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April 10, 2013, 4:25 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 …

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: PandoDaily, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, InvestorPlace and TechCrunch

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: VentureBeat, BGR, GeekWire, Engadget, Gizmodo, Business Insider, VG247, Neowin, Polygon and Kotaku. Tweets: @reckless

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, Fortune, GigaOM, Forbes, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac

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, AllFacebook, CNNMoney.com, SiliconANGLE, Inside Facebook, GigaOM, AdAge, ReveNews, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, internetretailer.com, The Next Web, WebProNews, Mashable, Marketing Land and Business Insider

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Buy Signal: Facebook Widens Data Targeting

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, ReadWrite, BetaNews, PC Magazine, The Dropbox Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web, GigaOM, CITEworld, SlashGear, Silicon Republic and The Diversity Blog

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, Mitchell's Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge and FierceMobileContent News

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, Ars Technica, Mashable, TechSpot, The Verge and Geek.com

Matthew Boesler / Business Insider:

Bitcoin Is Crashing — It's shaping up to be a pretty ugly day for Bitcoin. — After soaring past $250 earlier, it's tumbled all the way down to current levels around $156. — Bitcoin is now 41 percent off its intraday high of $266. — The chart below shows Bitcoin prices since April 7.

More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PandoDaily, The Verge, Business Insider, Daily Dot, BTCPedia, The Daily Beast, BTCPedia and Zero Hedge

Tweets: @davidclinchnews, @thestalwart, @binarybits, @thestalwart and @jwherrman

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 …

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, Data Center Knowledge, Digits and SlashGear

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: TechCrunch, The Verge, AndroidGuys, Cult of Mac and SlashGear

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

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, CNET, Gizmodo, BGR, Android Authority, TechSpot, 9to5Google, Inquirer and Electronista

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: iMore, MacStories, ZDNet, Laughing Squid and TUAW

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

OS X 10.8.4 code confirms new Macs incoming with super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless support — Apple is preparing to soon release new Mac computers that support super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless, according to code-findings inside of Apple's latest OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta seed to developers.

More: Digital Trends, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Geek.com, CNET and TUAW

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

‘Y: The Last Man’ creator's new comic will soon return to Comixology after Apple controversy (updated) — The distinction between app and art breaks down — According to Comixology, Saga #12 will soon be back: it's come out with a different story than Image Comics, which reported that Apple banned the comic.

More: ComiXology Blog, IMAGE COMICS, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, CNET, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Kotaku, The Beat, nbcnews.com, iLounge, The Next Web, ReadWrite, Neowin and Guardian. See also Mediagazer

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, VentureBeat, Policy Blog, dailywireless.org, Electronista, DSLreports, The Atlantic Wire, GadgeTell and blog.chron.com. See also Mediagazer

Brad Reed / BGR:

Survey: 83% of Americans have no idea BlackBerry 10 has launched — If you want to understand the major challenges that BlackBerry (BBRY) faces in the American market, look no further than a new survey commissioned by MKM Partners showing that most Americans don't even know that BlackBerry 10 has launched yet.

More: Tech Trader Daily, Examiner, TechHive, Internet2Go, VentureBeat and Communities Dominate Brands

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:

Apple licenses $10M in patents originally created by Palm, others — Apple has reached an agreement to license intellectual property from a Japanese company that owns patents originally created by Palm and PalmSource, creator of the Palm OS PDA operating system.

More: MACé" blog, 9to5Mac, CNET, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, PhoneArena, Electronista, Macgasm and MacDailyNews

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Foursquare's iOS Update Brings Search to the Forefront — Continuing its push into the location discovery and recommendation space, Foursquare will update its iOS mobile app on Wednesday morning, moving the service's search capabilities to the front and center of the phone.

More: Foursquare Blog, The Verge, GigaOM, MacRumors, Fast Company, Search Engine Land, Coyote Tracks, The Next Web and SlashGear

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

T-Mobile USA Sweetens iPhone 5 Deal With Trade-In Program — T-Mobile USA, the struggling phone carrier, really wants you to switch to its network — so badly that it will give you a break on a brand-new iPhone in exchange for an old one. — The company said on Wednesday that when it begins selling …

More: Business Wire, Examiner, ABCNEWS, Mashable, LAPTOP Magazine, iMore, CNET, MobileMoo, Engadget, iLounge, IntoMobile, FierceWireless, GigaOM and Gotta Be Mobile

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