The Verge reports that Google has sent Microsoft a cease and desist letter demanding that Microsoft immediately remove its YouTube application from the Windows Phone Store and disable all downloads of the app by May 22, 2013. Read More

The Verge reports that HP announced the SlateBook x2 and the Split x2, a pair of computers that allow you to separate the display from the keypad and use it as a standalone touchscreen tablet. Read More

Reuters reports that Amazon.com's main UK unit has paid $3.7 million in taxes on its 2012 income, based UK sales of $6.5 billion. During the year, the company obtained 2.5 million pounds in government grants. All sales to British users are directed through a Luxembourg affiliate, which pays the UK unit fees to cover its costs. Read More

The Verge reports that Apple has included Samsung's new Galaxy S4 in a list of 22 products that it thinks infringes iOS user interface patents, in preparation for its second patent trial against Samsung set for spring of next year. Read More

Mashable reports that Google has updated its Google Play store for Android to version 4.1.6, bringing in a number of design changes and other improvements. The new, colorful home buttons on Google Play are the major visual change in this release. Read More

Facebook has announced the completion of the "Sections" rollout that shows what apps you use and allows people express themselves. Along with this, users now are able to give star ratings to movies, TV shows, and books, and integrating apps such as Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix, Goodreads with Sections. Read More

WSJ reports that Electronic Arts Inc. fresh from announcing it reduced 10% of its staff so as to decrease costs, is buying a new Los Angeles studio for its Stockholm-based DICE game developer with the objective of grabbing talent from competitors like Activision Blizzard Inc. The DICE unit, acquired by EA during the last decade, will be a key cog in the development of a new series of Star Wars videogames. Read More