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• 24 April 2013

• News: Samsung to expand retail presence in US

  Samsung is making an aggressive sales push in the U.S. market by expanding into thousands of third-party retail outlets where dedicated staff will sell and provide advice on the company's smartphones, tablets and entertainment products.

• News: Airtel acquisition of rival Warid Telecom reshapes competitive ladnscape

  In acquiring Warid Telecom Uganda, Bharti Airtel beat off competition from South Africa's Vodacom and set the stage to reshape competition in the region

• Feature: What happened to iPad 3? Why the third-generation iPad disappeared

  When the fourth-generation iPad arrived the iPad 2 was retained but the third-gen iPad disappeared. So what happened to the iPad 3?

• News: More malware discovered from drone cyberattacks

  Despite the exposure of the cyberespionage, Operation Beebus is still active, although its infrastructure has changed

• News: Standard Bank completes migration of another 3.5m South Africans onto SAP banking system

  Standard Bank in South Africa has just completed moving 3.5 million customers onto a mobile-enabled banking system that now allows a total of 7 million people to quickly bank.

• News: Ban on iOS push mail stays but patent used to get it likely to be invalid, German court says

  A patent that Motorola Mobility used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push mail service in Germany is likely to be invalid, the Higher Regional Court in Karlsruhe said on Wednesday -- but the ban will not be lifted, a court spokeswoman said.

• Feature: What is Big Data? Understanding Big Data, and how it affects us all

  We explain the term Big Data: what it is, and why it matters to everyone.

• News: Nintendo misses profit goal as Wii U, 3DS sales sag

  Sales of Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS fell short of the company's targets last fiscal year, pulling its profits down to half of what it expected.

• News: Apple sees first slide in profits in a decade

  Apple has seen its first decline in profits for a decade during the first quarter of 2013.

• News: ZTE agrees to Android, Chrome patent licensing from Microsoft

  Microsoft has inked an agreement with China's ZTE for its Android and Chrome patent licensing program.

• News: Australia charges man claiming to be LulzSec leader

  Australia has charged a 24-year-old man who allegedly defaced a government website earlier this month and claims to be the leader of LulzSec, a rogue inactive hacking group.

• 23 April 2013

• News: iPad sales up, Macs flat, as Apple reports on Q2 earnings

  As some investors feared, Apple on Tuesday reported numbers that were worse than its performance a year ago for the second quarter--though the company still saw record sales for its March quarter.

• News: Apple profit drops on slow iPhone growth

  Apple's net profit dropped during the second quarter of 2013 as the company's iPhone shipment growth slowed down, based on year-over-year comparisons.

• News: AT&T revenue, net income nearly flat

  AT&T has reported revenue of US $31.4 billion for the first quarter of 2013, down slightly from a year earlier, although net income was up slightly, with a sagging wireline business division nearly offsetting mobile and wired broadband growth.

• News: Wall Street pushes for exemptions in state social-media monitoring laws

  Even as several states have put in place, or are proposing new laws barring employers from monitoring the social media activities of their employees, one Wall Street regulator is seeking exemptions to such rules for some financial services companies.

• How-Tos: Typography for all: Demystifying text for high-impact messages

  Text is incredibly powerful--whether you're making a business card or a garage-sale sign, you're sending a message. The look of that message influences the way the receiver reacts: If the message is visually pleasing, the reaction is generally positive, but if the text is hard to read, that feeling of difficulty transfers back to you, the messenger. Here we'll cover the basics of everyday typography, font pairings that are pleasing to the eye, practical formatting tips that work with a variety of software, and common mistakes to avoid.

• News: Huawei: US market no longer focus for its carrier business

  After facing a congressional battering over security concerns, Huawei's carrier networking group is no longer focused on the U.S. market, and instead expects to find ample business in other parts of the world.

• News: EMC Tackles Big Data, Cloud Skills Gap Among IT Business Leaders

  Many organizations have trouble finding IT workers with the skills needed to implement big data analytics and cloud computing strategies. But that skills gap isn't limited to engineers and developers. There's also a shortage of executives and business leaders with the skills to manage big data and cloud teams. EMC is seeking to change that with a new series of courses.

• News: Facebook can keep its real name policy, German appellate court decides

  Facebook doesn't have to allow nicknames on its platform and can keep its real name policy in Germany, the Administrative Court of Appeals of the State of Schleswig-Holstein said Tuesday.

• News: SkySQL, MariaDB to merge

  Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to merge.

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