Neha Alawadhi / Reuters: Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million user IDs leaked: Kyodo  —  (Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp said on Friday night it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been “leaked” and it detected an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of its web portal Yahoo Japan, the Kyodo news agency reported.
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Matt Hartley / Financial Post: Canada's Competition Bureau plans investigation into Google Canada  —  Canada's Competition Bureau is gearing up to launch a formal inquiry into the business practices of Google Inc.'s Canadian operations.  —  Google was recently notified by the Competition Bureau of the watchdog organization's intentions …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: MacBook Air inventory begins dwindling ahead of Apple's WWDC  —  With Intel's next-generation Haswell processors set to launch in a matter of weeks and WWDC to kick off soon after, availability of Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air had begun to dry up at major authorized resellers.
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Each Quarter  —  Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing.
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Ron Nixon / New York Times: Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi Service on Trains  —  WASHINGTON — After years of criticism of the wireless service on its trains, Amtrak announced on Thursday that it had upgraded its cellular-based Wi-Fi offering using broadband technologies that will improve the speed and reliability of the Internet in its passenger cars.
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AllThingsD: Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr  —  According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for New York-based blogging site Tumblr.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook's Growth Since IPO In 12 Big Numbers  —  $FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it's made important progress since going public a year ago.  Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights.
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Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: Yahoo's Mayer Said to Be Preparing Updates for Flickr Photo Site  —  Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer will unveil updates to the company's Flickr photo-sharing site at a press event in New York scheduled for May 20, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu  —  DirecTV, the second largest U.S. pay-TV provider, is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter.  —  Hulu's owners, including Walt Disney Co. …
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Jennifer Van Grove / CNET: Apple removes Bang With Friends from App Store  —  The eyebrow-raising app won't be initiating Facebook-friend hookups for iPhone owners for the time being.  —  No more knocking boots with your Facebook friends, iPhone users.  Apple has removed the salaciously titled Bang With Friends iPhone application from its App Store.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge: T-Mobile drops anti-net neutrality lawsuit filed by MetroPCS, leaving Verizon on its own  —  Cellphone carriers have generally met net neutrality proposals with varying levels of hostility, but Verizon and MetroPCS have been particularly belligerent: in 2011, they sued to overturn the FCC's then-newly adopted Open Internet rules.
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: Apple's lax iTunes streaming security gives out a free copy of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories  —  Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Justin Timberlake are just a few of the artists over the past year to offer full-length, high quality streams of their newest albums on iTunes in the days before release.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling  —  The Tumblr sweepstakes have begun.  —  According to multiple reports (the first coming from All Things D). the social blogging site is in serious talks with Yahoo , which is looking to secure a strategic investment …
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Lucian Constantin / Macworld: Developer-signed Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer  —  Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway.  —  Security researcher and privacy activist Jacob Appelbaum found …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo's First Day Up 78%  —  One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.
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Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft planning Xbox dashboard UI and tile changes in preparation for next-gen console  —  Microsoft is preparing to update its Xbox 360 with another dashboard update.  Sources familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans have revealed to The Verge that the dashboard update will enter into a public beta …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: US Air Force expects to save $50M with use of 18K Apple iPads  —  The purchase of 18,000 iPads for use as electronic flight bags has set the stage for the U.S. Air Force to save more than $50 million over the next 10 years.  —  Using lightweight iPads instead of heavy paper flight manuals …
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Jay Donovan / TechCrunch: Indoor Mapping Startup Meridian Adds Notification Zones To Their Strategy  —  Indoor mapping software startup Meridian, continues to evolve their product strategy with a recent update to their offering.  —  Called Zones, the company's newest update to their indoor mapping platform …
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Chris Welch / The Verge: Yahoo to hold Monday press event in New York as Tumblr buyout rumors swirl  —  CNBC is reporting that Yahoo will hold a “product-related” news event this Monday in New York City.  None other than CEO Marissa Mayer will be speaking at the event.  Exactly what Yahoo plans to announce hasn't yet …
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International Design Times: Firefox 22 Won't Block Third-Party Tracking Cookies: Why Mozilla Delayed Default Blocker And How Your Privacy Is Affected  —  Privacy and Security  —  Mozilla announced it will be delaying the default block on third-party cookie tracking in the upcoming Firefox 22 citing additional testing as the reason for the hold.
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Jeffrey Wu / Focus Taiwan: Production capacity for HTC One to double in May: executive  —  Taipei, May 16 (CNA) Taiwan's HTC Corp. said Thursday that its production capacity for its new HTC One flagship phone is rising sharply month by month as its component supply issues continue to improve.
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg: FCC Nominee to Divest AT&T, Verizon to Avoid Conflict  —  Tom Wheeler, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the FCC, agreed to sell holdings of $500,001 to $1 million in both AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to resolve possible conflicts of interest before taking office.
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: Bloomberg Names Former IBM CEO Palmisano to Advise on Data Privacy  —  Here's an interesting development in the ongoing data-privacy imbroglio over at Bloomberg LP.  The company just named former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano as an independent adviser with the task of reviewing and recommending changes on privacy and data policies.
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer: Gizmodo Pivots From Gadgets to Design  —  Because Kinja.  —  Gizmodo, Gawker media's tech blog, is getting a new editor and a new focus.  Geoff Manaugh, a former senior editor at Dwell Magazine and contributing editor at Wired UK, will take over at Gizmodo.
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge: How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service  —  Sources say iRadio is still mired in licensing talks and may not be ready for WWDC  —  Google's long-rumored Play Music All Access service is already out the door, while Apple's iRadio is still bogged down in licensing talks.
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