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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).
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.”
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 …
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 …
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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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.
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 …
Julie Jacobson / CE Pro:
CableCard Diagnostics Comes to Windows Media Center at EHX — Media Center Integrator Alliance has developed a utility that runs on Media Center to help installers diagnose and fix issues with digital cable tuners. The utility launches at EHX, March 11-14. — RSS Feed
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