Jon Russell / The Next Web:
iOS and Android gaming revenue tripled that of handheld consoles in Q1 2013: App Annie  —  Research firms IDC and App Annie have again joined forces to release their second quarterly report on mobile gaming, the key takeaway being that tablets and smartphones continue to dominate the handheld console space …

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 10:55 pm

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins  —  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook and are now working as tech investors through Winklevoss Capital …

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 9:05 pm

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses  —  Three months ago, celebrated video game publisher Valve did something completely out of character: it fired up to 25 workers, in what one employee dubbed the “great cleansing.”

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 7:10 pm

Mat Honan / Wired:
Welcome to Google Island  —  I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird.  The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco's Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session.  My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions …

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 4:45 pm

Paul Sloan / CNET:
One issue holding up Apple iRadio: The economics of skipping songs  —  Apple wants to roll out its streaming music service this summer, but it's still hammering out details with Sony Music over some very specific terms.  —  Apple, which has been aiming for a summer rollout of a streaming music service …

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 2:20 pm

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom  —  The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal.  —  I had just wrapped up a conversation with a man who owned a pair of Google's Internet-connected glasses, Google Glass.

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 1:45 pm

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
With PayPal-Like Ambitions For Bitcoin, BitPay Raises $2M Led By Founders Fund  —  BitPay, the startup with ambitions to become the PayPal of the bitcoin world, is today announcing that it has raised another $2 million.  And in a kind of poetic justice, the round is led by none other than the Founders Fund …

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 11:40 am

Scott Stein / CNET:
Glasses with Google Glass: Prescription versions appear at Google I/O  —  What about Google Glass for those who don't like contacts?  A few glasses with Glass attached were lurking on the show floor.  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Google Glass currently comes in five colors and has a pop-in sunglass visor …

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 9:35 am

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Grubless?  Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge  —  Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies …

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 8:20 am

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Tumblr May Reject Yahoo's $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”  —  Tumblr employees feel that Yahoo's $1.1 billion offer is “too low” and view it as “only a first offer,” according to sources close to acquisition talks.  Yahoo may have to increase the offer to close the deal.

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 7:45 am

Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:
If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn?  —  If Yahoo succeeds in its attempt to acquire Tumblr, it will end up with one of the hottest Internet properties in today's Web, with access to the coveted youth market and a foothold in mobile.  —  It will also wind up with a whole lot of porn.

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 6:35 am

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.

Posted on 18 May 2013 | 2:45 am

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 …

Posted on 17 May 2013 | 10:55 pm

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.

Posted on 17 May 2013 | 8:25 pm

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.

Posted on 17 May 2013 | 6:20 pm