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April 17, 2013, 5:00 PM

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Kevin Lo / Google Fiber:

Google Fiber—On the Silicon Prairie, the Silicon Hills, and now the Silicon Slopes — Today the Google Fiber team is in Provo, Utah, where Mayor John Curtis just announced that we intend to make Provo our third Google Fiber City. — Utah is already home to hundreds of tech companies and startups …

More: 9to5Google, The Next Web, VentureBeat, ZDNet, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Engadget, CNET, The Verge, Droid Life, Provo Mayor, WebProNews and Mashable

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Google to acquire Provo, Utah's fiber, transform it into Google Fiber

More: PC Magazine and CNET

Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:

Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center — Intel, the chip giant, is buying Mashery, a seven-year-old company in San Francisco that specializes in linking together Web-based software and services, a company spokesperson confirmed to ReadWrite.

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, ZDNet, PandoDaily and The Diversity Blog. Thanks:@owenthomas

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's Xbox team testing smartwatch prototypes with a Surface connector — Microsoft is prototyping its own wrist-worn device. A reliable source familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans has revealed to The Verge that the company has been developing a wrist-worm device for just over a year.

More: Examiner, VentureBeat, NYT Bits, CNET, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile and Neowin

Jay Alabaster / PC World:

Evernote CEO: We want to build hardware — The CEO of archiving service Evernote said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices. — “We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design together,” said Phil Libin …

More: CNET, The Verge, Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch and ZDNet

Karsten Strauss / Forbes:

Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? — ILKKA PAANANEN says the best way to make money in mobile gaming is to stop thinking about making money. Think about fun instead. Fighting a mild case of flu and jet lag from a San Francisco flight back home to Helsinki …

More: Business Insider, Inside Social Games, PandoDaily, The Next Web, ParisLemon, VentureBeat, Salon and TechCrunch

Tweets: @jussil and @ipaananen

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Windows 8 touch devices to drop to $200, says Intel CEO — Prices of Windows 8 touch devices based on future Intel chips are set to drop like a rock. — Windows 8 touch devices will dive in price, according to Intel executives. — The price of Windows 8 touch devices will sink …

More: TechEye, Examiner, CNET, PC World, GigaOM, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Reuters, WinBeta, HEXUS.net Latest Content, Geek.com, SlashGear, dailywireless.org and Gotta Be Mobile

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Tries to Make Its Ad Pitch More Googley, With Keyword Targeting — Twitter has already been showing users ads based on what they read. Now it's trying to target them based on what they type. — Twitter is giving advertisers the ability to show users ads based on the content of their tweets …

More: Digits, VentureBeat, The Verge and Marketing Pilgrim

Tweets: @rsarver and @pkafka

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter now allows advertisers to target specific words used in tweets

More: Twitter Advertising, The Technology Chronicles, Computerworld, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, CNET, GigaOM, Business Insider, TechCrunch, WebProNews and Mashable

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Sources Say Amazon Acquired Siri-Like Evi App For $26M - Is A Smartphone Coming? — When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S it seemed like a magic piece of software. The future had arrived. But it wasn't alone. True Knowledge, a British startup with a natural language search engine developed …

More: GeekWire, Engadget, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, 9to5Mac and iClarified

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft rolling out two-factor authentication across its product line — Summary: Microsoft is joining the two-factor authentication ranks, adding support for this security mechanism across its products and services accessible via a Microsoft Account. — There have been hints …

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Toshiba unveils the KIRAbook, a 13.3-inch Ultrabook with a 221 ppi touchscreen display and 256GB SSD — Toshiba is about to introduce a new, high-end Ultrabook called the KIRAbook, the first product in the company's new premium KIRA range. — The laptop is Toshiba's first piece of hardware …

More: Toshiba, The Verge, Gizmodo, Electronista, Tested, The Verge, TechSpot, Engadget and Neowin

Microsoft:

Microsoft and Foxconn Parent Hon Hai Sign Patent Agreement For Android and Chrome Devices — Agreement provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio to manufacturer of more than 40 percent of the world's consumer electronics. — Microsoft Corp. and Hon Hai, the parent company of Foxconn …

