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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Developing Smartphone With 3-D Screen  —  New Gadgets, Including Audio-Only Device, Is Bid to Expand Beyond Kindle Fire.  — Amazon's hardware ambitions are broadening.  The Seattle e-commerce giant has recently been developing a wide-ranging lineup of gadgets—including two smartphones …
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 …
Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:
Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite  —  On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes.  That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined.
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.
John G. Doe / YouTube Blog:
New ways to support great content on YouTube  —  We've been building a YouTube partner program since 2007 that enables content creators to earn revenue for their creativity.  We've watched them build amazing channels that have made YouTube into a news, education and entertainment destination …
Eva Dou / Digits:
PC Makers Hopeful on Windows 8 Changes  —  With the PC industry in severe contraction, industry executives seem terribly relieved to have found some optimism to cling to.  —  PC makers in Asia say there is hope yet for Windows 8, the new operating system that even Microsoft Corp. has admitted hasn't been a huge hit.
Clare Jim / Reuters:
Apple supplier Pegatron boosts China workforce by 40 percent in second quarter  —  (Reuters) - Pegatron Corp, an assembler of Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad, said it would increase its number of workers in China by up to 40 percent in the second half of the year, fuelling market speculation of a new cheaper iPhone.
Andrew Adams / KSL-TV:
‘Deleted’ Snapchat photos saved in phone data, can be examined as evidence  —  OREM — Not so fast, Snapchat.  Those 10-seconds-or-less pictures appear to have a much longer life, deep inside of smartphones.  —  Orem-based firm Decipher Forensics said it has derived a method to extract …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Ouya raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins and Mayfield and delays launch  —  Ouya is just a kid on the block alongside the game consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony.  But it's graduating to a higher level today as the maker of the $99 Android game console is announcing that it has raised $15 million …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
AT&T-owned AIO Wireless launches pre-paid and BYOD service, but no LTE  —  You likely haven't heard of AIO Wireless yet, but AT&T hopes you will soon.  Launching Thursday in three cities, AIO Wireless is a pre-paid and BYOD, or bring your own device, service provider and is a subsidiary …
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.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
W3C proceeds with Web video encryption despite opposition  —  The Web standards group is going ahead with its Encrypted Media Extensions technology despite some opposition, arguing it's a step in the right direction.  —  W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe  —  The World Wide Web Consortium has decided …
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
BlueStacks rivals OUYA with GamePop Android console and a $6.99 per month “Netflix for games” service  —  As Kickstarter poster boy OUYA is gearing up to start selling its Android-based video game console in retail stores at the end of next month, backed by a fresh $15 million in VC funding …
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
The Loop magazine for iPhone and iPad released  —  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.
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Sony's 2012 earnings show a net profit of $458 million, its first since 2008  —  We've already heard from Sony about the positive effects some of its recent moves like the sales of several of its buildings are having on its finances, and now the company is revealing its detailed results for the last year.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
TestFlight Opens Android Beta To All Users, After Crossing 50K Downloads For Apps In Closed Testing  —  App beta testing service TestFlight launched its closed Android beta back in February this year, and now the company is making those tools available to any and all.
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
EA confirms 10 percent of staff laid off in major restructuring  —  During video game conglomerate EA's most recent earnings call, the company's CFO confirmed that it has laid off the roughly 900 workers whose jobs were rumored to be on the chopping block last month.
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
Nokia unveils the touchscreen Asha 501 with new software platform, we go hands-on (video)  —  One or more additional members are expected to join Nokia's Lumia line-up next Tuesday, but today the company has chosen New Delhi as the stage to unveil the Asha 501, a new touchscreen handset …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Previews New Features For Home, Which Is Near 1M Downloads And Increases Users' Time Spent On Facebook By 25%  —  “Home is the first product we've released that's really about ‘mobile-best’ and the transition beyond ‘mobile first’” said Facebook's Cory Ondrejka.
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