the Samsung Galaxy S4 — Don't ask me why, but every once in a while I'll do a YouTube search for “Galaxy S4″ just to see if something new has turned up. There are plenty of reviews already posted from people in Russia, the Ukraine, and Denmark if you know where to look.

More: Engadget, Engadget, Android Central, 9to5Google, Network World, Android and Me, Android Community and Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@whatthebit

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Intel wants to kill the traditional server rack with 100Gbps links — If Intel gets its way, old-school server racks will go the way of the dinosaurs. — David Monniaux — Intel is working to replace the traditional server rack with a more efficient architecture that separates CPU …

More: AllThingsD and Data Center Knowledge

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Review: Panic's Status Board — the ultimate information dashboard for your iPad — The guys over at Panic Inc. have been teasing their new iPad app on their blog and Twitter all week, and today the app known as Status Board hits the App Store. — Panic was kind enough to allow us a preview of its app …

More: BetaNews, iMore, MacStories and Laughing Squid

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant — The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy “generally no privacy” in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications. — The Internal Revenue Service doesn't seem to believe …

More: ACLU, TechCrunch, The Register, SlashGear, PC Magazine, The Raw Story, Hillicon Valley and WebProNews. Thanks:@bendreyfuss

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung Office Searched by Police in OLED Technology Leak Probe — South Korean police searched the offices of Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s display-making unit yesterday in connection with an investigation into alleged technology theft. — Samsung Display Co., which dominates …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Android Authority, TechSpot, BGR, CNET, 9to5Google and Inquirer

Steven Musil / CNET:

CBS joins Fox in considering subscription-only model — CBS CEO Les Moonves applauds News Corp. exec's comments, telling the New York Times that the network was considering cutting its over-the-air signal in the New York area. — Another television network has joined the broadcaster backlash following …

More: New York Times, TechHive, VentureBeat, Policy Blog, New York Times, TechSpot, Hollywood Reporter, GadgeTell, The Atlantic Wire, DSLreports and blog.chron.com. See also Mediagazer

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Website Testing Service Optimizely Raises $28M Round Led By Benchmark, Plans Global Expansion — Optimizely, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps companies A/B test different versions of their websites, has raised $28 million in Series A funding. — That would be a sizable Series …

More: The Optimizely Blog, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Forbes and bizjournals. Tweets: @paulg. Thanks:@alexia

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