More: FOSS Patents, SiliconBeat, AllThingsD, BBC, TechEye, The Verge, Guardian, Examiner, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, TechSpot, Network World, 9to5Google, ZDNet and The H Open Source

Steven Musil / CNET:

Microsoft inks patent protection deal with Foxconn parent

More: Ars Technica, The Register, Inquirer, Forbes and FierceWireless

JeeYeon Park / CNBC:

Apple Skids to One-Year Low Amid Signs of ‘Lacking Demand’ — Apple tumbled to its lowest level in over a year as investors continued to dump shares of the tech company amid worries over second-quarter iPad mini shipments. — The once-darling tech giant of Wall Street shed more than 3 percent Wednesday …

More: DigiTimes, Digits, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Examiner, AllThingsD, Reuters, Business Insider, TechCrunch, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, TheStreet.com and Business Insider. Tweets: @benedictevans

Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report:

Apple Named in China Porn App Investigation … Apple Inc. is once again in the pages of the People's Daily, this time in an article listing a number of websites and app stores that have been investigated for providing pornographic content in China. — The Cupertino, Calif. …

More: Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, Examiner, CNET, GigaOM, PadGadget, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Tech in Asia, AppleInsider, TUAW, InvestorPlace, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone and Macgasm

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Thanks To PayPal And Marketplace Growth, eBay's Q1 2013 Revenue Up 14 Percent To $3.7B, Net Income Up 19 Percent — After posting strong Q4 2012 results in January, eBay once again saw better than expected financial results in Q1 2013. Revenue was up 14% to $3.7 billion, compared to the same period of 2012.

More: Business Wire, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, ZDNet, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily and Reuters

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling — Summary: When the initial batch of Chromebooks hit the market nearly two years ago, some thought these low-cost devices running Google's cloud-centric Chrome OS could be a Windows killer. NetMarketShare just started …

More: Digital Trends, BGR and HEXUS.net Latest Content

Zach Epstein / BGR:

Samsung Galaxy S4 launches on seven U.S. carriers in April [updated] — When BGR previewed the Samsung Galaxy S4 back in March, we called it the Android smartphone by which all others will be judged in 2013. As Samsung announced on Wednesday morning, Judgement Day is coming this month …

Amy Gesenhues / Marketing Land:

Google Affiliate Network Closing Shop — Google announced it is retiring their Affiliate Network to focus on other products. According to a statement on the Google Affiliate Network blog, the company stated that it will continue to support customers as they “wind down” the product over the next few months.

More: Google Affiliate Network Blog, Danielle Morrill and Search Engine Roundtable

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Evan Williams' Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter — Ev Williams' content creation platform Medium has made its first acquisition: Matter, the Kickstarter-backed science and technology journalism startup cofounded by former GigaOM reporter Bobbie Johnson last year.

More: Medium, PandoDaily, Felix Salmon, Poynter, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Guardian, Spark Minute, The Next Web, WebProNews, memeburn and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Releases Safari and Java Updates With Plug-In and Security Improvements — Apple today released a series of updates for both Safari and Java, addressing continued issues with Java security. — The Safari updates arrive as version 6.0.4 for OS X Mountain Lion and Lion and version 5.1.9 for OS X Snow Leopard.

More: CNET, The Mac Security Blog, The H Security and Inquirer

Bloomberg:

Samsung Ends Anonymous Web Reviews Amid Taiwan Probe — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) ended an online campaign in Taiwan after a local regulator said it's probing whether the company broke the law by paying for positive reviews of its products and negative comments about rivals.

More: TechSpot and The Register

Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD:

Logitech Harmony Ultimate Remote Pairs Up With Smartphone Apps, Mood Lighting — Though Logitech is looking to sell its Harmony remote division, the company is continuing to release new products like the Harmony Ultimate and Harmony Smart Control, and is still expanding the capabilities of the universal remote.

More: TechCrunch and Evolver.fm

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