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New York Times:
Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot — By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and JENNA WORTHAM — SAN FRANCISCO — Eric Firestone began a new job at a Web start-up here three weeks ago, and he's already thinking about what he might do next. But that's just fine with his new employer.
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
High-tech industry on hiring binge in California; Google, Facebook and Zynga lead the pack — It's the Silicon Valley hiring boom being felt all over California. — California added nearly 100,000 new jobs in February, and the state's unemployment rate dropped by two-tenths of a percentage point …
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SiliconValley.com
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Meet ‘Disco’, The Group Texting App Built Secretly Inside Google — It seems like Google has made a foray into the group messaging space today with Disco, a new iPhone app and website. Well, they sort of have. — The service utilizes the Disco.com domain that Google bought at Domainfest last year for $255K.
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Digital Trends, @alexia, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Reuters, mobiputing, WebProNews, Mashable!, SAI, Softpedia News, The Domains, Engadget and textually.org
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
First Look: With Disco, Google Also Joins The Group Messaging Dance (Care Of Slide)
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Examiner, Geekosystem, Techie Buzz and LAPTOP Magazine
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know — A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game.
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Examiner, Yahoo! News, Gawker and @timoreilly
Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
Lukewarm Reaction To Playbook Could Force Drastic Measures For RIM — Is Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) turning into Palm (NSDQ: PALM), the next big prize in the mobile industry's consolidation? — Two of the most important companies in the prehistoric era of the mobile computer …
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parislemon, raganwald's posterous and Apple Outsider
Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy — The site that put the concept of pay-per-bid auctions on the map is now apparently in financial trouble, Technologizer has learned. Although the company's front page claims “technical issues,” documents from a Munich, Germany bankruptcy court indicate …
Kevin Murphy / DomainIncite:
ICANN asks the US to cut it loose — ICANN has officially requested the loosening of its contractual ties to the US government. — In a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (pdf), ICANN president Rod Beckstrom said the US should finally make good on its promise …
Jillian C. York:
Microsoft Fixes Bug; Re-enables HTTPS for All Users — Yesterday, I blogged that users in Iran, all Arab countries, Burma, Nigeria, and the Central Asian nations had been blocked from turning on HTTPS encryption within Hotmail. This was true. — According to Microsoft …
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ZDNet, The Register, @timoreilly, The Next Web, Security Watch and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andrew Quinn / Reuters:
U.S. develops “panic button” for democracy activists — (Reuters) - Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their cellphones confiscated by police, they'll be able to hit the “panic button” — a special app that will both wipe out the phone's address book and emit emergency alerts to other activists.
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Fast Company and Memex 1.1
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Amazon may soon launch film, music locker service — Amazon has spoken with some of the major record companies and Hollywood film studios about creating a digital locker service and could announce the plans as early as next week, sources told CNET. — Sources from both the film …
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TechFlash, PC Magazine, Media Maverick, GigaOM and Electronista
Elisabeth Osmeloski / Search Engine Land:
Zuckerberg In Zion: Speaks To Senator Hatch, Students At BYU — You might wonder what in the world could bring the Harvard dropout and under-30 founder of Facebook together with the 77-year-old conservative Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to talk to students and attendees at Brigham Young University earlier today.
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Inside Facebook, BYU News, @elisabethos, Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune
