As Tablet Race Heats Up, Apple May Try Smaller Device (NYT)

Microsoft-NBC JV ends after 16 years, making way for NBCNews.com (paidContent)

Does an app store’s size matter if content is the killer app? (CNET)

In Defense Of Free (Fred Wilson, VC)

Here is why Facebook bought Spool (GigaOM)

Tax Break Nears End For Online Shoppers (WSJ)

• Digg this: Former social sharing superstar reportedly sold for $500,000 (GigaOM)
• The burying of Digg, by the numbers (Atlantic)
• Diller says Aereo will expand to most large U.S. cities (Bloomberg)
• Yahoo’s newest roadmap could be drawn in disappearing ink (paidContent)
• Insider: Variety acquisition cost will far exceed a $40,000 price tag (paidContent)
• The education of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason (Bloomberg Businessweek)

• Free-Falling Groupon Has Its Problems, but Bankruptcy Talk Is Bunk (All Things D)

• Diller and Aereo win first round: injunction denied (paidContent)

• Cydle Multipad M7 rebranded as Edifi, ‘world’s first Christian tablet’ (The Verge)

• Currency Cloud gets $3.1M to disrupt foreign exchange (GigaOM)

• DOJ says it received over 800 comments on ebook pricing case, needs more time to publish them (paidContent)

• Fighting DirecTV, Viacom takes down its shows for everyone (GigaOM)

• Stalk someone for $2: Big data and the changing economics of privacy (paidContent)

• Amazon, with suppliers, is testing a smartphone (WSJ)
• Sun Valley day 1: As the moguls roll in, let the schmooze-fest begin (Reuters)
• Can a publisher use crowdfunding to replace ads? (GigaOM)
• What’s next for newspapers? (Reflections of a Newsosaur)
• Ebook market in Germany profitable for “a small minority” (Publishing Perspectives)

• Next Issue brings 39 all-you-can-read magazines to iPad (paidContent)

• Marketers Buy Facebook More for Awareness Than Likes or Leads (AdAge)

• Is the future of retail showrooming? (GigaOM)

• Nielsen: internet ad spending rose by 12 percent during Q1 (The Verge)

• Lady Gaga’s social network ‘Little Monsters’ opens its doors (The Next Web)

• Microsoft’s Ballmer to Apple: It’s on (again) (GigaOM)

• Google, FTC Near Settlement on Privacy (WSJ)

• Young tablet owners more willing to pay for news (paidContent)
• Amazon’s next Kindle Fire will ship in Q3 with improved display (All Things Digital)
• 20 million shades of green: Racy book hits milestone (WSJ)
• Newspapers are running out of time to adapt to the digital future (NYT)
• What’s really going wrong (and right) at the Washington Post (Poynter)
• Luring online shoppers offline (NYT)

• What Amazon Brings to the Smartphone Market (All Things D)

• Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World (Wired)

• YP: Restaurants Remains Top Local Search Heading, Medical The Top-Spending Ad Category (Search Engine Land)

• Sometimes a phone isn’t a phone. So what is it? (GigaOM)

• Will the Yahoo board stick with Levinsohn? (paidContent)

• Facebook, Twitter and the economics of attention (GigaOM)

• “Search & discovery in @twitter set to change forever after tmrw.” says Twitter engineer (The Next Web)

• Europe sues to continue taxing digital content higher than physical (paidContent)

• How to Watch Baseball Online – Legally or Illegally (ReadWriteWeb)

• Apple’s crackdown on app-ranking manipulation: Confused developers caught in the dragnet (VentureBeat)

• Fastest growing segment of piracy? Live TV (paidContent)

• Commenting Platform Livefyre Heads To New York And Is Expected To Generate $10 Million This Year (Business Insider)

• In E-Book War, the Independent Publishers Strike Back (The Atlantic)

• Smaller iPad coming later this year (GigaOM)

• Weather Channel buys Weather Underground; brand stays (paidContent)
• At Dow Jones, it’s beginning to look a lot like Bloomberg (The Daily Beast)
• Watching how China censors (WSJ)
• Is this what a “focused” Google looks like? (Fortune)
• Media banker Bourkoff launches boutique (WSJ)
• The road to gender balance in tech is paved with code (GigaOM)

• Digital challenges rise after Louisville Courier-Journal’s paywall (NetNewsCheck)
• AMC: “Dish never even talked rates with us” (paidContent)
• Murdoch’s change of heart (NYT)
• Journatic worker takes “This American Life” inside outsourced journalism (Poynter)
• Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg (GigaOM)
• On YouTube, amateur is the new pro (NYT)
• Five news blogging lessons from my favorite non-news blogs (paidContent)