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May 23, 2013, 11:25 PM

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

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

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

Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:

Samsung Galaxy S4 Developer Edition headed to Verizon and AT&T — About The Author — Quentyn Kennemer is a Contributing Editor for Phandroid.com and has posted 7315 articles. Connect with him on G+.

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

Zachary Lutz / Engadget:

Rumors persist of HTC One with stock Android, despite the official denial

More: Geek.com, Gizmodo, The Verge, Android and Me, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, Android Phone Fans, Pocket-lint, Android Community, Android Headlines and ZDNet

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, ZDNet, ZDNet, TechSpot, PC World and Gizmodo

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, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Electronista, Hillicon Valley, CNET and SocialTimes

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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, Macworld, Business Insider and Pocket-lint

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, iPhone, Pocket-lint, 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, The Verge, PC World 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, Macgasm, VentureBeat, iMore, TUAW, MacNN, AppleInsider and MacRumors

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

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: Bloomberg, Ars Technica, CNET, ZDNet, Engadget, AllThingsD, Reuters and GeekWire

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 …

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

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

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Acquires Gaming Platform Startup PlayerScale — Another day, another acquisition by Yahoo. — Today Yahoo is announcing it's acquired PlayerScale, a California-based startup that makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Financial details haven't been disclosed …

More: Mashable, The Next Web, eWeek, SiliconBeat, Valleywag, Business Insider and CNET

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, InfoWorld, The Next Web, TechCrunch, ZDNet, AllThingsD and TUAW

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

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

With New Mobile App, Nextdoor Unveils Its Take on the Neighborhood Watch — Think of what you're used to in a local neighborhood-watch group: Signs posted around a community with contact information, perhaps monthly meetings to discuss safety issues and concerns.

More: PandoDaily, CNET, VentureBeat, Macgasm and TechCrunch

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

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

JustFab Goes Up A Size In Europe, Acquires Fab Shoes To Take Its Fashion Subscription Service To France And Spain — JustFab, the subscription-based fashion commerce site, is putting the $109 million that it has raised so far to use: today it is announcing the acquisition of The Fab Shoes …

More: VentureBeat and PandoDaily

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.

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Facebook won't bring HTC First smartphone to the UK after all (update: due to bad feedback in the US) — After a series of rumors about the HTC First not selling too well in the States, we've now heard that the customized Facebook / Android handset won't be coming to the UK.

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