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New York Times:
Is It a New Tech Bubble? Let's See if It Pops — Banks pouring money into technology funds, wealthy clients and institutions clamoring to get pieces of start-ups, expectations of stock market debuts building — as Wall Street's machinery kicks into second gear, some investors with memories …
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Scripting News, GigaOM, andrew hillman dot com, @alexia, @om and @cdixon
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Chris / cdixon.org:
A few points about the “tech bubble” debate — Pretty much every day now a major blog or newspaper writes an article asking whether we are experiencing another tech bubble (e.g. see today's NYTimes). I don't know whether successful private companies like Groupon, Zynga …
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Launching Tech Ventures and VentureBeat
Paul Kedrosky / Bloomberg:
Dear Warren: Here are the Overvalued Social Networking Companies
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Webware.com and Howard Lindzon, Thanks:pkedrosky
Seth Rosenblatt / Webware.com:
Benchmark battle: Chrome vs. IE vs. Firefox — There's no doubt the latest crop of stable browsers from Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are the best the companies have ever produced. But how do they perform when tested under identical conditions? — CNET put the latest stable versions of Firefox …
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Firefox 4 usage share is twice Internet Explorer 9 in half the time
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PC World, Softpedia News, Geek With Laptop and Asa Dotzler
Wall Street Journal:
Google Pursues Role in Mobile Payments — Google Inc. is teaming up with MasterCard Inc. and Citigroup Inc. to embed technology in Android mobile devices that would allow consumers to make purchases by waving their smartphones in front of a small reader at the checkout counter, according to people familiar with the matter.
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VentureBeat, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Reuters and @amir_efrati
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Michael Gorman / Engadget:
WSJ: Google teams with MasterCard and Citigroup for NFC payments, also files patent app
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IntoMobile and Electricpig.co.uk
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
RIM: The inmates have taken over the asylum — Once upon a time, the Blackberry was the king of smartphones. After a succession of Psion PDAs and Palm devices, I loved my Blackberry, it was the perfect PIM (Personal Information Manager). Email, contacts and calendar functions worked well together …
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datasecurityblog.wordpress.com and mocoNews
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
New MobileMe includes music locker, costs $20 per year? — The Music Void claims that Apple's new MobileMe - reportedly due in April - will have a major music component, dubbed a ‘locker.’ The report does not delve into the details about this ‘locker’ but past reports have pegged the new service …
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Gizmodo, SAI, Fast Company, PadGadget, TiPb, App Advice, iClarified, Apple Bitch, MacStories, mocoNews and TUAW
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Facebook May Hire Robert Gibbs, Former Obama Aide — Facebook is in talks to hire Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former White House press secretary, for a senior role in helping to manage the company's communications, people briefed on the negotiations said.
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NetworkEffect
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Paul Baran, Internet Pioneer, Dies at 84 — Paul Baran, an engineer who helped create the technical underpinnings for the Arpanet, the government-sponsored precursor to today's Internet, died Saturday night at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 84. — The cause was complications from lung cancer, said his son, David.
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Network World, @psaffo and GigaOM
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Warner Brothers Expands Facebook Rentals to “Harry Potter,” “Inception” — After a successful run renting “The Dark Knight” over Facebook, Warner Brothers has decided to offer five more movies over the social network, the studio announced on Sunday. — The studio will offer …
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MediaMemo, paidContent, WatchingTV Online, VentureBeat, Engadget, Reuters, Pocket-lint, NBC Bay Area, louisgray.com and The Next Web
Casey Newton / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. tech jobs climb near level of dot-com peak — As technology companies' soaring valuations draw comparisons to the dot-com days, a new analysis highlights another similarity: The number of tech workers in San Francisco today is nearing its peak in 2000.
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Paul Kedrosky's … and The Next Web
Jennifer Preston / New York Times:
Ethical Quandary for Social Sites — Two days after using Flickr to display photos of police officers from Egypt's feared state security force, Hossam el-Hamalawy watched in disbelief as they vanished, one by one, from the popular social networking site, which he had been using since 2008.
Chester Wisniewski / Naked Security:
Comodo hacker outs himself, claims “no relation to Iranian Cyber Army” — The alleged hacker of Comodo stepped forward this weekend to explain how he generated bogus SSL certificates for login.skype.com, mail.google.com, login.live.com and other popular internet websites.
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Errata Security, Computerworld and Computerworld
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nintendo 3DS review: Is it worth $249 and $40 per game? — Nintendo has done its best to launch a new era in video games with the launch of its 3DS portable gaming system, which goes on sale for $249 on Sunday. The appeal of this device, which can display games in stereoscopic 3D without glasses, is growing on me.
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Joystiq
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Jared Newman / Technologizer:
Nintendo 3DS Launches, Haunted by Smartphones
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The Business Insider and Digital Trends
