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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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Digital Trends, Neowin.net, @kevinrose, The Blog Herald, Webware.com, NewsGrange, NetworkEffect, Soshable, VentureBeat, @dannysullivan, Buleyean String, Betabeat, TECH.BLORGE.com, p2pnet, Gearlog, Pulse2 and Stowe Boyd
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Steve Blank:
New Rules for the New Internet Bubble — We're now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble.
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A VC, The Huffington Post and Venture Capital Dispatch
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Paul Kedrosky / Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again — It's apparently that time again — the Valley has gone on tilt. Consider the following top ten signs: — 10. Conferences are selling out — 9. Venture capitalists are launching blogs — 8. Everyone you know has a startup
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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Shiny Objects and Fast Company
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Does Google's Larry Page care about social networking? — We saw the publication of two lengthy articles this week about Larry Page, who is scheduled to take over as Google's chief executive on April 4. After I read them, one big question lingered: What does his takeover mean for Google's long-rumored Facebook competitor?
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SlashGear and down the avenue
John Brownlee / Geek.com:
Steve Jobs was Google's first choice for CEO
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Cult of Mac and SlashGear
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
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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Law Blog, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Telegraph, Reuters and DealBook
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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eWeek, MacStories, Ubergizmo, TUAW, eHomeUpgrade, SlashGear, Electronista, Engadget, CrunchGear, The Next Web, Gizmodo, WebProNews, GeekSugar and iClarified
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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, Electronista, iClarified, GigaOM and The Next Web, Thanks:steverubel
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Sprint's CTIA announcements: HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO View 4G, Motorola XOOM, much more — We have just been informed of most of Sprint's planned announcements at CTIA this year. There have been mumblings surrounding the two headline devices, but we finally have the information to share with you.
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Softpedia News, Phones Review, Electronista, Engadget, Android and Me and Ubergizmo
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.
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Mashable!, Gadget Lab, Apple Gazette, Geek.com, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Shiny Objects, IntoMobile, CrunchGear, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, App Advice, everythingiCafe, TiPb, Apple Bitch, iHackintosh, Softpedia News, Electronista, Know Your Cell, GeekSugar, LAPTOP Magazine, Fast Company and CNET News
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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VentureBeat
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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VentureBeat, Guardian, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, reddit.com, The Register, Ars Technica, Engadget, SlashGear, Gawker, Techie Buzz, Geek.com, CircleID, NEWS.com.au, PC Magazine, NBC Bay Area and NBC Bay Area
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Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:
ICANN Approves New .XXX Top Level Domain
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PC Magazine, Examiner, The Next Web and CircleID
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Flash 10.2 hits Android today, Adobe hopes for viewable 720p playback in a matter of weeks — Today, Adobe Flash 10.2 will hit the Android Market for devices running Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb, and by now you're probably familiar with what it brings — increased performance …
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Antonio Flores / Adobe Flash Player Team Blog:
Flash Player 10.2 now available for mobile devices
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eWeek, GottaBeMobile, Mobilized, biskero and TechNet Blogs
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
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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Huffington Post, @apstylebook, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Geekosystem, lalawag, Gawker, Poynter and Switched, more at Mediagazer »
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later — Five years ago, I wrote a story called “25 Things I Hate About Google.” It went viral, to my surprise. I thought it was worth revisiting that story on its five year anniversary, to see how many of those “hates” have been fixed.
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
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
