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• 13 May 2013

• News: Dell board warns Icahn bid could leave the company short of cash

  A plan proposed by Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management last week as an alternative to Michael Dell's proposal to take his namesake company private would leave it short of cash, Dell's board warned the bidders on Monday.

• News: Yahoo acquires Loki Studios as part of acquisition spree

  Yahoo has acquired a mobile gaming company, Loki Studios, taking its total acquisitions this month to four.

• 10 May 2013

• News: Smartphones driving violent crime across US

  On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes in the city that day, and they all involved cellphones. Three were stolen at gun point, three at knife point and four through brute force.

• News: Wall Street Beat: Rise in markets could fuel tech M&A

  Increasing confidence in the economy and a rising stock market could lay the groundwork for a revival in tech-sector mergers and acquisitions as companies embrace cloud technology and pursue game-changing software, particularly for the mobile market.

• News: BYOD Policy: Employee Right to Social Media Privacy Is Paramount

  BYOD guidelines are just being defined, but one warning must rise above the din: never, ever, try to gain unauthorized access to an employee's private social networking site.

• News: Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents

  A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the "death" of software and business method patents.

• News: Icahn, Southeastern make alternative bid for Dell

  Investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have made a counter-offer for Dell that would keep the computer company still publicly traded, according to reports.

• News: Reports: Icahn, Southeastern make alternative bid for Dell

  Investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have made a counter-offer for Dell that would keep the computer company still publicly traded, according to reports.

• News: New York man pleads guilty to illegally selling Intuit software

  A former support employee in Rochester, New York, has pleaded guilty to illegally selling Intuit software through eBay, taking advantage of the software company's policy to supply free replacement disks of its products at the request of customers.

• News: Salesforce.com to buy Clipboard, shutting down service

  Salesforce.com is to acquire Clipboard, a Web clipping and sharing service, and is closing down the service.

• News: Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud

  A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted US$45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the U.S. and India.

• 09 May 2013

• News: 3D-printable gun maker ordered to take down blueprints

  U.S. Department of Defense Trade Controls has apparently ordered Defense Distributed to removed the blueprints for a 3D printable gun from its website.

• News: Microsoft Patch Tuesday targets multitude of Internet Explorer faults

  Microsoft is issuing critical security bulletins this Patch Tuesday that affect all versions of Internet Explorer and deal with an exploit that attackers are actively working.

• News: Facebook close to acquiring navigation app Waze so it can sell you ads while you drive

  The Facebook rumor mill is churning with reports that Zuckerberg and company are inching ever closer to sealing the deal on a purchase of the popular crowdsourced navigation app, Waze.

• News: US lawmakers introduce apps privacy bill

  New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting their personal data and to secure the data they collect.

• News: FCC moves toward new airplane broadband service

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward helping more airlines offer in-cabin wireless broadband, with the agency voting Thursday to explore using new spectrum for air-to-ground broadband service.

• News: G2 Crowd challenges Gartner's Magic Quadrant with crowdsourced grids

  Might the hegemony of Gartner's Magic Quadrant be under threat? It sounds like a long shot but Chicago startup G2 Crowd thinks it has come up with a disruptive alternative - ditch analysts and ask IT professionals what they think instead.

• News: Intel acquires two software companies

  Intel has acquired two software companies as it continues to build its burgeoning portfolio to include more tools to write and manage programs and interfaces.

• News: Why the IT Industry Is Desperate for H-1B Reform Legislation

  Amid broad agreement that more skilled workers would boost the tech economy, industry experts suggest that comprehensive immigration bill coming up for debate doesn't go far enough to help fill IT, engineering and manufacturing jobs.

• News: Sony profitable again, but core electronics still struggling

  Sony made good on a promise to return to profitability after offloading a number of valuable assets last year, but its core electronics business is still losing money.

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