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Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass  —  Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN And Evernote Apps Coming To Google Glass Today  —  Google announced a number of new partner apps today on stage at Google I/O during the “Developing for Glass” session.  Facebook and Twitter were the highlights of the list, which also included Evernote, Tumblr …
The Verge:
Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess  —  How Google built its new messaging platform for Gmail, Android, iOS, and Chrome... and what took so long  —  Skydivers equipped with futuristic glasses live-broadcasted their descent into the Moscone Center …
Bloomberg:
Bill Gates Retakes World's Richest Title From Carlos Slim  —  Bill Gates became the world's richest person today, the first time he has held the title since 2007.  His fortune was valued at $72.7 billion at 4 p.m. in New York, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Tumblr Deal could reach as high as $1 billion  —  Is Marissa Mayer about to make a game-changing acquisition?  It appears so.  —  Yahoo is in serious talks with Tumblr to acquire the social blogging site, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.
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Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:
Google Buys a Quantum Computer  —  Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study artificial intelligence by means of computers that use the unusual properties of quantum physics.  Their quantum computer, which performs complex calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
CW Strikes Deal with Apple to Bring Content to Apple TV  —  The CW has struck a deal that will bring the network's content to the Apple TV, reports Deadline.  At the company's annual Upfront Presentation in New York today, CW president Mark Pedowitz announced that the CW's TV Now applications …
Nick Hide / Crave:
Samsung changes mind, will look at storage on Galaxy S4 … Samsung has backed down on the Galaxy S4's limited storage after the phone appeared on the BBC's Watchdog, saying it will try to squeeze its myriad features into a smaller space, freeing up more memory for apps.
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Google On Glass Privacy Issues & Congress: “Social Cues” Will Help, Plus It Takes Trust Seriously  —  Google Glass isn't even available for consumers and some in US Congress are already formally raising privacy questions.  Google's reaction?  Privacy has been “top of mind” as it has developed Glass, and it takes trust seriously.
More: ClickZ
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development  —  Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble.  The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures.
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Tim Cook says US-made Mac will be new model in an existing family  —  When Apple's Tim Cook revealed that his company would once more assemble a Mac line in the US, there was a flood of questions almost immediately: which model?  Where would it be made?  While the CEO isn't revealing …
Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:
Apple plans to move flagship San Francisco store to Union Square  —  Apple has submitted plans for a new retail location in San Francisco's Union Square that would replace the Apple Store currently at Stockton and Ellis.  —  Plans for the new store emerged on Thursday, according to SFGate.
Jason Wilson / VentureBeat:
EA kills its controversial Online Pass program  —  EA is doing away with its Online Pass program from this point forward, a decision the video game publisher says is partially based on player response.  —  “Yes, we're discontinuing Online Pass,” EA senior director of corporate communications …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
New High-Resolution Photos of iPhone 5S Parts Reveal Little  —  BGR shares several new relatively high-resolution photos of parts claimed to be from the iPhone 5S.  These parts have been leaking to repair firms over the past several months, and a number of photos have already been seen …
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Android and iOS accounted for 92% of Q1 2013 smartphone shipments, as Windows Phone passes BlackBerry  —  Android and iOS accounted for 92.3 percent of all smartphones shipped during the first quarter of 2013, according to new figures published today by the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
New Groupon CEO Unlikely Until Next Year  —  Groupon Inc. isn't likely to name a permanent new chief executive until next year, the daily-deal company's interim chiefs said Wednesday.  —  The company, which stumbled badly after going public in 2011, has been looking for someone to fill …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Microsoft's Anti-Google Campaign Gets a Boost, From Google  —  For the last few months, Microsoft has been running a pointed PR and ad campaign against Google, where it accuses the search giant of screwing over its customers.  —  You gotta hand it to Microsoft: Yesterday they got Google to help promote their message for them.

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