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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs — It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below).
Evan Williams / New York Times:
For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents — I GREW up on a farm in Nebraska, where we grew mostly corn and soybeans. During the summers I was responsible for making sure the crops were irrigated. — After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission — In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, Google has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating that it may have inadvertently shared …
Paul Graham:
How to Be an Angel Investor — When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day I'd do some angel investing. Seven years later I still hadn't started. I put it off because it seemed mysterious and complicated. It turns out to be easier than I expected, and also more interesting.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users? — Germany's Der Spiegel published an interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams yesterday on its website, and Williams had a couple of interesting things to say. You can find a poorly Google-translated version of the interview here …
Tim Green / mobile-ent.biz:
Acer mulling its own app store — Acer could launch an app store to complement its forthcoming new smartphone range. — At a London press event yesterday, Acer's senior corporate VP and smart handheld president Aymar de Lencquesaing told ME that Acer is examining the viability of an app store …
Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Why global is the new ‘local’ — The real reason newspapers and radio stations are hurting — and how they can thrive — Computerworld) If you have an iPhone, tap the App Store button, and search for “radio.” Choose “iHeart radio” and then click on the Clear Channel Broadcasting app called “iHeart radio.”
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Police Take the Fight Onto the Web — FIRST, MySpace. Now, Mugshotbook? — Like unhip adults late to adopt a fad, police departments and other law enforcement agencies are jumping on the social networking bandwagon. They hope to break down bureaucratic boundaries between departments …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Another AOL Layoff This Week? — An ex-AOLer says there are rumors in Dulles that AOL is planning another layoff this week. The d-date is rumored to be Tuesday. AOL apparently likes to whack people on Tuesdays. — The ex-AOLer forwards the following memo, which updates AOL's policies …
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Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32? — Once upon a time I was going to be a lawyer. — One reason I didn't go that way was to avoid running down rabbit holes like the one our own Jason Perlow offered us Thursday. (This puzzle called Down the Rabbit Hole is now on sale over at Legendary Toys.)
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Cybersecurity official quits, blasts NSA power grab — A top federal cybersecurity official resigned this week in a letter sharply critical of what he described as a power grab by the National Security Agency. — Rod Beckström, director of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been using the microblogging service he's been trying to buy - Twitter — since last May. But he's kept his account on the site (@zuck) private and basically unused.
