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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.
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 …
Daniel Rubino / wpcentral.com:
First images of Nokia's aluminum Lumia, codenamed ‘Catwalk’, have surfaced [Updated]  —  We have no way of verifying the authenticity of these two images, but it appears to be of the upcoming Nokia Lumia ‘Catwalk’, a follow up to the Lumia 920 that reportedly sports a new aluminum chassis to help reduce the size and weight.
Lance Whitney / CNET:
Nokia reportedly planning 5-inch Lumia ‘phablet’  —  The company will launch its own “phablet” designed to compete with such devices as Samsung's Galaxy Note, a source tells The Financial Times.  —  Nokia may jump into the “phablet” market this year.  —  A source with “knowledge …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Lower-Cost iPhone's Plastic Rear Shell Reportedly Surfaces  —  Earlier this week, case manufacturer Tactus was one of several sources to share photos of cases reportedly designed for the fifth-generation iPad, once again showing that the device is expected to be smaller than the existing iPad and take design cues from the iPad mini.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Nokia Q1 2013 Misses With Sales Of $7.6B With $0.03 Loss Per Share; 5.6M Lumias Sold
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Yahoo releases new weather and mail apps in second phase of rebuilding effort  —  A foot in the door or too little too late?  —  Rebuilding Yahoo will require “a series of sprints,” CEO Marissa Mayer told investors this week during an earnings call.  The first sprint “was all about getting people to believe in Yahoo,” she said.
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 …
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Chat Heads, set free: jailbreak tweak puts Facebook Messenger all over your iPhone  —  A 21-year-old hacker brings one of Android's finer features to iOS  —  When Facebook launched Chat Heads for iOS yesterday, the feature's functionality was limited.  On Android, Chat Heads cling to the side …
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 …
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:
Source: Mashery Is Selling To Intel For More Than $180M  —  We're hearing from a source familiar with deliberations that Intel is buying Mashery for more than $180 million, in a move that shows how the chipmaker is slowly becoming both a hardware and a software company.
More: The H

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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

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