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May 24, 2013, 12:25 AM

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Bloomberg:

Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War — Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said.

More: CNET, Business Insider, Search Engine Land, AppleInsider, Reuters, The Verge, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, SlashGear and BGR India

Tweets: @mathewi, @karaswisher and @mathewi

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

AT&T adds ‘administrative fee’ to wireless bills, stands to rake in hundreds of millions from unwitting customers — AT&T has introduced a new “Mobility Administrative Fee” to its postpaid contracts. The $0.61 monthly fee ($7.32 per year) is being categorized “below the line” alongside tax and fees as an administrative surcharge.

More: CNET, The Tech Block, 9to5Mac, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, TechHive, Wall Street Journal and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @dkberman and @dannysullivan

Bloomberg:

Google Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads — Google Inc. (GOOG) is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said.

More: ZDNet, AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land, CNET, SocialTimes, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, Hillicon Valley and Electronista

Tweets: @dujkan and @pkafka

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Lyft Lifts $60 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Gives 30,000 Rides A Week A Year After Launch — It was almost one year ago (to the day!) that my colleague Kim Mai-Cutler wrote our first story on Lyft, and how the company was going to offer some lower-priced competition to on-demand ride leader Uber in San Francisco.

More: AllThingsD, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Verge, Business Insider, The Next Web and VentureBeat. Tweets: @om. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Microsoft's Sculpt Mobile Mouse and Sculpt Comfort Mouse have built-in Start buttons, arrive in the coming weeks — File this under “things we could have sworn already existed.” Microsoft just announced two mice, the Sculpt Mobile Mouse and Sculpt Comfort Mouse, and believe it or not …

More: The Windows Blog, The Verge, ZDNet, ZDNet, TechSpot, Gizmodo and PC World

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

AT&T's GoPhone Prepaid Brand to Gain iPhone and LTE/HSPA+ Support Tomorrow — MacRumors has learned that AT&T's GoPhone prepaid wireless brand will be undertaking a significant expansion of its services starting tomorrow, offering support for the AT&T's fastest LTE and HSPA+ data networks …

More: Engadget and Electronista

Wall Street Journal:

Google Follows Amazon's Lead on New Shopping Site, Delivery, Other Services — SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin say they don't pay much attention to rivals. But the search company increasingly appears to be following Amazon.com Inc.'s lead.

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Evernote Launches Reminders — In the years I've spent using and recommending Evernote, I've always noticed a chasm between people who rely on the service to store reference material and notes, and those who want to also use Evernote as a “getting things done” system to keep track of their todos.

More: Evernote Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, BetaNews, Macgasm, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, Macworld and Business Insider

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

New Colors Rumored for iPhone 5S and Lower-Cost iPhone, Dual LED Flash for iPhone 5S? — Macotakara has released a report with new details on a number of upcoming products, including the rumored low cost iPhone, the iPhone 5S, and the iPad 5. Citing information from several different sources …

More: Macotakara, CNET, BGR, Pocket-lint, iPhone, Cult of Mac, BGR and AppleInsider

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google debuts Chrome 28 beta with rich notifications for apps and extensions on Windows; Mac and Linux coming soon — Just two days after releasing the stable version of Chrome 27, Google has announced the release of Chrome 28 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

More: Google Chrome Blog, Chromium Blog, Google Chrome Releases, Engadget, The Verge, Computerworld, Android Police and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@thekenyeung

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's WWDC Keynote Scheduled for Monday, June 10 — Apple today said the keynote address for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will occur at 10 AM PT Monday, June 10, at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Not a big surprise, as that is the day the event kicks off.

More: Macworld, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, AppleTell, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, iMore, Macgasm, MacNN, AppleInsider, TUAW, MacRumors and MacStories

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google brings your Google+ photos right into Search, serves results via computer vision and machine learning — Google on Thursday announced a very interesting integration between its main search service and Google+ Photos. The company now lets you find your photos both on Google+ and Google Search just by, well, searching for them.

