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…

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…

Facebookers, beware: That silly update can cost you a job
by Dara Kerr, cnet.com

Study shows that companies have rejected 1 in 10 people between ages 16 and 34 because of something the person shared on social media.

Lit­tle did Ash­ley Payne know that the fes­tive photo of her hold­ing both a pint of beer and a glass of red…

Xbox One’s used game fiasco plays with fire, flirts with pirates
Peter Nowak, theglobeandmail.com

Used games or not used games – for Microsoft, the rest of the games indus­try and mil­lions of gamers, that is the ques­tion.

Con­tro­ver­sy and con­fu­sion erupt­ed last week after the com­pa­ny final­ly took the wraps off its next-generation…

Microsoft Apparently Planning to Unveil 8-Inch Surface Tablet in June
J. Glenn Künzler, mactrast.com

Microsoft has long been rumored to be work­ing on a 7-inch ver­sion of its Sur­face tablet, as numer­ous pre­vi­ous reports have echoed time and time again. Accord­ing to a recent report from the sometimes-accurate Dig­iTimes, how­ev­er, Microsoft…