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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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@loic and @stevecheney
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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
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Silicon Valley is abuzz with bubble and recovery stories — too soon? — The bulls are back in Silicon Valley in a variety of ways. Let's hope reports of the recovery are true, and that the optimism doesn't get overheated too fast and turn into a bubble of the dot-com era's scale.
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, Reuters, IntoMobile, mobiputing, WebProNews, Mashable!, Softpedia News, The Domains, SAI, 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, Techie Buzz, Geekosystem and LAPTOP Magazine
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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raganwald's posterous, parislemon and Apple Outsider
David Leonhardt / The 6th Floor:
A Better Way to Measure Twitter Influence — Whether you're a Twitter user like Lady Gaga (millions and millions of followers) or, say, me (2,600 and growing!), you're always aware of roughly how many people follow you. It's just how people keep score on the site and compare themselves with friends and colleagues.
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SAI, @eric_andersen, WebProNews and AllTwitter
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
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Samsung's Fake Galaxy Tab Interviews: Hey, Those Words Sound Familiar! — When I watched the video interviews with three “true-life” Galaxy Tab users that Samsung showed at its CTIA event, I was observant enough to figure out (with the help of about six minutes of Google research) …
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SAI and Techie Buzz
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Samsung Hires ‘Actors’ To Pretend To Be Happy Galaxy Tab Testers?
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Technologizer, Yahoo! News, Digital Trends, Electronista, @harrymccracken, @charlesarthur, Daring Fireball, GottaBeMobile and LIVEdigitally
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 …
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
