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April 25, 2013, 12:15 PM

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EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Google to address competition concerns  —  The European Commission invites comments from interested parties on commitments offered by Google in relation to online search and search advertising.  The Commission has concerns …
Soyoung Kim / Reuters:
Exclusive: Verizon eyes $100 billion bid for Vodafone's Wireless stake  —  (Reuters) - Verizon Communications has hired advisers to prepare a possible $100 billion cash and stock bid to take full control of Verizon Wireless from its partner Vodafone, two people familiar with the matter said.
Kevin Kwang / ZDNet:
China court fines Apple $118K for copyright breach  —  Summary: A Beijing court has ordered Apple to compensate three Chinese writers for selling their works via its app store without getting their permission.  —  Kevin Kwang  —  Apple will have to compensate three Chinese writers …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Turns Its Contacts Section Into A Personal Assistant, With Google, Yahoo, Evernote & Outlook Apps Integration And A Standalone iPhone App  —  Make way for another major update to the LinkedIn platform: today the company is relaunching its Contacts section as a smart contact management system …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Nokia Plans May 14 London Event to Talk About Its Next Windows Phones  —  Nokia is planning to hold a May 14 press conference in London to talk about where it is headed with its Lumia line of Windows Phones.  —  An invitation to journalists on Thursday offered few details.
More: Engadget, The Verge, BGR and Business InsiderTweets: @grg
John Callaham / Neowin:
Strategy Analytics: 3 million Windows tablets shipped in Q1 2013  —  Microsoft may not be talking about how many of its Surface tablets it has shipped or sold since the Surface RT launched in late October.  However, a report claims that three million Windows-based tablets shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2013.
Brooke Crothers / CNET:
MacBook Pro declared ‘best performing’ Windows laptop  —  A PC services company placed Apple computers in the No.1 and No. 6 slots as the best performing Windows laptops.  —  The MacBook Pro 13 was rated the best performing Windows laptop.  One of the biggest reasons: ‘every Windows installation on it is clean.’
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain  —  It has been a busy month for The Pirate Bay's IT department thus far, with the site skipping from domain to domain.  —  Two weeks ago the notorious BitTorrent site traded in its .SE domain for the Greenland-based .GL TLD.
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Solar Chargers Advance in Mobile Device Market  —  WHETHER you're comparing restaurant menus while sitting in the park or turning on the air-conditioner before getting home, life is becoming increasingly mobile thanks to smartphones and tablets.  And with new apps appearing constantly …
Rachel King / ZDNet:
IHS: Expect 9.4 million ‘smart’ glasses units shipped by 2016  —  Summary: Are “smart” glasses the new wave of mobile?  Based on the fervor around Google Glass, IHS analysts seem to think so.  —  The pending launch of “smart” glasses as a new mobile category might not just be reserved for Google Glass.
Steve Lohr / NYT Bits:
A Messenger for the Internet of Things  —  The vision of the Internet of Things is inspiring, if much-hyped.  Billions of digital devices, from smartphones to sensors in homes, cars and machines of all kinds, will communicate with each other to automate tasks and make life better.
Marissa Mayer / Official Yahoo! Blog:
Live from Yahoo! It's Saturday Night!  —  Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker, or Tina Fey as Sarah Palin?  As a lifelong Saturday Night Live fan, it is nearly impossible for me to pick my favorite skit.  And, as a fan, I couldn't be more excited to announce that we have reached an agreement …
Wall Street Journal:
In the Wired World, Feeds Drive Trading  —  When the words “explosions” and “White House” popped up Tuesday on a verified Associated Press Twitter account, computers in the bare-bones offices of a New York City startup sprang into action.  —  The computers, housed in the Madison Avenue headquarters …
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
LG promises smartphone with flexible OLED display this year  —  In a call discussing the company's recent financial results, LG announced it will introduce a smartphone with a flexible OLED screen in the fourth quarter of this year.  The company's vice president of mobile Yoon Bu-hyun …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content  —  For years copyright holders have urged search engines and Internet providers to make it harder for users to access infringing content online.  —  Thus far these efforts have been in vain, but anti-virus vendor McAfee …
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
MightyText, “The iMessage for Android,” Targets iCloud With New Cross-Device Photo And Video Sync  —  Today, our lives are spread across a growing array of digital devices, from smartphones and laptops to tablets and connected TVs.  While each device tends to perform certain tasks better than others …
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