Yahoo! Reportedly Offers $30M to $40M For Social Email Startup Xobni
Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com

Yahoo! is offer­ing to pur­chase social email start­up Xobni for $30 mil­lion to $40 mil­lion, accord­ing to AllTh­ingsD’s sources. If the deal goes through, Xobni would be the lat­est acqui­si­tion by Yahoo! as CEO Maris­sa Meyer seeks to boost t…

Angry Birds Go! set to open new chapter for Rovio’s Angry Birds
Stuart Dredge, guardian.co.uk

New game to launch later in 2013, with teaser website hinting it may be an endless runner

Rovio Entertainment is working on a new Angry Birds game called Angry Birds Go! which is due for release later in 2013.

The Finnish firm has launched a…

WTF Is Waze And Why Did Google Just Pay A Billion+ For It?
Rip Empson, techcrunch.com

The tech indus­try has seen its fair share of acqui­si­tion whop­pers late­ly, with Sales­force acquir­ing Exact­Tar­get for $2.5 bil­lion this month, and Yahoo putting the icing on its acqui­si­tion spree by snatch­ing up Tum­blr for $1.1 bil­lio…

bbc.co.uk

Google, Facebook and Microsoft ask the US government to allow them to disclose the security requests they receive for handing over user data.

Redesigned Gmail for Android begins rolling out to users
By Chris Welch, theverge.com

After pre­view­ing the redesigned Gmail expe­ri­ence last week, Google is today begin­ning to roll out its lat­est ver­sion to Android users. Once you’ve received the update, Gmail for mobile will auto­mat­i­cal­ly fil­ter your inbox into new…