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April 11, 2013, 10:15 PM

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DealBook:
Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money  —  The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler — Olympic rowers, nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg — are laying claim to a new title: bitcoin moguls.  —  The Winklevii, as they are known, have amassed since last summer what appears …
Dylan Love / Business Insider:
The Winklevoss Twins Say They Own 1% Of All Bitcoins  —  It's all about Bitcoins lately, and the Winklevoss twins claim to own 1% of all Bitcoins in existence, Nathaniel Popper and Peter Lattman of the New York Times report.  —  “An array of speculators have now bid up the price of the Bitcoin …
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Yep, LinkedIn Acquires Newsreader Startup Pulse for $90 Million  —  LinkedIn announced on Thursday it has acquired mobile news aggregation startup Pulse, as Kara Swisher reported last month that it would, signaling another step by the massive professional network toward becoming an online content powerhouse.
Sarah Frier / Businessweek:
Foursquare Gets $41 Million Investment, Time to Grow  —  When Dennis Crowley debuted Foursquare, his location-based social media app, at South by Southwest in 2009, he got rave reviews.  The tech blog Mashable called Foursquare the “breakout mobile app” of the event.  VentureBeat called it “the next Twitter.”
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Not Interested in Settlement, Judge Says  —  Apple Inc. and Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit are more interested in using litigation as a business strategy than in resolving disputes over the use of patented technology, a federal judge in Florida said.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Production Challenges to ‘Delay’ Launches of iPhone 5S, Lower-Cost iPhone and New iPad Mini?  —  Back in January, reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo laid out a thorough roadmap of his expectations for Apple's product launches in 2013, pointing to a very busy third quarter for the company …
Hubert Nguyen / Ubergizmo:
Samsung Galaxy Mega Hands-On Review  —  Samsung has just announced the Samsung Galaxy Mega, a device that has been talked about as a rumor until now.  As its name indicates, and featuring a 6.3″ display (there is also a 5.8″ version), the Galaxy Mega is even bigger …
Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:
Mark Zuckerberg: Immigrants are the key to a knowledge economy  —  Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook and co-founder of Fwd.us.  (Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald E. Graham is a member of Facebook's board of directors.)  —  Earlier this year I started teaching …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
We Are Hunted joins Twitter, shuttering its own service to help the social giant go music  —  Music discovery service We Are Hunted has just confirmed that it has joined Twitter and will shutter its service.  —  The announcement comes minutes after celebrity Ryan Seacrest appeared to confirm the existence of a Twitter music app.
Royce Cheng-Yue / Twitter Blog:
Trends in 160+ locations  —  Today, we're introducing Trends in more than 160 new locations.  Included in that list are a number of countries that will be getting Trends for the first time: Belgium, Greece, Kenya, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and Ukraine, plus more than 130 new cities in countries that already have Trends.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
BlackBerry 10 launch by the numbers: Over 50% returns, 71% of people don't want under any circumstances, 83% of Americans unaware it even launched (Updated)  —  Six years after Apple took the smartphone industry by surprise with its release of the iPhone, former market leader BlackBerry Limited …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google's New Inactive Account Manager Gives You Control Over Your Digital Afterlife  —  What will happen to your Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google+ accounts after you die?  That's probably not something you really want to think about, but as more and more of our data now lives online …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Facebook Has Acquired Osmeta, A Stealth Mobile Software Startup  —  While Facebook is building out a bolder role in mobile in the form of Facebook Home, it looks like it is also continuing to make acquisitions that will help bolster that strategy overall.
David Kravets / Wired:
Apple Agrees to Pay $53M to Settle iPhone Warranty Lawsuit  —  Apple is agreeing to pay $53 million to settle a class action accusing the company of failing to honor warranties on iPhones and iPod Touches, according to an agreement obtained today by Wired.  —  The settlement, (.pdf) …
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Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:
Bump for iPhone loses the ability to share iTunes tracks between devices  —  The popular peer-to-peer file sharing app Bump was updated to version 3.5.8 today, and according to the change notes one of the features has been removed.  Apparently at Apple's request, the developers have disabled …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay-Backed E-Commerce Software Company ChannelAdvisor Files For $86M IPO  —  The latest technology company to join the IPO bandwagon is e-commerce optimization company ChannelAdvisor.  The S-1, filed with the SEC today, indicates that ChannelAdvisor could raise as much as $86.25 million in an offering …

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