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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 …

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Really, Microsoft? Your vision for the future of TV is... an HDMI cable? — Microsoft is one of those companies that has a shot at changing TV. Instead, it's betting on preserving the status quo, in a bad way: Microsoft's next Xbox is supposed to have deep integration with live TV programming …

More: Kotaku

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 …

More: GeekWire, Computerworld, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, AndroidOS.in, 9to5Google, The Register, iMore, Business Insider, TUAW, Pocketnow, App Advice, Apple Bitch, iDownloadBlog.com, WinBeta, Neowin, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider and The Verge. Tweets: @reneritchie

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

A Theory about the Office on iPad Schedule — Could Office for iPad really be delayed until late 2014?? — Mary Jo Foley has published a fascinating peek at the timetable for Outlook RT, as well as coming versions of Office on iPad, Android, Mac OS X, and Windows RT. And while the dates …

More: Computerworld and ZDNet

Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:

Computer Sales in Free Fall — 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 is the latest sign …

More: IDC, GigaOM, ZDNet, CNET, CITEworld, Delimiter, Associated Press, ParisLemon, The CIO Report, The Next Web, BGR, The Verge, AppleInsider and AllThingsD. Tweets: @alex

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Windows Weak Demand Drives Worst PC Drop on Record

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: pmarca, The Official Google Blog, AllThingsD, CNET, The Register, GigaOM, Android Authority, Reuters, Business Insider, Forbes, Engadget, Digits, Skift and Fortune. Tweets: @googleventures

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Glass Explorer Edition To Ship Within The Next Month, Google Confirms — Today during Google Venture's “Glass Collective” event, Google told us that it hopes to get the Glass hardware into the hands of developers “within the next month.” The exact date for when Google plans to ship …

More: 9to5Google, The Next Web, Droid Life, CNET, The Verge, ProgrammableWeb and PhoneArena

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.

Chris Cumming / American Banker:

Bitcoin Trading Firms ‘Slammed’ as Currency's Price Whipsaws

More: PC World, Associated Press, Daily Dot, Quartz, The Next Web and Guardian. Tweets: @binarybits

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, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Mashable, Marketing Land, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Dear Developers: Play by the Platform Rules, or Expect a Smackdown

More: Mashable

Sue Marek / FierceWireless:

Verizon CEO: 50% of our wireless traffic is video — LAS VEGAS—Video accounts for 50 percent of Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ) network traffic today and by 2017 the carrier estimates video will make up two-thirds of all traffic over the network. Speaking at the National Association …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, SlashGear and GigaOM

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: BGR, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, SlashGear and AndroidGuys

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, The Next Web, Hillicon Valley, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, Techlicious Blog …, The Raw Story, WebProNews, The Register and SlashGear. Thanks:@bendreyfuss

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Yahoo Dealmaker Reses Targets Mobile Talent in M&A Spree — Yahoo Dealmaker Targets Mobile Talent in M&A Spree — Marissa Mayer's strategy of using deals to reignite growth at Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) will hinge on the success of a private-equity veteran named Jacqueline Reses who was largely unknown in Silicon Valley six months ago.

More: AllThingsD

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: BGR, nbcnews.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and Forbes

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

Inside Operation Inversion, the Code Freeze That Saved LinkedIn — LinkedIn's May 2011 initial public offering was a blowout. Its share price more than doubled in the first day of trading, giving the networking site a near $9 billion valuation. Behind the scenes, though, the company's computing systems were a total mess.

More: ZDNet

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others — If it gets it, Google wants to turn .search into a “dotless domain,” the company told ICANN a few days ago. Last year, Google applied to manage the .app, .blog, .cloud …

More: The Verge and CircleID

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, Facebook, CNET, PC Magazine, ReveNews, Inside Facebook, NYT Bits, CNNMoney.com, SiliconANGLE, Marketing Pilgrim, Digital Trends, GigaOM, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, AllFacebook, WebProNews, The Next Web and Mashable

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Buy Signal: Facebook Widens Data Targeting

Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:

Cybersecurity bill advances in House — The House Intelligence Committee passed a controversial cybersecurity bill on an 18-2 vote Wednesday. — The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, known as CISPA, is expected to be voted on in the House next week with a set of other cybersecurity-focused bills.

More: VentureBeat, Techdirt and Electronista

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, CNET, Engadget, internetnews.com, FierceMobileContent News, WebProNews, bizjournals, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, The Verge and VentureBeat

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