Tomio Geron / Forbes: Skyhigh Networks Raises $20M Series B To Find, Manage Cloud Services  —  Cloud services are increasingly how people get work done in businesses, small and large.  —  One startup banking on this trend is Skyhigh Networks, which has raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Sequoia Capital …
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Juli Clover / MacRumors: Voice Search Coming Soon to Chrome for iOS  —  Google has announced plans to roll out an update to the iOS version of Chrome that will enable voice searching.  The feature will function similarly to Siri on the iPhone, requiring a tap on the microphone to bring up the interactive search interface.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD: Verizon Wireless, Jennifer Lopez Partner to Launch Viva Movil, Mobile Retailer Aimed at Latino Market  —  Jennifer Lopez is getting into the mobile business.  —  The star is the chief creative officer and majority owner in Viva Movil, a mobile retailer working with Verizon Wireless to target Latino customers.
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge: With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's iRadio plans  —  Streaming services, such as Pandora and Spotify, aren't as profitable for music publishers.  They want to change that.  —  For years, when it came to driving negotiations with internet music services over licensing …
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft updates its YouTube Windows Phone app with some concessions to Google  —  Summary: The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some — but not all — of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube app.
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Zee / The Next Web: Google Trends now ranks most searched people, places and things in 40+ categories, releases visual trending product.  —  Google Search trends is arguably the most effective way of learning what the world is thinking about, and Google Trends, with Google's annual Zeitgeist, has always done a fairly decent job of illustrating this.
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Rachel King / ZDNet: HP's Whitman reiterates ‘multi-year journey’ amid Q2 revenue miss  —  Summary: Wall Street was expecting earnings of 81 cents a share on revenue of $28.08 billion for the second quarter.  —  Leading up to Hewlett-Packard's second quarter earnings report after the bell on Wednesday, analysts were expecting a mixed bag.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Twitter Ups Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Big Shared Accounts Still In Danger  —  After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud  —  Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency.
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Jimio / Twitter Blog: Getting started with login verification  —  Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter.  Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.
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Connie Guglielmo / Forbes: Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple  —  Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for covering digital media technologies and companies including Microsoft and Apple , has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take a job with Apple.
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: HTC Can't Staunch The Flow Of Departing Senior Talent As Internal Turmoil Prevails  —  A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it's bound to look like curtains to outside observers.
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Tom Warren / The Verge: Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and ‘always-online’ requirement unclear  —  Microsoft's Xbox One unveil was concentrated on the hardware, entertainment, and gaming, but a controversial aspect to the new console — a rumored always-online requirement — has been left floating amid a sea of confusion.
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Brad Stone / Businessweek: Inside Google's Secret Lab  —  Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition.  Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: The Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a hard-nosed negotiation  —  The US government's price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York.  Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme …
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Kellex / Droid Life: Google Drive Updated on Android With New Card-style UI, Document Scanner, and More  —  Google Drive for Android is receiving a major update today that includes a new UI, document scanner, and editing improvements.  In terms of the UI, Google is introduce a card-style layout …
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David Cohen / AllFacebook: Pandora Enables Automatic Sharing To Music Section On Facebook's Revamped Timeline  —  Internet radio provider Pandora deepened its integration with Facebook, introducing the ability for its users to automatically publish their activity to the music section on the social network's redesigned …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon to pay royalties for fan fiction in new ‘Kindle Worlds’ program  —  Ready to write some fan fic?  Amazon may have some money for you.  —  The company says it will license rights to popular books, games, movies and other content to let independent authors write their own stories based …
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Andrew Yoon / Shacknews.com: Xbox One won't allow indies to self-publish games  —  Independent developers cannot self-publish their own games on Xbox Live Arcade.  Instead, they must get a publishing deal—either with Microsoft Game Studios or with a third-party partner.  Games published on Xbox Live Indie Games …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: Apple identifies certain patents allegedly infringed by Samsung Galaxy S4 and Google Now app  —  Last week Apple informed the court that it intended to amend its infringement contentions in the second California patent litigation with Samsung to target the Galaxy S4 (instead of some other product …
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Paul Sawers / The Next Web: Penguin pays $75 million to settle US eBook price-fixing case ahead of Apple's June trial  —  Apple may be calling the overarching lawsuit flawed, but Penguin has confirmed it has reached a “comprehensive agreement” with the US State Attorneys General, and other private class plaintiffs …
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Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4  —  It's that time of decade again.  Time for a new Xbox.  It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360.  The transition from Xbox 360 to the newly announced Xbox One will take right around 8 years …
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: Apple's Made-in-USA Mac Will Be Built in Texas … When Apple announced its intention to manufacture one of its existing Mac lines exclusively in the U.S. last December, the company didn't say which line, or where in the country it planned to build it.  Now, some five months later …
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Mitali Pattnaik / Twitter Advertising: Capture user interest with the Lead Generation Card  —  Marketers regularly talk to us about their goals, and for many it boils down to one major theme: generating leads, and ultimately driving purchases.  —  With those goals in mind, today there's a new addition to our suite of Twitter Cards …
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Jon Russell / The Next Web: Confirmed: Samsung buys 10% stake in Korean handset maker Pantech for $48 million  —  Samsung is investing in hardware after the company agreed to spend 53 billion won ($48 million) to acquire a 10 percent stake in fellow South Korean firm Pantech, the country's third-largest maker of mobile devices.
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