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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Who will buy Palm? — If you're in a hurry: no one. — If you have more time, here is the sad story: in one day, this past Friday March 19th, Palm shares collapsed, -29% in one Nasdaq session, closing at $4. The obvious question is why? But a second query immediately comes up: why $4, why not zero?
Yochai Benkler / New York Times:
Ending the Internet's Trench Warfare — IMAGINE that for $33 a month you could buy Internet service twice as fast as what you get from Verizon or Comcast, bundled with digital high-definition television, unlimited long distance and international calling to 70 countries and wireless Internet connectivity …
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Financial Times:
Skype founders raise $165m for new fund — Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have raised a new venture capital fund for investing in so-called “disruptive” early-stage European technology. — Atomico Ventures, the London-based group established by the pair in 2006 …
Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Chinese netizens' open letter to the Chinese Government and Google — The Chinese characters in the orange cloud above say “netizens.” — Some Chinese netizens who feel caught between Google and their government have written an open letter to “relevant Chinese government ministries and Google Inc.” …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
DEMO: InVisage's QuantumFilm enables gorgeous camera phone pictures — InVisage is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
Keith Dsouza / Techie Buzz:
Tr.im Stops Web URL Shortening, Continues API — The owners of Tr.im have been through quite a saga, first raising a hue over Twitter using Bit.ly as the default URL shortening service (which it does not know), then trying to sell it, and then going Open Source.
Tim Carmody / Snarkmarket:
Why books on the iPad just might work … In the past month or so, since Apple's iPad was announced, there's been an increasing pushback against the idea that the tablet will be a meaningful stand-in for a dedicated e-reader. In particular, it seems to have really disappointed folks …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trump Google For News & Can't We Measure Twitter Correctly? — Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Forget Foursquare: Why Location Marketing Is New Point-of-Purchase — With a Projected Outlay of $4B by 2015, Mobile Targeting Is Next Big Opportunity — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's the ad served while you are reading the news in the morning on an e-reader that knows you're at home and three blocks from a Starbucks.
Thanks:atul
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: Jimmy Wales Wants Me Dead (The Neutrality Of This Article Is Disputed) — Some weeks, writing this column is easy. All it takes is for an influential person - a politician, a business person, perhaps even a fellow columnist - to say something dumb and I get to spend a thousand words or so explaining precisely why they're wrong.
Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
Ben Folds Performs Live on Chatroulette at Charlotte Concert [Video] — Last night, Ben Folds honored his acolyte Merton, of “Chatroulette Improv” fame, by improvising different piano songs for every person he came across on Chatroulette. Only Folds wasn't performing from the comfort of his bedroom …
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New York Times:
Academic Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in U.S. — A Chinese student, Wang Jianwei, above, and his professor, wrote an academic paper on the vulnerability of the American power grid to a computer attack. Scientists said the paper was merely a technical exercise.
