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10:35 PM ET, March 13, 2010

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New York Times:
Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal  —  IT looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.  —  Three years ago, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, jogged onto a San Francisco stage to shake hands with Steven P. Jobs, Apple's co-founder, to help him unveil …
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Apple Blew Its Chance To Own AdMob For $600 Million (AAPL, GOOG)  —  Apple had a chance to own mobile advertising company AdMob for $600 million, but blew it, the New York Times reports.  —  In a story detailing the rancor between Apple and Google, Brad Stone and Miguel Helft report Apple …
Financial Times:
Google to shut China search engine  —  By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing  —  Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities …
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Bill Bishop / Silicon Alley Insider:
Should Google “Burn Its Boats” If It Pulls Out Of China?  —  The Financial Times reported Saturday that Google is “99.9 percent certain” that it will shut its China search engine at Google.cn.  It has been eight weeks since Google said it would no longer censor search in China.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Day 1 estimate: 120,000 iPads sold  —  A snapshot of who's buying what based on a sample of first-day pre-orders  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: AAPL Sanity  —  The team at Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board have completed their initial analysis of pre-orders for the iPad tablet computer.
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Galen Gruman / PC World:
iPad Pre-Orders: For Idiots Only  —  Apple started taking early orders yesterday for its tablet, even though no one's really sure what they're buying.  —  Recommends  —  Friday morning, the fool's parade started.  Apple is taking online “pre-orders” for its iPad tablet, which is supposed to begin shipping on April 3.
Discussion: MacDailyNews and Macworld
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dead iPad battery?  Never mind replacing it, Apple just sends another iPad for $99  —  Whoa, Nelly!  Isn't this something?  Apple has just posted details on its iPad battery replacement service, which is really not a battery replacement service at all.  Check out the company's opening line:
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Clarifying a couple points  —  [Just as a reminder: everything below is my personal opinion.  I haven't sent it to anyone else at Google for a review, etc.]  —  Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders.
Thanks:mattcutts
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Six Delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Twitter launches SXSW recruitment/stalking tool  —  Twitter has just launched a rather cool way for geeks at South By South West to get hired by the company.  —  Twitter @ SXSW displays a map of where Twitter staff are in Austin.  If you want to pitch yourself for a job with them …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Gmail Blog:
Better controls for buzz in your inbox  —  When you participate in a conversation in Google Buzz, we bring that post to your inbox so it's easy to keep up with the discussion.  But we've heard loud and clear that buzz in your inbox can get noisy — we feel it too, so today we're launching two features to help with this:
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Google Watch, Thanks:keithdsouza
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Classmates to pay up to $9.5m to settle suit over phantom friends  —  Seattle-based Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending emails that made people believe their old friends from high school were reaching out to connect …
Thanks:johnhcook
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
TomTom for iPhone v1.3 with HDTraffic review  —  We aren't normally in the game of reviewing software revisions for an iPhone app, after all, there is no point wasting your time to tell you about some bug fixes or stability updates ... snooze.  —  So why are you reading?
Discussion: TiPb and Engadget, Thanks:stuartmiles
 
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Jeremy / POP! PR Jots:
I Don't Do SXSWi  —  The past week, I've had a ton of people assume I'm going to SXSWi.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Apple loses key chip executive
Discussion: AppleInsider
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
How Did MySpace Become Number One on Android?
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Hackers Not Playing Games With Gaming Sites
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace's Mid Level Management Structure Is Crumbling