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While OS X continues to be a starting point for my music, I find now when it comes to rehearsals, everything I need is on my iPad.    

Fans of the social-blogging network might not like the idea much, but a $1-billion acquisition of Tumblr would arguably solve a number of problems for Yahoo -- and do the same for Tumblr CEO David Karp.    

Everlane and True & Co are part of a new wave of e-commerce startups that are using emotion and design to sell goods.    

No new hardware appeared at Google I/O, but a recently released phone debuts as a Nexus-like device. Meanwhile, Google updated Android, without adding further fragmentation issues, through dozens of new services, apps and APIs.    

Costa Rica's killer bull, fear in Cyprus, crimes of Ranbaxy and BitCoin bubble -- that along with basketball uber coach Phil Jackson are part of this week's reading material. Of course, question to ponder: briefs or boxers, how did they get into men's…

Tumblr might become part of Yahoo as early as Sunday night, according to a report that suggests Yahoo's board of directors is set to consider a $1.1 billion offer for the startup.    

The Google Cloud Platform gets a little stronger with the coming of new networking features, such as load balancing, on the Google Compute Engine, which could help enterprises get on board.    

Redbox Instant is coming to Google TV devices soon, and the company plans to launch a channel on Roku streaming media players soon after.    

Tableau had a successful IPO, closing the trading day up 64 percent and raking in $254 million. CEO Christian Chabot says the company is now set to make itself known around the world.    

Life sciences venture firm InCube Ventures has launched an equity crowdfunding site for biomedical technology companies at all stages.    

Companies are looking to harness underwater pressure for energy generation and storage.    

YouTube's new channel design will roll out to everyone in early June, and the site's designers are already busy working on big things to come.    

Database startup Drawn to Scale, creator of the SQL-on-Hadoop technology called Spire, is closing down. The company's product, Spire, was one of the first SQL-on-Hadoop technologies.    

Gawker has just taken checkbook journalism to a whole new level -- asking the public to help buy a video tape that is likely to bring down the mayor of a major city.    

Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O has been center stage in technology world for past few days. The news coming out of the event can be overwhelming. Here are a handful of articles that I find worth of your time and attention.     

Plugin-free video chat in the browser is becoming a reality quickly: Developers can soon reach more than one billion browsers and devices with the protocol, according to Google's Justin Uberti.    

Bitcoin is being treated as a serious currency by investors, entrepreneurs and the government. GigaOM convened experts to hear what they say about what will happen next -- here's three highlights.    

A carnival-style shooting game that resembles Fruit Ninja -- except the targets are trolls, not fruit.    

On the heels of faculty backlashes to massive open online courses, three universities have pulled out of an online learning program with education company 2U.    

... according to new statistics from Onavo, which tracks actual use of mobile apps and games by "millions" of iOS users.    

Sprint buyout of U.S. Cellular in Chicago and St. Louis closed Friday, and it won't keep its networks running for long. Customers can either trade in their U.S. Cellular devices with Sprint or look for a new carrier.    

RapidShare used to be the world's most popular one-click hoster, used by millions to store and share files. Now, it has to lay off 75 percent of its staff.    

Reports indicate Apple is still working out the licensing details with music publishers for its "iRadio" service.    

When soap operas "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" moved online, it wasn't clear how fans would watch them. It turns out that most viewers are binge-watching -- so the soaps' production company is cutting back on the number of new episodes each…

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