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May 9, 2013, 7:35 PM

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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 …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

YouTube introduces subscription channels with a group of partners starting at $0.99/mo, will expand

More: Wall Street Journal, BGR and New York Times

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 …

More: VentureBeat, The Register, GeekWire, ReadWrite, Marketing Land, Examiner, PC Magazine, The Verge, The Droid Guy, Pocket-lint, Insider Monkey, MacRumors, Engadget, TechCrunch, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Android Community, IntoMobile and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @panzer

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Salesforce Acquires Bookmarking Startup Clipboard for More Than $10M — Salesforce has acquired Clipboard, a social bookmarking service that had built interesting hooks for saving rich Web content across devices, both companies said today. — The deal was worth between $10 million and $20 million …

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, GigaOM, Xconomy, SocialTimes, Danielle Morrill and TechCrunch

John Cook / GeekWire:

Salesforce.com buys Clipboard, in exit for ex-Microsoft researcher: Service to shut down June 30 — Salesforce.com has purchased Clipboard, the Seattle startup led by former Microsoft researcher Gary Flake which drew comparisons to Pinterest. — It appears to be more of a talent …

More: Clipboard | Blog, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping/Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court 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 and sister publication Ynet …

More: The Next Web, Ynetnews, Forbes, CNET, VentureBeat, Mashable, The Inneractive Blog, Quartz, Colin Walker, IntoMobile, The Droid Guy, bizjournals and PadGadget

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Will Waze Be Facebook's Next Instagram?

Tweets: @corybe

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 VP Cory Ondrejka.

More: Digital Trends, The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, Inside Mobile Apps, Forbes, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET and PhoneArena

Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:

Facebook promises to fix Home with upgrades after user complaints

More: Salon, Motley Fool, Rachel Metz and Forbes

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.

More: GigaOM, Business Insider, The Verge and Gizmodo

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations — The battle for control of dangerous digital shapes may have just begun. — On Thursday, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson received a letter from the State Department Office …

More: Betabeat, Gizmodo, The Register, Guardian, VentureBeat, BBC, The Verge, The Technology Chronicles, PC Magazine, Motherboard, Engadget, ITworld.com, The Raw Story, Mashable and Salon

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo — It's only been a few weeks since the folks behind music-charting app We Are Hunted confirmed that it was acquired by Twitter, and it seems that Twitter isn't done snapping up startups just yet.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, ZDNet, AllThingsD and The Droid Guy

Tweets: @twittereng and @ubalo

Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:

Box buys Crocodoc to display files more beautifully in any browser — Box has acquired Crocodoc, a five-year-old company that provides technology to display and annotate documents at high fidelity in a browser. It is Box's first acquisition since 2009. — Crocodoc is geared toward developers today …

More: TechCrunch, GigaOM, AllThingsD, ZDNet, VentureBeat and The Next Web. Thanks:@mateolargo

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 …

More: PC Magazine, PRWeb, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Forbes, Guardian and Android Community

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.

More: Digital Trends, BGR, PC World, Business Insider and TechSpot

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Can Congress Blow Up the TV Bundle? John McCain Is Going to Try — Again. — Lots of people say they want to break up the bundle — the economic model that keeps the TV Industrial Complex intact — but no one has been able to do it. Can Congress? — Senator John McCain is going to try …

More: The Verge, VideoNuze Analysis, Los Angeles Times and ExtremeTech. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

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.

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Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft Developed Prototypes for a TV Set-Top Box — As videogame fans await the unveiling of Microsoft Corp.'s next Xbox, questions about another piece hardware loom for the software giant. — The company has been quietly developing designs for a separate, simpler set-top device …

More: Engadget, Neowin and Ubergizmo

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Neftlix for iOS now auto-plays next TV episode, offers after-movie recommendations, and more — Netflix on Thursday updated its native iOS app with two post-play features and some enhanced second screen options. You can download the latest app now directly from Apple's App Store.

More: Netflix US & Canada Blog, iMore, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac and Engadget

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Yahoo acquires GoPollGo polling service, shuts down all widgets, polls and properties — Today GoPollGo announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo Mobile. The online polling company hadn't reached its third birthday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

More: TechCrunch, VatorNews, Tnooz and SlashGear

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 …

More: AT&T Cell Phones …, DSLreports, PhoneNews.com, PC Magazine, Light Reading, iMore, dailywireless.org, AndroidGuys and Cult of Mac

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Nvidia smashes Q1 estimates but outlook is wobbly — Summary: Nvidia's CEO attributed Q1's success to “Kepler-based GPUs within and beyond the PC.” — Nvidia has a lot to be proud of on its first quarter earnings report, but the outlook is close to the edge.

More: Reuters, Computerworld, Tech Trader Daily, Market Wire, Engadget and The Tech Report

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default — Alpha.data.gov, an experimental data portal created under the White House's Open Data Initiative. — Data.gov — President Barack Obama issued an executive order today that aims to make “open and machine-readable” …

More: The White House, The White House, White House.gov Blog, The Verge, ZDNet, Computerworld, GigaOM, Sunlight Foundation Blog, Network World, PC Magazine and TechPresident

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

First look: Pixelmator 2.2 Blueberry goes live in the Mac App Store — As promised, image editor Pixelmator released a substantial update to its OS X app on Thursday, with over 100 new features and improvements including shapes, smart move, paint selection and an “effect” called Light Leak.

More: MacRumors and Pixelmator - Blog

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 …

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.

More: TestFlight and The Next Web. Thanks:@scootdown

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flipboard Brings Personalized Magazines To Android, Heads To The Web With New Magazine Management Tool — Since the launch of personalized magazines this March, social magazine maker Flipboard has added 6 million new users to its platform, bringing its total number of users to 56 million …

More: Inside Flipboard, Inside Flipboard, The Verge, The Next Web, CNET and PC Magazine. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Canalys: Over 300m smart devices shipped in Q1 2013, 59.5% powered by Android, 19.3% iOS and OS X, 18.1% Windows — In Q1 2013, 308.7 million smart mobile devices shipped worldwide, representing a year-on-year growth of 37.4 percent. Breaking down those numbers by operating system …

More: Canalys Newsroom and ZDNet

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