Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Y Combinator Adds Five Part-Time Partners, Including Groupon's Andrew Mason and App.net's Dalton Caldwell  —  Y Combinator's Paul Graham revealed a bunch of personnel news in a just-published blog post.  —  Let's see if I've got everything: The incubator has added one full-time partner …
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Court reverses Yahoo ruling for $2.75 billion Mexican Yellow Pages breach of contract, reduces damages to $172,500  —  Yahoo on Thursday announced some good news coming from its legal department.  The Superior Court of Justice for the Federal District in Mexico granted the company's appeal …
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors: Tim Cook Defends Apple's Tax Record Ahead of Senate Committee Appearance [Updated]  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a break from his predecessor, is giving a number of interviews to Washington press outlets ahead of his appearance in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation next week.
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Poornima Gupta / Reuters: Dell's profit slides 79 percent as it seeks to go private  —  (Reuters) - Dell Inc, the subject of a takeover battle between activist investor Carl Icahn and the company's billionaire founder, reported a 79 percent slide in profit as personal computer sales continue to shrink.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors: New High-Resolution Photos of iPhone 5S Parts Reveal Little  —  BGR shares several new relatively high-resolution photos of parts claimed to be from the iPhone 5S.  These parts have been leaking to repair firms over the past several months, and a number of photos have already been seen …
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Noel Randewich / Reuters: New CEO vows Intel will be more responsive in mobile push  —  (Reuters) - Intel Corp's new CEO Brian Krzanich said on Thursday that under his leadership the top chipmaker will be more responsive to customers in an intensified focus on the fast-growing smartphone and tablet market where it lags its rivals.
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: Intel May Have Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Still Win the Mobile War  —  As CEO Paul Otellini steps down from his post, he leaves the Intel machine poised to take on the swarming ecosystem of competitors who make smartphone chips.  —  Forty-five years after Intel was founded …
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Emily Gera / Polygon: Nintendo claims ad revenue on user-generated YouTube videos  —  Nintendo is now claiming ad revenue on user-generated “Let's Play” videos that feature the game company's content, according to YouTube user Zack Scott who received a “content ID match claim” issued by Nintendo.
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Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: New Groupon CEO Unlikely Until Next Year  —  Groupon Inc. isn't likely to name a permanent new chief executive until next year, the daily-deal company's interim chiefs said Wednesday.  —  The company, which stumbled badly after going public in 2011, has been looking for someone to fill …
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Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: Verizon boosts data allottments in prepaid plans  —  Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) launched new prepaid pricing that significantly increases the amount of data its prepaid smartphone customers can consume per month with their plans, as competition in the prepaid market, especially among Tier 1 players, continues to heat up.
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Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: iOS, Android Games' Revenue Beat 3DS, Vita's at Best & Worst of Times  —  As if you needed any further reminding that phone and tablet games are where it's at, take a look at the new portable gaming report that IDC and App Annie are releasing today.  —  The report, obtained in advance by AllThingsD …
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN And Evernote Apps Coming To Google Glass Today  —  Google announced a number of new partner apps today on stage at Google I/O during the “Developing for Glass” session.  Facebook and Twitter were the highlights of the list, which also included Evernote, Tumblr …
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Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: New Apps Arrive on Google Glass  —  Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.
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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Amazon Taps NBCUniversal To Bring Covert Affairs, Grimm, Suits, And More To Prime Instant Video  —  Amazon has just announced a new content deal with NBCUniversal, bringing a host of new television series to the video streaming platform.  —  Some of those titles include Covert Affairs, Defiance, Grimm, Hannibal, and Suits.
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: Google says it's working on a native Glass Development Kit with offline, direct hardware access and more  —  Today during a session at Google I/O, Google Senior Developer Advocate for Glass Timothy Jordan announced that Google was currently working on a native development environment …
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Luke Johnson / Trusted Reviews: iOS BBM app will not support iPad at launch  —  With a summer iOS BBM app release having been confirmed, BlackBerry has revealed that the Apple friendly messaging application will not be available to iPad owners.  —  Leaving iPad mini and iPad 4 users out in the cold, the iOS BBM app …
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Charlie Osborne / CNET: LulzSec case in U.K. brings sentences for 4 men  —  Core members of LulzSec have been sentenced for their campaigns — and according to the defense, some of the victims were “thoroughly deserving” of what happened to them.  —  LONDON — Four members of the LulzSec hacking group were sentenced …
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Yahoo partners with Twitter to bring tweets directly into its US newsfeed on the desktop and mobile Web  —  Yahoo on Thursday announced a new partnership with Twitter that will see tweets brought directly into the company's homepage newsfeed.  The new integration will be rolling out …
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Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: Apple plans to move flagship San Francisco store to Union Square  —  Apple has submitted plans for a new retail location in San Francisco's Union Square that would replace the Apple Store currently at Stockton and Ellis.  —  Plans for the new store emerged on Thursday, according to SFGate.
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Kellex / Droid Life: SMS is Indeed Coming to Google Hangouts, According to Google+ Community Manager  —  To say that readers were disappointed at the lack of SMS support in Google's new Hangouts application is probably somewhat of an understatement.  People are 100% ready to make Hangouts their number …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Biz Stone's New Startup Jelly Raises Series A From Spark Capital, SV Angel, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman, Al Gore, Bono & Others  —  Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's new and mysterious startup called Jelly still isn't saying what it's up to, but it has announced funding.
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Nick Summers / The Next Web: Android and iOS accounted for 92% of Q1 2013 smartphone shipments, as Windows Phone passes BlackBerry  —  Android and iOS accounted for 92.3 percent of all smartphones shipped during the first quarter of 2013, according to new figures published today by the International Data Corporation (IDC).
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Matt Burns / TechCrunch: Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development  —  Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble.  The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures.
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Nick Hide / Crave: Samsung changes mind, will look at storage on Galaxy S4 … Samsung has backed down on the Galaxy S4's limited storage after the phone appeared on the BBC's Watchdog, saying it will try to squeeze its myriad features into a smaller space, freeing up more memory for apps.
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Robin Wauters / The Next Web: That settles it: Opera drops its $3.4m lawsuit against ex-employee Trond Hansen  —  A little over two weeks ago, word got out about Opera filing a rather nasty lawsuit against a former longtime employee and contractor, designer and musician Trond Werner Hansen.
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