More: Inside Search, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, 9to5Google, SocialTimes and Pocket-lint

Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:

Samsung Galaxy S4 Developer Edition headed to Verizon and AT&T — We just caught word that Samsung will soon be introducing developer editions of the Samsung Galaxy S4 for a couple of different US carriers. Funnily enough, the two carriers with the biggest history of locking devices down will be getting them: AT&T and Verizon.

More: AndroidGuys, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneNews.com, Engadget, AndroidHeadlines.com, Droid Life, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Android Community, Pocketnow and Android Police

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia launches its GeForce GTX 780 for PC gaming that is faster than Xbox One — You could wait for the Microsoft Xbox One or the Sony PlayStation 4 to arrive this fall, or you could play PC games with better graphics now. Nvidia is launching its GeForce GTX 780 graphics chip today …

More: TechSpot, ParisLemon, AnandTech, SlashGear, Maximum PC, PC Magazine, Forbes, Gizmodo, PC World, TechEye, Inquirer, The Verge and Engadget

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Microsoft Xbox 360 did not infringe Motorola patents, rules ITC — The International Trade Commission has ruled that Microsoft did not infringe upon any Motorola Mobility patents with the Xbox 360. The decision represents the end of an investigation that stretches back to 2010.

More: PC World, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, CNET, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Reuters, Engadget, GeekWire and Electronista

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Ex-Googler Ben Ling Brings His Operations Experience To Khosla Ventures — Former Badoo COO and ex-Googler Ben Ling has joined Khosla Ventures, according to sources. Ling, who has held senior operations roles for a number of big companies in the mobile and Internet space …

More: Business Wire, Digits and AllThingsD. Thanks:@pickavet

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Jeff Bezos grilled over violent games, movies during Amazon shareholder meeting — Amazon just wrapped up its annual meeting of shareholders at Seattle Center, with Jeff Bezos giving a broad overview of the company's business and fielding questions from shareholders.

More: GeekWire and Digits

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Google engineer bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers, discloses Windows zero-day — Microsoft confirms probe of vulnerability hackers could use to gain additional privileges on targeted PCs — A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with …

More: The Verge

Jordan Novet / GigaOM:

Box acquires Folders technology to enrich iOS offering — Box indicated on its blog Thursday that the cloud-storage company has “acquired the technology” for the Folders iOS app enabling users to open many kinds of files on the iPhone. The deal marks Box's third acquisition, closely following on news of the Crocodoc deal.

More: The Box Blog, Engadget, Computerworld, The Next Web, TechCrunch, ZDNet, AllThingsD and TUAW

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple's Newest iPhone Ad Still Says Nothing, Is a Little Less Great — The deceptively simple iPhone ad Apple rolled out last month has garnered all sorts of praise. Totally justified! — So you can see why they'd try a new one, using the exact same format, music and spec-less pitch.

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, iMore, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and Mashable. Tweets: @pkafka

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google adds Google Drive files and Calendar events to Gmail's search for US users — Google on Thursday announced Gmail users will soon be able to see relevant emails, Google Drive files, Calendar events, and so on as they type out a query. The search feature is rolling out to US English users “over the coming week.”

More: Gmail Blog, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Mashable, SocialTimes, Lifehacker, 9to5Google and TechnoBuffalo

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft's Bing News adds trending topics and related individuals, expands articles index from weeks to years — Microsoft on Thursday announced significant improvements when searching with Bing News: trending topics and related individuals. The company also revealed it has expanded its articles index size from weeks to years.

More: Bing, Neowin, WinBeta, LiveSide.net, WebProNews and Search Engine Land

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Jon Stewart rubs Tim Cook's Senate testimony the wrong way [Video] — You can't help but laugh at Stewart's ribbing of the senators' questioning, but it is pretty clear Apple is pushing for simplicity and is only jumping through the loopholes because they are there.

More: The Verge, CNET, SiliconBeat, AllThingsD and iMore

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Online Video-Ad Network Tremor Video Files For Its IPO — Video ad network Tremor Video has filed for its long-awaited public offering. The company's shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least $86 million. — Tremor Video, which runs ads on more than 500 Web sites …

More: AllThingsD

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