Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: BlackBerry Declines After Move to Open Up BBM Messaging  —  BlackBerry (BBRY) fell the most in a week after announcing plans to open up its BBM instant-messaging system to other smartphones, a move that loosens the company's grip on one of its most valuable services.
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Rene Ritchie / iMore: As of today, every major mobile competitor... also makes apps for iOS  —  A few minutes ago BlackBerry announced BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for iOS.  With that announcement, every single one of Apple's major mobile competitors now makes apps for iOS.  Google, who also has Android …
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Jon Fingas / Engadget: US and Canada reach border spectrum sharing deals for broadband  —  Wireless use along the US-Canada border can be problematic: when there isn't direct interference, there's sometimes a fight over which devices get dibs on given frequencies.  Don't worry that the countries will rekindle their old disputes …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Google Doubles Down on Music Subscriptions, Which Means Google Isn't Serious About Music Subscriptions  —  Yes, Google plans to launch a subscription music service this week, via its Google Play store.  —  And yes, Google still plans to launch a separate subscription music service, later this year, via its YouTube site.
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Tim-o-tato / Droid Life: Google Play Updated to Version 4.1.6, Brings Sporty Looking Home Buttons  —  A day ahead of the Google I/O keynote, an update is rolling out to Google Play, version number 4.1.6.  Inside the update is a new look for the home buttons (Apps, Games, Movies, etc.), giving them a more colorful appearance.
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New York Times: U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing  —  WASHINGTON — The e-mail, from Steve Jobs of Apple to James Murdoch of News Corporation, reads as if one old sport were trying to cajole another into joining a caper: “Throw in with Apple and see if we can all …
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Diane Bartz / Reuters: Apple tells U.S. of tough talks, not collusion, with publishers  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc responded to Justice Department accusations it conspired with publishers to push up electronic book prices, saying it negotiated with a number of publishing companies separately and crafted different agreements with each.
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Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: Apple sued over faulty power button on iPhone 4  —  A Florida woman is seeking more than $5 million from Apple on behalf of thousands of iPhone owners who allegedly bought phones with defective power buttons that would not lock or turn off.  —  In a class action suit filed in San Jose …
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Ken Yeung / The Next Web: Salesforce's enterprise social network adds file sharing capabilities to its mobile iOS offering  —  Salesforce.com has unveiled a new feature for its Chatter Mobile product.  Called Files for Chatter Mobile, users can share files with other people right on the go using their iOS device.
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Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com: Cydia Substrate makes its way to Android [Video]  —  Big news in the world of Mobile Substrate, but oddly enough, it has nothing to do with iOS and everything to do with Android.  Yes, you heard right, Android.  The creator behind Cydia and Mobile Substrate, Saurik, has released Substrate for Android …
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Richard Lawler / Engadget: Netflix removes streaming expiration dates from API after ‘Streampocalypse’ hysteria  —  The end of April suddenly became very stressful for Netflix subscribers, as it was widely reported that nearly 1,800 titles would be disappearing from its Watch Instantly service in the US.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook Now Lets You Rate Movies, TV, And Books To Turn Graph Search Into A GoodReads For Everything  —  For the first time, Facebook users can now give star ratings to movies, TV shows, and books.  That data could help Facebook show more relevant content and results in news feed and Graph Search.
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Joseph Menn / Reuters: FBI says more cooperation with banks key to probe of cyber attacks  —  (Reuters) - The FBI last month gave temporary security clearances to scores of U.S. bank executives to brief them on the investigation into the cyber attacks that have repeatedly disrupted online banking websites for most of a year.
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate: I thought Square would kill off the credit card.  Will Jack Dorsey's company save it instead?  —  The Square Stand in action Courtesy of Square Inc.  —  This morning Square announced a new product that took me by surprise: the Square Stand, an iPad holder and credit card reader that's meant …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Netflix Still Eats a Third of the Web Every Night; Amazon, HBO and Hulu Trail Behind  —  For the last three years, Netflix has accounted for a third of the Internet traffic zipping into North American homes every night.  —  But Web video competitors like Amazon, HBO and Hulu all say they're seeing significant growth.
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Wall Street Journal: Google CEO Larry Page Diagnosed With ‘Vocal Cord Paralysis’  —  Larry Page is the face of Google Inc., but the chief executive has had trouble being its voice.  On Tuesday, Mr. Page broke his silence as to why.  —  In a post on the company's Google+ social networking service …
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Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tim Cook Coffee Auction Ends with $610,000 Bid  —  The CharityBuzz auction for coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook has just ended, with a final bid driving the price up to $610,000.  Previously, the auction had stagnated at $605,000, where it remained until 30 minutes before the bidding closed.
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge: Exclusive: Google readies its Spotify competitor with Universal and Sony now on board  —  By signing the three largest record labels, it's likely we'll see Google roll out its new subscription music services at I /O  —  Odds are increasing that Google will give us a peek tomorrow during …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch: To Ease Small Screen Nesting, Pinterest Mobile Adds Search Suggestions, Mentions, And Notifications  —  Pinterest works best on the web, with its big images and pinning from other browser tabs.  But mobile is the future and Pinterest needs to play catch up there.
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Jessica Roy / Betabeat: Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox  —  The Department of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ability to use Dwolla, a mobile payment service, to withdraw and deposit money into Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin trading platform.  A Dwolla representative confirmed the move to Betabeat.
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Firefox 21 arrives with social providers Cliqz, Mixi, MSN Now, open source fonts and HTML5 tweaks for Android  —  Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 21 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.  Improvements include the addition of multiple social providers on the desktop as well as open source fonts on Android.
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: Liberty City Ventures Launches $15 Million Fund To Invest In Bitcoin And Other Digital Currency Startups  —  It seems like everyone is talking about Bitcoin these days.  Driven by increased press coverage and a major jump in the value of the digital currency, more and more people are beginning …
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Associated Press: German court says Google must act if autocomplete makes defamatory suggestions  —  BERLIN — Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday.  —  The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint …
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Moxie Marlinspike: A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch  —  Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they're working on in that country.  Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it's not uncommon …
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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: Database-as-a-service Cloudant nabs $12M from Devonshire, Rackspace, & more  —  Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today.  —  Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists.
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