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May 9, 2013, 4:15 AM

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TechCrunch:

Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion — Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.

More: ZDNet, GeekWire, VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge, Softpedia News, Kindle Review, SlashGear, Neowin and Electronista

Tweets: @xpangler and @pkafka

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Microsoft:

Microsoft names Corporate Vice President Amy Hood as new Microsoft chief financial officer — Former CFO for the Microsoft Business Division succeeds outgoing CFO Peter Klein. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Amy Hood was named Microsoft chief financial officer …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Globe and Mail, Business Insider, Engadget, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Next Web, ZDNet, Neowin, CNET, TechNet Blogs, BGR and GeekWire

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping And Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court More Mobile Users — Facebook appears to be close to making another billion-dollar acquisition to once again ramp up its mobile efforts: according to two reports in the Israeli press at Calcalist …

More: The Next Web, Ynetnews, Engadget, Reuters, tbreak and The Inneractive Blog

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Seeks Android Source Code Records in Samsung Suit — Apple Inc. (AAPL), taking its patent fight to Google Inc. (GOOG) through its infringement litigation against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), is asking a judge to force Google to turn over documents related to its Android operating system.

More: Fortune, The Droid Guy, Macgasm, Yahoo! News, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, T3 News, Electronista, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, iLounge, FierceMobileIT News and Wall Street Journal

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy — Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. — Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy …

More: AllThingsD, Variety, Adweek and The Wrap. Thanks:@ethan_anderson

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency — There's so much data available on the internet, that even government cyberspies need a little help now and then to sift through it all. So to assist them, the National Security Agency produced a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web.

Peter Nixey:

Dear Apple, let's talk about photos — I'm Peter, a Rails developer and entrepreneur. I'm an ex-computer vision researcher, the former CEO of Clickpass and a YC alum. I now work with an awesome team building Copyin - email for teams — We've been managing our photos together for almost a decade now.

More: ParisLemon. Tweets: @ampressman, @rgriff, @jonasdowney and @dannysullivan. Thanks:@mikebutcher

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Michael Arrington Sues Jenn Allen Over Rape Claims — After issuing an ultimatum to abuse-alleging ex Jenn Allen, TechCrunch founder and investor Michael Arrington is now trying to take her to federal court. In demand for trial filed just yesterday, Arrington's lawyers allege Allen tried to …

More: NYT Bits, Business Insider, Betabeat and The Raw Story

Tweets: @bcuban, @jennallen, @mims, @bcuban, @jyarow and @jeffjohnroberts

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart — Dialup out, broadband in. It doesn't get more clear than this. — At the end of March, almost 2.7 million people still subscribed to AOL service, the company reported this morning. That's about where Netflix stood at the end of 2004.

More: Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer

Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:

This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl) — Jennie Lamere was the only woman to present at a Boston hackathon. She won it. — Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum …

More: US News, Los Angeles Times, CNET, The Huffington Post, Screen Junkies, Music Machinery, Digital Trends, NEWS.com.au and ANIMAL

Jeff Jordan / Fortune:

Godzilla vs. Mothra, the sequel — What happens when two giants collide? — FORTUNE — Amazon and Google are on a collision course. — When I was at eBay, we had a belief that no one was going to compete with us by replicating exactly what we were doing. We had first mover advantages and network effects.

Tweets: @cdixon

Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:

Twitter favorites @Sunnyvale with new office lease — Sunnyvale, you have a new follower: Twitter. — Twitter Inc. has signed for an 8,000-square-foot space at 400 West California Ave., part of Sunnyvale Business Park and just a skip away from the Sunnyvale Caltrain Station.

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

LinkedIn continues its evolution as a media entity with the launch of magazine-style news channels — Although it is still seen by many as a place for networking with colleagues and/or posting a digital curriculum vitae, LinkedIn has been behaving a lot more like a media entity recently …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, WebProNews and Adotas

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

The Loop magazine for iPhone and iPad released — On New Years Eve last year I said that I had some big plans for The Loop in 2013. The biggest of those plans is The Loop magazine for iPhone and iPad, which is available from the App Store today. — I wrote an introductory article …

More: The Next Web and The Loop

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

Feds Drop Hacking Charges in Video-Poker Glitching Case — They know when to fold 'em. Las Vegas prosecutors targeting two men who took advantage of a software bug to win a small fortune at video poker have dropped all hacking charges from the case, cashing out an 18-month legal battle …

More: Techdirt and The Verge

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Cisco Meraki Launches “Presence”, With Facebook Account Log-In To Wireless Networks — Cisco Meraki has launched a new service called Presence that provides data about mobile behavior across location and automatic log-in to wireless hotspots using a person's Facebook account.

More: GeekWire and Meraki Blog

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware — Facebook's Open Compute Project to give the world an “open” top-of-rack switch. — Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco. — Facebook

More: Open Compute Project, Wired, Data Center Knowledge, InformationWeek, AllFacebook, GigaOM, The Register and NYT Bits

Ronnie Cohen / Reuters:

San Francisco surrenders in fight over cell phone warnings — (Reuters) - San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round in court against the cell phone industry, have agreed to revoke an ordinance that would have been the first in the United States to require retailers to warn consumers …

More: DSLreports, CNET, Ars Technica, SiliconBeat, ITworld.com, Engadget, PhoneArena, Examiner, The Register, LAPTOP Magazine and The Verge

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Yahoo's Mayer Plans Search Revamp to Narrow Google Lead — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer plans to unveil tools for Internet search, including making it easier to find information on mobile devices, stepping up efforts to nab share from Google Inc. (GOOG)

More: Search Engine Land, WebProNews, Tech Trader Daily and Wall Street Journal

Matt Warman / Telegraph:

Say goodbye to the pin: voice recognition takes over at Barclays Wealth — Barclays Wealth customers will no longer need to answer security questions and remember pin codes to use telephone banking. — Barclays Wealth customers will be able to use voice recognition rather than security pins

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Hotel Tonight is revamping the hotel review for mobile devices — Instead of typing out a free-form hotel experience review on your laptop once you get home from your trip, or struggling with your smartphone's virtual keyboard for several long paragraphs, Hotel Tonight has a better idea: just use photos.

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Skift, Mashable and VentureBeat

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

NowThisNews Mobile Video Service Raises $4.8 Million — NowThisNews, the startup that's trying to create a video news service for the iPhone generation, has raised another $4.8 million. — In addition to earlier investors, who include Lerer Ventures, Oak Investment and Bedrocket …

More: VentureBeat and Beet.TV

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Donald Trump Launches FundAnything, a Kickstarter Clone Meant to Bring Crowdfunding to the Masses — Crowdfunding now has a celebrity mogul endorsement. — A new site called FundAnything from Learning Annex founder Bill Zanker launches today with help from loudmouth businessman Donald Trump.

More: TechCrunch, Gawker, Pulse 2.0, The Verge, MarketWatch, Business Insider and TechCrunch. Tweets: @realdonaldtrump

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