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April 18, 2013, 9:25 AM

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Stephen Philips / Twitter Blog:

Now playing: Twitter #music — Today, we're releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.

More: The Next Web, Wired, Bloomberg, WebProNews, memeburn, App Advice, AllTwitter, iPhone Hacks and SlashGear

Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Twitter #Music App Launches for iPhone and Web: Listen and Discover Trending Music — You no longer have to be Ryan Seacrest, Ne-Yo or Jason Mraz to play with Twitter's new music discovery app. After testing the app with music artists and influencers, Twitter #Music will be available starting today …

More: TechCrunch, GigaOM, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, BBC, AllThingsD, The Verge, BGR, BestTechie, iPhone, Cult of Mac, Android Community, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

Wired:

Google Is Forbidding Users From Selling, Loaning Glass Eyewear — Google is barring anyone deemed worthy of a pair of its $1,500 Google Glass computer eyewear from selling or even loaning out the highly coveted gadget. — The company's terms of service on the limited-edition wearable …

More: Forbes, Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, memeburn, Selfscreens, SlashGear, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, bizjournals, Neowin, Electronista and Mashable

Tweets: @ryanlawler, @rwestervelt, @shervin, @counternotions and @markmcan

Alexis Santos / Engadget:

Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed (video)

More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo Australia, Gizmodo Australia, Google+, Android Community, SlashGear and Selfscreens. Tweets: @scobleizer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Nokia Q1 2013 Misses With Sales Of $7.6B With $0.03 Loss Per Share; 5.6M Lumias Sold — Nokia has just reported is results for Q1 2013 with sales of $7.6 billion and a non-IFRS loss per share of $0.03 (and a reported EPS of $0.09) — a mixed result compared to analyst estimates …

More: asymco, The Verge, Nokia, Engadget, Guardian, The Verge, GigaOM, Business Insider, BetaNews, Inquirer, BGR, GigaOM, Reuters, AllThingsD, The Next Web, OSNews, Electronista and IntoMobile

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia Lumia sales hit record high of 5.6 million in Q1, still struggling in US

More: Computerworld, CNET, Inquirer, Bloomberg and Softpedia News

Kevin Lo / Google Fiber:

Google Fiber—On the Silicon Prairie, the Silicon Hills, and now the Silicon Slopes — Today the Google Fiber team is in Provo, Utah, where Mayor John Curtis just announced that we intend to make Provo our third Google Fiber City. — Utah is already home to hundreds of tech companies and startups …

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Google to acquire Provo, Utah's fiber, transform it into Google Fiber

More: Wired, TechPresident and bizjournals

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Verizon's Q1 2013 Sees Revenues Miss At $29.4B, EPS Beat At $0.68, Now Has 98.9M Total Wireless Customers — Verizon reported its Q1 2013 earnings today, including revenue for the quarter of $29.4B and EPS of $0.68. The results were mixed, topping expectations in terms of earnings per share …

More: Verizon, VentureBeat, DailyFinance.com, The Next Web, BGR, CNET, Engadget and PhoneArena

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Verizon nets 677,000 new wireless subscribers, activates 7.2 million smartphones, 4 million iPhones in Q1 — Verizon just announced its Q1 2013 financial results, which reveal positive subscriber numbers and record smartphone penetration. America's largest wireless carrier added 677,000 net …

More: ZDNet, AppleInsider, Engadget, TechCrunch, New York Times, Reuters and Bloomberg

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Samsung says considers Hynix chips for its mobile products — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co is considering purchasing mobile memory chips from rival SK Hynix Inc for future products including its new flagship Galaxy S smartphone to be launched this month, J.K. Shin, head of Samsung's mobile business, said on Thursday.

More: Inquirer, TechEye, TechCrunch, Android Beat and PC Pro

Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:

Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center — Intel, the chip giant, is buying Mashery, a seven-year-old company in San Francisco that specializes in linking together Web-based software and services, a company spokesperson confirmed to ReadWrite.

More: Inquirer, Forrester Blogs, Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, Silicon Valley Watcher, PE Hub Blog, The Register, ZDNet, The Diversity Blog and silicontap.com

Tweets: @marshallk, @davemcclure and @joshk

Thanks:@owenthomas

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Source: Mashery Is Selling To Intel For More Than $180M

More: The H and Business Insider

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Intel outlines new strategy, investments for cloud-based networking — Summary: While this week's earnings report was all about Windows 8, Intel also has a new networking strategy to disclose. — Intel is ramping up its networking strategy with a series of new investments …

More: GigaOM, Computerworld, Inquirer, The Register and VentureBeat

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Q1 Venture Capital Spending And Number Of Deals Down, M&A Activity Drops 44 Percent And Pre-Money Valuations Plummet — Dow Jones Venture Source released its quarterly report on the state of venture capital, including data on number of VC deals, funds raised, M&As and IPOs in the technology sector.

More: VatorNews

Peter Ha / Gizmodo:

Space Monkey: Easy Cloud Storage in Your Very Own Home — I have a confession: I've never properly backed up my computer. Ever. Whether it was a cloud-based solution or a local NAS, the upload speeds were horrendous or the software was just plain ugly and confusing to use.

More: Kickstarter, SlashGear, Technology Personalized, Neowin, VentureBeat, Laughing Squid, Digits and Business Insider. Thanks:@jessicachrystal

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft Excel: The ruiner of global economies? — Figuratively speaking, of course. — Aurich Lawson — An economics paper claiming that high levels of national debt led to low or negative economic growth could turn out to be deeply flawed as a result of, among other things, an incorrect formula in an Excel spreadsheet.

More: Betabeat, Techdirt and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

Karsten Strauss / Forbes:

Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? — ILKKA PAANANEN says the best way to make money in mobile gaming is to stop thinking about making money. Think about fun instead. Fighting a mild case of flu and jet lag from a San Francisco flight back home to Helsinki …

More: PandoDaily, Business Insider, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Salon

Scott Reyburn / Inside Social Games:

Supercell raises another round of funding at $130M on a valuation of $770M, sees revenues of $2.4M a day

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Updates iPhone, Android Apps With A Personalized Activity Stream, Better Navigation, And Ads — With the ink still drying on last week's acquisition of news aggregation app Pulse, LinkedIn continues to double down on mobile, the fastest-growing consumer service among its 200 million members.

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, Wired, CNET, BetaNews, AppleInsider, Android Community, The Verge, The Technology Chronicles, Softpedia News, Reuters, Engadget, NYT Bits, Apple Fan Site, PhoneArena, SlashGear and Mashable

Steven Musil / CNET:

Bitcoin exchange BitFloor halts operations, shuts down — Exchange specializing in the virtual currency announces it's ceasing all trading operations and plans to return funds to its users. — The recent Bitcoin rollercoaster ride has come to an end for one exchange.

More: SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld, NEWS.com.au, ZDNet, The Verge and The Next Web

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Sources Say Amazon Acquired Siri-Like Evi App For $26M - Is A Smartphone Coming? — When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S it seemed like a magic piece of software. The future had arrived. But it wasn't alone. True Knowledge, a British startup with a natural language search engine developed …

More: Gizmodo, Softpedia News, T3 News, Ubergizmo, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, GeekWire, Electronista, Engadget, MacRumors and iClarified

Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:

Toshiba Kirabook Challenges MacBook Air with Retina-Like Display (Video) — The Kirabook isn't just another laptop for Toshiba; it's the first product in a new luxury brand designed to go toe-to-toe with Apple at the high end of the market. Priced at a fairly steep $1,599 …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, TIME, Electronista and The Next Web

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