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7:35 PM ET, March 26, 2009

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The Official Google Blog:
Changes to our sales and marketing organizations  —  Google has grown very quickly in a very short period of time.  When companies grow that quickly it's almost impossible to get everything right—and we certainly didn't.  In some areas we've created overlapping organizations …
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Google to Lay Off 200 Employees  —  Make it official: Google's not immune from the bad economy and plummeting ad market.  We've been hearing for weeks that Google would have layoffs.  Google is cutting 200 employees today, the company now confirms.  —  Google executive Omid Kordestani …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google cuts nearly 200 sales, marketing jobs
Discussion: Epicenter, AdAge and eWeek
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week  —  Exclusive Heads up: A few months ago, I asked Skype CEO Josh Silverman when was he going to launch the iPhone version of the P2P voice and IM service that has now been downloaded more than 405 million times.  He smiled and said, “Stay tuned.”
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Facebook Is Hunting for More Money  —  The social-networking site wants as much as $100 million in debt financing, sources say.  Facebook's accelerating user growth carries huge tech costs  —  Facebook, the fast growing social-networking Web site, is one of the many companies looking …
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Hottest tracks to cost $1.29 at iTunes starting April 7  —  The online music store, under pressure from record labels, is abandoning its 99-cent-only strategy.  —  The world's largest music store, Apple's iTunes, plans to boost the price of many hit singles and selected classic tracks to $1.29 on April 7 …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:   Music Industry Folks Worried About iTunes Variable Pricing
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows 7 RC download page goes up early, coming in May  —  Details on the Windows 7 Release Candidate public download have leaked, straight from Microsoft.  —  It looks like someone flipped the switch a little early.  The Windows 7 Release Candidate download page on TechNet …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
BlackBerry to Launch TV Episode Service?  —  We've heard from multiple sources that RIM is planning to announce a full-episode television service for BlackBerry users as early as next week at CTIA.  —  Here's what we've heard so far:  — It will be an unlimited monthly subscription service for a fee
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Apple's WWDC 2009 dates announced: June 8-12  —  It's time to dust off your suitcase and Cocoa chops, because Apple has just announced the dates for its 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference.  —  WWDC '09 is set for June 8-12, and it will take place in the same Moscone West hall in San Francisco, CA.
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Nancy Gohring / PC World:
Controversy Erupts Over Possible MS Mobile App Fee  —  Microsoft may charge developers if they submit within a year more than five applications or application updates to the Windows Mobile Marketplace, a move that has some developers concerned that the store won't be able to compete with the iPhone App Store or the Android Market.
Discussion: Mobile Roar
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
App Store refunds: Much ado about nothing
Discussion: Ars Technica and mocoNews
Rajat Mukherjee / The Official Google Blog:
Google, at your service  —  It used to be that creating a webpage was a pursuit reserved for the truly tech-savvy, requiring a geek's expertise in HTML, Java, or C++ coding.  —  These days, it's a different story.  Working with a hosting service has made things a great deal easier …
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:   Google Pushing Hard(er) To Get Webmaster Products Adopted
BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Full SMS Service for Vodafone UK Customers!  —  Extending the power of the real-time network globally through the simple technology of SMS is a driving goal for Twitter.  Anyone in the world can update Twitter via SMS but receiving tweets on your mobile has been restricted to North America.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple selling 8GB memory upgrade kits for 15" MacBook Pros [u]  —  It will cost you an arm and a leg, but Apple is now offering an official 8GB memory upgrade kit for the mid- and high-end models of its current 15-inch unbibody MacBook Pro family, AppleInsider has discovered.
Discussion: Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Gearlog and MacRumors
Jennifer Leggio / Feeds:
Fake Facebook group shows potential security issues, 1+ million gullible users  —  On Monday night I was up late surfing the Web when I noticed a problem (other than the fact that I was up late surfing the Web).  It was a Facebook problem, relative to a group invitation I received.
