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Facebook to Test Its Own PayPal Competitor in Bid to Simplify Mobile Purchases — Facebook plans to test a new payments product that would allow online shoppers to make purchases on mobile apps using their Facebook login information, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Payments Test Isn't A PayPal Competitor, It's A Companion That Fills In Billing Info

Tweets: @alexia

Reuters:

New iPhone, 4G technology may mean Apple, China Mobile tie-up closer — (Reuters) - The stars may be aligning for a long-awaited deal between Apple Inc and China Mobile Ltd, the world's biggest mobile carrier, that could help the iPhone maker claw back lost ground in its most important growth market.

More: Tech Trader Daily, Digits, DailyFinance.com, Bloomberg, Quartz, AllThingsD, I4U News, MacRumors, InvestorPlace, Forbes, TUAW, Seeking Alpha, Benzinga, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, BGR, iClarified, ValueWalk, MacDailyNews, iPhone Hacks and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @waltbtig

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app — Microsoft's recently released YouTube application for Windows Phone is being blocked by Google. In a statement issued to The Verge, Google confirms that the application has been blocked for violating the terms of use.

More: Business Insider, AllThingsD, Guardian, 9to5Google, ZDNet, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Windows Phone Central and WMPoweruser

Tweets: @dsilverman, @backlon, @mattrosoff, @whatthebit, @theromit and @edbott

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Microsoft's ‘touch screen’ for any surface goes on sale — Prototype technology that turns any surface — a wall, table, or floor — into an interactive touch screen has been years in the making. Now, anyone can get their hands on the software. — Screengrab from Ubi's video …

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, GeekWire, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, PC World, PC Magazine, MSDN Blogs, Engadget, Technabob, WebProNews, Wired, PhoneArena and Softpedia News

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Releases New App Store Review Guidelines with Updated Rules for Kids Apps, Gambling Apps — Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines, revising several sections and introducing a number of new rules based on various policies that have been enacted over the last six months.

More: ZDNet, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, iLounge, Softpedia News, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News, iPhone, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, AppleInsider, Electronista and bizjournals. Tweets: @hinterding

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Yahoo's beautiful new weather app comes to Android — Yahoo's redesigned weather app for iOS has been receiving praise and accolades for its gorgeous design and usability all year. In fact, the updated weather app included with iOS 7 appears to borrow more than a few ideas from Yahoo's version.

More: Yahoo!, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Next Web and App Advice

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Lenovo posts Q1 earnings, reveals that its mobile sales have overtaken PCs — Don't look now, but Lenovo just became an industry bellwether. While reporting strong first quarter results that include a record $8.8 billion in revenue and $170 million in profit, the tech giant revealed …

More: Lenovo Newsroom, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Washington Post, VentureBeat, Inquirer, GSMArena Blog, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Android Beat, memeburn, Yahoo! News, The Verge, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, SlashGear, ZDNet, Forbes, Computerworld, BBC, Reuters and Electronista. Tweets: @lukew

Juro Osawa / Digits:

Q&A: Lenovo CEO on Smartphones and BlackBerry

More: New York Times, Fortune, FierceWireless, MobileBurn.com and The Next Web. Tweets: @juroosawa

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google updates Cloud Storage with server-side encryption: No setup, no performance impact, and no extra charge — Google today announced an update to Google Cloud Storage that beefs up security: server-side encryption. The service now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk.

More: GigaOM, Cloud Platform Blog, ZDNet, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and Softpedia News

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Multitask Nation: ESPN Lets iPad Users Call Up Scores, Clips, While they Watch Live Video — ESPN's WatchESPN is a very good app that lets you stream the sports channel's live broadcasts to your phone, tablet or TV. But what if you're not content watching a single game at a time?

More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, GigaOM, 9to5Mac and The Next Web

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM Buys Israel/US Cybersecurity Specialist Trusteer For $800M-$1B — Another exit for an Israeli enterprise startup and a deeper move into Israel by one of the world's tech titans: IBM today announced the acquisition of Trusteer, a specialist in cybersecurity primarily for financial services.

More: PR Newswire, Ynetnews, ZDNet, Inquirer, Network World, Internet Evolution, WebProNews, AllThingsD, The Register, Xconomy, GeekTime, GigaOM, Softpedia News and bizjournals. Tweets: @techwriterjim

Klint Finley / Wired:

Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet — PORTLAND, OREGON — One guy is wearing his Google Glass. Another showed up in an HTML5 t-shirt. And then there's the dude who looks like the Mad Hatter, decked out in a top hat with an enormous white flower tucked into the brim.

Tweets: @nytimesbits and @jhong

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Aereo CEO: Service will turn a profit before turning in 1M subscribers — The upstart online TV service will have a “fabulous” business at 1 million users and an “extremely fabulous” one at 5 million, but registrations need only be in the hundreds of thousands for it to be profitable, its CEO says.

More: VentureBeat and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:

Roku Trumps Apple TV as Most-Used Streaming Media Player — The Roku is the most popular streaming video device in the U.S., trumping the Apple TV, according to new data from Parks Associates. — Of the 10,000 people polled by Parks, 37 percent of those with a streaming video media device used …

More: Parks Associates, Business Insider, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Light Reading, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, TUAW, everythingiCafe, I4U News, CNET, Fast Company, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceCable and Deadline.com. Tweets: @jtoeman. See also Mediagazer

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft's First Chip Brings Tank-Finding Design to Xbox — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), seeking to fend off competition for its Xbox game console by souping up the Kinect motion sensor, is tapping a new semiconductor developer: itself. — For the first time, the company will build its own processors based on an in-house design.

More: Ars Technica. Tweets: @dinabass

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Tastemade Raises Another $10 Million And Launches An iPhone App For Video Reviews Of Local Restaurants — In just 12 months since being founded, Los Angeles-based Tastemade has carved out a place for itself as the go-to place for high-quality videos about food on Facebook.

More: GigaOM, Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews, VentureBeat and AllThingsD

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in $5,700 Bitcoin heist — Google developers have confirmed a cryptographic vulnerability in the Android operating system that researchers say could generate serious security glitches on hundreds of thousands of end user apps, many of them used to make Bitcoin transactions.

More: Android Developers Blog, Guardian, Examiner, InfoWorld, The Switch, Symantec, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, ZDNet and GigaOM

Tweets: @gcaughey, @mattetti, @fraserspeirs and @kleinmatic

Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:

Syrian Hackers Use Outbrain to Target The Washington Post, Time, and CNN — For a brief period on Thursday morning, the Washington Post's website redirected some visitors to a webpage controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army. In a brief statement, the site didn't indicate how the infiltration occurred …

More: Ask The Post, Digits, ZDNet, CNNMoney.com, Washington Post, GigaOM, New York Times, VentureBeat, ABC News, Digiday, Graham Cluley, Mashable and Poynter

Tweets: @theatlanticwire and @1bobcohn

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