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June 4, 2013, 4:15 PM

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Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Amazon plans major move into grocery business — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is planning a major roll-out of an online grocery business that it has been quietly developing for years, targeting one of the largest retail sectors yet to be upended by e-commerce, according to two people familiar with the situation.

More: CNET, GeekWire, Gizmodo, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Nieman Journalism Lab and The Verge

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Salesforce.com Makes Its Biggest Acquisition Yet, Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion — Salesforce.com just announced that it will make its biggest acquisition yet: It will spend $2.5 billion to acquire the cloud marketing company ExactTarget. — Salesforce is paying $33.75 a share.

More: Salesforce.com, AdAge, SiliconANGLE, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Reuters, Bloomberg, DealBook, Adotas, AdExchanger, Venture Capital Dispatch, Computerworld, internetretailer.com, ZDNet, ZDNet, VentureBeat and Real Story Group. Tweets: @levie

Om Malik / GigaOM:

What I think of Salesforce's decision to buy Exact Target for $2.5 billion

Agam Shah / PC World:

Intel shows first smartphone with Merrifield chip — Intel on Tuesday showed the first smartphone based on its next Atom smartphone chip code-named Merrifield, which will provide better performance and battery life than current Atom chips. — The Merrifield chip will offer 50 percent better performance …

More: Engadget, Engadget, Intel Newsroom, Engadget, GigaOM, Examiner, ZDNet, CNET, Liliputing, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, PC World, BGR India, BGR India, BGR India, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint and PhoneArena

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

The U is for Ultrabook: Intel's low-power, dual-core Haswell CPUs unveiled

More: Intel Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, AnandTech, MacRumors, The Windows Blog, BBC, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac and Wired.co.uk

The White House:

Fact Sheet: White House Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues — Today the White House announced major steps to improve incentives for future innovation in high tech patents, a key driver of economic growth and good paying American jobs. The White House issued five executive actions …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Digital Media Wire, TechCrunch, Engadget, Patent Law Blog, SiliconBeat, ZDNet, CNET, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, The Register, Cult of Mac, Planet Money, OSDir.com, The Daily Caller, Technology Liberation Front, GamePolitics blogs and Daring Fireball

Wall Street Journal:

Obama Plans to Take Action Against Patent-Holding Firms

More: Politico, GeekWire, MacRumors, DSLreports, Techdirt, CNET, Washington Post and Ubergizmo

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

IBM to Acquire Cloud Services Company SoftLayer — Computing giant IBM just made another move in its quest to becoming the biggest provider of cloud computing services. It said it will acquire SoftLayer, a privately held cloud services player based in Dallas. — Financial terms are not being disclosed.

More: IBM, Wall Street Journal, InfoWorld, DealBook, GigaOM, Reuters, Gartner, Los Angeles Times, SiliconANGLE, Web Host Industry Review, Quartz, GigaOM, Bloomberg and VentureBeat

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Operations Chief Steps Down as Profit Slumps on Phone Delays — HTC Corp. (2498) Chief Operating Officer Matthew Costello will step down after less than three years at Taiwan's biggest smartphone maker amid slumping sales that have pushed down shares 76 percent in the past two years.

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, The Register, The Next Web, BGR, TechCrunch, Engadget, SlashGear, Android Beat, BGR India, The Next Web, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet and CNET

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

‘Draw Something’ studio OMGPOP reportedly shuttered amid Zynga layoffs — One year ago, Zynga paid $180 million for OMGPOP, the creator of the wildly popular game Draw Something for iOS and Android. Zynga seems to have decided that was a $180 million mistake.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Ars Technica, The Next Web, BGR, MacRumors, Inside Social Games, VatorNews, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, CloudAve, WebProNews, Xconomy, Wired.co.uk and Cult of Mac

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

New Government Documents Show the Sean Parker Wedding Is the Perfect Parable for Silicon Valley Excess — Nothing says, “I love the Earth!” quite like bringing bulldozers into an old-growth forest to create a fake ruined castle. — Hey, if a billionaire couple wants to spend $10 million on their wedding …

More: Business Insider, Betabeat and Valleywag

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Don Clark / Digits:

Amazon Pads its Streaming Library with Viacom — Viacom and Amazon.com are getting cozier. — The two companies on Tuesday are announcing a multi-year deal to stream hundreds of Viacom shows to Amazon customers, just days after many of Viacom's programs disappeared from Netflix's catalog.

