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.

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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …

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 …


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 …

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 …


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 …

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 …


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 …


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.


Jordan Novet / GigaOM:

Blue Coat to acquire Solera and sweeten network-security story as cyberattacks continue  —  There’s been lots of investor interest recently in backing startups focused on making IT more secure, at least in part because of the barrage of news of cyberattacks against government agencies and companies, including a defense contractor.


Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome  —  The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it’s a significant leap in how we use search engines.


Matt Brian / The Verge:

AMD slips to fourth spot as Qualcomm and Samsung capitalize on mobile processor sales  —  A fall in demand for desktop PCs and continued growth of the smartphone and tablet market saw AMD fall from second to fourth place for microprocessor sales in 2012.  According to a new report from IC Insights …


Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV’s mistakes  —  webTV returns to Redmond… with a vengeance  —  “For the first time, you and your TV will have a relationship.”  —  That’s how Microsoft began the introduction of its new Xbox One today …


Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Latest Google+ redesign comes to the mobile Web: Cover photos, larger tap targets, and card-based posts  —  Google on Tuesday announced a redesign of its Google+ social network for the mobile Web.  The revamp is meant to bring the mobile version of Google+ in line with the last redesign of the service.


John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Domestic Mac Sales Flat in April (And That’s Not Bad)  —  With the iPhone and iPad driving increasingly more of Apple’s profits, the Mac is no longer the defining theme of the company’s financial story that it once was.  Which is why new data suggesting that domestic Mac sales for the month …


Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:

Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends  —  Teenagers use Facebook by far more than any other social media site and have over 400 friends on it.  But Twitter and Instagram have massively increased their usage in the past year, according to a new survey …


Jennifer C. Kerr / Associated Press:

Poll: Teens Migrating to Twitter  —  You are here  —  Home » Business » Poll: Teens migrating to Twitter  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook …