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Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

Think Apple's retina-display MacBooks are pretty cool? Then you might like the HP Envy TouchSmart 14, Hewlett-Packard's new ultra-high-resolution laptop.

Square is expanding into its first country outside North America: Japan.

The mobile payments service announced Thursday that it is now available for use in Japan thanks to a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Card Corporation, a leading credit card company in the country.

Mashable's Events Board is a great place to find the leading conferences in your industry — whether that's advertising, technology, media or public relations.

Shazam on the iPad just got a whole lot better.

The company launched a completely updated version of its tablet app Thursday, with a new discovery home screen, and an auto-tagging feature that can determine what music, television shows, and even ads are playing around you, identifying them automatically.

HTC has launched the Desire 600, a dual-sim Android smartphone and the company's first mid-range device that offers HTC's Sense 5 UI

The HTC Desire 600 sports a 1.

Facebook is a lot like crystal meth — it's highly addictive and will probably cause your teeth to fall out.

Amazon has made its Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9'' tablets available for pre-order in more than 170 countries

So far, these devices were only available in the U.

Galaxy S4 sales have topped 10 million in "record" time, Samsung announced Thursday.

Less than a month after its global release on April 27, Samsung's flagship smartphone surpassed 10 million units, according to a release.

Foursquare has refined its search capabilities to make it easier for users to look for particular venues.