RIP for Zune?; iPhone 5 – a preview; quake to affect chip supply; quarterly Mac sales to hit 3.5M; Flickr chief quits; AOL hires Twitter exec

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• Microsoft reportedly stops updating the Zune, Bloomberg news says. Read more details here.
• What to expect from the iPhone 5 – A preview from GigaOm. Read more details here.
• Quake in Japan will affect chip supply, VentureBeat reports. Read more details here.
• Quarterly sales of Macs to hit 3.5 million, according to Cnet. Read more details here.
• The head of Flickr has quit, TechCrunch reports.Read more details here.
• AOL hires Twitter co-founder Biz Stone as an advisor, The Wall Street Journal says.Read more details here.

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