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April 29, 2013, 7:50 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Jony Ive paints a fresh, yet familiar, look for iOS 7 — According to multiple people who have either seen or have been briefed on the upcoming iOS 7, the operating system sports a redesigned user-interface that will be attractive to new iOS users, but potentially unsettling for those who are long-accustomed to the platform...

More: TechCrunch, CNET, iMore, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Business Insider, ParisLemon, BGR, Redmond Pie, VR-Zone, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, The Droid Guy, Electronista, WMPoweruser, IntoMobile, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, Apple Bitch and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, more from iOS later this year — OS X 10.9, which is internally codenamed “Cabernet,” will focus on various “power-user” enhancements and take core features from iOS, according to our sources. Unlike operating system updates …

More: iMore, The Register, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, Digital Trends, MacNN, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, Gearburn, Yahoo! News, CNET, Macgasm, TechSpot and Redmond Pie. Tweets: @viticci. Thanks:@llsethj

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google Now comes to iPhone and iPad with new Search app update — Google's iOS app offensive continues — After a promo video let the cat out of the bag last month, Google is making it official: with an update to the Google Search application, Google Now is available on iOS.

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

A Majority Of Android Phones Still Can't Access Google Now, But The iPhone Can

More: Search Engine Land, Gizmodo and Computerworld

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion Challenging Amazon — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows Azure software and related programs have surpassed $1 billion in annual sales for the first time, a sign of progress in the effort to challenge Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) in cloud computing.

More: CNET, ZDNet, GeekWire, Ars Technica, The Next Web, ZDNet and Neowin

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Here Is How Foursquare Plans On Turning Your Life Into Ads — On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier today (RIP, Sam Biddle's press credentials!) Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley acknowledged the haters, before offering a confident dismissal: “I think there are a lot of people …

More: Business Insider and SocialTimes

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley: “People Think We Don't Know How To Generate Revenue. This Is Wrong.”

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Betabeat and SlashGear. Thanks:@grg

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft creates an Apple vs. Samsung wedding fight for its new Windows Phone ad — Microsoft has tried a number of ways to advertise Windows Phone handsets, but the latest pits two rivals against each other. In a new minute long spot that's due to air on US national TV, a wedding reception is interrupted by Apple and Samsung fans.

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4m — Norwegian browser maker Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against a former employee and consultant, alleging that the man gave away trade secrets to rival Mozilla. Opera is claiming a whopping 20 million Norwegian Krone …

More: Network World, Computerworld, The Register, CNET, TechSpot, Techie Buzz, Web Browser, Macgasm, VentureBeat and Inquirer

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft IllumiRoom is a coffee table projector designed for the next-generation Xbox — When Microsoft first unveiled its IllumiRoom technology at CES, it did so in an unusual way. The software giant traditionally reveals its research projects in short scrappy videos accompanied by research papers and a lot of technical jargon.

More: ExtremeTech, Microsoft Research, TechHive, nbcnews.com, IntoMobile, Neowin, My Nokia Blog and CNET

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Bang With Friends Is Raising ~ $1 Million To Help People Find Hook Up Buddies — Bang with Friends (BWF) is a Facebook app that does exactly what you're thinking it does. It helps people on Facebook find friends to hook up with rather than date. — So it may come as a shock that BWF …

More: TechCrunch, AllFacebook and Betabeat

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Panel seeks to fine tech companies for noncompliance with wiretap orders — A government task force is preparing legislation that would pressure companies such as Facebook and Google to enable law enforcement officials to intercept online communications as they occur …

More: PC Magazine, Hillicon Valley and Wired

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

A terrible idea: Samsung reworks Gangnam Style to promote the Galaxy S4 in India — When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4 in New York earlier this year, the company was criticized for the rather bizarre production that it put on to demonstrate the smartphone's new software features.

More: The Verge, Android Community and Business Insider

New York Times:

Social Media's Effects On Markets Concern Regulators — Could the global economy hinge on 140 characters? — That is the question the financial industry and government regulators are trying to answer after a Twitter hoax on Tuesday that claimed President Obama was injured in an explosion at the White House.

Graham Cluley / Naked Security:

Guardian Twitter accounts hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

More: ZDNet, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, AllThingsD, Daily Dot and The Verge. Tweets: @jamesrbuk. See also Mediagazer

Facebook Engineering:

Under the Hood: The natural language interface of Graph Search — Xiao Li is an engineering manager on the natural language team for Graph Search and Maxime Boucher is a research scientist for Graph Search. — The Graph Search engine is built upon highly structured datain the form of a graph …

More: GigaOM and Search Engine Land. Thanks:@alexhollander

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Does anyone know why Google bought Motorola? — The products weren't great and the patents overvalued — so what did that $12.5 billion actually buy? — Why did Google spend $12.5 billion dollars to purchase Motorola Mobility? It's been nearly two years since the deal was announced …

More: Forbes, Bloomberg and AllThingsD

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Android Took 64% Of All Smartphone Sales Globally In Q1; Windows Phone Continues Modest Gains, Says Kantar — Google's mobile OS Android continues to power ahead as the world's most popular smartphone platform, according to figures out today from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech …

More: Kantar Worldpanel, BGR, BetaNews, PhoneArena, ReadWrite, WMPoweruser, Yahoo! News, eWeek, Examiner and Mobile Marketing Watch

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

That Horrible Tumblr Memo Was Actually a Fired Editor's Secret Revenge — Tumblr founder David Karp's abrupt farewell to his Storyboard team earlier this month was so disingenuous, so thick with noxious doublespeak, that it hardly seemed real. That's because it wasn't …

Tweets: @nicknotned

Bloomberg:

BlackBerry Rises as CEO Sees Q10 Selling Tens of Millions — BlackBerry (BBRY), the Canadian smartphone maker, climbed to its highest level in more than a month after Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins said he sees sales of its new Q10 device to be in the “tens of millions.”

More: Ars Technica, AppleInsider, The Verge, eWeek, Digits, Tech Trader Daily and Inquirer

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Notebook Refresh to Be Highlight of WWDC, Non-Retina MacBook Pro to Continue? — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new report forecasting that the product highlight of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which kicks off on June 10, will be the introduction of new models …

More: MacRumors, iCreate, BGR, TechGuySmartBuy, PhoneArena, LAPTOP Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe, Cult of Mac, InvestorPlace, SlashGear and Digital Trends

Andrew Orlowski / The Register:

UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now — Everyone = Silicon Valley [ad platforms] tech companies — Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr? — If so, you'll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight.

More: Digital Trends, New Statesman, BBC, ongoing by Tim Bray and Out-Law News. See also Mediagazer

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Chat apps have overtaken SMS by message volume, but how big a disaster is that for carriers? — There's a reason why mobile carriers are scared of third-party messaging apps such as WhatsApp, and here it is: people are now sending more messages over these services than they are text messages.

More: Financial Times, CNET, Examiner, Telegraph, The Next Web, SlashGear, ReadWrite, The Droid Guy, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechEye, DSLreports and Guardian

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