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April 23, 2013, 11:40 AM

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Netflix Surpasses HBO in U.S. Subscribers … Netflix reported 29.17 million domestic subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, surpassing HBO for the first time. — Netflix, which ended 2012 with 27.15 million domestic subs, added just over 2 million subs, according to first quarter results issued Monday.

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Netflix will offer $11.99 family plan with up to four simultaneous streams

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Says Its “House of Cards” Strategy Worked, and Wall Street Agrees

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple's iCloud servers once again experiencing major outages for a growing number of users — Update, 9:34 AM: Apple has now updated its System Status page to confirm the outages we reported earlier this morning. Apple reports some users experienced issues with account & sign in for iCloud as well as purchases for iTunes:

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Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Has an Identity Crisis — Is It a Hardware Company or A Software Firm? — Apple Inc. is facing an identity crisis on Wall Street. — As Apple prepares to report what analysts project may be the company's first year-over-year quarterly earnings decline in a decade on Tuesday …

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Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple earnings could bring profit setback, despite record sales — The iPad maker is expected to report record sales Tuesday, but its profits could take a hit for the first time in a decade. — Apple could make history tomorrow with its biggest second-quarter sales yet …

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Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 4 owners begin receiving their $15 ‘Antennagate’ settlement checks from Apple — Payday has come for some of the first responders to the iPhone 4 class action lawsuit. Last February a settlement was reached that granted iPhone 4 owners who had not previously received a free bumper for their “defective” iPhones a $15 payout.

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Wall Street Journal:

Hedge Fund Takes $2 Billion Stake in Microsoft — A hedge-fund executive disclosed that his firm owns about $2 billion in Microsoft Corp. stock, stating that the value of the software giant's businesses wasn't appreciated by other investors. — Jeffrey W. Ubben, founder of ValueAct Capital Management LP …

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Alexa Ray Corriea / Polygon:

Pizza Hut launching Xbox 360 app that lets console owners order pizza from Xbox Live — Microsoft and Pizza Hut have partnered up to launch a pioneer app for Xbox Live that will allow users to order from the chain's menu directly through their Xbox 360. — The Pizza Hut for Xbox app makes …

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Shapeways Raises $30M for 3-D Printing Led by Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon — The idea of dreaming up a physical object and having a computer help you bring it to life — a.k.a. 3-D printing — is very cool today, but there's a long way to go. Some of the challenges include faster creation times …

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Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

AMD reveals G-Series X embedded chips, drops a little ARM-powered bombshell — We're no strangers to AMD's embedded processors, designed for specialist applications such as casino gaming and dashboard infotainment systems. But this latest announcement of an updated G-Series processor reveals something totally unexpected.

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TechCrunch:

Fab Is Raising A Mondo Round At A $1 Billion Valuation — We're hearing from multiple sources that design-focused retail site Fab is raising a new round of funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company has previously raised $171 million in funding and we're hearing it seeks to raise more than $100 million in this round.

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Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

Raising your hand is so passé: Pearson buys real-time student feedback and polling startup — Pearson - the big kahuna of ed tech — has snapped up another startup. The company on Monday said it had purchased Learning Catalytics, a company founded at Harvard University by a trio of academics.

More: ZDNet, TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:

ASUS Cube Google TV review — The past year has been a busy one for Google TV — in fact, with the big I/O conference right around the corner, we're sitting down to review our fifth such device in the past 12 months. The ASUS Cube naturally does everything one would expect from a Google TV set-top box …

More: Android Central, Liliputing and Ubergizmo

Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:

Grooveshark CEO: 'I'm Broke' — When Grooveshark's co-founder and CEO Sam Tarantino talks about what happened to his music startup between 2011 and early 2012, he doesn't hold back: It was, he says, “a year of getting punched in the face 10,000 times.” — During that period …

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

ARM's Sales Beat Estimates on Smartphone, Tablet Demand — ARM Holdings Plc (ARM), whose chip designs power Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone and iPad, reported higher sales that beat analysts' estimates as demand increased for its graphics and processing technology. The stock jumped.

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

For your robot-building needs, $45 BeagleBone Linux PC goes on sale — The brand-new BeagleBone Black. — BeagleBoard.org — The market for cheap single-board computers is becoming one of the most surprisingly competitive spaces in the tech industry. On the heels of the million-selling …

More: The H Open Source, SlashGear and Engadget

Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet:

China main source of cyberespionage attacks in 2012 — Summary: Chinese IP addresses account for 30 percent of data breaches worldwide last year and 96 percent of these attacks were made for online espionage purposes, according to a new study. — Ellyne Phneah

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Firefox OS Developer Phones Sold Out After First Few Hours On Sale, But More Are On The Way — Geeksphone, the smartphone OEM startup based out of Madrid, put the first Firefox OS developer phones on sale early this morning, offering the Keon for $119 and the more powerful Peak for $194.

More: CNET, Engadget, The H Open Source, WebProNews, PalmAddict, Electronista, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Salesforce.com beefs up Marketing Cloud with Social.com — Summary: The social enterprise purveyor's Marketing Cloud balloons with a new brand and social monitoring tool. — Salesforce.com is turning things up a notch for its Marketing Cloud platform with a new product styled similarly to its other cloud-based products: Social.com.

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Next Web, TechCrunch, AdExchanger, PC World, Digits and NYT Bits

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Google keeps losing: ITC finally tosses Motorola's complaint against Apple — This week begins for Google like last week ended: with another failure to convert the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility into leverage against a major rival. On Friday a German court denied Google's Motorola …

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Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:

Reuters Fired Its Indicted Social Media Editor After Bad Social Media Editing — Thomson Reuters could handle its deputy social media editor, Matthew Keys, being indicted on federal hacking charges. But after a week in which he was harshly criticized for inaccurate tweets to his 35,000-plus followers …

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