More: Amazon.com, AllThingsD, The Verge, BetaNews, SiliconBeat, Engadget, Reuters, paidContent, The Next Web, Gizmodo, paidContent, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space — After weeks of rumors, Facebook has just signed a 10-year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000-square-foot space over two floors at 770 Broadway in Manhattan.

More: Facebook, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Crain's New York Business, AllThingsD and Betabeat

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple releases economic impact report for new headquarters, predicts 23,400 employees by 2016 — Apple has released a report today detailing the economic and fiscal impact of both its current business and new headquarters in Cupertino. The 'campus 2′, also known as the ‘spaceship’ is set to be complete in 2016.

More: VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Mercury News, Ars Technica, MacRumors, CNET, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacDailyNews and TUAW. Thanks:@srikardr

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Gmail for iOS Gets New Inbox, Improved Notification Settings — Announced last week, Google has today released an update to its official Gmail app for iOS that adds support to the new inbox and brings finer controls for push notifications. — The new inbox, configurable from Gmail's desktop website …

More: The Next Web, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Trends, IntoMobile, iPhone Hacks and Gizmodo

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Will Soon Launch Google Web Designer, A Free HTML5 Development Tool For Creating Web Apps, Sites And Ads — Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for “creative professionals.” The service, Google says, will launch within “the coming months” …

More: DoubleClick Advertiser Blog, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Forbes and WebProNews

John McDermott / AdAge:

Foursquare Testing Paid Promotions With NYC Small Businesses — ‘Phase Two’ of Foursquare's Monetization Strategy Means Not Solely Relying on National Brands — Foursquare has traditionally been a way for customers to promote their favorite bars, coffee shops and restaurants.

More: Engadget, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, About Foursquare and WebProNews

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Begins Offering In-Store iPhone 5 Display Replacements for $149 — As part of a shift to lower repair costs, Apple has begun replacing iPhone 5 screens at its retail locations. The new display replacement service is priced at $149 and can be purchased with or without AppleCare+.

More: The Verge, Examiner, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Geek.com, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone Hacks, TechSpot, CNET, Gizmodo and Phones Review

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Dell refreshes its XPS 12 Ultrabook, XPS 27 all-in-one and XPS 8500 desktop — Now that it's unveiled its next-gen Ultrabook, Dell's taking the opportunity to refresh the machines it's already got. Starting with the XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, the company is adding an NFC chip …

More: ZDNet

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Android Jelly Bean hits 33% adoption, ICS falls to 25%, but Gingerbread still used by over 36% of Play users — Google today updated its Platform Versions Web page for Android, and it looks like the latest version is finally on its way to snatching first place.

More: BGR, GigaOM, Business Insider, IntoMobile, The H Open Source, TechSpot, Electronista, ZDNet, AndroidGuys and Gotta Be Mobile

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Acer's flagship Aspire S7 may be 2013's ultrabook to beat, S3 needs low price to succeed — At Acer's press conference in Taipei yesterday, the company announced some very welcome changes to one of our favorite ultrabooks of 2012: the Aspire S7. Our two primarily complaints with the machine …

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Apple denies conspiracy in ebook pricing trial: “Publishers fought [us] tooth and nail” — The Department of Justice's trial against Apple kicked off in New York Monday. The DOJ alleges that Apple conspired with publishers to set ebook prices, while Apple argues that there was no conspiracy …

More: CNET, AllThingsD, Fortune, 9to5Mac, SiliconBeat, SlashGear, eWeek, Washington Post and iDownloadBlog.com. See also Mediagazer

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

Susan Molinari Adds to Google's Political Firepower — WASHINGTON — Susan Molinari had wrapped up her second week as Google's chief Washington lobbyist when she got a call at home late on a Friday that blindsided her: the Federal Communications Commission was fining Google $25,000 for having …

More: The Verge

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Wikipad finally arrives, gaming tablet goes on sale June 11th for $249.99 — For a while, it looked like the Wikipad would never arrive: the company's promising — and expensive — 10-inch Android tablet and detachable gaming controller was never seen again after missing its Halloween release date.

More: TechHive, VentureBeat, Macgasm, CNET, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Polygon and Engadget

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Sunrise Raises $2.2 Million Because “It Is The Only Calendar App With A Design-Oriented Approach” — When Sunrise introduced its calendar app to iOS users, it was already a crowded space. Yet, the company just raised a $2.2 million seed round led by Resolute.vc and NextView Ventures.

More: Sunrise, The Verge, GigaOM, VentureBeat and The Next Web. Tweets: @hunterwalk. Thanks:@drizzled

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