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April 12, 2013, 2:05 PM
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can't Use It  —  Want to play with Twitter's new music app?  You can get it today — if you're really famous.  —  If not, you're going to have to wait a week.  —  Here's the deal: As we wrote yesterday, Twitter is launching its new music discovery app for iOS devices …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
We Are Hunted joins Twitter, shuttering its own service to help the social giant go music
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
T-Mobile Begins $99 iPhone 5 Sales, Sees Lines At Retail Stores  —  T-Mobile is kicking off its official sales of the iPhone 5 today, marking the first time the U.S.' fourth largest carrier has offered an Apple smartphone.  Thanks to T-Mo's new Uncarrier plans, the iPhone 5 can be had starting at just $99 …
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) …
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Tech Firms Push to Hire More Workers From Abroad  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Vishal Sankhla, an Indian engineer, is among those at the center of a storm over how to fix the nation's immigration system.  —  Mr. Sankhla got a master's degree in electrical engineering nine years ago from the University …
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio service imminent  —  Apple is expected to sign the largest record label perhaps as soon as next week, sources say.  Warner Music is right behind.  —  Apple is expected to sign its first internet radio licensing agreement …
John McDermott / AdAge:
Foursquare Planning to Offer Check-in Data to Target Ads on Other Platforms  —  Location Data to Be Made Available to Ad Networks and Exchanges  —  Foursquare has started pitching digital agencies on a new ad product that would use Foursquare's location and behavioral data to contextualize ads …
Max Eddy / PC Magazine:
Bing Delivers Five Times as Many Malicious Websites as Google  —  Searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches, according to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test.  Though search engines have worked to suppress malicious results …
Allison Martell / Reuters:
BlackBerry to ask regulators to probe report on returns  —  (Reuters) - BlackBerry said on Friday it would ask securities regulators in Canada and the United States to probe a report about retail return rates for its new Z10 smartphone that it called “false and misleading.”
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Opinion: Antitrust complaint against Android is an attack on open source  —  Microsoft and Oracle say it's “predatory” for companies to give away software.  —  On Tuesday, we reported on a new complaint filed by “Fairsearch,” an anti-Google group that counts Microsoft, Oracle, Nokia …
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Letter To Jennifer Allen Regarding False And Defamatory Statements  —  The following letter from my attorneys was delivered to Jennifer Allen this afternoon, in response to her previous claims.  I believe the letter speaks for itself.  —  Eric M. George  —  Browne George Ross  —  Via E-Mail and U.S. Mail
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Microsoft Adds Pinterest Support to Bing's Image Search, Lets Searchers Pin Image Results Directly to Boards  —  Microsoft on Friday announced a new partnership with social network Pinterest.  Bing's image search has received a new “Pin to Pinterest” feature, letting users pin image results directly …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Arris Gets DoJ OK For Its $2.35B Acquisition Of Motorola Home Broadband Business From Google, Deal Closing Around April 17  —  Another key chapter in Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola is getting concluded.  Today Arris announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Department …

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