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May 1, 2013, 4:00 PM

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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple's Ive Seen Risking IOS 7 Delay on Software Overhaul: Tech — Jonathan Ive, six months into an expanded role as Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s top product visionary, has embarked on a sweeping software overhaul that leaves the company at risk of falling behind on a new version of the operating system …

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's iOS 7 Team in Deadline Crunch Mode, Adding Engineers — Apple's iOS 7 is so significant a reimagining of the mobile operating system that the company is mustering additional engineering resources to get it out the door in time for a preview at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which is June 10-14 in San Francisco.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace, nbcnews.com, Ubergizmo, Computerworld, Business Insider and VR-Zone

evleaks / PhoneArena:

HTC M4 brings One style, sensibility downmarket — HTC has a certified hit on its hands with the sleek, unibody HTC One — so it's natural that the company would want to extend its design language to lower price points. Meet the HTC M4 (remember, the One was codenamed M7) …

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Who Has Your Back? 2013 — When you use the Internet, you entrust your conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what do these companies do when the government demands your private information? Do they stand with you?

Tom Bergin / Reuters:

Exclusive: Britain to quiz Google and auditor again on tax — (Reuters) - Executives from Google Inc. and its auditor Ernst & Young will be called again to a British parliament committee to testify on tax, after a Reuters investigation highlighted inconsistencies in the way Google portrays …

More: CNET, Forbes, Guardian, The Register, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Inquirer and The Next Web

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple's Share of Worldwide Tablet Shipments Falls Below 40% in 1Q 2013 — Research firm IDC today announced its preliminary estimates of worldwide tablet shipments for the first quarter of 2013, finding that Apple's share of the market continues to slide as competitors begin to gain footholds in the market …

More: IDC, iCharts, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, GeekWire, BGR, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, CITEworld, The Next Web, Investor's Business Daily, Neowin, iClarified and SlashGear

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface tablets in Q1, says IDC

More: asymco

Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

Pentagon Expected to Embrace Apple, Samsung Devices — Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. are bringing the smartphone wars to the Pentagon. — The Department of Defense is expected in coming weeks to grant two separate, security approvals for Samsung's Galaxy smartphones …

More: The Next Web, The Verge, 9to5Mac and MacRumors

Maureen Farrell / CNNMoney.com:

Peter Thiel: Twitter will outlast the New York Times — Tech visionaries Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen disagree on the promise of Twitter, but both see a relatively long lifespan for the social media firm. At least in Internet years. — In a debate with Andreessen …

More: Silicon Valley Watcher, Betabeat and Salon

AllThingsD:

Apple's Tim Cook Returns to D Stage to Open 11th Annual Conference — Although we are only about a month out from our 11th D: All Things Digital conference, we still have a few big speakers to announce, not the least of which is Apple CEO Tim Cook. — Cook, who made his debut at D10 …

More: BetaNews, Computerworld, Mashable, TechSpot, iPhone, TUAW and iCreate

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft readies ‘Mohoro’ Windows desktop as a service — Summary: Microsoft is believed to be building a Windows Azure-hosted desktop virtualization service that could be available on a pay-per-use basis. — In yet another example of its growing emphasis on remaking itself as a devices …

More: Business Insider and Neowin

Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:

T-Mobile US Shares Climb in NYSE Debut Following Merger — T-Mobile US Inc., the fourth-biggest U.S. wireless company, climbed 6.2 percent in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange after a merger with MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS), a smaller rival.

More: The Verge, BGR, FierceWireless, Engadget and CNET

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

As T-Mobile Swallows MetroPCS, It Must Avoid Indigestion

More: T-Mobile Media Relations, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, Electronista, The Next Web, ZDNet, VentureBeat and WebProNews

Sean Buckley / FierceTelecom:

CenturyLink launches 1 Gbps fiber pilot in Omaha — CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is providing its own answer to Google Fiber's (Nasdaq: GOOG) last-mile fiber vision by launching a 1 Gbps-capable fiber to the premises (FTTP) pilot deployment that will serve 48,000 homes and businesses in Omaha …

More: CenturyLink, GigaOM, The Verge, DSLreports, Omaha World-Herald and multichannel.com/rss

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Cisco jumps on gigabit Internet craze with new wireless offerings

More: eWeek

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

U.S. Court Rules For Facebook In Its Case Against Typosquatters On 105 Domains; $2.8M In Damages — A victory for Facebook in its case against typosquatters — those who own domain names that are similar to those of a popular site, which they use to confuse people and potentially capitalize on that.

More: CNET, Businessweek, AllFacebook and AllThingsD

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Simple Task-Management Asana Debuts Organizations To Help Enterprises Streamline Productivity — Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that's trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), is tackling the scale of its productivity app with a new announcement today.

More: The Next Web, ZDNet, NYT Bits, Computerworld, PandoDaily, AllThingsD, Fortune, The Asana Blog and CITEworld

Associated Press:

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gets 2012 pay package of $36.6 million, ranking behind top lieutenant — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer emerged as the Internet company's second highest paid executive during her first five-and-half months on the job. — Regulatory documents filed Tuesday revealed …

More: Bloomberg, CNBC and USA Today

Bloomberg:

Obama Names Former Lobbyist Wheeler U.S. FCC Chairman — President Barack Obama named Tom Wheeler, a venture capitalist and former leader of cable and wireless trade groups, to head the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, where he may focus on nurturing mobile technology.

More: The Verge, GigaOM, New York Times, ZDNet and Ars Technica. See also Mediagazer

Dara Kerr / CNET:

LinkedIn turns online resumes into professional portfolios — Now users can upload videos, images, and other rich media to showcase their work and skills on the professional social network. — LinkedIn is letting users take their online resumes to a whole new level.

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, VatorNews, AllThingsD, WebProNews and Mashable

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Done Deal! DreamWorks Paying $33 Million, and Maybe Much More, for AwesomenessTV. — There we go: That DreamWorks Animation/AwesomenessTV deal I told you about last night is now official. The people who brought you “Shrek” are paying $33 million in cash for the YouTube channel …

More: The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, SlashGear, Deadline.com and Dreamworks Animation. See also Mediagazer

Scott Webster / CNET:

Android 4.3 could debut at Google I/O, not Android 5.0 — Recent server logs for several blogs suggest the next build of Android may be version 4.3. — With only a few weeks to go until Google I/O kicks off, Android followers expect to see the debut of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, the platform's next-generation build.

More: AndroidOS.in, Android Authority, GSMArena.com, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News and TechRadar.com

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Rap Genius launches ‘News Genius’ to explain current events — Rap Genius, the popular site that lets users explain rap lyrics by annotating specific words and lines with their own descriptions and links to supporting facts, is looking to expand its reach to cover more current events and breaking news.

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Betabeat, Mashable and Valleywag

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Google Glass review (Explorer Edition) — Stand in a line of people in just about any major metropolitan area in the world and you'll see the same thing: slouched shoulders and down-turned faces staring glumly at smartphone screens. Some people never look away, completely immersed in whatever …

More: CNET, ABCNEWS, Guardian, Marketing Land, SlashGear, The Atlantic Wire, BGR, Quick Online Tips, GSMArena Blog and bizjournals

Jay Freeman / The Realm of the Avatar:

Exploiting a Bug in Google's Glass

More: Business Insider, Guardian, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile and NBC Bay Area

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