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May 18, 2013, 5:00 AM

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AllThingsD:

Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr — According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for New York-based blogging site Tumblr.

More: The Loop, TechCrunch, CNET, Reuters, The Verge, PhoneArena, The Next Web, GigaOM, Softpedia News, Mashable, Engadget, Howard Lindzon, Bloggers Blog, SocialTimes, Mobile Marketing Watch, ReadWrite, Betabeat, WebProNews and Inquirer

Tweets: @pkafka, @stevecheney, @megan, @semil and @semil

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling

More: AllThingsD, CNET, Business Insider, Digital Trends, CNN, Tech Trader Daily, Washington Post, VatorNews, TechHive, NBC Bay Area, AllFacebook, TIME, Businessweek and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service — Sources say iRadio is still mired in licensing talks and may not be ready for WWDC — Google's long-rumored Play Music All Access service is already out the door, while Apple's iRadio is still bogged down in licensing talks.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo's First Day Up 78% — One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.

More: AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Marketo News, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Venture Capital Dispatch, ZDNet, Marketing Land, Forbes, Business Insider, Xconomy, GigaOM, silicontap.com and GeekWire

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple's lax iTunes streaming security gives out a free copy of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories — Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Justin Timberlake are just a few of the artists over the past year to offer full-length, high quality streams of their newest albums on iTunes in the days before release.

More: The Verge, iMore and App Advice. Thanks:@zaccoffman

Jeffrey Wu / Focus Taiwan:

Production capacity for HTC One to double in May: executive — Taipei, May 16 (CNA) Taiwan's HTC Corp. said Thursday that its production capacity for its new HTC One flagship phone is rising sharply month by month as its component supply issues continue to improve.

More: TechCrunch, Pocketables, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, The Droid Guy, IntoMobile, Electronista, Engadget, SlashGear, CNET and PhoneArena

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

Apple removes Bang With Friends from App Store — The eyebrow-raising app won't be initiating Facebook-friend hookups for iPhone owners for the time being. — No more knocking boots with your Facebook friends, iPhone users. Apple has removed the salaciously titled Bang With Friends iPhone application from its App Store.

More: Valleywag, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Mashable, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, 9to5Mac and iClarified

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Growth Since IPO In 12 Big Numbers — $FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it's made important progress since going public a year ago. Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights.

More: Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes and The Next Web

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu — DirecTV, the second largest U.S. pay-TV provider, is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter. — Hulu's owners, including Walt Disney Co. …

More: Bloomberg, Reuters and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

T-Mobile drops anti-net neutrality lawsuit filed by MetroPCS, leaving Verizon on its own — Cellphone carriers have generally met net neutrality proposals with varying levels of hostility, but Verizon and MetroPCS have been particularly belligerent: in 2011, they sued to overturn the FCC's then-newly adopted Open Internet rules.

More: TechHive, Broadcasting & Cable, NationalJournal.com and Electronista

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft planning Xbox dashboard UI and tile changes in preparation for next-gen console — Microsoft is preparing to update its Xbox 360 with another dashboard update. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans have revealed to The Verge that the dashboard update will enter into a public beta …

More: IntoMobile, Polygon, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, Windows Phone Central, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Softpedia News and VG247

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

MacBook Air inventory begins dwindling ahead of Apple's WWDC — With Intel's next-generation Haswell processors set to launch in a matter of weeks and WWDC to kick off soon after, availability of Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air had begun to dry up at major authorized resellers.

More: Ars Technica, iMore, TUAW, Apple Bitch, Macgasm, MacRumors, MacNN and iClarified

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

US Air Force expects to save $50M with use of 18K Apple iPads — The purchase of 18,000 iPads for use as electronic flight bags has set the stage for the U.S. Air Force to save more than $50 million over the next 10 years. — Using lightweight iPads instead of heavy paper flight manuals …

More: TheStreet.com, GeekWire, Mashable, TUAW, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Electronista and 9to5Mac

International Design Times:

Firefox 22 Won't Block Third-Party Tracking Cookies: Why Mozilla Delayed Default Blocker And How Your Privacy Is Affected — Privacy and Security — Mozilla announced it will be delaying the default block on third-party cookie tracking in the upcoming Firefox 22 citing additional testing as the reason for the hold.

More: The Verge, ExtremeTech, PC World, The Next Web, InfoWorld, Ars Technica, Electronista, WebProNews, PC Magazine and OStatic blogs

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Each Quarter — Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing.

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Yahoo to hold Monday press event as Tumblr buyout rumors swirl — CNBC is reporting that Yahoo will hold a “product-related” news event this Monday in New York City. None other than CEO Marissa Mayer will be speaking at the event. Exactly what Yahoo plans to announce hasn't yet been disclosed …

More: Bloomberg, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Register, Engadget, Neowin, WebProNews, Computerworld and GeekWire. See also Mediagazer

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