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6:35 AM ET, March 11, 2011

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The Official Google Blog:
Hide sites to find more of what you want  —  Over the years we've experimented with a number of ways to help you personalize the results you find on Google, from SearchWiki to stars in search to location settings.  Now there's yet another way to find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you don't want to see.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of Products  —  Let us pretend for a moment that the year is 1997 and you're in the market for a new laptop computer.  You want the top-of-the-line product at the time, so you opt for the newly released Apple Computer PowerBook G3 250 laptop.
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Apple changes purchases policy to protect kids on iPad, iPhone games  —  Apple said Thursday that it changed its policy for how purchases can be made within applications on the iPhone and iPad, an attempt to protect users, particularly children, from accidentally racking up iTunes charges.
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
Charlie Miller wins Pwn2Own again with iPhone 4 exploit  —  VANCOUVER — Charlie Miller kept his Pwn2Own winning streak intact with another successful hack of an Apple product.  —  Miller (right), renowned for his work breaking into MacBook machines with Safari vulnerabilities and exploits …
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
Pwn2Own 2011: BlackBerry falls to WebKit browser attack
Discussion: CrackBerry.com blogs and eWeek
Sarah Rotman Epps / Forrester Blogs:
Why iPad 2 Won't Have Much Competition In 2011—Unless It's From Amazon  —  Forrester published a new report today making the call that the iPad challengers that have been announced so far—Android Honeycomb tablets from Motorola, Toshiba, and others, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook and HP TouchPad …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Tokyo earthquake, tsunami puts data centers, cloud services at risk
Discussion: PC World and CNET News
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Why Nokia failed: ‘Wasted 2,000 man years’ on UIs that didn't work  —  For want of a nail, the Kingdom was lost?  —  When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced that Nokia was abandoning its development of its own smartphone platforms and APIs, and betting the farm on somebody else's, many people asked why it was necessary.
Discussion: MobileCrunch and My Nokia Blog
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Apple iPad 2 now available online in the US  —  A little ahead of the advertised official 1am PT launch time, Apple's iPad 2 has gone live today on the company's US store.  —  There are no surprises here of course - if you're after the wi-fi only model, it's $499 for the 16GB model …
Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:
E-Book Lending Takes Off  —  New Online Clubs That Let Readers Share Have Drawbacks but Worry Publishers  —  Electronic-book lending isn't just for friends anymore.  —  In the past few months, online clubs with such names as BookLending.com and Lendle.me have proliferated.
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Veteran Journos Out as AOL/HuffPo Cuts 900 Jobs  —  It's a bloodbath.  —  AOL, the beleaguered internet company, is cutting as many as 900 jobs, CEO Tim Armstrong announced Thursday, including as many as 200 editorial staffers in the United States.  The layoffs, which were expected …
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Amid 900 Layoffs, Just How Are AOL's Media Brands Doing?
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google contradicts own counsel in face of antitrust probe  —  Admits existence of search algorithm whitelists  —  Google has admitted that it uses whitelists to manually override its search algorithms, more than a year after its European corporate counsel denied the existence of whitelists …
Robin Schriebman / Gmail Blog:
Click to call phone numbers  —  With the ability to call phones built right into Gmail, you no longer have to get out your phone and retype a number anytime someone send you one in an email or chat message.  Starting today, you'll see that phone numbers appear as links, like this:
Discussion: Examiner and Techie Buzz
Rafael Rivera / Within Windows:
Yahoo fixes their implementation of IMAP, finally  —  Back in January, I wrote about a Yahoo Mail issue that affected smartphones such as Windows Phone and the iPhone.  To quickly summarize, whenever a smartphone checked for new Yahoo mail, the server would transmit more information than needed.
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Dell's Number Two In The PC Market Again, Thanks To The iPad  —  Having languished in third place behind Hewlett-Packard and Acer for some time, Dell finally scrambled its way back to the PC market's number two spot during the fourth quarter of 2010, a new survey by research firm iSuppli says.
Discussion: Softpedia News
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Amazon Ditches Illinois Affiliates (Including Roger Ebert) To Avoid Web Tax  —  Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill into law Thursday that will require Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and other internet retailers that use “affiliates” in the state to start paying the state's 6.25 percent sales tax.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New XML Standard for Super-Fast, Lightweight Applications Announced by W3C  —  From embedded sensors to high-frequency stock trading to everyday mobile web applications, the race is on for technologists to build the most efficient systems for quickly streaming large sets of data from one device to another.
Discussion: The Register, InfoWorld and W3C News, Thanks:marshallk
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments.  —  Once or twice a week, I get a letter taking me to task for Slate's commenting policy.  The reader wants to tell me that I suck, but he doesn't want to log in to Slate's comment system using his credentials for Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Twitter.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Need Advice on What to Read?  Ask the Internet  —  Netflix uses a software algorithm to recommend movies and Zappos uses one to recommend shoes.  Now Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, is introducing an algorithm to recommend books.  —  Goodreads was started in 2006 for people who wanted to talk about books online.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:blogfisher
Emily Banks / Mashable!:
YouTube To Expand Staff by 30%  —  YouTube expects to have its biggest hiring year in 2011, with plans to grow its staff by 30%.  —  The Google-owned video site has dozens of open positions in all areas — although an especially high number in advertising sales and customer support — and all around the world.
Discussion: YouTube Blog and Softpedia News
Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
In A Post-PC Era, Apple Wants To Be Your IT Department  —  A decade ago if a computer vendor didn't have a strong relationship with corporate information technology departments they didn't get anywhere.  No longer.  Smart phones don't need a link to a corporate network to appeal to office workers.
Neil McAllister / InfoWorld:
Adobe's Flash-to-HTML5 translator: Smart but not pretty  —  Adobe's experimental Wallaby tool makes the case for a multiformat Web, but in a hands-on test, it leaves much to be desired  —  It's an exciting time for Web developers.  More than ever before, the tide is shifting away from proprietary …
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Beyond Facebook, SecondMarket Opens Its Doors to Thousands  —  The marketplace for private Internet companies is about to get a bit more crowded.  —  SecondMarket, an exchange for alternative investments, will introduce a new trading platform on Friday that will integrate social media …
Liz Reaves Walker / The LinkedIn Blog:
Introducing LinkedIn Today  —  Staying on top of industry news is something we think matters for any professional whose success depends on being well informed.  With all the news websites, blogs, tweets and newsletters out there, staying in-the-know can be time consuming and it's increasingly hard …
 
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Shraddha Nair / Wall Street Journal:
Intel Capital Plans to Invest 2 Billion Rupees in Indian Tech Companies
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Himank Sharma / Reuters:
Online game company Zynga to double India staff this year
Discussion: SAI and The Next Web
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Start-Ups Are in a Rush to Bring the Chat Room to the Smartphone
Discussion: IntoMobile, The Social and ReadWriteWeb
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Social Analytics Platform BackType Raises a Cool Million in Funding
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