Business Week:
The Apps Battle Heats Up  —  Research in Motion will soon launch an online store to rival Apple's, with Nokia and Microsoft to follow  —  On Apr. 1, Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIMM), is expected to take the stage at the wireless industry's annual trade show in Las Vegas …
Opera Press Room:
Opera announces the new Opera Mobile 9.7 at CTIA Wireless 2009 - a server-accelerated full Web experience for smartphones and mobile devices  —  Check out Opera's network-friendly solutions for carriers and mobile device manufacturers at Booth #6724 in Central Hall
Lane LiaBraaten / Social Web Blog:
Take your Google Contacts with you  —  Lots of websites ask you to invite your friends when you sign up, and for good reason; the web is more fun when you can share your experiences with other people.  However, too many of these sites access your list of friends by asking for your username …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and Epicenter, Thanks:atul
visiblemeasures.com:
Visible Measures Raises $10 Million in Series C Financing  —  Latest Funding Positions Firm for Further Growth  —  Boston, March 26, 2009 — Visible Measures, the independent third-party measurement firm for Internet video publishers, advertisers, and viral marketers, announced today …
Wall Street Journal:
Internet Industry Is on a Cloud  —  Ever since Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt publicly uttered the term “cloud computing” in 2006, a storm has been gathering over Silicon Valley.  —  Companies across the technology industry are jockeying to associate themselves with clouds.
Mobile Today:
Orange and Apple negotiations for laptop deal nearing completion  —  Discussions at final stages as dongle subsidy lands Apple  —  Orange will sell Apple laptops on its network from this summer, and will be the first company to subsidise Apple's laptops with mobile broadband.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Carol Bartz's Yahoo Paying More Attention To Mobile  —  One of many changes at Yahoo (YHOO) since Carol Bartz took over as CEO: Its mobile unit is working closer with other business units as the company makes mobile a bigger priority than it was under Jerry Yang.
Discussion: AdAge, Industry Standard and mocoNews
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone App Store: 30,000 apps, but slowing  —  Shortly before 4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, eight months after it opened with 500 applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, Apple's (AAPL) App Store passed the 30,000 mark, according to the count maintained by 148Apps, which updates its list automatically.
PewResearch.org:
Internet Typology: The Mobile Difference  —  Wireless Connectivity Has Drawn Many Users More Deeply into Digital Life  —  Cast a glance at any coffee shop, train station or airport boarding gate, and it is easy to see that mobile access to the internet is taking root in our society.
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop:
Samsung's First Wimax Device Spotted  —  Today Samsung shared details on the unannounced SWD-M100 Mondi mobile Wimax device for the Clear network.  According to Samsung, the Mondi has a touch screen and can access the Internet via Clear's mobile Wimax network.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
The Pirate Bay to roll out secure €5 per month VPN service  —  The Pirate Bay is planning to launch a paid VPN service for users looking to cover their tracks when torrenting.  The new service will be called IPREDator, named after the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive …
Discussion: The Tech Report
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get Ready For Java On AppEngine  —  Here's a juicy rumor (if you're a geek, this is good stuff): A source tells us that Google AppEngine, a platform for building and hosting web applications in the cloud, will begin letting developers write applications in Java in the near future.
Discussion: GigaOM, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Rory Maher / paidContent.org:
Bartz: Yahoo Has Tested 141 New Versions Of Its Homepage  —  Carol Bartz hasn't been shy about her lack of fondness for Yahoo's products (she has even confessed to using Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps).  So what's she doing about it now that she's running the company?
Economist:
Connecting up  —  Online-dating websites prosper in the recession  —  NOT many industries are doing well in the recession.  But along with discount retailers and pawnbrokers, online-dating sites such as eHarmony.com and OkCupid.com have seen business look up.  There are several theories to explain why.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Begins Targeting Families  —  Facebook appears to have it out for the developers of large family applications on Facebook.  The company has created a new landing page where users can create groups specifically targeted to their family.  While there is nothing unique about the end product …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Unit Structures, Thanks:mrinaldesai
 
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft ad: 'I'm just not cool enough to be a Mac person'
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Pivotal ruling expected next week in lawsuit over Windows Vista
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Making it Official: Government Agencies Sign Agreements with YouTube …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Kicking Butt Without Steve Jobs
Glenn Fleishman / Ars Technica:
Clear skies ahead for WiMax, LTE in 2009 and 2010
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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Verizon Wireless Said to Be Planning to Offer Netbooks Some Time This Year
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
The Obsession With Twitter's Business Model
Discussion: VentureBeat, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple filing details safe touch-screen navigation system
Discussion: Fast Company and GPS Obsessed
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Black Thursday at Big Blue [UPDATED]
Discussion: Careers and CNET News
Seth Finkelstein / Guardian:
Google is taking us down the road to hell
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