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May 22, 2013, 6:45 PM
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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
HTC in disarray: staff departures, ‘disastrous’ First, and production problems cloud company's future  —  Internal upheaval comes at a bad time for the struggling phone maker  —  The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week.
Aloysius Low / CNET:
HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik leaves company  —  Earlier today, it was reported on the Verge that HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera had left the company alongside other high-level employees.  Product strategy manager Eric Lin even had a strongly worded warning for remaining employees …
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4  —  It's that time of decade again.  Time for a new Xbox.  It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360.  The transition from Xbox 360 to the newly announced Xbox One will take right around 8 years …
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Andrew Yoon / Shacknews.com:
Xbox One won't allow indies to self-publish games
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Xbox One has non-replaceable hard drive, external storage is supported
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome  —  The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week's Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it's a significant leap in how we use search engines.
Mitali Pattnaik / Twitter Advertising:
Capture user interest with the Lead Generation Card  —  Marketers regularly talk to us about their goals, and for many it boils down to one major theme: generating leads, and ultimately driving purchases.  —  With those goals in mind, today there's a new addition to our suite of Twitter Cards …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple identifies certain patents allegedly infringed by Samsung Galaxy S4 and Google Now app  —  Last week Apple informed the court that it intended to amend its infringement contentions in the second California patent litigation with Samsung to target the Galaxy S4 (instead of some other product …
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a hard-nosed negotiation  —  The US government's price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York.  Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud  —  Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Danger  —  After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web.
Sarah Silbert / Engadget:
Qualcomm demos next-gen 2,560 x 1,440 Mirasol display (hands-on video)  —  We haven't heard about Mirasol for a while now, but Qualcomm's reflective display tech showed up in a few proof-of-concepts on the SID Display Week floor.  We got a look at a previously announced 1.5-inch panel embedded …
Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:
Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers  —  Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits.  —  The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but raises new privacy concerns.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump names Danielle Thumann, an adviser to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as an FCC commissioner; if confirmed, she'd bring the Republican majority to 3-1

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Scripps' CEO says the company is adopting a streaming news model enabled by AI, including cutting 12% of staff, and praises the FCC's lift of the ownership cap

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust challenge to Paramount's WBD acquisition brought by a group of consumers, but allows them to file a revised complaint

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