Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings  —  What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March?  —  Mostly working on new versions of the product …

In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance  —  BEIJING — Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes, and monitor cellphone communications, too.

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 …

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.

Jack Dorsey's digital payments company Square expands beyond North America, landing in Japan first  —  Red hot payments startup Square is invading Asia after it announced that its service has launched in Japan, which becomes its third market worldwide in addition to the US and Canada.

Temping fate: can TaskRabbit go from side gigs to real jobs?  —  The errand marketplace hires for longer-term work, and may add benefits  —  Not long ago, Chris Mok worked in the advertising department for Macy's in San Francisco, booking models for the department store's catalogs.

Lenovo Quarterly Profit Rises 90% on Market Share Gains  —  Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, reported a 90 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit after increasing its market share and boosting smartphone sales.  —  Net income climbed to $126.9 million …

Kim Dotcom accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of violating his two-step security patent  —  Hours after Twitter rolled out support for two-step verification, Kim Dotcom has claimed credit for inventing the security feature.  In a series of tweets, the embattled Megaupload founder points …

Twitter Launches TV Ad Targeting, Twitter Amplify For Real-Time Videos In Stream  —  Twitter today made the latest push in its bid to cozy up to Madison Avenue and the world of big-budget advertising, by tapping more into the kind of mainstream mediums where advertisers like to spend their money.

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.

Surprise!  Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web  —  In a bid to make JavaScript run ever faster, Mozilla has developed asm.js.  It's a limited, stripped down subset of JavaScript that the company claims will offer performance that's within a factor of two of native …

Why iPhone repair costs have soared  —  A broken screen can now cost more than $200 to fix … The company charges as much as $229 to replace an iPhone 5 with a broken screen.  That's more than the $200 price of the device with a two-year contract, and more than a third of the $650 cost of the phone without a contract.

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 …

Shazam Revamps Its iPad App For Second Screen Action, Can Now “AutoTag” In Background While You Watch TV  —  Although the majority of Shazam's over 93 million U.S. users still use the app on their smartphones to identify, tag and share the songs they're “hearing,” a growing chunk of that user base …

Wary of China, U.S. Steps Into Sprint's Board  —  SoftBank Corp. is readying a plan to allow the U.S. government an unusual level of influence over the operations of Sprint Nextel Corp., a concession to ease security concerns raised by the proposed cross-border takeover.

Samsung Galaxy S4 hits 10 million units shipped, new colors coming this summer  —  Samsung has announced the Galaxy S4 has reached 10 million global channel sales less than a month after its commercial launch.  The figure sets a new record for Samsung's line of smartphones …

HP redesigns Envy and Pavilion laptops for 2013, including one with a 3200 x 1800 screen  —  Last year, Hewlett-Packard decided to unify the design of every thin and light laptop it sold, applying the same basic curves across every keyboard, touchpad, hinge, lid, and frame.

Corning Pits Gorilla Glass 3 Against Sapphire, Plans Reflection Reduction and Antimicrobial Technology  —  Following Apple's adoption of sapphire crystal as a strong and durable covering for the rear cameras on the iPhone 5 and fifth-generation iPod touch late last year …

Chrome 27 for Android is out: Fullscreen on phones, simplified searching, tab history on tablets, and more  —  Just a day after releasing Chrome 27 on the desktop, Google on Wednesday announced the release of Chrome 27 for Android, adding fullscreen support on phones and a tab history option on tablets.

‘Around 5 million’ HTC One smartphones sold since launch  —  HTC has sold “around five million” of its flagship smartphone, the One, since launch.  The figure will abate fears that HTC is dead in the water (the company is struggling internally) but does confirm what we all suspected: HTC isn't able to keep up with Samsung in sales.

Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad  —  Whatever era you call it, post-PC or simply PC plus, the Mac vs. PC war has ignited once again today.  In a fresh Windows 8 ad, Microsoft is directly attacking Apple's iPad on price, an approach it took during the early Vista days with low-priced laptops.

HP Envy Rove 20 is the company's stab at a giant all-in-one Windows 8 tablet  —  It's hard to say if there's a market yet for an all-in-one touchscreen PC that you can just pick up and carry around, but it seems that no Windows PC maker wants to be left out.

The third screen: Will all Windows 8 apps run on Microsoft's Xbox One?  —  Summary: MS CRM on your Xbox One?  Will any and all Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps be allowed to run on the just-announced Xbox One?  —  Is it really so crazy to think that users will be able to run Microsoft CRM …