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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose Resigns From Digg, Closing Round On New Startup — Wow, when I wrote last night that Kevin Rose doesn't really use Digg anymore, I had no idea how perfect the timing was. It turns out Rose really has tuned out. Because, say multiple sources, he's already resigned from the company …
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Webware.com, NetworkEffect, Digital Trends, @kevinrose, The Blog Herald, Soshable, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, NewsGrange, @dannysullivan, Buleyean String, Betabeat, p2pnet, Gearlog, Pulse2, Stowe Boyd and TECH.BLORGE.com
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Steven Levy / Wired:
Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots — One afternoon about 12 years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave John Doerr a call. A few months earlier, the Google cofounders had accepted $12.5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Doerr's venture-capital firm, as well as an equal amount from Sequoia Capital.
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VentureBeat, SlashGear, Shiny Objects and down the avenue
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John Brownlee / Geek.com:
Steve Jobs was Google's first choice for CEO
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Cult of Mac and SlashGear
Charles Starrett / iLounge:
Apple plans major MobileMe revamp for April launch; prior version to be phased out in a year — Apple is set to announce a new, free version of MobileMe next month, according to a trusted iLounge source. The source, who works for a major educational institution, claims the school's supplier …
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MacStories, Redmond Pie, Webware.com, The Atlantic Online, AppleInsider, Apple Bitch, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and Electronista, Thanks:steverubel
Ambarish Kenghe / The Official Google TV Blog:
Google TV Remote for iPhone — A very popular feature of Google TV to use your phone as a remote control. We released the Android version of the Google TV Remote app in December and I am happy to say that the app is now available for iPhones, iPads, and iPods running iOS 3 or higher.
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Electronista, CrunchGear, MacStories, Ubergizmo, TUAW, eHomeUpgrade, SlashGear, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo, WebProNews and GeekSugar
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Gawker:
Inside Anonymous' Secret War Room — Dissident members of the internet hacktivist group Anonymous, tired of what they call the mob's “unpatriotic” ways, have provided law enforcement with chat logs of the group's leadership planning crimes, as well as what they say are key members' identities.
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VentureBeat, ProducerMatthew.com, The Firewall and msnbc.com
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 prototypes spotted: metal back, larger display, iPhone 4 shape? — Image is a third-party “metal” back sticker for iPhone 4, not an image of the iPhone 5 — A source from Foxconn who we believe to be reliable has provided us with some information about Apple's fifth-generation iPhone.
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Code Theft — A former Goldman Sachs programmer convicted of stealing the bank's high-speed trading software was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. — Sergey Aleynikov, 41, was convicted in December of theft of trade secrets.
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Associated Press, Law Blog, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Telegraph and DealBook
Antonio Flores / Adobe Flash Player Team Blog:
Flash Player 10.2 now available for mobile devices — Flash Player 10.2 is now available for download on Android Market. This is a production GA (General Availability) release for Android 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3 (Gingerbread) devices and an initial beta release for Android 3.x (Honeycomb) …
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eWeek, GottaBeMobile, Mobilized and biskero
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Flash 10.2 hits Android today, Adobe hopes for viewable 720p playback in a matter of weeks
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Examiner, Electronista, Android Community, MacDailyNews, Daring Fireball, Electricpig, Ubergizmo, mobiputing, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, Pulse2, Download Squad and Gizmodo
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
A Seedy New Neighborhood For The Web: XXX Domain Approved — The Internet is about to get a seedy new neighborhood: the body governing top-level Internet domains has approved a new .xxx domain for porn, despite objections from the adult entertainment industry.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, Guardian, CNET News, Ars Technica, Gawker, SlashGear, reddit.com, The Register, Techie Buzz, Geek.com, Engadget, CircleID and NEWS.com.au
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Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:
ICANN Approves New .XXX Top Level Domain
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Examiner, PC Magazine, The Next Web and CircleID
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Reddit, Social News Frontrunner, Is Down To One Developer — Two out of the three remaining Reddit programmers quietly left the social news community last week, Mike Schiraldi going to Google and David King going to Hipmunk where he joins Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
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John Ellis / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Obama Nears Appointment Of Eric Schmidt As Commerce Secretary — The word in Washington is that President Obama is close to naming departing CEO Eric Schmidt as the nation's next Secretary of Commerce. — Mr. Schmidt picked up an important vote of confidence earlier this week …
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VentureBeat, Electronista, @dannysullivan, Gawker, Search Engine Land, Inside Google and WebProNews
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
VentureBeat executive editor leaving — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — Owen Thomas, the executive editor of the VentureBeat tech news site, is leaving after about a year with the California-based news service. — Thomas is leaving to become founding editor of a new media start-up, sources told Talking Biz News.
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@rafat, @owenthomas and VentureBeat
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Data On Customer Viewing Habits Sparks New Class Action Lawsuit — Netflix is contending with a new class action lawsuit that alleges the streaming service violates customer privacy by retaining viewing and payment records even after a customer cancels his or her service.
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paidContent, Techland and p2pnet
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
AT&T cuts price of iPad 3G by $100 — AT&T on Friday slashed the price of the original iPad 3G by $100 throughout its U.S. retail stores. — The iPad 3G now costs $429, $529 and $629 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models, respectively. Yesterday, the iPad 3G cost $100 more and last month it cost $200 more for the iPad 3G models.
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TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, BetaNews, SlashGear, GigaOM, PadGadget, MacStories, MacRumors, Crave and Electronista, Thanks:jdalrymple
Patrick Seitz / IBD Click:
Netflix's Deep Integration With Facebook Under Way — Netflix (NFLX) has begun asking users to hook up their Netflix accounts with their Facebook accounts to share with friends and family information about what videos they're watching. — Netflix executives first revealed their plans …
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eHomeUpgrade, Ubergizmo, Techie Buzz, WebProNews and Hacking NetFlix, Thanks:michaelkrey
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Is Amazon Working on an Android Kindle? — Amazon has been incredibly successful with its Kindle e-reader, offering a lightweight reader at an affordable price. But the pizazz of the iPad 2 and the dozens of Android-based tablets that are slowly making their way off of conveyor belts …
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PC World, ThinkMobile, VatorNews, PadGadget, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo and GeekWire
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Amazon Android App Store Set to Launch Tuesday — A screen shot of part of the page you would see when visiting amazon.com/apps before it was taken down. Photo: androidnews.de — Retail giant Amazon is preparing to launch its own app store on the Android platform on Tuesday, March 22, a trusted source told Wired.com.
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The Next Web, NBC Bay Area, Digital Trends and Geek.com, Thanks:bxchen
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
AP Stylebook Finally Changes “e-mail” to “email” — The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, and with it, a relic of a simpler time when Internet technology needed to be explained very carefully.
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Matt LeMay / bit.ly blog:
bitly's Got a Brand New Mobile Site! — Hey look, it's a desk covered in mobile devices! — What makes these mobile devices different from all other mobile devices? They are all running the brand new cross-platform bitly mobile site, which we are extremely stoked to share with you today.
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, ThinkMobile, The Next Web, AppScout and Softpedia News
