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May 8, 2013, 10:15 PM

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Microsoft:

Microsoft names Corporate Vice President Amy Hood as new Microsoft chief financial officer — Former CFO for the Microsoft Business Division succeeds outgoing CFO Peter Klein. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Amy Hood was named Microsoft chief financial officer …

More: AllThingsD, PC Magazine, Bloomberg, The Verge, Globe and Mail, Business Insider, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Reuters, GeekWire, CNET, Engadget, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Neowin, ZDNet, BGR and TechNet Blogs

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Seeks Android Source Code Records in Samsung Suit — Apple Inc. (AAPL), taking its patent fight to Google Inc. (GOOG) through its infringement litigation against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), is asking a judge to force Google to turn over documents related to its Android operating system.

More: Fortune, MacRumors, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, T3 News, Macgasm, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Electronista, BGR, 9to5Mac, TUAW, Wall Street Journal, FierceMobileIT News and iLounge

TechCrunch:

Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion — Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.

More: CNET and The Verge. Tweets: @xpangler and @pkafka

Peter Nixey:

Dear Apple, let's talk about photos — I'm Peter, a Rails developer and entrepreneur. I'm an ex-computer vision researcher, the former CEO of Clickpass and a YC alum. I now work with an awesome team building Copyin - email for teams — We've been managing our photos together for almost a decade now.

More: ParisLemon. Tweets: @ampressman, @rgriff, @jonasdowney and @dannysullivan. Thanks:@mikebutcher

Ronnie Cohen / Reuters:

San Francisco surrenders in fight over cell phone warnings — (Reuters) - San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round in court against the cell phone industry, have agreed to revoke an ordinance that would have been the first in the United States to require retailers to warn consumers …

More: DSLreports, The Register, Ars Technica, CNET, SiliconBeat, Examiner, Engadget, PhoneArena, LAPTOP Magazine and The Verge

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy — Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. — Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy …

More: AllThingsD, Variety, Adweek and The Wrap. Thanks:@ethan_anderson

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Yahoo's Mayer Plans Search Revamp to Narrow Google Lead — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer plans to unveil tools for Internet search, including making it easier to find information on mobile devices, stepping up efforts to nab share from Google Inc. (GOOG)

More: Search Engine Land, Tech Trader Daily and WebProNews

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware — Facebook's Open Compute Project to give the world an “open” top-of-rack switch. — Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco. — Facebook

More: Open Compute Project, Wired, NYT Bits, Data Center Knowledge, InformationWeek, The Register, GigaOM and AllFacebook

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats — An FBI investigation manual updated last year, obtained by the ACLU, says it's possible to warrantlessly obtain Americans' e-mail “without running afoul of” the Fourth Amendment. — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

More: Business Insider, ACLU, ZDNet, The Verge, SlashGear, 9.blog, Salon, The Raw Story, Ars Technica and Infowars. See also Mediagazer

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

Feds Drop Hacking Charges in Video-Poker Glitching Case — They know when to fold 'em. Las Vegas prosecutors targeting two men who took advantage of a software bug to win a small fortune at video poker have dropped all hacking charges from the case, cashing out an 18-month legal battle …

More: Techdirt

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Groupon beats street with higher than expected Q1 revenue of $601.4 million, EPS of $0.03 — Today Groupon reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $601.4 million, and earnings per share of $0.03. Analysts had expected revenue of $592 million, and earnings per share of $0.03.

More: Business Wire, Business Insider, VatorNews, Quartz, BBC, VentureBeat, CNNMoney.com, Forbes, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily and internetretailer.com

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Coursera leaps another online learning hurdle, partners with Chegg and 5 publishers to give students free textbooks — Online learning startup Coursera on Wednesday announced a partnership with Chegg, a student hub for various educational tools and materials, as well as five publishers …

More: Washington Post, paidContent and VentureBeat

Randall Smith / DealBook:

Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade — During the dot-com boom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital investment firm, all but minted money, making prescient early investments in Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Google and delivering astonishing returns to investors.

More: Businessweek and AllThingsD

Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal:

T-Mobile's CEO Looks for Pennies to Pinch — John Legere Uses Frugality and Some Choice Words to Raise Carrier's Profile, but It Remains Far Behind Wireless Leaders — T-Mobile US Inc. traded publicly for the first time last week, headed by a veteran telecommunications executive who knows …

More: BGR

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile Says Has Sold 500,000 iPhones, Q1 Revenue Dipped 7 Percent

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Hotel Tonight is revamping the hotel review for mobile devices — Instead of typing out a free-form hotel experience review on your laptop once you get home from your trip, or struggling with your smartphone's virtual keyboard for several long paragraphs, Hotel Tonight has a better idea: just use photos.

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Skift, Mashable and VentureBeat

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Donald Trump Launches FundAnything, a Kickstarter Clone Meant to Bring Crowdfunding to the Masses — Crowdfunding now has a celebrity mogul endorsement. — A new site called FundAnything from Learning Annex founder Bill Zanker launches today with help from loudmouth businessman Donald Trump.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, MarketWatch and TechCrunch. Tweets: @realdonaldtrump

Ionut Arghire / Softpedia News:

HTC First Facebook Phone Drops to $0.99 at AT&T — HTC First, the only smartphone to have arrived on shelves so far with the new Facebook Home suite of applications loaded on top right from the start, has just seen a price cut. — At the moment, the device is available …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Trulia Acquires Market Leader For $355M To Take Its Business Beyond Listings And Into SaaS For Real Estate Professionals — Online real estate company Trulia has announced it plans to acquire real estate SaaS CRM provider Market Leader for approximately $355 million. The SEC filing is here.

More: Trulia, The Next Web, Trulia Industry Blog, VentureBeat, Xconomy, ZDNet, VatorNews, silicontap.com, Pulse 2.0, GeekWire and SiliconBeat

Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:

This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl) — Jennie Lamere was the only woman to present at a Boston hackathon. She won it. — Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum …

More: NEWS.com.au, Los Angeles Times, Digital Trends, CNET, US News, Music Machinery, Screen Junkies, The Huffington Post and ANIMAL

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Internet in Syria has been restored after being disconnected for over 19 hours — Internet in Syria has been restored on Wednesday at 14:13 UTC. The country went offline on Tuesday at around 18:45 UTC as Internet connectivity was completely cut across the nation.

More: BBC, Renesys Blog, Krebs on Security, PC Magazine, NYT Bits, CNN, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Yahoo! News, The Verge, CNN, NEWS.com.au, Electronista and Softpedia News

Tweets: @bgpmon and @akamai_soti

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google, authors wrangle in court again over digital books — The authors are asking for $3 billion in damages related to Google's digital books project, while Google is asking for class action status to be revoked. — Google and the Authors Guild are wrangling in court again …

More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg and PublishersWeekly.com. Tweets: @bloombergnews. See also Mediagazer

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Translate For Android Can Now Interpret 16 Additional Languages By Camera, Adds Phrasebook Support — One of the coolest features of the Google Translate for Android app is that you can just point your camera at a text, tap the word you want to translate and get a translation back.

More: Google Translate Blog and 9to5Google

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